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    Meet the Team

    GUSI is a community of expert ultrasound educators and practitioners who are passionate about sharing their craft with medical professionals around the world.

    CO-FOUNDERS

    Our co-founders Dr. Kevin Bergman and Dr. Mena Ramos are leaders in POCUS education who have trained over 1,000 residents and attending physicians from 15 countries to date.

    Kevin Bergman, MD

    Co-Founder & Co-CEO
    Dr. Kevin Bergman is the co-founder and co-CEO of Global Ultrasound Institute, a family physician, educator, and entrepreneur. He is a strong advocate for POCUS adoption across the continuum of care, with a particular focus on primary care, global health, and health equity.
     
    Dr. Bergman is an Associate Clinical Professor in the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine. He is the immediate past co-Director of the Ultrasound and Global Health programs at the UCSF Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency, a faculty member in the family medicine residency program, and previously served as an attending physician in the emergency department at Contra Costa County Hospital from 2009 to 2022.

    Dr. Bergman is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Ultrasound in Medical Education and an official consultant to the International Consensus Conference on Ultrasound in Medical Education. He was the founding Vice-Chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Ultrasound Member Interest Group and co-authored the AAFP POCUS guidelines.

    Since 2011, Dr. Bergman has taught POCUS at various national and international conferences, including WINFOCUS, AIUM/SUSME, AAFP, EM Essentials, and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.

    Mena Ramos, MD

    Co-Founder & Co-CEO

    Dr. Mena Ramos is co-founder and co-CEO of Global Ultrasound Institute (GUSI).  As a physician, entrepreneur, health & medtech consultant, she specializes in healthcare innovation that bridges entrenched silos through meaningful workflow re-engineering with high tech/high touch digital tools to save time, lives, and cost.  Dr. Ramos is a strong advocate for POCUS adoption across the continuum of care with a particular emphasis in primary care and global health.  She co-wrote the original POCUS guidelines for the American Association of Family Practice (AAFP), published on POCUS in the Journal of Family Practice, the textbook Ultrasound for Primary Care, the CAFP journal, and was founding secretary of the AAFP POCUS Member Interest Group.  She has led POCUS workshops at national conferences including AIUM, AAFP, ACP, STFM, FMEC and WCUME. 

    Dr. Ramos has served on the boards of several nonprofit organizations including Cuba Caribe (a performing arts, music and dance company), Women in Medicine (an advocacy group for sexual minority identifying women and gender expansive physicians) and chairs the POCUS Certification Academy Engagement Committee.  Dr. Ramos graduated from medical school at the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, Cuba, family medicine residency at the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency, and global health fellowship at UCSF – Contra Costa. 

    Lead Medical Liaison and Instructor

    Shaik Farid Abdull Wahab
    MD, MBA, MPH(Cantab), MRCGP, MBMUS

    Instructors

    The GUSI team comprises expert POCUS educators and practitioners in specialities including internal medicine, family medicine, global health, emergency medicine, pediatrics, cardiology, critical care, pre-hospital/EMS, and more.

    Aaron Inouye
    Abby Chua
    Abdolghader Pakniyat
    Abiola Fasina
    Adam Rothman
    Adjoa Boatemaa Bonsu
    Adrian Cascales
    Agnes Lovell
    Agustín Manchado Bruno
    Aicha Hull
    Aisha Mirza
    Alberto Oviedo
    Alberto Romero Galán
    Aleen Altamirano
    Alessandro Mereu
    Alex McDonald
    Allen Wong
    Allison Noesekabel
    Amanda Klinger
    Andrea Balbarini
    Andres Marin
    Andrew Cupples
    Andrew Peckham
    Anelah McGinness
    Angel Sosa Fleitas
    Angelina Voronina
    Angelo Alfano
    Ann Lockhart
    Ayalew Zewdie
    Ben Beduhn
    Ben Howard
    Benjamin Solder
    Beryl Greywoode
    Brady Fleshman
    Brandon Chase
    Brendan Kidder
    Brian K. Mbugua
    Bruno Vargas
    Caleb Cave
    Caritas Adwoa Forkuoh
    Carlo Toscani
    Carmelo Herrera
    Carrie Hayes
    CC Morone
    Chandler Stisher
    Charisse Kwan
    Chelsea Salas-Tam
    Christie Langenberg
    Christine Prill
    Christoffer Amdahl
    Claire Hartung
    Cleo Stafford
    Connor Farrell
    Courtney Wright
    Craig Rudy
    Dae Hyoun (David) Jeong
    Dalea Al-Hawarri
    Dallas Swanson
    Daniel Kaminstein
    Daria Szkwarko
    David Killeen
    David Mwonga Mulli
    David Stromberg
    Debrah Ann Custodio
    Deepika Ram
    Denice Praxidio
    Dennis Muli
    Derek Harmon
    Derrick Murithi
    Devon Hutton
    Diego Arufe
    Dominic Frecentese
    Donah Oeri
    Drew Tobler
    Duane Smith
    Duncan Matheka
    Duncun Kiptoo Ng’etich
    Duska Thurston
    Dylan Gibson
    Edgard Marcano
    Elvis Rugut
    Emily Neill
    Emory Williams
    Erin Fredrickson
    Erin Huntley
    Eva Tovar
    Fagr Ghulaam
    Faith Mutanu
    Fasih Hameed
    Festus K. Kandie
    Frances Russell
    Francois Xavier Uwimana
    Gerardo Hizon
    Godrick Odongo
    Guillaume Chebion
    Hailey Gupta
    Hana Dubsky
    Hannah Janeway
    Hayley Winninghoff
    Ian Thomas
    Ibrahim Yusuf Abubeker
    Irbert Vega
    Jacob Nettleton
    Jacquelyne Wamalwa
    Jamar Williams
    James Wachira
    James Wilcox
    Jared Dubey
    Jason Chen
    Jason Reinking
    Jason Yost
    Jay Ruby
    Jean Pierre Valette
    Jeana Radosevich
    Jeff Pierce
    Jeffrey Carness
    Jennifer Addleman
    Jepchumba Tanui
    Jessica Lucey
    Jessica Standish
    Jina Bai
    Joe Breuner
    Joe Matel
    John Adame
    John Mitchell
    John Pymm
    Jon Dompeling
    Jon Umlauf
    Jon-Michael Cline
    Jordan Hoese
    Jorge Garcia
    Jorge Permanyer
    Jori Enfield
    Jose Carlos Sánchez
    Jose Zumba
    Joseph Volpi
    Josh Back
    Josh Overgaard
    Joshua Snodgrass
    Joshua St. Louis
    Judith Tanui
    Justine Broecker
    Kamran Karim
    Kara Toles
    Karena Lawrence
    Karthik Kavasseri
    Kaya Belknap
    Kelvin Ng
    Keziah Kwamboka Mong’are
    Kinner Patel
    Kirstin Weerdenburg
    Kyle Flattery
    Laura Harris
    Laura Holmes
    Lauri Paolinetti
    Linda Solomon
    Lucy Kibor
    Luke Bishop
    Luke Stephens
    Maisa Abdul Aziz Alnamery
    Marcela Karnikowski
    Marcela Preto Zamperlini
    Marga Algaba
    Marian Younge
    Marjan Ghazi-Askar
    Martha Tesfalul
    Martín Marchese
    Mary Kahure
    Mary Sterrett
    Matt Chan
    Matteo Rosselli
    Matthew Fentress
    Matthew Haldeman
    Max Cohen
    Maytal Firnberg
    Mayur Rali
    Mayur Rali
    Megan Viquez
    Mellan Jeptoo
    Michael Armstrong
    Michael Avila
    Michael Young
    Michelle Xu
    Miguel de Sosa Mendes
    Monther Alshahrani
    Monti Sharma
    Moses J. Syldort
    Myles Melton
    Nagda Tabet Al-Hissnialdt
    Nahom Mesfin
    Nahreen Ahmed
    Nathan Bush
    Nathan Cutshall
    Nathan Kiplimo
    Nathaniel Leu
    Ne (Melissa) Ferguson
    Neal Douglas
    Nelson Fundi
    Nicholas LeFevre
    Nicholas Weida
    Nicolas Hatamiya
    Nicole Yedlinsky
    Nilan Schnure
    Nimeka Phillip
    Noha Eshera
    Odette Zero
    Oluseun Olufade
    Opal Taylor
    Pascual Daza-Ramirez
    Patrick Doyle
    Paul Bornemann
    Peter Weimersheimer
    Raquel Rodriguez
    Raymond Rowan
    Renee Dversdal
    Ricardo (Ric) Ribeiro
    Riccardo Govoni
    Richard Kozinski
    Robert Theal
    Robinson Ferre
    Romeo Wahome
    Russ Horowitz
    Ryan Petering
    Ryan Wong
    Ryann Milne-Price
    Sabrina Berdouk
    Sahar Ahmad
    Salah Awadalla
    Sally Graglia
    Salvador Portugal
    Sam Hwu
    Samuel Hatfield
    Santiago Beltramino
    Sara Scott
    Sarah Bain
    Sarah Shihadeh
    Scott Grogan
    Scott Rogers
    Sebastian Schoneich
    Shaik Farid Abdull Wahab
    Shane Kinard
    Shane Murphy
    Sheila Ayesa Masheti
    Shima Mohammed Ibrahim
    Simon Hayward
    Simone Melai
    Smita Sinha
    Stanislav Kravchuk
    Stefano Zito
    Stephen Erickson
    Stephen Ramsey
    Svetlana Zakharchenko
    Tahani Salaeh Abdo Mohamed
    Tanping Wong
    Tanveer Hassam
    Taylor Amburgy
    Temesgen Beyene Abicho
    Terri Tang
    Thomas Betjeman
    Thomas Robertson
    Tiffany Huang
    Timothy Kennell Jr.
    Tommaso Barnini
    Tommaso Gistri
    Víctor Barreales
    Victor Vaz
    Viveta Lobo
    Werlley Januzzi
    Will Dixon
    Ximena Wortsman
    Yannick Ndefo
    Yiju Teresa Liu
    Yuka Uruma
    Zena Jerop

    Lead Instructor - Elite Circle

    Aaron Inouye
    PA

    In-Person Instructor

    Abby Chua
    MD, MPH

    Instructor

    Abdolghader Pakniyat

    Lead Instructor

    Abiola Fasina

    Instructor

    Adam Rothman

    In-Person Instructor

    Adjoa Boatemaa Bonsu
    BSc , MBChB

    Instructor

    Adrian Cascales

    Instructor

    Agnes Lovell

    Instructor

    Agustín Manchado Bruno

    In-Person Instructor

    Aicha Hull
    MD

    Instructor

    Aisha Mirza

    Instructor

    Alberto Oviedo

    Instructor

    Alberto Romero Galán

    In-Person Instructor

    Aleen Altamirano

    Instructor

    Alessandro Mereu

    Instructor

    Alex McDonald

    Instructor

    Allen Wong

    Intructor

    Allison Noesekabel
    Gusi Instructor

    In-Person Instructor

    Amanda Klinger
    MD

    Instructor

    Andrea Balbarini

    Team

    Bruno Vargas
    Doug Williams
    Elizabeth Sayre
    Gaitan D’Antoni
    Ian Thomas
    Jahheart Rabina
    Laura Harris
    Lea Ramos
    Liesl Annandale
    Lindsey Lao
    Matthew Haldeman
    Pascual Daza-Ramirez
    Paul Bornemann
    Ryann Milne-Price
    Stephen Erickson
    Svetlana Zakharchenko

    Advisory Board

    Latoya B. Williams
    Marjan Ghazi-Askar
    Navneet Kathuria
    Neil Jayasekera

    Meet the GUSI Team

    The GUSI team comprises expert POCUS educators and practitioners in specialities including internal medicine, family medicine, global health, emergency medicine, pediatrics, cardiology, critical care, pre-hospital/EMS, and more.
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    Aaron Inouye

    GUSI Instructor

    Aaron Inouye has working in emergency medicine since graduating from Pacific University’s Physician Assistant program in 2016; in addition to his clinical work he recently accepted a position Assistant Professor at Colorado Mesa University. He completed a fellowship in point-of-care ultrasound and teaches ultrasound to students, PAs, NPs, and physicians across the country. Aaron is on the board of directors for the Society of Point of Care Ultrasound and a member of ACEP’s Ultrasound Subcommittee for APPs. Excited about all things ultrasound, Aaron is especially interested in developing effective training programs, both for practicing clinicians and for students. Outside of work, Aaron enjoys going up and down mountains on his bike and skis, preferably while chasing his son and his dog.

    Abby Chua

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Abby Chua grew up in New Jersey and for five years worked in refugee relief for the International Rescue Committee’s Health Technical Unit serving in missions in Africa, Central Europe, and on the Thai-Burma border. She earned her Masters in Public Health from Columbia University, but during her Masters work grew more interested in patients than in data analysis. She went on to complete her medical school training at the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her internal medicine residency and fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center where she received formal ultrasound training. She has been teaching ultrasound since 2008 and earned an award for her resident teaching. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at SUNY Stony Brook University Hospital where she tells house staff and her medical students she has forgotten how to examine patients without an ultrasound. Her passions are medical education, utilizing data to effect broad clinical change, and her toddler.

    Abdolghader Pakniyat

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Abdolghader Pakniyat is an Emergency Medicine specialist based in Dubai. He is European Board–certified in Emergency Medicine (EBEEM) and holds ARDMS credentials in ultrasound (RDMS-Abdomen). His clinical focus includes critical care and trauma, where he effectively implements Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) across various critical scenarios such as trauma, shock, critical care, and emergency medicine. Dr. Pakniyat has also made significant contributions to POCUS education and research.

    Abiola Fasina

    GUSI Instructor

    Abiola Fasina, MD, MSHP, DTM&H, FMCEM is an emergency critical physician and a health policy consultant based in Lagos, Nigeria. Dr. Fasina completed her training in emergency medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. After several years of practice, she then completed a two-year fellowship in emergency point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and a Masters in Health Policy Research (MSHP) at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Fasina is actively involved in emergency medicine care development and POCUS education in Nigeria and practices clinical emergency and critical care medicine. She is an active board member and fellow of the Faculty of Emergency Medicine at the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, inaugurated in 2019.

    Her work has focused on capacity building of emergency health systems in low and middle-income African countries around POCUS and medical technology. She has worked in Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar and has extensive international experience. She is the medical director and CEO of Emergency Healthcare Consultants (EHCON), a healthcare consulting company focused on capacity building and training in emergency medicine and critical care. EHCON has managed several medical facilities particularly, in the era of COVID-19 including the Eti-Osa COVID-19 Isolation and Treatment Centre that was located at Landmark in Victoria Island, Lagos and the VEDIC COVID-19 Hospital in Lekki. EHCON runs the West Africa SonoXpert Academy with Sonosite/Fujifilm focused on POCUS education and training. Dr. Fasina is also the Chief Medical Officer / Consultant Emergency Physician at R-Jolad Hospital, Lagos Nigeria

    Adam Rothman

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Adam Rothman is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a pulmonary and critical care physician based at Mount Sinai West in New York City. He first developed a passion for point-of-care ultrasound and medical education during his fellowship training, where he participated in a medical education track and devised several simulation center-based projects involving bedside ultrasound and ultrasound-based procedures. An attending physician since 2019, Dr. Rothman became an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Mount Sinai Morningside/West in April 2021. In this capacity, he has been tasked with implementing a comprehensive point-of-care ultrasound curriculum (consisting of a longitudinal lecture series, simulation-based training, and a two-week elective for hands-on training), to achieve basic knowledge and competency in POCUS for over 225 residents. Dr. Rothman continues to have a passion for POCUS, medication education, and simulation training and has been honored to teach and speak at regional and national conferences about his POCUS experiences.

    Adjoa Boatemaa Bonsu

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Adjoa Boatemaa Bonsu is a radiology resident at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana. Her professional background spans diagnostic imaging, clinical research, and medical education, with specific expertise in multimodal image interpretation and a strong interest in the integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare. She has been actively involved in teaching, research, and health communication, contributing to initiatives that aim to enhance diagnostic capacity and knowledge dissemination in the medical field.

    Her clinical experience includes prior roles as a house officer at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and a radiographer at C&J Hospitals and Diagnostic Centre. She has also served as a research assistant and academic preceptor, combining hands-on patient care with a passion for mentorship and capacity building. Beyond the clinical setting, she has taken leadership roles in medical associations and co-founded initiatives aimed at innovation and education in healthcare.

    Her commitment to continuous learning is reflected in her participation in professional development programs and fellowships in ultrasound and radiology. She is a regular contributor to scientific conferences and has authored and co-authored publications on radiologic education, image interpretation, and maternal health. Dr. Bonsu maintains active membership with professional bodies in Ghana and the UK, reflecting her regional and international engagement in radiology.

    Adrian Cascales

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Adrián Cascales Martínez, médico especialista en medicina física y
    rehabilitación, experto universitario en ecografía músculoesquelética por la
    Universidad Francisco de Vitoria y participante en numerosos cursos de
    ecografía intervencionista.
    Trabaja en hospitales de la Región de Murcia, utilizando siempre la ecografía
    como complemento en el diagnóstico de la patología neuro-músculoesquelética
    y para dirigir las técnicas intervencionistas en el tratamiento de estas. Durante
    todo el año, realiza docencia a alumnos de medicina y a otros doctores MIR en
    este ámbito, recibiendo multitud de reconocimientos y premios por ello.
    Adrián nació en Murcia (España). Creció y se educó en una familia muy
    vinculada al mundo deportivo. Estudió Medicina en la Universidad de Murcia,
    siempre interesado en las patologías del sistema osteomuscular. Se formó en
    Medicina Física y Rehabilitación en el Hospital Universitario de Salamanca,
    donde realizó su formación MIR, utilizando siempre la ecografía como
    herramienta clave en el diagnóstico y, sobre todo, como guía de terapias
    intervencionistas eco-dirigidas. Durante este periodo, además de en
    Salamanca, hizo cursos y estancias formativas en hospitales de otras ciudades
    españolas y europeas, siempre con médicos que utilizaban la ecografía en el
    día a día de su práctica clínica.
    Al acabar este periodo MIR, Adrián volvió a Murcia, donde prosiguió con su
    formación en ecografía y donde se desarrolló profesionalmente como médico
    rehabilitador intervencionista, utilizando siempre el ecógrafo para dirigir sus
    terapias. Trabaja en el Hospital Universitario Los Arcos del Mar Menor y en el
    Hospital HLA La Vega, en los que forma parte de la Unidad de
    Intervencionismo ecoguiado.
    Sus hobbies están relacionados con el deporte, sobre todo, el baloncesto,
    aunque también disfruta con los deportes acuáticos y de montaña. Le encanta
    la gastronomía y viajar.

    Agnes Lovell

    GUSI Instructor

    Agnes is a sonographer turned PA student. She has seven years of experience as a sonographer, specializing in vascular technology. During that time, she served as a clinical instructor, lead, and was on the board of directors of an accredited sonography program. She has lectured at regional and national vascular ultrasound conferences. She has a BS in Radiation and Imaging Sciences and is now a PA student at the University of Washington’s PA program completing her clinical year.

    As a self-declared sononerd, Agnes is passionate about expanding POCUS training at PA programs and engaging APPs in POCUS.

    In her spare time, she spends time with her family, cooking, reading, and mushroom hunting. 

    Agustín Manchado Bruno

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Agustín Manchado Bruno is a specialist in Internal Medicine and Intensive Care, with extensive experience in managing critically ill patients, transplant recipients, and the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the ICU. He currently serves as the Intensive Care Unit Coordinator at Instituto de Trasplante y Alta Complejidad (ITAC) and as a physician at Sanatorio Mater Dei.
    Dr. Manchado Bruno has a strong background in ultrasound training, having completed the Ultrasound in Internal Medicine Course at SAUMB (Argentina) as well as the General Intensive Care Ultrasound (GeNIUS) program is accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. He has participated in POCUS training for
    other physicians, as an instructor and course organizer, within the framework of internal medicine residency programs, courses for general practitioners, and intensive care fellows.
    Passionate about the role of POCUS in modern medicine, he advocates for its integration as an essential extension of the physical examination, improving patient care and diagnostic accuracy.

    Aicha Hull

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Aicha Hull is a Board-Certified Emergency Medicine physician, an Army Officer, the Program Director of an Advanced Emergency Ultrasound (AEMUS) Fellowship, and a mother of twins. She grew up on a remote ranch in Idaho and spent nine years as a wildland firefighter before transitioning to a career in medicine. After earning her MD and completing her Emergency Medicine residency, Dr. Hull served in operational military roles, deploying to Egypt and Afghanistan. Recognizing the critical role of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), she returned to academia to complete an AEMUS fellowship and is now a passionate advocate for POCUS across all medical disciplines.

    Aisha Mirza

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Aisha Mirza received her Bachelor of Science with Honors in Neuroscience at the University of Alberta in 1999 and then studied wound healing and scar formation at the Masters level. She received early acceptance into the University of Calgary medical school and graduated in 2003 with her Medical Doctorate. Dr Mirza completed her residency training in Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Alberta in 2007. She has been recognized for her teaching abilities through the Excellence in Teaching (2004) award by medical students and the Ivan Steiner Award for Teaching Excellence (2014) by the emergency residents.

    Dr. Mirza holds an appointment as Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Alberta. She has been a staff emergency physician at the Grey Nuns Hospital (Edmonton, Alberta) since 2008 and has practiced as an Associate of Dermatology since 2013. During her time as a staff physician Dr Mirza pursued further training in the fields of dermatology and ultrasound. In 2012, she achieved Master Instructor status from the Canadian Emergency Ultrasound Society (CEUS).

    She pursued her passion in aesthetics and skin diseases by completing a Practical Diploma in Dermatology with Honors from Cardiff University in 2014.

    Alberto Oviedo

    GUSI Instructor

    Alberto Ángel Oviedo García es médico de urgencias en el Hospital de Valme
    (Sevilla) desde hace más de dos décadas, con una trayectoria profesional
    centrada en la asistencia clínica y, muy especialmente, en la formación de
    profesionales sanitarios. Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía por la Universidad
    de Sevilla en 1996 y especialista en Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, el Dr.
    Oviedo ha desarrollado una carrera marcada por la excelencia en el ámbito de
    las urgencias hospitalarias y la ecografía clínica aplicada al paciente agudo.
    Desde los primeros años de su carrera, ha mostrado una clara vocación por la
    docencia, liderando y participando como formador en decenas de cursos
    acreditados por la Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucía (ACSA). Ha
    impartido más de un millar de horas docentes en áreas clave como ecografía
    abdominal, eFAST, musculoesquelética, vascular, pulmonar y ecocardiografía,
    formando a médicos de urgencias, atención primaria y residentes de toda
    Andalucía y otras comunidades.
    Ha dirigido actividades formativas organizadas por el Servicio Andaluz de Salud
    (SAS), incluyendo programas oficiales sobre ecografía pulmonar en COVID-19
    o patologías abdominales más frecuentes, y ha sido docente habitual en
    iniciativas punteras como las desarrolladas por la Fundación IAVANTE. Su
    compromiso con la enseñanza se extiende al ámbito universitario, habiendo
    sido profesor del Experto Universitario en Atención al Trauma Grave de la
    Universidad Internacional de Andalucía.
    Reconocido por su claridad didáctica y enfoque eminentemente práctico, el Dr.
    Oviedo ha sido pieza clave en la expansión del uso de la ecografía clínica en
    los servicios de urgencias andaluces, impulsando su integración como
    herramienta diagnóstica esencial. Su trayectoria es referente en la formación
    de profesionales sanitarios comprometidos con una atención rápida, precisa y
    centrada en el paciente

    Alberto Romero Galán

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Alberto Romero Galán, is a specialist in family and community medicine, and a mentor for clinical ultrasound in Spain as a member of the ultrasound group of the Spanish Society of General and Family Medicine (SEMG). He is also registered as an IMC (Irish Medical Council) specialist in Ireland.

    He works as a GP in out-of-hours services in Ireland and serves as a GP in the Irish Army in the barracks in Kilkenny. Alberto participates as a teacher of clinical ultrasound courses in person in Spain, with several in person courses during the year. One of them is of long duration (100 hours) and is held twice a year, offering students continuous teaching for several days, with direct supervision, and practical and theoretical classes. The rest of the courses are usually subject specific (neck, abdomen, musculoskeletal…).

    Alberto was born in Huelva (Spain), where he grew up and was educated until he moved to Seville to study Medicine. Once he finished his medical degree, he moved to Salamanca, where he did his specialized training period (equivalent to residency) as a family doctor, using ultrasound as a key tool in his practice for the study of patients. After that he worked as a doctor in a primary care center, until he moved to Ireland in 2022. This did not stop his training in ultrasound, which he has kept active in Spain and has allowed him to become a mentor.

    He enjoys reading, especially crime novels. His love for ultrasound has made its study into a hobby, as well. He also loves paddle tennis, ping-pong, board games, and soccer. He likes to travel, and his current job and situation allow him to do it often.

    Aleen Altamirano

    GUSI Instructor

    Alessandro Mereu

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Alessandro Mereu

    General Practitioner since 2016, SIEMG diploma since 2023. President of the Italian Academy of Primary Care (2022-2028), ordinary Italian member of WONCA.

    He works in Sesto Fiorentino (FI), carries out tutoring activities for the CFSMG of the Tuscany Region and coordinates ECM activities for the approximately 1000 General Practitioners of the AUSL Toscana Centro. He is a member of the GTS of the CFSMG of the Tuscany Region.

    Reviewer “Primary Health Care Research & Development”
    Member of the PRAC Risk Minimisation Alliance of the European Medicine Agency
    He performs POCUS daily in his professional activity.

    Alex McDonald

    GUSI Instructor

    Alex McDonald MD, FAAFP, CAQSM practices Family and Sports Medicine at Kaiser Permanente in Fontana CA. Dr. McDonald serves several roles including; Family Medicine Residency and Sports Fellowship Faculty, KP School of Medicine Sports Medicine Clerkship Director. He is also Speaker for the California Academy of Family Physicians; Trustee of the California Medical Association and board member of the San Bernardino County Medical Society board member. He is also a member Advisory Council to the California Immunization Coalition; and is a Co-founder #ThisIsOurShot a digital grassroot health care movement to build vaccine confidence. His professional interests include exercise and physical activity, Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Health Policy and Preventative Medicine. Dr. McDonald holds degrees from Connecticut College, the University of Vermont Larnar College of Medicine, Southern California Kaiser Permanente as well as Duke University. Dr. McDonald lives in Claremont, CA with his wife, three children and three dogs. He enjoys running, riding his bike, cooking, coffee and 8pm dance parties with his kids.

    Allen Wong

    GUSI Instructor

    Allen Wong MD is a second year primary care sports medicine fellow at Oregon Health and Sciences University. He attended undergraduate and medical school at the University of Hawaii and completed family medicine residency at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix and primary care sports medicine fellowship at the University of New Mexico. He has a strong interest in learning and teaching the use of ultrasound in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for musculoskeletal conditions. He enjoys hiking, live music, and finding the best egg tarts during his travels.

    Allison Noesekabel

    GUSI Instructor

    Amanda Klinger

    GUSI Instructor

    Amanda Klinger is an internal medicine hospitalist based in New York who practices at
    Bellevue Hospital. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the New York University
    Grossman School of Medicine, where she serves as a faculty advisor for the Internal Medicine
    Residency Global Health Electives Program and the Education Co-Lead for AMPATH Ghana, an
    academic partnership amongst Ghanaian medical institutions and the AMPATH consortium of
    universities, led by NYUGSOM. With extensive training in global health, including a global
    health fellowship in Botswana where she originally honed her skills in Point-of-Care Ultrasound,
    Amanda focuses on improving healthcare delivery and education both locally and internationally.
    While at NYU/Bellevue, she has contributed to hands-on POCUS teaching for internal medicine
    residents and faculty members.

    Amanda attended the New York University Grossman School of Medicine after which she
    completed an internal medicine residency and global health fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess
    Medical Center. She is passionate about the transformative potential of Point-of-Care Ultrasound
    (POCUS) in enhancing access to high quality healthcare in low-resource settings. In her free
    time, she loves to play indoor and beach volleyball.

    Andrea Balbarini

    GUSI Instructor

    Dott. Andrea Balbarini,
    Medico di Medicina Generale dal 2023, diploma di ecografia generalista presso la scuola SIEMG dal 2024.
    Membro del comitato esecutivo dell’EURIPA (European rural and isolated practitioners association), iscritto alla WONCA.
    Lavora a Lama Mocogno e Polinago (Modena), svolge l’attività di animatore di formazione per i medici di medicina generale del distretto di Pavullo.
    Svolge quotidianamente POCUS nella sua attività professionale.

    Andres Marin

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Andrés Marín is a Family Medicine physician and faculty member in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he serves as Director of the Minor Procedure Clinic. He provides primary care at La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland and practices on the Labor and Delivery unit at Alta Bates Medical Center.

    Dr. Marín completed the Global Ultrasound Institute (GUSI) Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Fellowship and now integrates ultrasound into both his clinical practice and resident education. His work focuses on advancing the accessibility and practical application of ultrasound for family physicians.

    Andrew Cupples

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Andrew Cupples is at heart a general practitioner with broad interests in many aspects of healthcare, but has particular expertise and specialist training in Minor Surgery, Men and Women’s Fertility Planning, Musculoskeletal Medicine, and Endocrinology in Primary Care.

    He is currently one of if not the only, GP in Northern Ireland using Point of Care Ultrasound techniques for routine Primary Care work in practice. He is working towards changing this through my work in GUSI! He enjoys his role as an accredited GP Trainer and Medical Student educator, and he is also a trainer in Minor Surgical and Joint Injection Techniques. He has been performing Minor Surgery and corticosteroid injections in practice for over 13 years.

    Andrew Peckham

    GUSI Instructor

    Andrew Peckham, MD, MPH, is a 2015 graduate from Oregon Health & Science University where he completed training in medicine and public health. He completed his combined internal medicine and pediatric residency at the University of Rochester Medical Center in 2019 and joined Geisinger in the summer of 2019. He is passionate about point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and is working on creating a curriculum for both internal medicine and pediatric residency programs. His professional interests include medical education where he enjoys teaching residents and medical students, global and public health, and evidence-based medicine. Outside of the hospital, he loves to participate in a variety of outdoor activities including rock and ice climbing, skiing, kayaking, biking and hiking. Most of all he enjoys spending time exploring with his wife and three children, traveling, being active outside and including his family in medical missions.

    Anelah McGinness

    GUSI Instructor

    Anelah McGinness has taught point-of-care ultrasound since she was a medical student leading the pre-clinical Point-of-Care Ultrasound Elective at UCSF School of Medicine. During her pediatric residency at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, she developed her focus on pediatric POCUS and laid the foundation for a new POCUS curriculum for her pediatric residency in 2021. She has a background in medical education research and is interested in the adoption of POCUS for the general pediatrician. She is currently working as pediatric urgent care attending at various community and academic sites in the Bay Area. She is excited to work with GUSI to increase POCUS access and utilization to improve quality of care for children everywhere.

    Angel Sosa Fleitas

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Angel Sosa Fleitas is a Radiologist in Venezuela at Los Andes Autonomous University Hospital Institute since 2019. He completed medical school at the University of the Andes in 2014. His ultrasound experience began in 2015 with musculoskeletal US. He completed his residency in Radiology in 2019 and obtained the Specialization in Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging diploma. He contributed to the validation of Alpha Score 2.0 for the classification of thyroid nodules. Currently, he is an adjunct specialist in the Radiology department of the
    Universidad de Los Andes. He is a volunteer in the Ultrasound department of the Venezuelan Red Cross in Mérida. His field of research and practice are focused on the use of ultrasound in the diagnosis of general pathology, pediatrics, thyroid, MSK disorders, and vascular pathology (Doppler). He is passionate about learning and teaching medical imaging and ultrasound to undergraduate residents. Outside of the medical field, he enjoys spending time with family and photography.

    El Dr. Angel Sosa Fleitas es Radiólogo en Venezuela en el Instituto Autónomo Hospital Universitario de Los Andes desde 2019. Completó la escuela de medicina en la Universidad de Los Andes en 2014. Su experiencia con ultrasonido comenzó en 2015 aprendiendo a detectar enfermedades musculoesqueléticas, completó su residencia en Radiología en 2019. Contribuyó a la validación del Alpha Score 2.0 para la clasificación de los nódulos tiroideos. Actualmente, ejerce como especialista adjunto del departamento de Radiología de la Universidad de Los Andes y es voluntario en el departamento de Ultrasonido de la Cruz Roja Venezolana en Mérida. Su campo de investigación y práctica están enfocados en el uso del ultrasonido en el diagnóstico de patología general, pediátrica, tiroidea, desórdenes MSK y patología vascular (Doppler). Es apasionado en aprender y enseñar imagenología médica y ultrasonido a los residentes de postgrado. Fuera del campo médico, disfruta de su tiempo libre en familia y la fotografía.

    Angelina Voronina

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Voronina is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician who completed a Hospital Medicine – Point of Care Ultrasound Fellowship at Weill Cornell. She has both participated in and helped teach the Weill Cornell Medicine Hospital Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasonography Course. She has also completed the SHM-Chest Point-of-care Ultrasound Certificate of Completion program, and has testamur status with the National Board of Echocardiography in critical care echocardiography (CCEeXAM). Dr. Voronina has helped train medical students, residents (including teaching POCUS electives), fellows, and attendings in POCUS, and has taught at several POCUS courses. She is passionate about ultrasound education in the inpatient and critical care setting, and is currently working on building an ultrasound curriculum for residents and Pulmonary/Critical Care fellows in her current institution. In her free time, Dr. Voronina enjoys traveling, reading philosophy, and visiting art galleries.

    Angelo Alfano

    GUSI Instructor

    Angelo is a Family Nurse Practitioner who completed a rural medicine residency after getting his Master’s at Yale, and has since practiced full scope primary care at Open Door Community Health Center in Humboldt County. Prior to working in medicine, he completed his BA at UC Berkeley, worked in the Bay Area doing business development and grant writing for numerous non-profits. He found his calling in medicine after spending a year abroad, completing a certificate in international negotiation and conflict resolution, on a ship board university named the Scholarship. Angelo is the co-founder of the Global Stewards Institute, an international nonprofit focused on international education and the promotion of global citizenry.

    He recently completed his Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner degree at Johns Hopkins to help address the lack of mental health resources in his county. He is adjunct faculty to the Open-Door Community health center APC residency and is responsible for the residents’ clinical skills training. Angelo is focused on streamlining POCUS training and integrating the technology into the primary care system and engaging APC’s in POCUS training.

    Ann Lockhart

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Ann Lockhart, a Family Medicine and Obstetrics physician, has taught obstetric POCUS in both the inpatient and outpatient settings since finishing her residency at Contra Costa County in 2004.

    She grew up in rural North Carolina and found her passion for medicine as an undergrad at Duke University while working with migrant farmworkers. She graduated from UC-San Diego Medical School, and then specialized in Family Medicine and Obstetrics with a focus on the care of under-resourced patients. She currently teaches residents at the John Muir Health Family Medicine Residency in Walnut Creek, CA.

    Ayalew Zewdie

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Ayalew Zewdie is an associate professor of emergency medicine and critical care at St. Paul Hospital. Millennium Medical College graduated from Tikur Anbesa specialized hospital. He received a medical doctorate from the University of Gondar.

    He served as chief of academic and research affairs at Addis Ababa Burn Emergency and Trauma Hospital (AaBET), which is a branch of St Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for more than 5 years. He worked as the vice academic head for the Department of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care of SPHMMC, AA, Ethiopia.

    Currently, he is working as faculty at the Department of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care at African Health Science University, seconded to Kibungo Level II Teaching Hospital, Rwanda.

    He served as editor-in-chief for the Pan African Journal of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care.

    He completed the Ultrasound Leadership Academy Fellowship with Honors in EM Ultrasound under Ultrasound Leadership Academy. He got a certificate in Emergency Medicine from POCUS from the POCUS Certification Academy.

    He has organized POCUS workshops with his colleagues in echo-guided life support, EFAST, and critical care cardiac ultrasound in Ethiopia.

    He gave different trainings and workshops for his hardworking emergency medicine and critical care residents and undergraduate students on POCUS at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

    He was an author for “pocket ECG interpretation guide” and co-author for “Hospital-Based Medical Disaster Response. He is involved as section editor on the African Federation of Emergency Medicine’s (AFEM) handbook. He presented his research in different conferences.

    He is a teacher, researcher, leader, and clinician. He is excited to work with GUSI to spread POCUS education.

    Ben Beduhn

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Ben Beduhn is a long-time POCUS enthusiast. He completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin, residency at the University of Michigan, and Sports Medicine Fellowship at Swedish in Seattle, WA.He has used POCUS on the highest levels through support of professional, college, and high school sports teams. He currently works as a team physician for Eastern Michigan University.

    Dr. Beduhn is an active POCUS researcher with active studies and published research on POCUS curriculums. While he does POCUS in his primary care clinics, he has also completed additional training in diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound. He helps lead POCUS training for residents, fellows, and attendings at the University of Michigan including many bootcamps and one-on-one mentoring.

    Outside of medicine, Dr. Beduhn enjoys gardening and biking.

    Ben Howard

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Ben Howard is a Family Physician and POCUS Champion at Broadlawns Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa.

    After completing residency at Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Indiana, he joined a full-spectrum practice in rural Iowa. Dr. Howard had the opportunity to work with medical students in his rural practice, and this ignited a passion for teaching. He then transitioned into academic medicine and has enjoyed working with residents and medical students. Early in his transition to academic medicine, he completed a POCUS fellowship through the Ultrasound Leadership Academy.

    While serving as residency faculty, he has developed a POCUS curriculum, directed a POCUS CME course for medical staff, and frequently teaches medical students at the local medical school. Currently, he maintains a full-spectrum practice, including inpatient, clinic, and obstetrical care. Dr. Howard has a particular interests in medical education and rural medicine and the applications for POCUS in these settings.

    Benjamin Solder

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Benjamin Solder is an Emergency Medicine resident physician at UCSF. He currently leads the POCUS elective for interested medical students at UCSF. Additionally, he is regularly seen in the anatomy lab, helping first-year students connect the anatomy they are dissecting to the images obtained with POCUS.

    Prior to moving to San Francisco, Dr. Solder completed medical school at Baylor College of Medicine and concurrently earned his Master of Education (M.Ed.) at the University of Houston in Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Solder brings his enthusiasm for instruction and his understanding of adult learning theories and educational design to GUSI courses.

     

    Beryl Greywoode

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Beryl Greywoode is an Attending Physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her medical degree with Honors from the University of Florida College of Medicine where she founded the non-profit Project RAIN (Relieving Areas In Need) which focuses on advancing sustainable health initiatives in Sierra Leone, her home country. She then completed her pediatric training in the Boston Combined Residency Program (Boston Children’s/Boston Medical Center) and thereafter pursued a Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship at Imperial Health in the United Kingdom developing her clinical skills in both tropical health and international relief work. Though her global health work encompasses a broad range of issues, Dr. Greywoode has a keen interest in developing innovative solutions for low resource settings that impact and augment health outcomes.

    Dr. Greywoode is currently the Director for General Pediatrics Point of Care Ultrasound at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, a program she developed from its inception. Through her ultrasound work she has pioneered one of the first general pediatric inpatient ultrasound programs in the nation training front line hospitalist, residents, and medical students in the use of bedside ultrasound. She leads on a national level influencing the use of ultrasound in the pediatric inpatient setting, serves on the leadership team for FUSEd (Focused Ultrasound in Educaton) an interdepartmental initiative for bedside education and research, and is a Course Director for CHOP’s Bedside Ultrasound Course, an internationally renowned training course in bedside ultrasound.

    Brady Fleshman

    GUSI Instructor

    Brady Fleshman, MD, is an assistant professor of Family Medicine and Orthopedics/Sports Medicine at the University of Missouri (MU). He completed medical school and residency at MU and completed his fellowship in sports medicine at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Fleshman spends half his time in a family medicine clinic and the other half at the Missouri Orthopedic Institute (MOI) in Columbia, MO. At MOI, he frequently uses ultrasound for therapeutic and diagnostic procedures and gets frequent referrals from his surgical counterparts for ultrasound-guided injections. Dr. Fleshman is also one of the team physicians for the University of Missouri Tigers (MIZ!). In his free time, he enjoys playing basketball, camping, fishing, farming, riding four-wheelers, and spending time with his wife, Kara, and his future twin boys.

    Brandon Chase

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Brandon Chase earned his medical degree at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY, and completed his family medicine residency training at Cascades East Family Medicine in rural southern Oregon. After practicing full-scope family medicine at a nearby FQHC, he returned to Cascades East as core faculty in 2014 where, as faculty advisor of a resident-driven ultrasound interest group, he woke to the possibilities of POCUS. He considers himself fortunate to have learned just enough to teach POCUS at national conferences by AAFP, AIUM, STFM, and GUSI. His passion is using POCUS to expand quality and scope of care in office-based settings, though he is quick to reach for a probe when confronted with an admission for undifferentiated shortness-of-breath.

    Brendan Kidder

    GUSI Instructor

    Went to UCSD for undergrad and medical school, completed his residency at Scripps Mercy Chula Vista.  Currently practice full scope family medicine at a local FQHC, seeing adults, kids and prenatal care.  He continue with inpatient and OB deliveries as well as faculty with the residency program.  He started ultrasounding several years ago with his residents looking for more help, and started shadowing a local cardiologist to learn.  Since discovering the potential and utility of POCUS, he has expanded his training and experience with the GUSI platform and teach it in the inpatient and outpatient setting.  It is an extraordinary tool to have and help with our patients with limited resources.  He’s excited to continue learning and teaching.

    Brian K. Mbugua

    GUSI Instructor

    Mr Brian K. Mbugua is a dedicated Clinician, Cardiac Sonographer, and Echocardiography Instructor with a strong background in Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). He holds a Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery from the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) and further specializes in Echocardiography and ECG through a certification course at KMTC.

    His ultrasound expertise extends beyond cardiac imaging, having undergone advanced training in Obstetric and Gynecological, eFAST, AAA, DVT, Vascular Access and Lung Ultrasound. As an instructor in Echocardiography and ECG, he is passionate about teaching and equipping healthcare providers with hands-on ultrasound skills to improve patient care.

    With a commitment to advancing ultrasound education and bedside diagnostics, Mr. Brian K. Mbugua aims to contribute to GUSI’s mission by delivering high-quality POCUS training and fostering ultrasound proficiency among healthcare professionals.

    Bruno Vargas

    GUSI Instructor

    Bruno Vargas is originally from Mexico City. He first trained as an Emergency Medical Technician at la Universidad Panamericana (UP) before starting medical school at la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City. Later he did his social service year in the Sierra Madre of Chiapas with Partners in Health Mexico/Compañeros en Salud (CES) in 2019, where he was trained in Global Health, social medicine, and introduced to Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS). At that moment while working in a resource-limited setting he became passionate about POCUS. He graduated as a general practitioner, and afterward stayed with CES during the pandemic as part of the COVID-19 task force, training community healthcare workers and “pasantes” (first-year doctors doing their year of social service). He finished the Ultrasound Leadership Academy (ULA) fellowship and has started a POCUS training program at his site with midwives, nurses, doctors, and trainees from these areas. He is currently doing a Global Health Fellowship with HEAL as a site fellow in Chiapas with CES. He has committed to a lifelong career in global health providing healthcare access to the most marginalized communities. He has a profound respect and admiration for nature and loves any kind of outdoor activities, especially bicycling, high mountain, and scuba-diving.

    Caleb Cave

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Caleb Cave is a current neonatal-perinatal medicine fellow at the University of Nebraska Medical Center with a passion for advancing the use of POCUS within the field of neonatology. His current research interests include investigating changes in lung field ultrasound and diaphragmatic function during post-natal steroid courses. Furthermore, Dr. Cave prioritizes medical education and career mentorship and was granted a house officer teaching award during his residency training. Prior to starting medical school, he worked for several years as a math and science tutor while completing his undergraduate studies. He graduated from medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and completed a Pediatrics residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

    Caritas Adwoa Forkuoh

    GUSI Instructor

    Caritas Adwoa Forkuoh is a Medical Doctor at Kpone Polyclinic, where she serves as the Clinical Coordinator. In this role, she brings clinical expertise, strong leadership, and a deep commitment to patient-centered care. A dedicated advocate for patients’ rights, she strives to ensure that every patient is treated with dignity and receives the highest quality care.

    Passionate about point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), Caritas incorporates it into her practice and guides colleagues in using it for faster, more accurate clinical decisions. She is currently pursuing an MA in Health Law and Ethics, applying ethical and legal principles to enhance patient care. Additionally, she is working toward specialization in Family Medicine with a focus on palliative care.

    Curious and hands-on by nature, Caritas thrives on learning new skills and engaging in practical, hands-on projects. Outside the clinic, she channels her creativity into event planning and DIY projects, bringing the same care and attention to detail to her hobbies as she does in her medical practice.

    Carlo Toscani

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Carlo Toscani, MD

    Specialist in Radiodiagnostics, General Practitioner, Master’s Degree in Economics and Finance.

    Forty-five years old, Specialist in Radiodiagnostics at the University of Parma, Dr. Carlo Toscani is a general practitioner serving in Fidenza (Parma), having returned to clinical activity in the area for about three years.
    Passionate about ultrasound and particularly about handheld devices, he is convinced that a medical examination in 2025 should often be eco-assisted, especially regarding abdominal pathology, which he studies with an eye trained on heavy machines.
    With an unusual passion for teaching, he does not disdain ultrasounding the chest, venous system, and soft tissues, with a “whole-body” approach to the ultrasound examination.
    In another life, he worked at an insurance broker after a degree in economics and finance.

    Carmelo Herrera

    GUSI Instructor

    El Dr. Carmelo Herrera Carcedo es un médico de familia con más de 30 años de experiencia, especializado en ecografía clínica. Es miembro activo de la Sociedad Española de Ecografía (S.E.ECO.) y de la Sociedad Española de Médicos Generales y de Familia (SEMG). Actualmente, co-coordina el Área de Ginecología del Grupo de Trabajo de Ecografía de la SEMG, contribuyendo al desarrollo de protocolos y formación en esta especialidad.

    En su consulta privada en Burgos, ubicada en el Hospital San Juan de Dios, ofrece una amplia gama de estudios ecográficos con tecnología de última generación, incluyendo ecografías abdominales, musculoesqueléticas, de mama, tiroides, obstétricas y de cadera infantil. Su enfoque se centra en proporcionar diagnósticos precisos y rápidos, sin esperas ni necesidad de derivaciones previas.

    Además de su labor clínica, el Dr. Herrera es docente en la Escuela Nacional de Ecografía de la SEMG, participando activamente en la formación de profesionales de la salud en técnicas ecográficas avanzadas.

    Carrie Hayes

    GUSI Instructor
    Carrie Hayes DMSc, MHS, PA-C: Interventional Radiology Physician Associate
    Carrie Hayes RDMS ( AB, OB) RVT: Diagnostic Medical Sonographer
    Carrie Hayes has been an Interventional Radiology Physician Assistant for more than 10 years, beginning her latest role with Advanced Vascular Centers in January 2025, following time as an Interventional Radiology Physician Associate for Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist, Stanford Health Care, and most recently RADIA. In addition, she has been a diagnostic medical sonographer, board-certified in abdomen, obstetrics, and gynecology, and a registered vascular technologist for more than 18 years.
    After eight years as a sonographer for Duke University Medical Center, she attended Duke University School of Medicine for PA certification. After graduation, she began working in Interventional Radiology with a heavy focus on ultrasound-guided procedures, and her experience quickly resulted in her instructing radiology residents. After spending over six years in the Houston Medical Center, she moved to California to take a position with Stanford Health Care. As an IR PA, she has worked to build capacity, expand clinical IR services, streamline workflows, and educate sonographers, physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, residents, and fellows. While performing image-guided procedures using ultrasound, CT, and fluoroscopy, she also enjoys using ultrasound clinically for treatment, procedural planning, and follow-up. She especially enjoys serving as a preceptor for the Stanford School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program and a mentor through the Oregon Medical Education Foundation.
    Carrie has long-standing and diverse experience with ultrasound education in low-resource settings in the US and globally through her work with a radiology non-profit, RAD-AID International. As their Director for Ultrasound, she has lectured worldwide about the power of ultrasound and the importance of high-quality education. Through creating curriculum, hands-on instruction, and content building, she has directed a team of global ultrasound educators to increase ultrasound capacity, facilitate education, and create pathways to certification. By cultivating sustainable partnerships and high-quality ultrasound education, she has helped teach healthcare providers ultrasound in over 30 countries, including Haiti, Laos, Malawi, Tanzania, Guyana, Ethiopia, Cape Verde, Ghana, Nepal, and Liberia.
    Carrie was named Inteleos’ POCUS Ambassador to the United States and has worked closely with them while participating in podcasts and webinars about ultrasound education. Her pilot project in Whiteriver, Arizona, within the Indian Health Service Community, offers a hybrid learning model with a pathway to POCUS certification. She is currently the Past Chair of the Society of Interventional Radiology’s NP/PA Governing Council, leading efforts to empower APPs in IR, following three years as the Chair. Most recently, she was selected to join the Inteleos Board of Directors and works to promote high-quality ultrasound worldwide. She completed her doctoral degree in Advanced Professional Practice this year and is excited to use what she learned to advance her career in ultrasound education and clinical patient care.
    With her strong roots and diverse experience in volunteerism, she feels strongly about using ultrasound to serve low-resource communities. She is constantly seeking ways to continue to bring focus, attention, and expert energy to these efforts – which always starts with high-quality education and instruction. The opportunity to provide ultrasound education with Global Ultrasound Institute creates a collaborative space to improve patient care by empowering medical teams.

    CC Morone

    GUSI Instructor
    CC has been an emergency medicine PA at Massachusetts General Hospital for about 10 years. She was exposed to ultrasound as a computer programmer doing clinical research in California in 2001 at UC Irvine. However, it wasn’t until she became an EM PA at MGH that she became a true sonophile and sonoenthusiast as part of the Division of Emergency Ultrasound and Center for Ultrasound Research and Education. She is the Director of EM APP Ultrasound at MGH where she lectures, teaches, engages in research, and works alongside members of the ultrasound division. She has taught ultrasound at WINFOCUS, WCUME, SAEM, AAPA, and other national conferences. She was born in Taiwan, grew up in the SF Bay Area, and moved to Connecticut for PA school before moving to Boston. She lives with her husband Joe in Somerville MA and spends what free time she has gardening, golfing, fishing, and engaging in the community. She is on the board of MAPA as a House of Delegate, a member of the ACEP Ultrasound Subcommittee for APPs, Commissioner for Somerville Commission for Women, an advisor to Vot-ER, and an operating manager and co-founder of a local nonprofit voter engagement organization One Nation Every Vote.

    Chandler Stisher

    GUSI Instructor

    Chandler Stisher, MD, MPH, is a family physician who works at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Huntsville Regional Medical Campus. He completed his medical school and residency training at UAB and stayed on as family medicine faculty after his training. He currently serves as the family medicine clerkship director for third year medical students as well as the associate program director at the UAB Huntsville Family Medicine Residency Program. 

    Chandler started his POCUS journey during his third year of residency. He currently practices in both the inpatient and outpatient setting and uses POCUS every day. He will soon complete the GUSI POCUS fellowship, and he enjoys teaching POCUS regularly to medical students, residents, and faculty. His specific passion is to equip medical students and residents who will go on to practice in rural and resource-limited areas with the knowledge and skillset to use POCUS in their daily practice. 

    In his spare time, he loves spending timewith his wife, Amanda, who is also a family physician, as well as their young daughter, Leighton. 

    Charisse Kwan

    GUSI Instructor
    Dr. Charisse Kwan is Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario and POCUS Faculty within the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine in London, Ontario, Canada. She is the current President of the P2Network, a group of international pediatricians, who are committed to globally sharing expertise, building research collaborations and offering mentorship in the use of pediatric point-of-care ultrasound. She has taught hundreds of residents, fellows and physicians at international conferences including AIUM, WINFOCUS, CAEP, EMU, CPS, AAP as well as led POCUS workshops in the UK, Switzerland and Canada. She is involved in many national and international educational collaborations to establish standardized credentialing and curriculums in PEM POCUS. She has authored several chapters in POCUS textbooks and performs research on medical education and competency within POCUS.
    Dr. Kwan completed her Pediatrics Residency at Queen’s University before completing fellowships in PEM and POCUS at Sickkids Hospital in Toronto, Canada. She went on to be the Director of the PEM POCUS Program and Program Director of the PEM POCUS Fellowship program at Sickkids for several years before making her move to the University of Western Ontario in 2020.

    Chelsea Salas-Tam

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Chelsea Salas-Tam is a family medicine and sports medicine physician at Esperanza Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center in North Philadelphia. Originally from Southern California, Dr. Salas-Tam moved to Philadelphia to attend Drexel University College of Medicine. She completed both her family medicine residency and sports medicine fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. During her fellowship, she found the utility of POCUS both empowering for physicians and healing for patients. She loves ultrasound-guided procedures and helping patients understand musculoskeletal pathology through live imaging with POCUS. At Esperanza Health Center, Dr. Salas-Tam practices both primary care and sports medicine. She believes POCUS is incredibly powerful in bringing exceptional medicine to low-resource settings where patients equally deserve high-quality care.

    Christie Langenberg

    GUSI Instructor

    Christie Langenberg MD CAQSM is a family medicine and sports medicine physician at Greater Lawrence
    Family Health Center in Lawrence, Massachusetts, a core faculty member at Lawrence Family Medicine
    Residency, and assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and the University of
    Massachusetts Chan Medical School. She graduated from Tufts University where she was a 4-year
    member and senior captain of the women’s lacrosse team. She attended residency at Swedish Family
    Medicine Residency Cherry Hill, in Seattle, Washington where she helped care for athletes at Seattle
    University. She completed her fellowship in Sports and Exercise Medicine at the University of
    Massachusetts where she learned interventional and musculoskeletal ultrasound. Since then, she has
    taught at local POCUS courses and provided musculoskeletal ultrasound instruction to family medicine
    residents. She is passionate about reducing disparities in sports and musculoskeletal medicine, including
    through the use of ultrasound. Her efforts include bringing POCUS to school-based health center clinics
    and high school football sidelines. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her husband and three
    young children and trying to find time to exercise, garden, hike, cross-country ski, and spend time in the
    woods.

    Christine Prill

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Christine Prill is a current primary care sports medicine fellow at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU). Originally from Wisconsin, she completed her undergraduate training at University of Wisconsin – Madison, and medical training at Medical College of Wisconsin – Green Bay. She completed her family medicine residency at the University of Minnesota – Methodist program. She appreciates the utility and versatility of ultrasound in medical practice, especially as it relates to the musculoskeletal system. New to Portland, she is enjoying all the beautiful city has to offer!

    Christoffer Amdahl

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Christoffer Amdahl is currently a second-year advanced team physician sports medicine fellow through Oregon Health & Sciences University, and works primarily with the University of Oregon varsity athletics as a team physician for all of their sports. He has trained at the University of Iowa (MD), Medical City Arlington Family Medicine (Residency), and Maine-Dartmouth Sports Medicine (Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship). He has previously participated in advanced ultrasound procedure clinics via the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. He also incorporates MSK-focused POCUS into his daily clinics, training rooms, and sideline coverage for the athletes at the University of Oregon. Outside of work, Christoffer enjoys spending time with his wonderful wife, Madison, as well as their two cats and can be found exercising, cooking, or hiking.

    Claire Hartung

    GUSI Instructor

    Claire Hartung is a family medicine physician based in the Bay Area. She attended medical school at University of Rochester School of Medicine then completed residency at Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program. Claire learned to love POCUS during her residency and was able to hone those skills and become and instructor during a chief resident and global health fellowship year also at Contra Costa. In addition to POCUS, her professional interests include teaching and medical education, inpatient medicine, and reproductive health justice.

    Cleo Stafford

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Stafford is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with a subspecialty certification in Sports Medicine. As a former baseball player, his passion for sports is longstanding and has continued throughout his medical training. Dr. Stafford graduated from Howard University College of Medicine and went on to complete his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Emory University, where he also served as chief resident. He then completed his Sports Medicine fellowship at the American Sports Medicine Institute/Andrews Sports Medicine Center in Birmingham, Al. He is currently a faculty member of the Emory Sports Medicine team where he spends his clinical time between The Emory Clinic and Grady Health Systems.

    Dr. Stafford has utilized point of care ultrasound (POCUS) for musculoskeletal conditions since residency and has continued this into his current practice. He uses it as an extension of his physical examination to assist with diagnosing difficult medical conditions. He also uses ultrasound to perform advanced minimally invasive procedures such as soft tissues releases, and percutaneous tenotomies.

    Dr. Stafford has taught POCUS at the local, regional and national level. He has been the director for POCUS musculoskeletal courses, written book chapters, written board questions and publish peer reviewed articles on the subject.

    Dr. Stafford has an unapparelled enthusiasm for teaching and excited at the opportunity to join the Global Ultrasound Institute.

    Connor Farrell

    GUSI Instructor

    Connor Farrell, DO, CAQSM is a primary care sports medicine physician and Assistant Professor of Sports Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Dr. Farrell earned his medical degree from Western University of Health Sciences and completed his Family Medicine residency at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, where he served as Academic Chief Resident. He then completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at OHSU.

    He has provided medical care for Long Beach State University, Cypress College, and the Southern California Summer X Games. Additionally, he has served as an assistant physician for Portland State University, worked adjunctly with the University of Oregon Track & Field team, and covered events such as the Portland Marathon and NCAA Track & Field National Championships.

    His expertise lies in the non-surgical management of tendon injuries, arthritis and joint disorders, peripheral nerve, and other musculoskeletal conditions. He often uses ultrasound to diagnose and manage patients’ medical conditions. His clinical interests include interventional ultrasound, orthobiologics/regenerative medicine, overuse injuries, human performance, and injury rehabilitation and prevention.

    Courtney Wright

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Courtney Wright completed her Family Medicine Residency at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in California. She has integrated POCUS into a wide range of clinical settings, including high-risk obstetric care, labor and delivery including surgical obstetrics, emergency departments, and inpatient medicine at a critical access hospital.

    One of her most memorable POCUS moments occurred when she wheeled a dusty ultrasound machine—discovered tucked away in the corner of a rural ED— to the inpatient unit. A surprised radiology tech stopped her in the hallway and exclaimed, “What are you doing with that? I’ve never seen a doctor use it!”

    Dr. Wright is deeply committed to providing whole-person care to underserved communities, with particular interests in reproductive health and the use of bedside ultrasound for procedural guidance. She enjoys teaching and mentoring learners across the clinical spectrum in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

    Craig Rudy

    GUSI Instructor

    Craig Rudy MD, CAQSM, is an Emergency Medicine trained Primary Care Sports Medicine physician.  Dr. Rudy completed his undergraduate medical education at OHSU.  This was followed by a residency in Emergency Medicine and fellowship in Primary Care Sports Medicine consecutively at OHSU.   He is currently working in community emergency medicine as well as at Oregon Health & Science University in Primary Care Sports Medicine. During his fellowship training he served as a team physician for Portland State University.  He currently serves as the team physician at Mountainside High School.  He is passionate about ultrasound diagnostics and ultrasound guided interventions for patients across the age spectrum.  Additionally, he has an academic interest in the intersection of critical illness in athletes and preparing the sideline team to be ready to appropriately respond.  

    Dae Hyoun (David) Jeong

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Dae Hyoun (David) Jeong is an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He serves as the Medical Director at UCSF Primary Care at the Laurel Village Clinic and Director of Point-of-Care Ultrasound.

    He completed his family medicine residency and sports medicine training at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, a geriatric medicine fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, and an EM POCUS Sabbatical Fellowship at UC Irvine Medical Center. He is certified in diagnostic musculoskeletal (RMSK) and abdomen (RDMS) sonography, as well as EM POCUS.

    Dr. Jeong is the chairperson of the World Taekwondo (WT) Medical and Anti-doping Committee. He notably introduced point-of-care ultrasound to both World Taekwondo and the International Olympic Committee for the first time. His expertise encompasses the application of point-of-care ultrasound in primary care, sports medicine, and emergency & critical care medicine. He is credited with penning four book chapters on POCUS, and has pioneered a curriculum in the area for various medical professionals, including international Taekwondo team doctors, attending physicians, sports medicine and pulmonology fellows, family medicine resident physicians, medical students, and APPs (PAs/NPs). Dr. Jeong’s acclaim in the field has led to invitations as a speaker, faculty member, and instructor at several international, national, and regional ultrasound conferences.

    Notably, he presented at the 2018 WONCA (World Organization of Family Doctors) World Conference in Seoul, Korea, and the 2019 World Congress on Ultrasound in Medical Education (WCUME) in Irvine, CA.

    Dalea Al-Hawarri

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Al-Hawarri believes in the strength of preventative screenings to support patients to take control over the conditions and factors which determine their health and wellness.

    Dallas Swanson

    GUSI Instructor

    Dallas grew up in rural Northeastern Oregon. After graduation from OHSU medical school, Dallas came to Klamath Falls for residency at Cascades East Family Medicine before staying on as a faculty member. His professional interests are in quality improvement and healthcare/community partnerships. Outside of work he spends much of his time cooking, preserving and eating the spare produce from Sweet Union Farm. He is passionate about community, environmental justice and health. He loves the conversation that occurs between the provider and the patient during the point-of-care ultrasound as they explore together what is happening beneath the skin – whether something as simple as a lump or bump, or as dynamic as the heart.

    Daniel Kaminstein

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Dan Kaminstein is a professor of Emergency Medicine at Augusta University. Following Emergency Medicine residency at the Medical College of Georgia, he completed a dual fellowship in international medicine and ultrasound. This fellowship included a 3-month diploma course at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene earning a DTM&H (diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene).

    Dan has an ongoing research interest in the application of ultrasound for the evaluation of tropical infectious disease and the application of ultrasound in resource-limited settings. This had included several research studies and running hands-on ultrasound courses in Peru, Tanzania, and Thailand. Dan continues to collaborate with providers around the world in teaching ultrasound and designing ultrasound-focused research studies.

    In his current roles as Interim Assistant Dean of Ultrasound Education and the Director of Global Health at the Medical College of Georgia, Dan directs the UME and GME ultrasound training programs for the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

    Daria Szkwarko

    GUSI Instructor

    Daria Szkwarko, DO, MPH is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Brown University. She did her FM residency at Brown and completed a preventive medicine fellowship and Masters in Public Health at the University of Massachusetts. She is the family medicine lead for the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) consortium in Kenya and facilitates a bilateral educational exchange between North American FM trainees and Kenyan FM trainees at Moi University. Dr. Szkwarko is passionate about POCUS education and the expansion of this skill globally. She co-leads the point of care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum at Brown University for the FM residency program, and she co-led the first POCUS workshop for FM physicians in Kenya in 2017 in collaboration with the Kenyan Association of Family Physicians which trained more than 90% of all FM physicians in the country.

    David Killeen

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. David Killeen was born in Alexandria, Virginia.  Fluent in English and Spanish, David completed a Master’s degree in Bilingual and Multicultural Education from La Universidad de Alcala de Henares in Madrid, Spain.  After working as a teacher, he decided to attend medical school and received his MD from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond VA. He completed his family medicine residency at New York Presbyterian – Columbia University. During his training David developed a strong interested in ultrasound. He completed fellowship in clinical ultrasound at the University of Pennsylvania where he was the first family medicine fellow at Penn to do both inpatient and outpatient medicine.

    He is passionate about bringing POCUS to all areas of medical care with a particular focus on primary care. David believes POCUS can improve patient outcomes, access to care and improve the doctor-patient relationship.  David is passionate about expanding POCUS across patient populations including those traditionally underserved both domestically and abroad. David has taught courses to medical students at the University of Pennsylvania, family medicine and internal medicine residents across the country and has worked internationally along the US-Mexico border, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Spain.

    His current position at Neighborhood Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), in Alexandria, Virginia, where he is creating an ultrasound program to serve both patients and educate staff that will serve as a model for programs and clinics across the country.

    His love for education and expanding the reach of POCUS for better patient care drives him to clinical, education and research roles. He looks forward to working with clinics, residency programs and providers to help customize POCUS education to fit their clinical needs and build capacity.  David is active in POCUS research with a special emphasis on soft tissue applications in primary care.

    David Mwonga Mulli

    GUSI Instructor

    David Mwonga Mulli is a trained Radiosonographer/ Echocardiographer, currently working for the University of Nairobi, Kenya, Faculty of Health Science, Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Medicine (DIRM). He has interest in ultrasound Trainings, CMEs and Workshops for colleagues, and has recently done an ultrasound workshop for Radiographers in Kenya with Mindray Ultrasound Systems as a Trainer.

    David Stromberg

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Stromberg completed medical school at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine (UNM) in 2010 and residency training at Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program in 2013. He is currently Core Faculty with the UNM Family Medicine Residency, Inpatient Education Director for the Family Medicine Residency and Director of the Feedback Initiative for the UNM School of Medicine. His passions include working with the underserved, full-spectrum family medicine, and reproductive health. He helped develop the POCUS curriculum for UNM Family Medicine Residents. He has trained various UNM faculty on POCUS skills and teaching POCUS to learners. He has integrated POCUS into his clinical work since 2016 and is a thrilled member of the GUSI team. Outside of medicine he likes spending time with his family and being in the wilderness.

    Debrah Ann Custodio

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Debrah Ann Custodio is a highly accomplished medical professional from Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, Philippines, with a passion for advancing emergency medicine and public health. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Velez College, Cebu, in 2007, and completed her Doctor of Medicine degree at Cebu Doctors’ University in 2011. Following her post-graduate internship at Chong Hua Hospital (2011–2012), Dr. Custodio underwent residency training in Emergency Medicine at St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City (2015–2018). She became a Diplomate of the Philippine Board of Emergency Medicine in 2019 and a Fellow of the Philippine College of Emergency Medicine in 2021.

    Dr. Custodio’s career spans academia, clinical practice, and healthcare administration. She served as a College Professor at Velez College, Cebu (2012–2013), and an Associate Professor at Cebu Doctors’ University College of Medicine (2012–2013). Her clinical roles include working as a Company Physician (2012–2013) and Medical Officer III at Cebu Provincial Hospital (2013–2014). Dr. Custodio made a significant impact in Emergency Medicine as the Head of the Department at Allegiant Regional Care Hospitals, Cebu (January 2019 – April 2022), and as an Affiliate Consultant for the Metropolitan ER Medicine Team Company (September 2019 – June 2021). She is currently a Medical Specialist at Southern Philippines Medical Center, Davao City (February 2021 – Present), and serves as an Affiliate Consultant at Davao Doctors’ Hospital (November 2022 – Present).

    In terms of leadership, Dr. Custodio has held key roles, including Chief-of-Clinics at Lapu-Lapu City Hospital (July 2021 – December 2022) and Hospital Administrator (December 2022 – December 2024). She is deeply involved in medical education, serving as the Assistant Training Officer (January 2022 – December 2022) and Training Officer (January 2023 – Present) at the Department of Emergency Medicine, Southern Philippines Medical Center. Additionally, she provides primary and emergency care as a Consultant at Expertcare Medical Clinic and Laboratory (May 8, 2022 – Present).

    Dr. Custodio is also dedicated to community service as a Board Member of the Philippine Red Cross (Lapu-Lapu City/Cordova Chapter) since January 2023. She is set to assume the role of Hospital Coordinator at MJ Santos Hospital, Butuan, starting in December 2024.

    Dr. Custodio’s career is a testament to her unwavering dedication to excellence in emergency medicine, leadership, and healthcare advancement across the Philippines.

    Deepika Ram

    GUSI Instructor

    Deepika Ram, DO, is a board-certified Family Medicine physician. She completed her Family Medicine residency at The University of Texas San Antonio and went on to complete a fellowship in Global Health and Faculty Development at Brown University. She was highly involved with POCUS during her fellowship, conducting multiple in-person workshops and creating the first ever POCUS easy-use pocket guides for Kenyan FM trainees at Moi University and for broader use at GUSI. She also led monthly virtual POCUS teaching sessions with the Kenyan FM trainees. Dr. Ram believes that POCUS is an important modality that can be crucial in guiding clinical care and enjoys sharing cases and teaching POCUS. In her free time, Dr. Ram enjoys being outdoors, watching movies, and spending time with friends and family.

    Denice Praxidio

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Denice Praxidio is a current Primary Care Sports Medicine fellow at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU). Originally from San Diego, she completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the University of California, San Diego. This was followed by medical school at Touro University Nevada, and family medicine residency at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

    She believes that ultrasound is an invaluable tool in primary care and sports medicine and is excited to incorporate it into her practice and be able to teach others.

    Outside of Medicine, she enjoys trail running, hiking, scuba diving all over the world, and discovering new restaurants in her new city of Portland.

    Dennis Muli

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Dennis Muli is an Obstetrician/Gynaecologist based in Bungoma County, Kenya. He specializes in Reproductive Health and is deeply passionate about improving maternal and neonatal outcomes in low-resource settings. Dr. Muli is dedicated to advancing healthcare access and quality for women and newborns in his community.

    Derek Harmon

    GUSI Instructor

    Derek Harmon received his Doctorate in Anatomy from The Ohio State University in 2015. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy and the Director of the Anatomy Learning Center at the University of California San Francisco. He is involved heavily in the Bridges curriculum as the anatomy discipline director for Undergraduate Medical Education. He has developed numerous graduate medical educational courses with an emphasis on ultrasound-based anatomy. His research interests are in technology-based educational innovations and developing low-cost, high-quality clinical simulation models.

    Derrick Murithi

    GUSI Instructor

    Clinical Rad|Sonographer skilled in all ultrasound|radiography protocols but with special interest and skill in cardiovascular sonography (fetal, pediatric, and adult echocardiography).

    Currently working as a General/Cardiac Sonographer at The Nairobi Hospital, “healing the world one scan at a time.”

    Devon Hutton

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Devon Hutton grew up in rural Colorado, which instilled in her a love of the outdoors. She found medicine through guiding and ski patrolling. After having to use her EMT in the backcountry more than a few times, she decided to expand her medical knowledge and skills. She went to the University of Minnesota Medical School and then moved back to rural Colorado for residency at St. Mary’s Family Medicine. She completed her training at Oregon Health & Science University in a Primary Care Sports Medicine fellowship where she fell in love with musculoskeletal ultrasound. She took the opportunity to move to Bend, Oregon, to work at a high acuity urgent care clinic and spend the winter weekends working the ski clinic at Mt. Bachelor resort. Missing sports medicine, she recently moved back to the Twin Cities to work Sports Medicine Urgent Care at TRIA Orthopedics. She continues to teach ultrasound at AMSSM musculoskeletal conferences and integrate point of care ultrasound into sideline care. Her passions outside medicine include all sports sliding on snow, trail running with her dog, and landscaping.

    Diego Arufe

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Diego Arufe completed his medical studies at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2005. In 2010, he finished his residency in Internal Medicine at the “Alfredo Lanari” Institute for Medical Research. He then pursued a fellowship in Hepatology and Liver Transplantation at the Austral University Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011–2013). During his training and until 2018, he worked as a physician in the Intensive Care Unit at Sanatorio Mater Dei, Buenos Aires.

    He is currently the Head of Hepatology at Sanatorio Sagrado Corazón, where he leads a fellowship training program, and also serves as a Hepatologist at Austral University Hospital. His interest in ultrasound began in 2009, when he completed a postgraduate course in Ultrasound and Doppler at the Argentine Society of Ultrasonography in Medicine and Biology (SAUMB).

    For over 14 years, he has integrated the concept of POCUS (Point-of-Care Ultrasound) into his daily practice. In the field of hepatology, this led him to coin the term HEPOCUS—a concept that, for him, represents the strategic use of ultrasound to answer specific liver-related clinical questions and enhance patient care.

    Dr. Arufe has coordinated HEPOCUS courses for the Argentine Society of Hepatology (SAHE) and the Latin American Association for the Study of the Liver (ALEH). He is considered a leading expert in the use of liver elastography. He firmly believes that POCUS has revolutionized medical practice, and in particular, that HEPOCUS enables faster and more efficient diagnostic processes, with a positive impact on the quality of patient care.

    Dominic Frecentese

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Dominic Frecentese is a procedural radiologist with a diverse background that spans surgical and radiological training, as well as a strong commitment to volunteerism and service. After completing surgical residency at Gunderson Clinic, he spent a year volunteering in St. Lucia, West Indies contributing to medical care for the underserved.

    Returning to the United States, he transitioned to radiology, beginning his residency at Creighton University, then completing a fellowship at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Frecentese has been recognized for his dedication to the field, receiving a Fellowship in the American College of Radiology for his exceptional service.
    Outside of professional life, Dr. Frecentese is a passionate advocate for single-payer health care, serving on the Minnesota Board of Physicians for a National Health Program. He enjoys spending his free time mountain biking, whitewater kayaking, hiking, studying wilderness medicine, and traveling with his wife and three children. Dr. Frecentese believes strongly in the power of sharing knowledge and helping others, and is dedicated to making the world a better place through both his professional work and personal pursuits.

    Donah Oeri

    GUSI Instructor

    Donah Oeri is a Medical Doctor passionate about provision of quality Reproductive Health to all women. Currently she is finalizing her residency in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya.

    She has a passion for POCUS having received training in Obstetric ultrasonography as part of the residency, attended workshops and trainings by maternal fetal experts and completed an elective at the Maternal fetal unit in Mount Sinai hospital Toronto where prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy surveillance using ultrasonography was the focus.

    Her long-term goal is to be a maternal-fetal specialist in which POCUS plays a great role in ensuring early detection and management of any complications in pregnancy to optimize the health and well-being of the mother and her baby.

    Drew Tobler

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Drew Tobler is a current Primary Care Sports Medicine fellow at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU) where he works with patients and athletes of all ages. Originally from Denver, Colorado he enjoys all things outdoors including backpacking, snowboarding, and rock-climbing. His passion for musculoskeletal medicine arose while obtaining his undergraduate degree at Creighton University in Exercise Science. This was followed by medical school at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine where he grew interests in Osteopathic Manipulation, POCUS and Sports Medicine. Ultimately, this brought him to Providence Oregon Family Medicine Residency where outside of POCUS he enjoys practicing addiction medicine, preventive medicine, and gender affirming care.

    Duane Smith

    GUSI Instructor

    I am currently working as an echocardiographer within Ultracardiac Ltd (a private company operating in the South-West of England). Prior to this I worked at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, initially as a Healthcare Support Worker then progressing in the field of healthcare over a 7-yr period, gaining experience within Cardiac, Vascular and Respiratory Sciences, specialising in Cardiology. I went on to complete a MSc in Cardiac Science at Manchester Metropolitan University, alongside completing a Scientific Training Programme allowing me to hold the title of Clinical Scientist in the UK. I am both SCST and BSE accredited, specialising in Echocardiography. I am also an end-point assessor for Bristol University, assisting in the growth of Cardiac Physiologists in the UK.

    I am passionate about healthcare development, education delivery and optimising patient care. I am excited to be given the opportunity to work with the GUSI team to provide POCUS training to primary healthcare providers, aiming to streamline patient care delivery in the UK, reducing waiting times and unnecessary referrals.

    Duncan Matheka

    GUSI Instructor

    Duncan Matheka is a medical doctor currently finalizing his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He has a passion for POCUS having received training as part of his residency, several workshops by Kenya obstetrical and gynecological society (KOGS) and Mindray Ultrasound Systems. In partnership with Global Ultrasound Institute (GUSI), he was involved in training 514 healthcare providers from 8 counties in Kenya on obstetrics POCUS. Additionally, Duncan is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellowship (Young African Leaders Initiative) alumni, has over 30 peer-reviewed publications, and is finalizing another Master’s degree in Health Economics and Policy. His long-term goal is to be a clinician-researcher to combat preventable deaths among women through screening, early diagnosis and timely management. He is keen to utilize his skills in POCUS, health systems strengthening, research, health economics, public management, reproductive health and non- communicable diseases towards addressing the unique social determinants that create barriers to women’s healthcare; and therefore improving access and timely quality care for women. He firmly believes POCUS would play a key role in ensuring quality and timely healthcare provision in low resource settings.

    Duncun Kiptoo Ng’etich

    GUSI Instructor

    Duncun Kiptoo Ng’etich is a registered clinical officer/medical assistant at Living Room International Hospital. He completed medical school at Kenya Medical Training College in Nakuru, Kenya, and residency at Vihiga County Referral Hospital in Mballe, Vihiga County, Kenya.

    He currently works as a clinical officer in the outpatient and ER department at Living International Hospital, where he manages all tuberculosis cases. Originally from Bomet County, south rift of the Rift valley, Duncun is a native Kalenjin speaker, who later relocated to Eldoret City for studies and work. He is primarily interested in rural medicine, universal health care/coverage, and oncology. He’s an avid adventurist, mountain biker, basketball player, and swimmer.

    Duska Thurston

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Duska Thurston is a pediatrician at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine. She completed her medical school training at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, Vermont and pediatric residency at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital in Iowa City, IA. Dr. Thurston has worked in a variety of practice settings including rural underserved public health, pediatric hospitalist and medical education. Dr. Thurston has had an interest in sports medicine and received a graduate certificate in Sports Medicine from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She currently serves as Associate Program Director for Curriculum at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Center and Residency Program. Dr. Thurston has been an avid user of POCUS since 2016. She has been developing the POCUS program at the family medicine residency in Bangor over the last several years and is an enthusiastic teacher and ambassador for pediatric POCUS

    Dylan Gibson

    GUSI Instructor

    Dylan Gibson completed his family medicine training at Walter Sisulu University and is currently working in a sleep lab in South Africa while teaching POCUS part-time. He began using POCUS while working at a rural district hospital in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Since then he has become a certified POCUS instructor for the Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa (EMSSA).

    In his spare time, Dylan loves surfing, padding, and snorkeling in the ocean near his seaside home in Gqeberha.

    Edgard Marcano

    GUSI Instructor

    Soy un Médico Cirujano graduado en la Universidad de Oriente en 2013, con una especialización en Medicina Intensiva obtenida en el Complejo Asistencial  niversitario de Salamanca (HUSA). A lo largo de mi carrera, he desarrollado una sólida trayectoria en el ámbito de la medicina crítica y la investigación, con un enfoque en la Coordinación de Trasplante de Órganos y Tejidos, valoración ecográfica del paciente crítico, tromboelastografía, hemorragias subaracnoideas, estudios de seguridad en pacientes críticos, gestión clínica y terapias de circulación extracorpórea.

    Formación Académica:

    • Médico Cirujano: Universidad de Oriente, 2013.
    • Especialización en Medicina Intensiva: Complejo Asistencial Universitario de
      Salamanca (HUSA), España.
    • Certificaciones:
    • BLS/ACLS por la American Heart Association (AHA), 2013.
    • Electrocardiografía Básica, 2013.
    • Toxicología, 2013.
    • Estudios Superiores:
    • Donación y trasplantes de órganos.
    • Gestión clínica.

    Experiencia Profesional:

    2013-2014: Ejercicio simultáneo en medicina pública y privada en el área de emergencia, cuidado y atención de pacientes críticos, y consultas de adultos y niños.
    2015-2022: Médico Intensivista en el Complejo Asistencial Universitario de Salamanca (HUSA), España.
    Desde 2023: Médico Intensivista en los Servicios de Medicina Intensiva de Hospiten Roca
    y el Hospital Universitario Doctor Negrín en Gran Canaria, España.
    Investigador Principal del Proyecto REMOS: Un proyecto impulsado por la Sociedad
    Española de Medicina Intensiva, Crítica y Unidades Coronarias (SEMICYUC).
    Investigación y Publicaciones:

    Mi experiencia en investigación comenzó en el campo de la parasitología, específicamente en la caracterización y descripción de la triatominofauna y tropismo en la enfermedad de Chagas. He participado activamente en numerosos congresos médicos nacionales e internacionales, presentando trabajos de investigación y ponencias sobre temas relacionados con la medicina crítica.

    Miembros y Sociedades Profesionales:

    • Sociedad Castellano-Leonesa de Medicina Intensiva, Crítica y Unidades Coronarias (SCLMICYUC)
    • Sociedad Española de Medicina Intensiva, Crítica y Unidades Coronarias (SEMICYUC)
    • Sociedad Europea de Medicina Crítica (ESICM)
    • European Society of Transplants (ESOT)
    • Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca (IBSAL)
    • Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias (SEMES)
    • Colegio de Médicos de Salamanca (COMSAL), España
    • Colegio de Médicos del Estado Anzoátegui, Venezuela

    Divulgación Científica y Aptitudes:

    Poseo una destacada capacidad de oratoria, lo que me ha permitido ser un promotor activo de la divulgación científica, particularmente en el ámbito de la medicina intensiva. He emprendido un proyecto de divulgación digital a través de Twitter, bajo el usuario @el_intensivista, donde comparto conocimientos y actualizaciones en mi área de especialidad. Además, cuento con publicaciones de índole no técnico-científico.

    Formación en Gestión y Administración:

    Además de mi formación clínica, obtuve un Máster en Gestión Sanitaria, lo que ha fortalecido mi capacidad para liderar y gestionar equipos en entornos de alta complejidad. Actualmente, estoy cursando un MBA, con el objetivo de ampliar mis competencias en administración y dirección de servicios de salud, integrando
    conocimientos de gestión empresarial en mi práctica médica.

    Elvis Rugut

    GUSI Instructor

    Elvis Rugut is a trained and registered Radiographer and Echocardiographer. He has been practicing in Kenya for over 10 years. Currently, Elvis serves within the Kenyan Ministry of Defence, specifically in the Department of Medical Services, where he plays a key role in Health Systems Management for the Military Medical Facilities and Medical Reception Stations. He is interested in ultrasound training, CMEs, and workshops for Medical Imaging fellows, residents, students, and colleagues. He has recently done an ultrasound workshop for Radiographers in Kenya. He is an Ultrasound Application Specialist with Siemens Kenya. It is worth noting that Elvis, in partnership with Global Ultrasound Institute (GUSI), was involved in training 514 healthcare providers from 8 counties in Kenya on obstetrics POCUS. With a keen interest in health systems management, health economics, and public health, Elvis believes that POCUS has the potential to revolutionize healthcare delivery, particularly in low-resource settings. His goal is to ensure that high-quality, timely, and affordable care is accessible to all people, irrespective of their socioeconomic status, gender, or political and religious affiliations.

    Emily Neill

    GUSI Instructor

    Emily is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and, after stints in New England, Chile, and Los Angeles, returned to the area to complete both residency and ultrasound fellowship training at University of California San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital. She now practices in the community as well as at UCSF/SFGH, where she remains involved in resident and medical student ultrasound education. Her academic interests include ultrasound, education, and social determinants of health. Outside of the hospital, she enjoys baking and cooking, hiking, and spending time with her morbidly obese tabby cat and her mostly blind, mostly deaf, and completely wonderful Golden Retriever.

    Emory Williams

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Emory Williams is a family physician currently providing primary care with obstetrics in an FQHC system near Seattle, WA. After finishing residency at Swedish First Hill Family Medicine Residency in Seattle, they completed UCSF’s HEAL Initiative Global Health Fellowship where they worked on the Navajo Nation and in Liberia. Emory has been interested in what POCUS can offer resource deprived settings since residency.

    Internationally, they have used POCUS to connect patients with US-based consultants. Domestically, they have used POCUS to aid in their hospitalist and obstetrics practice and to provide comprehensive reproductive health care in the outpatient setting.

    Erin Fredrickson

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Erin Fredrickson is a family physician with special interests in obstetrics, reproductive health, and sports medicine. She learned about POCUS in medical school with a “living anatomy” component of her early medical education, and she developed sports medicine skills and knowledge as a resident at the University of Washington. She completed the OB Fellowship at Swedish, where she was able to ask and answer lots of reproductive health and obstetrics questions with ultrasound. Erin enjoys playing outside (running, backpacking, and cross country skiing), drinking coffee, and exploring new places with her husband Connor and dog Charlie.

    Erin Huntley

    GUSI Instructor

    Born amidst the rugged beauty of Denver, Colorado, Dr. Erin Huntley’s journey has been defined by a commitment to compassionate healthcare. She pursued medical education at the University of North Texas and stayed in Fort Worth for Obstetric and Gynecology residency at John Peter Smith Hospital, a county hospital known for immigrant and under-resourced populations.

    Driven by a desire to serve in marginalized communities, Dr. Huntley ventured into local and Indian health in Alaska, migrant health populations in Oregon, rural Guatemalan communities, and the resource limited rural Liberia, Africa, where she practiced as a dedicated General Obstetrician and Gynecologist. Alongside her husband, a family medicine physician, she created and implemented a maternal health service line for rural Liberians that decreased maternal mortality by 85%, established a gynecology clinic, and taught lay healthcare workers point-of-care obstetric ultrasound. Her experiences in these varied settings shaped her understanding of healthcare disparities and strengthened her resolve to make a difference in the lives of women and families.

    Returning to her hometown of Denver, Dr. Huntley embraced the opportunity to start her own family while continuing her medical career at a federally qualified health center serving refugee, underinsured, and undocumented immigrant families. However, her thirst for knowledge, her passion for advancing obstetric care, and deep interest in point-of-care ultrasound led her to pursue a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Texas Houston. Here, she honed her expertise in ultrasound and fetal anomalies, developing a keen eye for intricate details crucial in prenatal care. Additionally, as the assistant program director to the Family Medicine Obstetric Fellowship at the University of Texas at Houston, she implemented an ultrasound education program to physicians who seek careers in rural medicine.

    Currently, Dr. Huntley serves as the Ultrasound Lead at Obstetrix of Colorado, where she persists in her commitment to excellence to provide the highest standard of care. Beyond her clinical duties, she remains deeply engaged in research within the field of maternal-fetal medicine, striving to enhance prenatal diagnosis and quality care for expectant mothers and engaged in mentorship for those pursuing medical careers.

    Outside of her professional endeavors, Dr. Huntley finds solace and rejuvenation in the great outdoors, indulging her love for hiking, biking, and trail running. A passionate advocate for environmental sustainability, she also finds joy in teaching her daughters beekeeping and home sustainable gardening.

    Eva Tovar

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Eva Tovar Hirashima, MD, MPH, AEMUS-FPD is an Emergency Medicine physician with specialized fellowship training in Clinical Ultrasound and the co-creator of UPAndo Latinoamerica, a FOAMed platform offering Spanish-language POCUS education and resources that allow for asynchronous learning and learner-driven knowledge acquisition. Beyond the platform, Dr. Tovar Hirashima leads monthly hands-on POCUS sessions for prehospital personnel and residents from various specialties across Northern Mexico. To further reinforce training quality, she also conducts remote monthly QA sessions, providing continued support and enhancing skill development.

    In 2023, she organized the first POCUS gamification event in Northern Mexico, establishing an annual tradition that fosters engagement and learning in a dynamic, competitive environment. Her overarching goal is to build local capacity and improve diagnostic capabilities in regions with limited access to POCUS training. Dr. Tovar Hirashima’s work reflects her commitment to advancing emergency care and making high-quality ultrasound education accessible to healthcare providers across Latin America.

    Fagr Ghulaam

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Fagr Ghulam was born and brought up in Aden City, Yemen. He is a Radiology Resident and has been working for the past 14 years in outpatient ultrasound clinics. He worked with MSF in the ICU department for 9 years since 2015. During that period, He completed TOF and conducted multiple POCUS training sessions in rural areas across Yemen.

    Faith Mutanu

    GUSI Instructor

    Faith Mutanu is a dedicated radio-sonographer with a Diploma in Radiography and Imaging from the Kenya Medical Training College. She has gained extensive hands-on experience through training at renowned institutions, including Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi West Hospital, Consolata Mathari Hospital in Nyeri, and Mater Misericordiae Hospital, among others. Currently, Faith serves as a GUSI Instructor, specializing in a wide range of ultrasound procedures, including obstetrics, breast imaging, cardiopulmonary assessments, abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and eFAST (Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma). Her commitment to continuous learning and educating others underscores her valuable contribution to the field of medical imaging and diagnostics.

    Fasih Hameed

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Hameed is a full-scope, integrative family physician and teacher who embraces both technology and ancient healing traditions in an obsessive pursuit of “Good Medicine”.  His day jobs involve leading primary care and wellness innovations at a large Northern California FQHC, teaching procedural medicine, caring for a large patient panel, and outpatient medical attending at the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency.   He is a pioneer in the field of Integrative Medicine for the underserved, frequent invited guest speaker, and has advocated for common-sense, whole-person approaches to health at a congressional briefing in DC, the California state Capitol, and at the National Academy of Science Engineering and Medicine.   In 2024 he was awarded the “Change Maker Award” by the AIHM.

    He was also an early adopter of POCUS in the FQHC setting and continues to refine the efficient integration of this powerful tool into everyday primary care practice.  His POCUS specialties include MSK, procedures, foreign body, and soft tissue.

    Festus K. Kandie

    GUSI Instructor

    A lecturer currently working at Kenya Medical Training College-Eldoret. Trained Radio-sonographer with six years in clinical practice. I have trained on POCUS ultrasound (Butterfly IQ) under the guidance of Cheryl L Boodt RDMS, RVT, BS-an associate lecturer working at Holland Hospital in Michigan.

    I have an Interest in ultrasound training, CMEs and workshops. I am passionate about POCUS, especially obstetrics, as it helps in timely decision making which will improve maternal and neonatal outcomes.

    I am keen to utilize my acquired skills in POCUS to address the unique social determinants that create barriers to women’s healthcare. POCUS would play a big role in ensuring quality and timely healthcare provision in low resources settings.

    Frances Russell

    GUSI Instructor

    Frances Russell, MD is a tenured professor of emergency medicine and advanced emergency medicine ultrasonography (AEMUS) certified. She is the ultrasound research director at Indiana University School of Medicine. She practices emergency medicine at Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital, the public hospital located in Indianapolis, Indiana, as well as at the Veterans Hospital. Frances earned her Doctor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. She completed her residency training at the University of Connecticut and completed an ultrasound fellowship at Rush Medical Center and Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Her research interests include point of care ultrasound for acute heart failure, undifferentiated shortness of breath and ultrasound medical education. She has over 50 peer-reviewed publications and has received grant funding from the NIH NHLBI, NIH NIBIB and the American Heart Association. Nationally, she served as the Research Officer for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Academy of Ultrasound (AEUS) and the leader of the American College of Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Research subcommittee. In 2021, she received the AEUS Academic Excellence award, and in 2023 received the SAEM AEUS Most Influential Researcher award.

    Francois Xavier Uwimana

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Francois Xavier Uwimana is a specialist in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, with fellowship training in Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) from the Ultrasound Leadership Academy (2018–2020). He currently serves as Head of the Emergency and Critical Care Services Department at both Nyarugenge Hospital (full-time) and La Croix du Sud Hospital (part-time).

    With over 14 years of clinical experience, Dr. Uwimana has extensive expertise in bedside ultrasound, trauma care, and critical care management. His career began as a general practitioner in the Maternity Department of a remote district hospital (2012–2017), where he developed a strong foundation in ultrasound-guided care. He later completed his Master of Medicine in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, further advancing his clinical and leadership roles.

    Dr. Uwimana is actively involved in medical education and training. He serves as Visiting Faculty for the University of Rwanda’s Emergency Medicine Program and was appointed the program’s Ultrasound Training Focal Person. He currently chairs the Board of the Rwanda Emergency Care Association (RECA) and has played a key role in developing national capacity in trauma and emergency response.

    As a Certified National Facilitator for healthcare service quality improvement and hospital accreditation, Dr. Uwimana collaborates with the Ministry of Health and the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) to enhance emergency care standards across Rwanda.

    He earned his MBBS in General Medicine from the People’s Republic of China (2005–2011) and has held various clinical roles, including ICU staff at King Faisal Hospital (2018–2023), where he applied POCUS principles extensively in critical care practice.

    Gerardo Hizon

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Gerardo Hizon, MD, FAAFP, CAQSM, RMSK is a board-certified Family Physician with a subspeciality in Sports Medicine with a focus on MSK ultrasound. He attended UC San Diego for medical school and UC Irvine for Family Medicine Residency where he was the chief resident. Dr. Hizon helped create sports medicine fellowships at UCSD, UC Riverside and for SouthWest Healthcare(UHS). He works in primary care for Rancho Family Medical Group in Temecula, California and Dr. Hizon was a team physician for the San Diego Chargers (NFL) x 13 years. He has helped authors multiple publications and books with his Nudge Away Diabetes book going to #1 in Amazon in its class. As clinical faculty in Family Medicine Residency for both UHS and the Loma Linda Family Medicine Residencies and being past program director of Sports Medicine Fellowship for Southwest Healthcare he has stayed on the forefront of academic primary care medicine. He and his wife celebrate 41 years of marriage this year with four adult children and eight grandchildren. His son is in the second year of emergency medicine residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.

    Godrick Odongo

    GUSI Instructor
    Dr. Godrick Odongo is a consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist at Kapenguria Hospital in West Pokot County, Kenya. He has a strong passion for maternal-fetal medicine, particularly focusing on safe motherhood. Timely diagnosis and intervention for potentially life-threatening conditions are of utmost importance to him. Dr. Odongo believes that Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is a key intervention that will greatly enhance fetomaternal health outcomes in his region.

    Guillaume Chebion

    GUSI Instructor

    Guillaume Chebion, MD is a French -and American-trained physician, currently a Sports Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. He completed his medical degree in 2014 at the University of Lorraine, Nancy, France, 2 Residencies (Family medicine in Paris, France, and Internal medicine in Cambridge, MA, USA), and 1 fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital.

    Dr. Chebion brings a unique blend of experience in family practice from France and internist expertise from the United States; trained at institutions including Sorbonne and Harvard hospitals, he specializes in the treatment of acute and chronic musculoskeletal injuries, sports injuries, performance medicine, diagnostic ultrasound, ultrasound-guided procedures, and orthobiologics. He adopts a holistic approach to patient care, emphasizing whole-person wellness.

    In addition to his medical career, Dr. Chebion served as a reserve officer in the French Army, a theater/event physician in Paris, and has also volunteered with Médecins du Monde providing medical and social assistance to individuals experiencing precarity in the Paris area allowing him to appreciate the versatility, affordability and wide range of POCUS applications.

    An outdoor enthusiast and avid sports lover, Dr. Chebion finds joy in activities ranging from sea to summit with his wife, baby, and dog.

    Hailey Gupta

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Hailey Gupta earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Houston before obtaining her MD from Ross University. Her residency in Internal Medicine was completed at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, where she also served as chief resident. Following that, she pursued a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Mount Sinai Morningside-West-Beth Israel Hospitals. She held a faculty position at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and is currently an assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan, NY.

    Dr. Hailey Gupta is deeply passionate about integrating point-of-care ultrasound into routine physical examinations and has actively participated in numerous events to promote POCUS knowledge and skills for various learner levels. These include the Annual New York Critical Care Ultrasound Course in 2022, the Annual SUNY Upstate Point-of-Care Ultrasound Course in 2023, and the ATS Resident Bootcamp in 2024.

    Hana Dubsky

    GUSI Instructor
    Hana has been an emergency medicine PA at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for about 20 years. She is EM PA Ultrasound director in the Emergency Department responsible for POCUS training of more than 60 EM PAs. She found her passion for POCUS when working with Ultrasound gurus like Mike Stone, Heidi Kimberly. and others.
    She has taught ultrasound at local PA schools – MCPHS, BU, at WINFOCUS, AAPA iScan, Spocus – directed EM POCUS workshops at MGH Institute of Health Sciences for more than 4 years, and taught at many other national and international conferences.
    She was born in Czech Republic and went to Medical school prior to coming to USA, Hana completed her medical education at Yale prior to starting her career in Emergency Medicine.
    Hana lives with her husband Patrick in Natick, MA and enjoys the outdoors, biking, boating, and skiing.

    Hannah Janeway

    GUSI Instructor

    Hannah Janeway is one of the co-founders and co-directors of Refugee Health Alliance (RHA) and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCLA. They work clinically at White Memorial Medical Center, West Los Angeles VA, the UCLA homeless Healthcare Initiative and at RHA’s clinics in Tijuana, Mexico. Their work focuses on border health, border abolition and re-envisioning healthcare spaces to serve the people who visit them – free from carceral forces and infra/structural barriers, They have become particularly passionate about the use of point of care ultrasound to advance care for asylum seekers in Tijuana and non-hierarchical methods of teaching that empower different types of clinicians to utilize ultrasound for the betterment of patient care. They have been working along UCLA faculty and the Global Ultrasound Initiative to train Mexican physicians, midwives, nurses, and students who work with asylum seekers in point of care ultrasound at the clinic, the shelters and on the streets.

    Hayley Winninghoff

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Hayley Winninghoff is currently a sports medicine fellow at Oregon Health & Science University. Originally from Seattle, Washington, she completed undergraduate training at Pomona College, medical school at the University of Washington, and family medicine residency at Kaiser Permanente Napa Solano. She is excited to be incorporating ultrasound into her daily clinical practice in sports and family medicine. Outside of work, she enjoys staying active and spending time outside – hiking, kayaking, and nordic skiing – with her family.

    Ian Thomas

    GUSI Instructor

    Ian Thomas MD CAQSM RMSK RSCC CSCS is an associate professor at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. Medical School and Clinical Director of Point-of-Care Ultrasonography. After completing his Sports Medicine Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Dr. Thomas opened his own practice, Thomas Sports and Regenerative Orthopedics (TSARO), where he focuses on injury prevention, biomechanical analysis, diagnostic ultrasonography, regenerative medicine, and interventional orthopedics with special interest in gymnastics and golf medicine.

    Dr. Thomas has a passion for using ultrasonography to promote health equity by overcoming barriers to quality care and counts writing a $50,000 grant to develop the point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum during his residency training as one of his top professional accomplishments.

    He was awarded the American Academy of Physicians (AAFP) Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education, an honor given to only 12 Family Medicine residents in the country. Additionally, he was awarded the Best Leadership Project Award and Best Overall Leadership Project Awards from the AAFP Emerging Leaders Institute (ELI) out of thirty chosen in the country where he dedicated his project to building an ultrasound workshop for the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians in 2023 in coordination with 13 academic institutions across 3 countries as well as raising funding for the ultrasound curriculum for the only Family Medicine Residency in Malawi, Africa.

    Dr. Thomas has taught full-spectrum ultrasonography at over 30 courses for residencies, regional, and national conferences for the Global Ultrasound Institute, American Academy of Family Physicians, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine as well as written book chapters and board questions on the subject. Dr. Thomas currently serves as Chair of the Ultrasound Assessment Council for Inteleos, Ad Hoc Instructor for the American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine, and Global Ultrasound Institute Lead Instructor.

    Dr. Thomas is a former gymnastics head coach and program director, and in his free time, he enjoys coaching gymnastics, traveling abroad, and learning new languages

    Ibrahim Yusuf Abubeker

    GUSI Instructor
    Dr. Ibrahim Yusuf Abubeker is an Attending Physician in General Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Brown University, where he served as Core Faculty,
    Assistant Professor of Medicine, and Co-Director of the Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Program. Prior to that, he completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Hamad Medical Corporation – Weill Cornell Qatar, where he served as Chief Resident and played a pivotal role in developing the POCUS program.
    Dr. Abubeker is deeply committed to improving healthcare in resource-limited settings, particularly in East Africa. During his residency and faculty tenure in Rhode Island, he was actively involved in refugee health initiatives. Passionate about medical education, he has undertaken various roles in teaching, including curriculum development.
    Dr. Abubeker has a strong interest in global health and POCUS, aiming to introduce POCUS to resource-limited areas and develop programs to address healthcare disparities. His dedication to education has earned him numerous accolades, including the Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award and the Dean’s Positive Champion for Learning Environment Award from Brown University School of Medicine, as well as the Resident Teaching Award and the Excellence in Primary Care Award during his residency at Brown University Internal Medicine Residency Program.
    At Mayo Clinic, Dr. Abubeker focuses on Consultative Medicine, International Medicine, and Executive Medicine, providing exceptional care to patients with complex medical needs. He remains committed to advancing global health initiatives, fostering excellence in medical education, and delivering world-class patient care.

    Irbert Vega

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Irbert Vega is an emergency medicine resident at the University of Connecticut/Hartford Hospital and will be completing an emergency ultrasound fellowship at Hartford Hospital in 2024. He completed his family medicine residency at Lancaster General Hospital in 2013 and went on to practice full spectrum family medicine in Sitka, Alaska, for seven years before relocating to New England for his second residency.

    His areas of interest include the application of point-of-care ultrasound in global and rural settings as well as resident education.

    Jacob Nettleton

    GUSI Instructor

    Jacob Nettleton studied Medicine and Public Health at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed his residency training in family medicine at the University of Washington. His interests in family medicine include chronic disease management, behavioral health, and global health equity. After completing residency, Jacob joined the Global Health Service Partnership, a joint program between Seed Global Health and the Peace Corps, as a Physician Educator in Malawi. He now splits time between Mangochi, Malawi, where he serves as visiting faculty with the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences Department of Family Medicine, and the greater Seattle area, where he sees patients and teaches residents in an FQHC setting. His clinical educator role in Malawi includes a heavy emphasis on POCUS skills for Malawian Family Medicine post-graduate trainees.

    Jacquelyne Wamalwa

    GUSI Instructor

    Jacquelyne N. Wamalwa is a game-changing Nurse/Midwife, with a passion for maternal, newborn, and reproductive health. Experienced Nurse Midwife with exceptional skills in sonography. Having had a background in Nursing in 2005, a Diploma in medical diagnostic Ultrasound in 2007, (ECUREI-Ernest Cook Ultrasound Research Institute) affiliated with Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, a BScN in 2017, and an MSC in Midwifery 2024.

    Currently working with Bungoma County, Kenya as reproductive health coordinator in one of the sub-counties. She has great and enriched experience as a Nurse midwife for more than 13 years. Well-versed in respectful maternity care.

    She has sonography skills in obstetrics, gynecology, and general abdominal imaging.

    Developed interest in obstetrics for it enhances timely decision making hence improving maternal and neonatal outcomes. POCUS plays a key role in ensuring early detection and management of any complications in pregnancy to optimize the well-being of the mother and the unborn baby.

    As a midwife, she believes that POCUS will greatly improve and enhance quality service delivery to the mother and unborn baby in her area of work as well as the resource-limited setting.

    Jamar Williams

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Jamar Williams is currently the Chairman/Program Director of Family, Community, & Global Medicine at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. He attended medical school in La Habana, Cuba, and completed residency training in both Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He also has training experience in EMS and Disaster Medicine. His interest in POCUS is in its wide clinical application in prehospital, ambulatory, and emergency/critical care settings.

    James Wachira

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. James Wachira is pursuing his residency in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He is passionate about POCUS, especially obstetrics POCUS, as it helps in timely decision making which ultimately improves maternal and neonatal outcomes. As a GUSI instructor, he has served in the Butterfly and GUSI Kenya 500 probe project, teaching POCUS to primary Obstetric care providers, such as midwives, in areas with high maternal morbidity and mortality in Kenya. He is also a member of International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetric and Gynecology (ISUOG) and the Kenya Obstetrics and Gynecology Society (KOGS).

    James Wilcox

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. James Wilcox, MD, SMCAQ, RMSK is originally from Indianapolis, USA. He earned his medical doctorate from Indiana University in 2014, and completed his Family Medicine Residency at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital in 2017. He then completed a Sports Medicine Fellowship at Western Michigan University in 2018. He was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Family Physicians in 2020, and earned his musculoskeletal ultrasound certification from APCA in 2021. He has been a member of the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine since 2016 and was the Medical Director for Staff Medics and the USA National Rugged Maniac races. He completed a Global Ultrasound Institute POCUS Fellowship in 2022.

    He first served in the rural community of Austin, Indiana, USA practicing family medicine and sports medicine. He relocated to Indianapolis in 2020 and worked for Eskenazi Health primarily in Sports Medicine and Family Medicine. In 2021, he accepted a grant funded position at Indiana University School of Medicine teaching Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) and coordinating POCUS integration for the 4-year medical curriculum as the HRSA PRIME POCUS Thread Director, and Indiana University School of Medicine Assistant POCUS Director, among many other teaching roles at the university. Recently he relocated to the United Arab Emirates and is currently director of the new Sports Medicine Department ProMotion at Specialized Rehabilitation Hospital in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

    Jared Dubey

    GUSI Instructor

    Jared Dubey is a family physician practicing and teaching in Madison, WI. After completing osteopathic medical school at Touro University in California, Jared moved to Madison, WI for family medicine residency, followed by fellowships in academic integrative medicine and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). He currently serves as Assistant Professor, Core Residency Faculty, and POCUS Director in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UW Madison. His practice and teaching includes primary care, osteopathic manipulation, prolotherapy, and POCUS. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time outside or in the kitchen with his wife and 2 year old son.

    Jason Chen

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Jason Chen is a current UCSF-Contra Costa Global Health fellow. Jason’s passion for POCUS is rooted in his vision of using medicine to promote social equity and intercultural exchange.

    Before medical school at the University of Utah, he was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at la UIET in Tabasco, México, a university serving many indigenous groups, including the Ch’ol and Yokot’an people. His experiences in rural México motivated him to serve the largely migrant farmworker community of Salinas, CA during his Family Medicine Residency at UCSF-Natividad, where he was awarded the Hannon-Lauderdale-Rumbel-Santell Memorial Award for outstanding performance in 2024. During residency, he was fortunate to return to rural México on a rotation with Partners in Health México/Compañeros en Salud (CES), where his experiences in a resource-limited setting helped him see the power of POCUS to advocate for marginalized communities.

    As a UCSF-Contra Costa Global Health Fellow, he is excited to teach POCUS in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as in Peru, Taiwan, and Malawi. He enjoys utilizing his Advanced Spanish and Mandarin skills to help his patients. In his free time, he enjoys playing ukulele, board games, and learning about different immigrant experiences.

    Jason Reinking

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Jason Reinking is the medical director for the TRUST clinic in Oakland, CA, a center for health care for the homeless brick and mortar clinic and street medicine programs. He graduated medical school at Loyola Chicago and encountered POCUS at Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency, honing its skills in its emergency room followed by a global health fellowship with a focus in ultrasound with PIH in Malawi. Driven by its usefulness in medicine for marginalized populations from the streets of Oakland to the hills of Malawi, Dr. Reinking is dedicated to bringing POCUS education to those that most benefit. He has presented on POCUS at international street medicine conferences, written textbook chapters on POCUS, and has taught courses from Anchorage to Nairobi.

    Jason Yost

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Jason Yost currently splits his time between the new family medicine residency program in Eureka and a small community ER in Arcata without specialty coverage. Point of care ultrasound is an integral component of Dr. Yost’s daily practice and he uses it in approximately 20-30% of his outpatient encounters (same for ED). In the outpatient setting, he is able to provide ultrasound-guided joint injections not otherwise available in his community. In addition, Dr. Yost’s POCUS skills allow him to make bedside diagnosis of DVTs, urinary retentions/hydronephrosis, pneumonia, as well as estimate ejection fractions. Due to extremely limited resources, outpatient ultrasound takes a month to be performed, which significantly compromises patient care. Given that, POCUS offers evidence-based tools to significantly shorten diagnosis and treatment time, decrease ER visits, and improve patient satisfaction.

    Jay Ruby

    GUSI Instructor
    Dr. Jay Ruby is a family physician and core faculty member at the Kaiser Permanente Seattle Family Medicine Residency. They completed FM residency at Swedish First Hill in Seattle in 2021 and graduated from the University of New Mexico Maternal Child Health fellowship in 2023. They are passionate about medical education, reproductive justice, anti-racism in medicine, and helping residents learn the intricacies of physiologic birth. They love all POCUS but have a special interest in OB ultrasound.
    Outside of medicine, they love riding bikes, hiking in Washington’s beautiful North Cascades region, reading, journaling, and hanging out in the backyard with their partner and two dogs.

    Jean Pierre Valette

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Jean Pierre Valette is a board certified family and sports medicine physician at One Medical in San Francisco. In his primary care practice he focuses on getting to know his patients and forming meaningful long-term relationships where he can partner with them to empower them to achieve their health goals. He prefers to use a wide variety of treatment options with an emphasis on lifestyle over medication and focusing on addressing the root causes of disease instead of managing symptoms alone whenever possible.

    In his sports medicine practice, he works with patients from a variety of athletic backgrounds from those those who are impaired by chronic degenerative musculoskeletal complaints to highly competitive athletes. Dr. Valette’s areas of interest and expertise include chronic tendinopathies, peripheral nerve entrapments, ultrasound guided injections, and peripheral nerve hydrodissection.

    When not at work, Dr. Valette enjoys a variety of interests including cycling, soccer, acro yoga, cooking, meditation, being in nature, and self-improvement/exploration.

    Jeana Radosevich

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Jeana Radosevich got her MD at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2011 and completed residency at Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program in 2014. She completed the University of California San Francisco Faculty Development Fellowship in 2018. After residency she worked for 5 years as a hospitalist and was lucky enough to hone her ultrasound skills with Dr. Ramos and Dr. Bergman during that time. She now is the Associate Program Director at Lifelong Family Medicine Residency Program in Richmond, CA, where she sees patients in a primary care setting. These days she uses ultrasound most frequently for early dating of pregnancies, AAA screening and evaluation of cardiorespiratory complaints. To stay well, she prioritizes catching up with family and friends, exploring the natural world, gardening, and cooking.

    Jeff Pierce

    GUSI Instructor

    Jeff Pierce, MD, is a family medicine physician who first learned POCUS while working in South Sudan and Kenya. He attended the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency (SRFMR) from 2004-2007 and later completed a fellowship in Global Health Leadership through Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (CCRMC) and Massachusetts General Hospital from 2012-2014. During this fellowship he focused on high risk and surgical obstetrics, as well as POCUS in resource-limited settings. He has taught inpatient adult medicine at the SRFMR and obstetrics and lifestyle medicine at CCRMC. He worked in Latin America, Asia, and Africa intermittently from 1997-2014. He is boarded in family medicine and lifestyle medicine.

    Jeffrey Carness

    GUSI Instructor

    Jeffrey M. Carness, FASA, FASE, CPHQ, graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston Texas. He subsequently completed anesthesiology residency training at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth prior to serving as the Department Chair for Anesthesiology at US Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan. He subsequently completed a critical care anesthesiology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. While on active duty, he deployed in support of overseas operations. He had the opportunity, in 2022, to serve as critical care anesthesiologist on board the USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership, the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance exercise conducted in the Indo-Pacific. During this exercise, he served as a subject matter expert and conducted multiple workshops facilitating instruction in POCUS. Dr. Carness has lectured on POCUS at the local, regional and international level, and has served as an instructor at numerous POCUS workshops. He is engaged in research evaluating POCUS instruction, POCUS skill degradation, austere POCUS performance, and preoperative POCUS evaluation. He currently practices critical care anesthesiology at Madigan Army Medical Center where he incorporates POCUS into his daily evaluation of critically ill and often hemodynamically unstable patients.

    A Diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology, Dr. Carness is a both a fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and a Diplomate of the National Board of Echocardiography. He is certified in Diagnostic POCUS by the American Society of Anesthesiologists. He further serves as committee member on the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Critical Care Medicine Committee. He is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

    Jennifer Addleman

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Jennifer S. Addleman, DO, CSCS is an incoming resident physician and certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS).

    Jennifer graduated with highest honors at UC Davis with a B.S. in Physiology and a minor in Business and Operations Management. For 5 years during high school and college, she worked for a sports physical therapy company coaching patients through corrective exercises and working with professional athletes competing in the UFC, NFL, and MLB. Jennifer is active in research involving gait analysis, wearable technology and heart rate variability. While in medical school, Jennifer has held leadership roles in sports medicine, ultrasound education, PM&R, and integrative medicine. She has also served on the medical team at multiple USA Track and Field and USA Weightlifting events and on the UCSF medical team at several bay area endurance events. She has completed over 80 hours of continuing education in ultrasound and has taught over 80 hours of ultrasound education nationally with Touro, the Global Ultrasound Institute, and AOCPMR. She graduated from Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine as the top-ranked student in class for competency attainment, and was a recipient of the 2025 Class Outstanding D.O. Student Award. She will complete her intern year with the Sutter Roseville Transitional Year Residency Program, followed by her advanced training in Physiatry with the Stanford Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Program.

    Outside of her professional work, she enjoys kettlebell-based resistance training, rock climbing, hiking and camping at National Parks, fishing, watching sports (go 49ers!), and training her 2 dogs.

    Jepchumba Tanui

    GUSI Instructor

    Jepchumba Tanui is a registered diagnostic radiographer with a keen interest in sonography. She currently holds a Diploma in Radiography and a Higher National Diploma in sonography from the Kenya Medical Training College. She has vast expertise in general diagnostic sonography. However, she has taken a keen interest in obstetrics/gynecology and maternal-fetal medicine as she currently works in Jacaranda Maternity and Family Hospital.

    Jepchumba is also certified in musculoskeletal ultrasound following a hands-on workshop organized by the Society of Radiography in Kenya (SORK) in partnership in Mindray. Passionate about research, medical education and stellar patient outcomes, she has developed a keen interest in POCUS where she is committed to empowering fellow healthcare professionals, while at the same time advancing its use.

    Jessica Lucey

    GUSI Instructor

    Jessica Lucey is a family physician at LA Men’s Central Jail, and is the founder of A Good Death and My Body, two online clinics providing medical aid-in-dying, medication abortions and gender-affirming care. She graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba, where she deepened her appreciation for universal healthcare. She completed her family medicine residency and global health fellowship at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, where she learned to use POCUS to increase access to high-quality health care locally and globally. She has taught GUSI courses in Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho, Madagascar, and, most recently, San Diego. She is the proud owner of a VScan, but secretly prefers the Butterfly. In her spare time, she bikepacks and watches too many musicals.

    Jessica Standish

    GUSI Instructor

    Jessica Standish is a Family Medicine doctor. She did her Family Medicine residency at Glendale Adventist Medical Center and then completed a Global Health Fellowship at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center. Jessica attended medical school at the Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina (ELAM) in Havana, Cuba. She currently provides primary care to patients in the county jail system of Contra Costa County. Jessica has volunteered in a global health setting with multiple organizations. She most recently worked with MedGlobal and Kitrinos at the Moria refugee camp in Greece and with the Refugee Health Alliance in Tijuana. She also has been serving as a mentor to active medical students and recent graduates and frequently teaches residents in their detention health rotation.

    Jina Bai

    GUSI Instructor

    Jina has been a medicine PA at New York Presbyterian Hospital- Weill Cornell for about 12 years. She first started using ultrasound about 7 years ago when she was learning to do bedside procedures. Soon after, she realized how helpful POCUS is to evaluate and manage her patients on the floor, and she decided to broaden her POCUS skills and become certified through SHM (Society of Hospital Medicine). She scanned every patient of hers and her colleagues and was always seen in the hospital with ultrasound attached to her hip! She is now the director of procedure service and a POCUS faculty at NYP-Weill Cornell, where she teaches POCUS for POCUS fellows, medicine residents and also organizes/teaches POCUS courses. Not only does she teach POCUS at national conferences like AAPA conference, she has also taught critical access courses to rural providers in Missouri and she taught POCUS internationally in Korea, Poland and Ukraine.

    Jina originally lived in Portland, Oregon, moved to New York for PA school, fell in love with New York, and has never left for the past 14 years.

    She spends any spare time she has traveling around the world, and loves the outdoors and hiking.

    Joe Breuner

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Breuner decided to become a doctor because his grandfather was one and he watched the TV show M.A.S.H. when he was growing up. He majored in Government at Harvard and attended medical school at UCSD.

    After residency at the University of Washington in Seattle, he spent a year caring for Afghan refugees in Pakistan.  Upon his return, he chose a career as a community clinic provider at the 45th St Clinic and served as medical director until 1999. He came to Swedish Family Medicine to teach in 2000 and really enjoys practicing and teaching medicine. He sees patients at Downtown Family Medicine, a small clinic caring for the underserved in downtown Seattle. His clinical interests are obstetrics, mental health, and procedural training.

    In 2003, he started the obstetrics fellowship, which provides advanced training in operative obstetrics to family physicians. The fellowship has over forty graduates and more than two thirds are currently doing cesarean sections in diverse practice locations all across the country. The fellowship gives him a chance to work with incredibly talented and motivated family physicians, which he really enjoys.

    He enjoys being part of the faculty and resident band called ‘Plan B’; this doubles as a chance to play and write music, and a faculty balint.

    He has three kids, who range in age from high school to college. They are rapidly growing beyond his ability to help them with math or look them in the eye.  His interests are rowing, running, golf, music, and snowboarding.

    Joe Matel

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Joe Matel, a full spectrum family physician, uses point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in several settings. He is OB fellowship trained and a UCSF volunteer clinical professor at the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency teaching outpatient and surgical obstetrics. Previously, he was POCUS champion at the residency and brought POCUS to their curriculum while also bringing a pathway to POCUS credentialing to the local community hospital. Currently, he uses POCUS daily while working in several different emergency departments, taking care of inpatients, or in his FQHC continuity or procedures clinic.

    John Adame

    GUSI Instructor

    John Mitchell

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. John Mitchell is originally from Omaha, NE and attended medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He completed his residency training at the Oregon Health and Science University Family Medicine Residency in Portland, OR. He is currently in Sports Medicine fellowship at OHSU. In his free time he enjoys running, cycling and spending time with his wife and dog.

    John Pymm

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. John Pymm is Director of the Family Medicine Obstetrics Fellowship at Broadlawns Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, and an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Iowa COM and Des Moines University COM. Dr. Pymm grew up in rural Idaho and is passionate about providing quality health care to rural and underserved patients. Dr. Pymm completed his medical degree at Des Moines University and attended the Broadlawns Medical Center Family Medicine Residency program in Des Moines. After residency Dr. Pymm completed a two year fellowship in Surgical Obstetrics and Point of Care Ultrasound in Memphis, Tennessee at Medicos Para La Familia. There Dr. Pymm became board certified in Family Medicine Obstetrics through the American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS) and certified through the Alliance for Physician Certification & Advancement (APCA) in Ob/Gyn ultrasound. Following fellowship Dr. Pymm practiced full spectrum family medicine in rural Iowa before transitioning back to Broadlawns Medicine Center where he established the Obstetric Fellowship and the Point of Care Ultrasound curriculum within the Broadlawns Family Medicine Residency. Dr. Pymm otherwise enjoys spending time with his wife, Renee Anne, and family of four children, Isabelle, Zackarie, Amelie, and Howard.

    Jon Dompeling

    GUSI Instructor

    Jon Dompeling, DO is an Emergency Medicine physician in Kansas City, MO. He completed his residency at The University of Kansas and graduated in 2022. Prior to that, he earned his medical degree at Kansas City University. While in residency training, Dr. Dompeling was introduced to the importance and utility of POCUS training and incorporated it into his daily practice, using it during resuscitation and expediting patient care. He also served as an instructor for the medical school ultrasound curriculum, teaching first and second year medical students basic principles and fundamentals of POCUS. He hopes to continue guiding new learners through this exciting and rapidly evolving field. Moving forward, Dr. Dompeling is always looking for new applications of POCUS in primary care, wilderness, and austere settings as he pursues his Fellowship in the Academy of Wilderness Medicine and Diploma in Mountain Medicine.

    Jon Umlauf

    GUSI Instructor
    Jon Umlauf, DPT, DSc, RMSK is a physical therapist with extensive expertise in orthopedics and diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSKUS). He earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) from the Army-Baylor University Doctoral Program in Physical Therapy in 2012, followed by a Doctor of Science (DSc) in Orthopedics from Baylor University in 2018. In 2024, he completed a Master’s in Health Professions Education from the Uniformed Services University.
    Dr. Umlauf is board-certified in Orthopaedics, a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists (FAAOMPT), and certified in diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound (RMSK). He received his MSKUS training from the faculty at the National Capital Consortium–Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship and earned his RMSK certification in 2017. He later served for four years on the Alliance for Physician Certification & Advancement (APCA) RMSK assessment committee, contributing to the development of examination standards for MSK ultrasound certification.
    During his military career, Dr. Umlauf served in various orthopedic settings, deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and was the personal physical therapist to the Secretary of State. He also trained hundreds of military and civilian medical professionals, including MDs, DOs, PAs, PTs, OTs, and ATCs, in MSK ultrasound.
    After transitioning from the Army, Dr. Umlauf joined the George Washington University Doctor of Physical Therapy Program as a core faculty member, where he continues to train healthcare professionals in MSK ultrasound. His research interests focus on self-efficacy development and the transfer of MSKUS training to clinical practice, aiming to optimize learning strategies that enhance skill acquisition and practitioner confidence in ultrasound use. Beyond his professional work, he enjoys rock climbing, running, cycling, and hiking.

    Jon-Michael Cline

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Jon-Michael Cline, DO, is a family medicine and sports medicine physician in Tyler, TX. Dr. Cline attended Texas A&M University where he also pitched for the Aggie baseball team, and subsequently the Minnesota Twins minor league system. Though a shoulder injury and subsequent surgery ended his professional baseball career, he went on to pursue his passion for medicine by attending medical school at the University of North Texas Health Science Center/TCOM in Fort Worth. He then completed his Family Medicine residency training at the full-scope Waco Family Medicine Residency Program, where he began to hone his musculoskeletal ultrasound skills.

    Because of his passion for both medicine and sports, Dr. Cline then completed a Sports Medicine Fellowship with Southwest Sports Medicine and Baylor University in Waco, TX. With over 8 years of clinical and teaching experience, Dr Cline is an expert in both diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound and believes in the ability of ultrasound to decrease financial burdens, increase speed of diagnosis, and improve patient outcomes. He is enthusiastic about helping colleagues who seek to use musculoskeletal ultrasound to augment their clinical exam and increase accuracy of injections.

    Jordan Hoese

    GUSI Instructor

    Jordan Hoese, MD, MPH is a rural full-scope Family Medicine physician at an FQHC in Klamath Falls, OR. Originally from southern California, she attended medical school at UT Southwestern in Dallas, TX and residency at OHSU Cascades East in Klamath Falls, OR. She also earned an MPH in Global Health and Health Disparities. She is passionate about the role of full-scope family medicine in improving health equity and outcomes despite limited, inequitable and inconsistent resources. She was first introduced to POCUS through integrated GUSI training during residency, where Dr. Brandon Chase was her attending, and where she spent additional dedicated time learning and teaching POCUS, including at the AAFP National Conference. POCUS has been such a core part of her medical training that she often jokes that she isn’t actually sure how to practice medicine without it! She truly believes it is critical tool in the rural comprehensivist’s toolkit and is excited to be teaching it formally. In addition to her clinical practice, she is currently working towards her Fellowship in the Academy of Wilderness Medicine.

    Outside of medicine, you can find her running, hiking, camping, mountain biking, tending to her indoor houseplant jungle or her outdoor vegetable garden, or spending time with her husband, two dogs, and two cats.

    Jorge Garcia

    GUSI Instructor

    Jorge Permanyer

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Jorge Permanyer Barrier es médico especialista en ecografía
    musculoesquelética, con una trayectoria clínica y docente de referencia
    nacional e internacional. Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía por la Universidad
    de Barcelona (1983), complementó su formación con un Diploma Universitario
    en Ecografía en la Universidad de Nîmes-Montpellier (Francia), entre 2004 y
    2005.
    Desde los años 90, ha liderado diversos servicios clínicos vinculados al
    diagnóstico por imagen. Fue director médico del Centro de Accidentes
    Laborales de Cerdanyola del Vallès durante casi dos décadas y ha ejercido
    como ecografista en centros de reconocido prestigio como el Institut Ferran de
    Reumatología (Clínica CIMA), el Centro de Diagnóstico Dr. Manchón, la Clínica
    Hospital Diagonal o el Centre Mèdic Can Mora.
    En el ámbito docente, el Dr. Permanyer ha sido una figura clave en el desarrollo
    y expansión de la formación en ecografía musculoesquelética en España. Fue
    coordinador de la Sección de Ecografía del aparato locomotor de la Escuela de
    Ecografía de la SEMG hasta 2017, y ha impartido docencia en dicha institución,
    así como en la Sociedad Española de Ecografía (SEECO), la Universidad de
    Barcelona y la Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM),
    participando en múltiples másteres y cursos de posgrado.
    Ponente habitual en congresos nacionales e internacionales, ha presidido y
    formado parte de comités organizadores y científicos de eventos clave como el
    Congreso Internacional de Ecografía o el Congreso Europeo EUROSON. Su
    labor formativa se ha visto reforzada con la codirección de los cursos de
    ecografía del aparato locomotor de la Clínica Diagonal durante cinco ediciones
    consecutivas.
    Miembro activo de numerosas sociedades científicas, entre ellas la SEMG,
    SERAM, SEECO, SEUS, SEDIM, la Sociedad Europea de Ecografía
    (EFSUMB) y el American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), el Dr.
    Permanyer ha contribuido también a la literatura científica con capítulos de
    libros y publicaciones en revistas especializadas, especialmente en el campo
    de la ecografía musculoesquelética aplicada al deporte y la patología laboral.

    Jori Enfield

    GUSI Instructor

    Jori Enfield, OMS-V, is a medical student at Touro University California, an Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) Teaching Fellow, and the founder and President of GUSI MedConnect—the national medical student engagement initiative of the Global Ultrasound Institute. Through MedConnect, he has launched instructor training programs, led educational content development, consulted on technology innovation projects, and built a national network of student educators, faculty mentors, and institutional collaborators to expand access to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) education.

     

    Jori integrates POCUS into osteopathic medicine, primary care, and medical education, with extensive experience in clinical ultrasound instruction and curriculum development across diverse healthcare settings. As an OMM Fellow, he explores the interface between palpatory diagnosis and ultrasound imaging to enhance structural and functional assessment. He is a recipient of the Touro University California Dean’s Research Grant for a POCUS-based study evaluating clinical utility and educational outcomes in medical student training.

    Beyond POCUS, Jori focuses on advancing osteopathic manipulative medicine, integrative and functional medicine frameworks, and leveraging wearable and multimodal biometric data for precision health interventions.

    Jose Carlos Sánchez

    GUSI Instructor

    Jose Carlos Sánchez Sánchez es médico especialista en Radiodiagnóstico
    con más de 25 años de experiencia al frente del Servicio de Radiología del
    Hospital de Poniente (Almería). Formado en la Universidad de Salamanca y
    con residencia en el Hospital Regional Carlos Haya de Málaga, ha combinado
    su labor asistencial con un fuerte compromiso docente, siendo tutor de
    residentes y estudiantes de medicina de la Universidad de Almería.
    Especialmente implicado en el cribado de cáncer de mama, ha sido lector del
    programa desde 1998 y coordinador intrahospitalario desde 2001. Es también
    un referente nacional en ecografía clínica, con una prolífica actividad como
    autor y coordinador de manuales y programas de formación universitaria,
    incluyendo el “ABC de ecografía abdominal” (Editorial Panamericana, 2024) y
    el Máster en Ecografía Clínica para atención primaria (TECH, 2021).
    Miembro activo de la SEMG, donde es jefe del grupo de trabajo de ecografía
    clínica y colabora desde hace dos décadas en congresos nacionales, José
    Carlos combina conocimiento, experiencia y vocación por la mejora continua de
    la calidad asistencial, con acreditación avanzada en la carrera profesional por
    la ACSA.

    Jose Zumba

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Jose Zumba was raised in Sacramento, CA where he has spent most of my life. He did his medical school training at Loma Linda University where he first learned about POCUS. He had the privilege of continuing using POCUS throughout residency and currently uses it as an attending in Internal Medicine. He uses POCUS most frequently for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes as a Hospitalist at UC Davis Medical Center. He is currently involved in residency training in POCUS and working on a curriculum focused on inpatient medicine for
    his Hospitalist division. He has also had the privileges of working in the local county system as a primary care doctor and understands the importance of using POCUS in resource-limited areas. He looks forward to sharing his passion for ultrasound with other teachers and learners.

    Joseph Volpi

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Joseph Volpi MD, FAAFP, CAQSM is a fellowship-trained Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician. He is currently a 2nd year Fellow in Sports Medicine at the University of Oregon/OHSU, where he presently emphasizes NCAA Division I Athletic Medicine and Running Medicine. Dr. Volpi completed Medical School and Family Medicine Residency through OHSU and completed his initial Sports Medicine Fellowship and CAQ at the University of Texas at Tyler. He cares for high-level athletes as a team physician for the University of Oregon but has also cared for athletes at the Kona Ironman World Championships, has been a team physician for Team USA at the Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, and has cared for athletes at multiple Track and Field Olympic Trials.

    In his current practice, he uses MSK POCUS extensively for both diagnostic and interventional (PRP, hydrodissection, joint injection, etc.) purposes. Currently, Dr. Volpi is using MSK US to capture normative data in elite track and field athletes to understand better the changes over time that can lead to tendon injury.

    Before medicine, he was a Nuclear Engineer operating reactors onboard the USS Enterprise for the US Navy.

    In his free time, he enjoys participating in triathlons, running ultramarathons through the mountains with his wife Jen, and running 5ks with his son Wes.

    Josh Back

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Back works at a critical access hospital in the southwestern US with the Indian Health Service. He attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and completed a residency in family medicine at the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program. He first encountered POCUS while in residency at Contra Costa and quickly saw its utility across all medical practice. In his current job at a rural community hospital, he has been amazed at the ability of POCUS to fill gaps in access to care and to help guide high stakes medical decision making when conventional imaging is not available. He is excited to be able to work with GUSI to help broaden access to POCUS education.

    Josh Overgaard

    GUSI Instructor

    Josh Overgaard, MD is an Internal Medicine physician practicing at Mayo Clinic, Rochester. He received his medical degree at the University of Minnesota which was followed by an internal medicine residency at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis Minnesota. He served additionally for 1 year there as a chief resident which was followed by a point-of-care ultrasound fellowship. When his training was complete, he practiced for several years in a community-based health system in Minnesota. There, in addition to instituting and supporting numerous educational interventions, he served as Chief of Staff and then Chief Medical Officer. In 2021 he joined the medical staff of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota as a consultant in the division of General Internal Medicine. His practice and research interests here include point-of-care ultrasound, post-Covid syndrome, and complex undifferentiated disease. He directs the POCUS education of the internal medicine residents at the Rochester campus and is also the Section Chairperson for the International Medicine section of General Internal Medicine.

    Joshua Snodgrass

    GUSI Instructor

    Joshua Snodgrass, MD CAQSM has had an unusual path to medicine. Growing up in the Southern California Action Sports industry and working on various race teams as a mechanic has created a diverse technical background. He has a bachelors in Molecular Neuroscience, Masters in Cyber Security and is board certified in Family Medicine as well as Sports Medicine.

    Dr. Snodgrass is the Program Director at the Long Beach Memorial Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship and the Director of Sports Medicine for the Family Medicine Residency. He is the Head Team Physician for Long Beach State University, and associate Team Physician for Cypress College, and Biola University. Dr. Snodgrass has also been working with Vans Skateboarding and X Games since 2015 covering the sidelines of various action sports. He is full of great educational stories and has a unique ability to find learning opportunities everywhere.

    Joshua St. Louis

    GUSI Instructor

    Joshua St. Louis, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FASAM, AAHIVS (he/him/his) is board certified in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine. He is also an AAHIVM-certified HIV Specialist, a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and completed the WPATH GEI SOC8 certification program in transgender medicine as well as the Physicians for Reproductive Health Leadership Training Academy. A Massachusetts native, he studied evolutionary biology at Harvard, earned his MD/MPH from Tufts, and completed his residency in family medicine at the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency. He is core faculty at the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency where he maintains a primary care practice that focuses on HIV, viral hepatitis, addiction medicine, and gender-affirming care. He is also an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine where he teaches lectures on addiction medicine, reproductive health and gender-affirming care.

    Judith Tanui

    GUSI Instructor

    Judith is a licensed Kenya-registered community health nurse with 6 years of health care experience. She has worked in a variety of medical settings, including outpatient, neonatal, palliative, and maternal child health.

    Judith is currently working at Living Room International Hospital in the maternity/newborn unit. She attended a palliative care workshop in November 2021. From September 2022 to March 2023, she completed an in-house training for maternal child health care. In July 2023, she attended a point-of-care ultrasound skill workshop at Living Room Hospital.

    Judith has a strong interest in POCUS and desires to be involved in it.

    Justine Broecker

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Justine Broecker is a general and trauma surgeon and surgical critical care fellow. She is passionate about global health and is a current HEAL fellow at UCSF where she works for the Indian Health Service (IHS) in New Mexico and Mbale Uganda.

    Kamran Karim

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Kamran Karim DO, CAQSM, is a Family Medicine trained Primary Care Sports Medicine physician. He is currently the primary care sports medicine fellowship director in Spokane, WA and serves as family medicine faculty. Dr. Karim completed his medical training at Western University of Health Sciences and his Family Medicine training at Family Medicine Residency Spokane, where he was selected as chief resident. He then completed additional training in primary care sports medicine at OHSU, where he served as a team physician for Portland State University. He currently serves as team physician for Gonzaga University, Whitworth University, and the Spokane Indians (Minor league affiliate of the Colorado Rockies). He is passionate about medical education and POCUS in primary care, with a particular emphasis on musculoskeletal ultrasound.

    Kara Toles

    GUSI Instructor

    Kara Toles, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) at The University of California, Davis School of Medicine and Director of Equity and Inclusion in the Department of EM. She is passionate about emergency medicine, POCUS, clinical education, and health equity. She honed her ultrasound skills in residency just across the bay in East Oakland at Highland Hospital, a historic Emergency Medicine program that is known nationally for creating excellent clinicians who are passionate about health equity. She holds a certificate in point-of-care ultrasound from Highland Hospital and the American Board of Emergency Medicine and has taught POCUS both nationally and internationally. She is excited to share the joys of POCUS with you.

    Karena Lawrence

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Karena Lawrence is a board-certified subspecialist in neonatal-perinatal medicine based in the front range of the Northern Colorado Rocky Mountains. She completed both her residency and fellowship training at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Prior to moving to the gorgeous state of Colorado, she completed a Master of Science degree in Medical Education with a focus on curriculum design and evaluation. Dr. Lawrence is the Director of the Neonatal POCUS Program at Children’s Hospital Colorado and the Education Committee Co-Chair for the National Neonatal POCUS Collaborative.

    Karthik Kavasseri

    GUSI Instructor
    Karthik Kavasseri is a family medicine physician practicing full spectrum care in Zuni, NM. He completed medical school at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and his family medicine residency at the Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville, NC. Karthik was a UCSF HEAL fellow working between the Tribal Health Initiative in Sittilingi, India and Gallup Indian Medical Center in New Mexico. Since the completion of his fellowship he has been working at an Indian Health Service hospital in Zuni, New Mexico doing full spectrum family medicine including primary care, obstetrics, hospitalist medicine, urgent care, ER, and everything in-between. He is passionate about the many applications of ultrasound to improve the care of communities, particularly in rural or low-resource settings.

    Kaya Belknap

    GUSI Instructor

    Kaya Belknap, MD, MPH is a family physician currently working in Nakuru, Kenya. She grew up in South Sudan and Kenya and moved to the US for university and medical school. She completed her residency and fellowship training at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in California then returned to Africa to practice. She received POCUS training as part of her residency and immediately identified its unique role in assisting clinicians in under-resourced areas without easy access to other diagnostic modalities. She is dedicated to medical education in Africa and passionate about POCUS training as a part of medical education. She has been an instructor for Contra Costa Regional Medical Center’s POCUS courses and taught POCUS in Malawi, Ethiopia, California and Alaska. She has worked in Malawi, South Sudan, and Kenya and she uses POCUS everywhere she practices.

    Kelvin Ng

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Kelvin Ng, MD is a family medicine physician at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. He completed a General Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasound Fellowship at OHSU. He enjoys using point-of-care ultrasound in clinical decision-making and patient education, as well as curriculum development. He has an interest in global health and sports medicine. His previous medical excursions include treating patients in rural areas of Kenya and Peru.

    Dr. Ng is an avid endurance athlete, completing numerous Ironman-distance triathlons, marathons, and cycling events.

    He also has an artistic thumb for welding creations from vintage silverware.

    Keziah Kwamboka Mong’are

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Keziah Kwamboka Mong’are, MBBS is a skilled and passionate medical doctor with two (2) years of clinical experience and a strong expertise in Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). Dedicated to integrating POCUS into everyday clinical practice. I believe in its transformative power to enhance diagnostic accuracy, streamline decision-making, and improve patient outcomes in real time.

    With hands-on experience across diverse medical settings, I’m committed to sharing knowledge and empowering healthcare professionals through engaging teaching and mentorship. From guiding beginners to mastering advanced techniques, by simplifying complex concepts, making POCUS accessible and practical for clinicians of all levels.

    A firm advocate for innovation and evidence-based practices, to explore and promote the expanding applications of POCUS in emergency medicine, internal medicine, and critical care. Known for fostering a culture of curiosity and collaboration, I strive to inspire a new generation of ultrasound enthusiasts and ensure that bedside imaging becomes an integral part of modern medical practice.

    Kinner Patel

    GUSI Instructor

    I grew up in Botswana and moved to the US for my undergraduate degree, which I completed with honors in Genetics, Cell Biology and Development at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. I completed medical school at St. George’s University and did my medicine residency at Upstate University in Syracuse. I fell in love with ultrasound during residency and pursued my fellowship in pulmonary critical care at Stony Brook University. I served as Chief Ambulatory Fellow during 2019-2020 and Chief Fellow from 2020-2021 at Stony Brook University in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Department. I currently work as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama where I wish to expand the use of ultrasound and share my knowledge of ultrasound by teaching PA students, medical students, and residents, along with publishing research focused on ultrasound.

    Kirstin Weerdenburg

    GUSI Instructor
    Dr. Kirstin Weerdenburg completed her Pediatrics Residency at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio before completing fellowships in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric POCUS at SickKids Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
    Dr. Weerdenburg is Assistant Professor in Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie University and Staff Physician and Co-Director for the Pediatric Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) within the Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at IWK Health in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is actively involved in undergraduate, postgraduate and staff physician education in POCUS at Dalhousie University and IWK Health, as well as taught multiple local and national courses and workshops in POCUS. She is the former Communications Director and current member of P2Network, a group of international pediatricians, who are committed to globally sharing expertise, building research collaborations and offering mentorship in the use of pediatric point-of-care ultrasound. She is involved in national collaborations to establish standardized curriculums in ultrasound for undergraduate medical education. She has authored several chapters in POCUS textbooks and performs research on clinical integration of POCUS for multiple application, as well as medical education and competency for POCUS.

    Kyle Flattery

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Kyle Flattery is a Family Physician at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He teaches POCUS at the Medical School, Family Medicine Residency Program, and to other Faculty members within the Family Medicine Department at Brown. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship in 2024.

    Laura Harris

    GUSI Instructor

    Laura Harris is a graduate of the Joint Medical Program at UC Berkeley-UCSF (MS/MD combined education) and the Contra Costa Regional Family Medicine Residency. She also has an MPH in Maternal and Child Health, and has worked in global maternal health and emergency obstetric care in Ethiopia, Ghana, Burundi and other countries. She loves seeing how POCUS improves patient care and patient-provider connection. She currently provides prenatal and primary care at a federally qualified health center serving uninsured and underinsured patients, and works on labor and delivery at a county hospital. Working in these settings has shown her how POCUS can be an especially powerful tool for under-resourced populations – providing needed healthcare screenings as well as helping with acute diagnoses. She is passionate about teaching ultrasound and expanding access in low resource settings, with a special interest in obstetric ultrasound.

    Laura Holmes

    GUSI Instructor
    Laura Holmes BSc (Hons) PGDip is a Sonographer having trained in Diagnostic medical imaging at the University of Exeter followed by a PGDip Medical Ultrasound at City, University of London. Laura has been scanning for 12 years working in both the NHS and private sector scanning general abdominal, obstetrics and gynecology, renal, and testes ultrasound where she has also had the opportunity to train other student sonographers. She has been approached to assist in the training of POCUS by a local GP and is excited to teach others what she has learned over the years. She hopes this will benefit many patients enabling them to receive more timely diagnoses and treatments.
    In her spare time, Laura loves to sing, sea swim, and bake for her family and friends

    Lauri Paolinetti

    GUSI Instructor

    Lauri Paolinetti, MPAS, PA-C has been a Physician Assistant since 1987. She completed the Stanford University PA program and obtained a Master of Physician Assistant Studies degree in 2002 from the University of Nebraska.

    Lauri worked as an Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant at Highland Hospital, Alameda County’s Level 1 Trauma Center in Oakland, for 30 years until her retirement in March 2019. She has been principal faculty at the Samuel Merritt University Physician Assistant Program in Oakland since 2001. She is the Instructor of Record for the Radiology and Emergency Medicine courses and contributes to several other courses throughout the curriculum. She has also taught Radiology and Emergency Medicine at the Stanford, Touro and Dominican
    University PA Programs. She has been a clinical instructor and preceptor in Emergency Medicine since 1995. Lauri learned and used POCUS in the Emergency Department on a daily basis while working at Highland and maintains a strong interest in medical education, simulation and teaching ultrasound to health care providers everywhere. A California native, Lauri has lived in Oakland since 1980 and enjoys having more time in retirement for family, friends, travel, cooking, vegetable gardening, sports, hiking and enjoying the beautiful Bay Area.

    Linda Solomon

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Linda Solomon is a board-certified pediatric emergency medicine attending working at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital in Long Island, NY and holds the title of Clinical Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY followed by a chief residency year completed in 2016. She then went on to complete pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Jacobi Medical Center in Bronx, NY. She finished her medical training with a one year pediatric POCUS fellowship at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in Queens, NY. Her main interests include medical and POCUS education.

    Lucy Kibor

    GUSI Instructor

    Lucy Kibor is a dedicated critical care nurse at Living Room International Hospital, specializing in ICU care. She had the opportunity to participate in a Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) training workshop conducted at her facility by the Brown Family trainers in collaboration with the Global Ultrasound Institute. Inspired by this experience, Lucy is now eager to become a POCUS instructor herself, leveraging her expertise and passion for critical care to contribute to the advancement of ultrasound education and improved patient outcomes.

    Luke Bishop

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Luke Bishop completed medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine. Afterwards, he completed his emergency medicine residency in Marietta, GA at Wellstar Kennestone. He then went on to fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Point-of-care Ultrasound in Resource-Limited Settings.

    His interests include global health medicine, travelling with his family, his cats Toothless and Momo, ballroom dancing, board games, and puns.

    Luke Stephens

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Luke Stephens, MD, MSPH, CAQ-Sports Medicine, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri in Family and Community Medicine and Orthopaedics. He treats patients at both the Family Medicine Clinic in Ashland and at Missouri Orthopaedic Institute. He completed his residency in Family and Community Medicine and an Academic Fellowship at the University of Missouri and completed his Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. His research interests are in respiratory disease in the athlete and simulation education in medical learners. He has published on these topics, in addition to presenting at regional and national conferences. He has provided training room and sideline coverage for athletes at University of Illinois-Chicago, University of Missouri and numerous high schools over the past decade.

    He is Program Director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at University of Missouri, director of the Point of Care Ultrasound Curriculum for the Family Medicine Residency, and Medical Director of the Ashland Family Medicine Clinic.

    Maisa Abdul Aziz Alnamery

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Maisa Abdulaziz Al-Nimry is an Obstetrics and Gynecology Specialist with over 25 years of experience in women’s health, reproductive medicine, and maternal care. Based in Aden, Yemen, she currently serves as Director of Reproductive Health at the Al-Haswa Complex, where she leads programs focused on improving maternal and neonatal outcomes.

    Dr. Al-Nimry earned her Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Aden University in 1997, followed by a Master’s Degree in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2012, accredited by the Regional Office of the World Health Organization.

    Throughout her career, she has held key clinical and leadership roles in reproductive health, including with the Yemeni Red Crescent Society and multiple maternity and teaching hospitals. She has also served as a trainer and facilitator in numerous national and international programs, focusing on emergency obstetric and neonatal care, family planning, and infection prevention—many in collaboration with UNFPA and other global partners.

    As one of GUSI’s National Leads for Yemen, Dr. Al-Nimry plays a vital role in advancing point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) education and implementation across the region. She is deeply committed to strengthening reproductive health systems and empowering healthcare providers to deliver safer, evidence-based care for women and families in Yemen.

    Marcela Karnikowski

    GUSI Instructor
    Dr. Marcela Karnikowski is an Emergency physician from Brazil. She was taught POCUS during the EM training program, by some tutors passionate about POCUS. She developed a passion for this field, took a course and further became a POCUS instructor. She worked for seven years as an Emergency Physician in Brazil and had an experience as an Assistant Professor teaching medical students principles of Emergency Medicine and POCUS in 2020-2021. In December 2021 she moved to Canada, and is now a PGY2 Resident Physician in Family Medicine, planning on working with rural FM/EM in the near  future. She is passionate about people, loves teaching and studying, and believes spreading knowledge is the key to better care.

    Marcela Preto Zamperlini

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Marcela Preto-Zamperlini is a staff physician and POCUS Program Director within the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine in Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Preto-Zamperlini is a Brazilian pediatrician who completed fellowships in pediatric emergency medicine and point-of-care ultrasound at Sickkids Hospital, Toronto, Canada. She is passionate about teaching ultrasound, and since she went back to Brazil in 2014, she has taught ultrasound to hundreds of residents and attending physicians in Brazil. She has led the initiative to develop and implement POCUS education programs for: medical students, pediatric residents, pediatric emergency fellows and staff physicians in the pediatric emergency department of Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo. She also developed and participated of many ultrasound regional courses and workshops mainly in São Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Preto-Zamperlini has authored several chapters in POCUS textbooks and performs research with focus on lung ultrasound. In 2022 she and her team launched an Instagram page called PEDPOCUS, the first free open access educational initiative on pediatric POCUS in Portuguese.

    Marga Algaba

    GUSI Instructor

    Soy médico de Urgencias en un hospital de Sevilla, Valme, desde 2004; comencé mi
    andadura en ecografía en 2006, junto con el Dr Alberto Oviedo, buscando al principio
    formación a nivel internacional, para comenzar poco después en docencia, a través de
    varias sociedades científicas como SEMERGEN, SEMES, SIEC y WINFOCUS; en los
    últimos años somos referentes en formación del proyecto itinerario formativo en
    ecografía clínica del Sistema Andaluz de salud , aparte de participar en múltiples cursos
    y talleres, especialmente para médicos de Familia y Urgencias en cualquier nivel
    asistencial, aunque también hemos hecho formación para otras especialidades como
    pediatras, neumólogos, traumatología,….
    Creemos en la ecografía clínica como una herramienta básica para el clínico,
    absolutamente integrada en nuestra consulta, a continuación de la anamnesis y la
    exploración, agilizando y optimizando el tiempo diagnóstico de una forma inocua,
    eficiente y precisa, con todo lo que supone para paciente y profesional en seguridad y
    autonomía, así como imprescindible para la mayoría de las técnicas invasivas en nuestro
    ámbito.
    Mi mayor ilusión es transmitir el entusiasmo en esta técnica que tanto nos ayuda en el
    quehacer diario.
    Saludos,
    Margarita Algaba Montes

    Marian Younge

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Marian Younge is a family physician at the Warren Alpert Brown Family Medicine Residency program where she practices full spectrum family medicine including outpatient and obstetrics. She completed her medical education at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and her residency at the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center Residency program.

    Her clinical interests include prenatal care, obstetrics, point of care ultrasound, and global health.

    As a clinical educator, Dr. Younge incorporates POCUS in both her outpatient and inpatient practices with medical trainees.

    Marjan Ghazi-Askar

    GUSI Instructor
    Zahra Marjan Ghazi-Askar MD is a pediatric emergency physician at Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of Pediatric Ultrasound Education. She did her residency at New York Methodist Hospital and a pediatric emergency Fellowship at Cornell Presbyterian Hospital in NYC. She finished a point of care ultrasound Fellowship at Highland Hospital in the Bay Area. Her vision is to bring POCUS education to general pediatricians in residency and beyond to give back to my primary field of training, and to utilize the latest available technology in teleguidance to fill the gaps is teaching POCUS and credentialing providers globally.

    Martha Tesfalul

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Martha Tesfalul (she/her) is a Perinatologist/Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) physician and Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She received her BA from Harvard University in Sociology, with secondary in Health Policy, and her MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, with a scholarly concentration in Public Health and Service. Between her third and fourth years of medical school, she did a Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship with the Botswana-UPenn Partnership focused on leveraging telemedicine to strength the healthcare system. Dr. Tesfalul has been living out UCSF’s U Can Stay Forever mantra as she completed OB/GYN residency, MFM fellowship and the Preterm Birth Initiative’s T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship there prior to becoming faculty.

    As a clinician, Dr. Tesfalul works with individuals who are at-risk of having or have pregnancy complications and has a focus on diabetes, preeclampsia, preterm birth and sickle cell disease. OBGYN ultrasound is a critical part of her work. Her research and creative endeavors center patient experience, health systems strengthening and health equity. Dr. Tesfalul has done global health work in her family’s home country of Eritrea as well as Botswana, South Sudan, and Uganda, and she is currently serving as the Vice Chair of the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s Global Health Committee.

    Martín Marchese

    GUSI Instructor

    El Dr. Martín Marchese Ratti es médico de urgencias, ecografista, director
    médico y docente con una sólida trayectoria en la formación de profesionales
    sanitarios en ecografía clínica. Es Licenciado en Medicina con diploma de honor por
    el Instituto Universitario del prestigioso Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, donde
    también se desempeñó como profesor adjunto de Embriología.
    Combina su labor asistencial con una intensa actividad docente, y en los últimos años
    ha participado como ponente en congresos nacionales de ecografía clínica y medicina
    familiar, entre ellos los celebrados en Palma de Mallorca, Bilbao, Santiago de
    Compostela, Granada y A Coruña.
    Es autor y director de la 3.ª edición del libro El ABC de la Ecografía Abdominal,
    publicado en 2024 por Editorial Panamericana, y director de la 2.ª edición del
    programa Experto en Ecografía Clínica para Médicos de Familia, desarrollado junto
    con la SEMG (Sociedad Española de Médicos Generales y de Familia), Editorial
    Panamericana y la Universidad de Barcelona, publicado en 2025.
    Como coordinador adjunto del Grupo de Trabajo de Ecografía de la SEMG, ha
    contribuido a la organización y desarrollo de numerosos cursos y actividades
    formativas.
    Entre 2020 y 2021, codirigió el programa de formación en ecografía clínica del
    Servicio Murciano de Salud (SMS), en el que se formaron más de 600 médicos,
    impartiendo personalmente más de 400 horas de formación presencial. En 2022 ha
    sido docente en el programa de formación en ecografía clínica del Servicio Andaluz
    de Salud (SAS). Actualmente es también docente en el programa de formación del
    Servicio de Salud de Castilla-La Mancha (SESCAM).
    En el ámbito digital, ha creado y desarrollado Webformed, una plataforma de
    formación online especializada en ecografía clínica, que ha servido como soporte a la
    formación de más de 1.400 profesionales sanitarios.
    Su actividad docente se complementa con una extensa trayectoria clínica
    como médico de urgencias, exjefe de servicio y médico de transporte aéreo de
    pacientes críticos, con especial énfasis en la aplicación práctica de la ecografía
    clínica en contextos de atención inmediata y toma rápida de decisiones.

    Mary Kahure

    GUSI Instructor

    Mary Kahure is a trained and skilled professional with expertise in both ultrasound and radiography with over 12 years of health care experience. She has worked in a variety of medical settings which has led to development of comprehensive understanding of imaging modalities and their applications. She holds a Bachelors degree from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, (JKUAT) and a Higher Diploma in Ultrasonography from Kenya Medical Training College, (KMTC) Nairobi.

    Kahure has interest in POCUS trainings. She firmly believes that hands-on and interactive POCUS trainings are crucial in ensuring quality and timely healthcare provision. She is dedicated to sharing her experience with other healthcare professionals to improve on patient outcome.

    Mary Sterrett

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Sterrett is a board-certified Ob/Gyn and MFM subspecialist, with a Master of Public Health (MPH) focused in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship at MUSC in Charleston, SC, after which she joined the University of Washington Seattle’s academic department as an attending.

    Currently, Dr. Sterrett is a clinically focused MFM at Kaiser in San Diego.

    Ongoing research includes POCUS education in underserved and international regions, and artificial intelligence in obstetric ultrasound for education, efficiency, and diagnosis improvement. In her spare time, she volunteers with MedGlobal’s ultrasound outreach, specifically in Bangladesh, and via remote work for Venezuela and online education

    Matt Chan

    GUSI Instructor

    Matt Chan is a Family Medicine doctor at Oregon Health & Science University. He works in a rural health center for his outpatient practice, and also works on “The Hill” as an inpatient teaching faculty. He fell in love with POCUS during residency, and quickly appreciated the broad applications it could be used for to expedite diagnosis, reduce costs, and provide better evidence-based care and patient satisfaction. It has reinvigorated his love for medicine, and he is very excited to help improve POCUS skills for learners of all stages in their careers. His motto is “if there is an organ, it can be scanned.”

    When he’s not working, he is often in the kitchen perfecting his cooking skills or busting a groove to the radio. He embraces Portland’s foodie scene, as well as Oregon’s many outdoor wonders.

    Matteo Rosselli

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Matteo Rosselli is a consultant physician in internal medicine with a specific interest in hepatology, portal hypertension, autoimmune and cholestatic liver disease, vascular liver diseases, hepatocellular carcinoma. He trained in Internal Medicine and Hepatology at Florence Medical University integrating his clinical practice with ultrasound and developing a personal and practical approach to clinical medicine especially in the area of hepatology, acute medicine and the management of the critically ill patient. He undertook a PhD on non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis and portal hypertension and worked from 2013 to 2017 at the Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, Royal Free Hospital. He is founder, director and organiser of the UCL International Hepatology Ultrasound Course, in London. He is Editor and Author of the book ‘Liver Ultrasound: from basics to advanced techniques’. His clinical work is based in the High Complexity Unit of the Hospital of San Giuseppe, Empoli (Florence, Italy), and holds a position of Honorary Associate Professor at the Division of Medicine, UCL, Institute For Liver and Digestive Health (London, UK). He is a renown expert in non-invasive assessment of liver disease having lectured at international conferences worldwide such as EASL, BASL, COLDA, UEG, WFUMB and Euroson.

    Matthew Fentress

    GUSI Instructor

    Matthew Fentress, MD, DTM&H is a family physician at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, Martinez, California. He completed a DTM&H at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a Global Health Leadership Fellowship with Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency and Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School. He has served with Médecins Sans Frontières, working with displaced populations in Myanmar and South Sudan, and with numerous other international organizations on projects in India, Liberia, Haiti, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, and Tanzania. He has enjoyed teaching point-of-care ultrasound since 2011, has written book chapters and articles on the use of POCUS in resource-limited settings, and is currently conducting research in Peru to evaluate the utility of point-of-care lung ultrasound in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis.

    Matthew Haldeman

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Matthew Haldeman is a Family Physician with fellowship training in both global health and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). After completing his residency at Self Regional Healthcare in South Carolina in 2014, he worked both as a hospitalist physician and an ER physician in a rural setting, while also completing his CTropMed® certification in clinical tropical medicine. From 2017-2019, he completed a fellowship in Global Health and a Master’s of Public Health at the University of South Carolina, followed by fellowship-level training in POCUS. Dr. Haldeman currently serves as a Physician Educator with Seed Global Health, through which he is posted as a faculty at the University of Zambia’s Family Medicine residency program–Zambia’s first-ever training program in that specialty. In addition to teaching Family Medicine, he has integrated POCUS education into the residency’s curriculum and conducts POCUS research in Zambia. He has experience in various low-resource settings including Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Zambia, as well as Belize in Central America. His passions include POCUS in global health, tropical medicine, and medical education.

    Max Cohen

    GUSI Instructor

    Max Cohen, DO is a Family Medicine physician from New York. He attended the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school and completed the Brown Family Medicine Residency. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Brown University and works in outpatient primary care as well as teaches medical students, residents, and allied health professionals.

    He is passionate about medical education, obesity medicine, sports medicine, and strengthening POCUS application in the primary care setting.

    Maytal Firnberg

    GUSI Instructor

    Maytal completed medical school at New York Medical College followed by pediatrics residency at Northwell’s Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New York. She went on to complete pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and ventured to the west coast for ultrasound fellowship at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). After briefly joining the faculty at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine she returned to UCSF where she serves as the PEM POCUS education lead. Aside from POCUS, her interests include medical education, pediatric prehospital care, and global health.  Outside of work she loves travel, hiking with her crazy dog Milo, live music, and painting.

    Mayur Rali

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Mayur Rali is Board Certified in Family Medicine and has Academic appointments as Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Barbara and Zucker School of Medicine, St Georges University (SGU), CUNY School of Medicine, and New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr Rali served as Associate Program Director from 2013-2016 and as Program Director from 2016-2021
    at South Shore University Hospital, Family Medicine Residency Program, Northwell Health. Currently Dr Rali serves as the founding Program Director for the Family Medicine Residency Program @ St Joseph Hospital, Catholic Health in Long Island, NY.

    Dr. Rali finished his core Ob/Gyn Residency from 1980-84 in India and practiced full spectrum Ob/Gyn and Ultrasound for over 20 years. Dr Rali completed Family Medicine Residency at Mount Sinai- South Nassau Communities Hospital from 2006-2009 and served as Chief Resident for the year 2008-09. He completed NIPDD (National institute of Program Director Development) fellowship in year 2013.

    Dr Rali is strongly committed to advancing Family Medicine and Residency education and has received multiple Teacher of the Year and commendation awards for his contributions in Residency Education, Leadership and Clinical care. Dr Rali also holds ALSO (Advance Life Support in Obstetrics) instructor for ALSO provider, ALSO instructor, and ALSO advisor status since 2012. Dr. Rali received AFMRD Program Director Bronze level recognition Award in 2022. Dr Rali has been instrumental in developing and revamping of various educational programs e.g. Home visits, Precepting, Simulation, OSCE and Procedural workshops (Bioskills) educational sessions for residents and medical students.

    Dr. Rali has several PubMed and Peer-reviewed publications and is a peer reviewer for prestigious STFM, JOFP, and FPIN journals. Dr Rali has presented his scholarly work in the form of poster and oral presentations and workshops at Regional, National, and International levels.

    In his free time, Dr. Rali enjoys reading and spending time with family and grandkids.

    Mayur Rali

    GUSI Instructor

    Mayur S. Rali, MD, FAAFP
    Founding Program Director, Family Medicine Residency Program
    St. Joseph Hospital, Catholic Health, New York

    Dr. Mayur S. Rali is a distinguished academic physician executive and nationally recognized Graduate Medical Education (GME) leader with over 17 years of residency program leadership and more than four decades of clinical and teaching excellence.

    Since his appointment in July 2021 as Founding Program Director at St. Joseph Hospital, Dr. Rali has led the strategic planning, accreditation readiness, faculty recruitment, curriculum development, and institutional alignment required to successfully launch the Family Medicine Residency Program’s inaugural class in July 2024. Under his leadership, the program was built on a foundation of competency-based education, milestone-driven assessment, simulation integration, and structured scholarly engagement—positioning it as a key academic asset within Catholic Health.

    Previously, Dr. Rali served in senior leadership roles, including Program Director and Associate Program Director, at South Shore University Hospital/Northwell Health. There, he guided program expansion, faculty development, curriculum modernization, and successfully directed the structured sunset transition of the Family Medicine Residency Program, ensuring institutional continuity and educational integrity. He has been honored with multiple Teacher of the Year and commendation awards for his dedication to resident and medical student education at Northwell Health.

    Dr. Rali completed core residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology (1981–1985) and brings more than 20 years of comprehensive OB/GYN experience, including advanced obstetric ultrasound and OB/GYN point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). He subsequently completed Family Medicine training, served as Chief Resident, and is Board Certified in Family Medicine. His dual specialty background strengthens interdisciplinary collaboration and enhances procedural training within primary care education.

    A graduate of the National Institute for Program Director Development (NIPDD) Fellowship, Dr. Rali is nationally recognized for excellence in residency leadership, receiving the AFMRD/AAFP Program Director Recognition Award at both the Bronze (2022) and Gold (2026) levels. He holds academic appointments as Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and serves on the faculty of multiple medical schools. He is a member of the Academy of Medical Educators at Zucker SOM, Hofstra/Northwell and faculty with the Global Ultrasound Institute.

    Dr. Rali remains deeply committed to advancing academic medicine, strengthening institutional quality metrics, mentoring future physician leaders, and aligning GME strategy with health system priorities to serve the evolving needs of the community.

    Megan Viquez

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Megan Viquez is a graduate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency. She completed her Maternal-Child Health fellowship at St. Anthony North / Avista Adventist Hospital where she received training in surgical and high-risk obstetrics, in addition to obstetrical ultrasound. She has experience teaching ultrasound both during her fellowship and at the World Congress on Ultrasound in Medical Education Conference. She will soon start working at a critical access hospital in Southern Colorado, where she will provide obstetrical care in Labor and Delivery as well as prenatal and primary care in the clinic. Working as a rural, full-spectrum family physician, she understands that POCUS is an essential tool that guides medical decisions and streamlines patient care in an under-resourced setting. In her free time, Megan enjoys spending time with her husband outdoors, trying new breweries and wineries, playing music, and learning to fly.

    Mellan Jeptoo

    GUSI Instructor

    Mellan Jeptoo. dedicated medical professional currently serving as the Medical Officer in Charge at Living Room Hospital, Kenya. With a deep interest in family medicine, Dr. Jeptoo has developed a particular passion for palliative care, focusing on providing compassionate and holistic care to patients facing serious or terminal conditions. Committed to lifelong learning, Dr. Jeptoo is also enthusiastic about teaching and advancing the practice of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). Driven by a belief in the transformative power of education and hands-on skill development.

    Michael Armstrong

    GUSI Instructor

    Michael Armstrong completed his Internal Medicine training at Wake Forest School of Medicine and is currently a General Medicine Ultrasound fellow at Oregon Health & Science University. He began using POCUS in residency when he completed his residency’s designated POCUS pathway and has continued on this journey now in his fellowship. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his dogs, cat, and wife, in addition to biking and generally being outdoors.

    Michael Avila

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Michael Avila is a family medicine physician practicing at Neighborhood Healthcare (NHC), an FQHC primary care clinic in Escondido, California. Dr. Avila graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine (LLUSM) in 2017. During his training, he took a particular interest in POCUS and joined the Ultrasound Interest Group where he taught fellow peers at LLUSM and elsewhere, participating in POCUS research, teaching at workshops, as well as presenting at an AIUM conference.

    He graduated in 2020 as part of the inaugural class of HCA Healthcare Riverside, Family Medicine Residency Program in Riverside, CA, and has returned there as teaching faculty in POCUS. He has also joined Southwest Healthcare Medical Education Consortium Family Medicine Residency as POCUS Curriculum Director in Temecula, CA.

    Over the years, Dr. Avila has formed curricula for both the residencies as well as for NHC where he serves as the POCUS Physician Lead and is passionately charged with the opportunity to lead an FQHC organization in POCUS education and clinical practice.

    Although his passion is POCUS in medicine, his ultimate joy in life is serving as a husband and father.

    Michael Young

    GUSI Instructor
    Dr. Michael Young has worked in clinical ultrasound for almost 20 years and has been teaching POCUS to medical students and resident physicians for 10 years. Prior to teaching with GUSI, he developed his own POCUS curriculum to develop initial scanning skills and diagnose solid organ tumors and vascular abnormalities. He has traveled to Honduras to teach ultrasound-guided procedures.

    Michelle Xu

    GUSI Instructor

    Michelle is an FM/OB fellow at Swedish First Hill. Although born and raised in NYC, she fell in love with rural medicine and full scope family medicine during her training career. After 5 years in the Midwest and 1 year in the PNW, she will be taking her FM/ surgical OB skills back to NYC where she will be working as a faculty member at the Montefiore FM residency program and as a FM/OB laborist at Wakefield hospital. Outside of medicine, she loves indulging in plant-based cuisines, all things NYT Modern Love, and long walks by any body of water.

    Miguel de Sosa Mendes

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Miguel de Sousa Mendes (he/him) is an Obstetrician/Gynecologist at the Westend Red Cross Hospital in Berlin, Germany, specializing in Perinatology/Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He received Masters in Medicine from Nova Medical School in Lisbon, Portugal, and his MD from Charité Universitätsmedizin in Berlin. Between his second and third years of residency, he joined Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières and ran a Mother Child Centre in rural Chhattisgarh, India. After completing his residency he moved to Paris to join an important perinatal centre in Montreuil and pioneered a telemedicine service to provide care to women at field projects in underserved areas worldwide. His work with international NGOs and academic path in fetal medicine and infectious diseases led him to a position as senior attending in the largest maternity hospital in the European Union (Mayotte) on the coast of Madagascar, during the Autumn of 2022.

    From a clinical perspective, Dr. de Sousa Mendes focuses on patients with high-risk pregnancies due to diabetes, preeclampsia, preterm birth and fetal malformations. Obstetrical malformation diagnostic ultrasound is a critical part of his work and his teaching as a POCUS International Instructor for Doctors Without Borders. Patient centered care, social justice and reproductive health and rights are his callings. Dr. de Sousa Mendes’ global health work has led him to Brazil, Guinea-Bissau and India, with his multifaceted cooperation with Doctors Without Borders spreading way beyond.

    He’s also a proud father of two under 5 year olds, hence pretty much on call every night.

    Monther Alshahrani

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Monther Alshahrani is a pediatric emergency POCUS fellow at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, and a pediatric emergency physician and lecturer at Taif University, Saudi Arabia. He is passionate about teaching and training POCUS to future generations of PEM physicians.

    He received his medical degree from Taif University, Saudi Arabia, and his residency and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship from the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties SCFHS. He is scheduled to complete his POCUS fellowship in June 2024.

    Dr. Alshahrani believes that POCUS is an essential tool for PEM physicians, as it allows them to quickly and accurately diagnose and treat a wide range of conditions at the bedside.

    Monti Sharma

    GUSI Instructor

    Monti Sharma is a neonatologist and pediatric pulmonologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is the director of neonatal ultrasound, and his interest is expansion of neonatal POCUS out of the NICU and into all settings where neonates are cared for.

    Moses J. Syldort

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Moses Syldort was born and raised in New York City. He completed his undergraduate training at the City University of New York at the City College of New York. He completed a B.S/M.D program at CCNY and completed his medical degree at Albany Medical College. He completed a Fellowship in Leadership and Public Service at the Colin Powell School of Civic and Global Leadership. He completed his residency training at the Hofstra/Northwell Glen Cove Family Medicine Residency Program where he completed tracks in POCUS, Women’s Health and pursued passions in Lifestyle Medicine, Clinical Informatics, Global Health, and learned medical Spanish for his patient population. He also was elected to be the national resident delegate representative to the Congress of Delegates to the AAFP. He has written policy on increased POCUS training for Family Medicine physicians. Along with his AAFP responsibilities he advocated at Congress on the national and state level regarding issues impacting people who reproduce and family physicians at large.

    He is currently pursuing a fellowship in advanced obstetrics at Swedish Medical Center with the Swedish Family Medicine First Hill Residency.

    Outside of his training, he loves to write songs, practice mindfulness, watch anime/movies, peloton, powerlift, and learn languages.

    After fellowship, he hopes to work with the underserved in rural areas and start an academic career teaching future Family Medicine physicians in obstetrics and POCUS.

    Myles Melton

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Myles Melton is an emergency room physician who completed fellowship training in point-of-care ultrasound. He has taught POCUS in the hospital and prehospital setting, at national conferences, and in multiple academic institutions. Myles enjoys outdoor activities with family and friends, and is passionate about bringing real-time ultrasound technology to the resuscitation and management of critically ill patients.

    Nagda Tabet Al-Hissnialdt

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Nagda Thabet Abdullah Alhissni is a dedicated medical professional specializing in obstetrics, reproductive health, and emergency medicine. Based in Aden, Yemen, she brings extensive experience in clinical care, medical supervision, and training in women’s health.

    She earned her Bachelor of Human Medicine and Academic Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the University of Aden. Dr. Alhissni has completed multiple specialized training programs, including foundational and refresher courses in Integrated Child Health Care provided by the World Health Organization (WHO), and several Basic Ultrasound Training Courses at Sonar Academy, Cairo University , and the University of Aden. She has also undertaken professional development in Obstetrics Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) and Yemeni Obstetric Emergency management.

    Professionally, Dr. Alhissni has served as an Emergency Obstetrician and Reproductive Health Supervisor at a health center in Aden Governorate, as well as a Rapid Response Doctor in the general emergency department.

    In her current role as National GUSI Lead for Yemen, she leads efforts to advance ultrasound education and improve maternal and child health outcomes through hands-on training and capacity building.

    Nahom Mesfin

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Nahom Mesfin is an Assistant Professor and consultant at the College of Health Sciences, Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa University. Certified both as an Independent Practitioner and Trainer through the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Emergency Medicine (TAAAC-EM), he has excelled in integrating ultrasound into critical patient care. His contributions to ultrasound-based diagnostics are further demonstrated through his research on the “Accuracy of focused cardiac ultrasound interpretation among emergency and critical care medicine residents in Ethiopia,” published on the AfJEM in early 2024, highlighting the transformative role of continuous education in enhancing diagnostic accuracy.

    Dr. Nahom is deeply passionate about advancing the integration of POCUS in emergency and critical care medicine. He envisions a future where POCUS becomes an indispensable tool in every clinician’s diagnostic arsenal, ensuring timely, precise, and life-saving interventions for patients worldwide. Driven by a commitment to medical excellence, he actively contributes to disseminating POCUS knowledge through teaching and mentorship.

    Nahreen Ahmed

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Nahreen Ahmed is originally from the Greater Philadelphia area, she attended Drexel University College of Medicine and subsequently went on to residency at the University of Illinois in Chicago where she concomitantly completed her Master’s Degree in Public Health and was also invited to stay on for a Chief Residency. She went on to pursue a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical care at NYU/Bellevue which is also where she launched her Global Health Career by founding the Bangladesh Ultrasound Initiative, a training program for critical care physicians in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This program has now successfully seen over 150 physicians trained in bedside ultrasound and has become self-sustaining. She joined the faculty at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is currently an Assistant Professor in Clinical Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care as well as a Penn Center for Global Health Scholar. Within one year she trained the entire faculty of the division of Critical Care in Point-of-Care Ultrasound as well as co-founded the Philadelphia Area Critical Care Ultrasound Program which is the first of its kind in the area, wherein all 7 city hospitals were brought together to train all incoming Critical Care fellows in Point-of-Care Ultrasound. This training program has now been ongoing for the last two years and has trained over 100 fellows. After the success of the Bangladesh training program and the Philadelphia training program, she has participated in similar programs in Ethiopia with the East African Training Initiative, and subsequently has worked to bring Ultrasound training and medical care to crisis zones such as Yemen, Sierra Leone, and the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh with Medglobal. She is currently on the Board of Directors for a non-profit called Bridge to Health and is their Head of Ultrasound and has been an integral part of the planning and implementation of Point-of-Care Ultrasound programs with the focus on local capacity building including the Pediatric Lung Ultrasound program in Uganda and the Maternal Ultrasound program in Kenya. Dr. Ahmed has a strong belief in capacity building with the aid of technology and telecommunications and that the key to sustainability in global medicine is via medical education and a hands-on training approach which empowers local clinicians.

    Nathan Bush

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Nathan Bush earned his BSN from Capstone College of Nursing in 2005, as well as an MSN and DNP from UAB School of Nursing in 2014 and 2018, respectively. He has practiced in his CRNP role with UAB Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine since 2015. Additionally, Dr. Bush’s focuses include education of nurse practitioner students in UAB’s School of Nursing as well as practicing clinicians including point of care ultrasound and procedural simulation. He has completed the CHEST Critical Care Ultrasonography Certificate of Completion.

    Nathan Cutshall

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Nathan Cutshall is a current Primary Care Sports Medicine fellow at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU). Originally from Maine, he completed his undergraduate degree in medical anthropology at the University of Washington. This was followed by medical school at the University of Colorado, and family medicine residency at the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) in Western North Carolina. Outside of medicine he enjoys mountain biking, hiking, cross country skiing, backcountry split boarding and anything on the water.

    Nathan Kiplimo

    GUSI Instructor

    Nathan Kiplimo, born on November 19, 1996, is a 28-year-old Diagnostic Radiographer (B.RAD, DMIS) with a strong passion for maternal-fetal sonography. Known for driving accuracy and efficiency in obstetric sonography, Nathan is a seasoned radiographer with extensive expertise in General Radiography, CT, MRI, Mammography, Dental Radiography, and PACS.

    He has honed his sonography skills in various areas, including Obstetrics, Gynecology, General Abdominal imaging, Vascular Sonography, and small parts ultrasound, such as breast ultrasound elastography. Additionally, Nathan collaborates with doctors to perform minor ultrasound-guided procedures, including sonohysterograms, amniocentesis, and various biopsies, showcasing his versatility and dedication to advancing patient care.

    Nathaniel Leu

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Nathaniel Leu completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago with an area of focus in Emergency Ultrasound. He is currently finishing a Clinical Ultrasound fellowship at Highland Hospital in Oakland. Some of his main areas of interest are ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia and implementing ultrasound during resuscitation and cardiac arrest. He enjoys teaching point-of-care ultrasound both at the bedside and at national conferences.

    Ne (Melissa) Ferguson

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Ferguson earned her medical degree from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and completed residency at the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program in Martinez, CA as one of the chief residents. Subsequently Dr. Ferguson completed a Faculty Development Fellowship through the University of California at San Francisco and is currently one of the Core Faculty at Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program. She currently works as a hospitalist, primarily teaching the current family medicine residents. She teaches residents bedside procedures on the inpatient wards and in the ICU and has particular expertise in point-of-care ultrasound. She designed the point-of-care ultrasound curriculum for the inpatient faculty and residents at the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program. She also teaches point of care ultrasound throughout the country and is currently the principal investigator for IRB-approved research in point-of-care ultrasound.

    Neal Douglas

    GUSI Instructor

    A native Oregonian, Dr. Neal grew up on a small farm in rural Boring, Oregon. His passion for medicine began in High School while serving on several medical mission trips to Africa with his father, Dr. Bruce Douglas. After completing his studies at Oregon State, he attended Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) and completed his residency at Providence Oregon Family Medicine. After 3 years in private practice in Portland Oregon, he felt called to serve his local community in Hood River by providing accessible and affordable care for the many families and small businesses struggling to find healthcare.

    Enter Heritage Family Medicine. With his full spectrum Family Medical skills and passion for independent business, in 2017 Dr. Neal set out to bring health care to Hood River as never seen before. Providing specialized, convenient, and compassionate care to his growing base of members is his passion. Adopting a Direct Primary Care model has made it all possible.

    Now over 5 years in to DPC, Dr. Neal has had the opportunity to greatly expand his clinical skillset especially with point of care ultrasound. After completion of the GUSI 3 day conference in 2019 followed by completion of the GUSI fellowship in 2021, he has gone on to continually expand his ultrasound and procedural skills. Now as a regional specialist for ultrasound guided PrP injections, Dr. Neal works hard to provide affordable cutting edge therapy to his community. He instructing ultrasound for the Hood River Family Medicine Residency, and has become a major advocate for POCUS within the DPC movement.

    In between providing this innovative care, Dr. Neal can be found enjoying time with his beautiful wife (Kristi) and five children (Hudson, Gretchen, Adeline, Leroy, and Willa Mae). They are an active family who enjoy skiing, mountain biking, hiking and all the activities of the Columbia Gorge. They are also actively involved members of their church. A true renaissance man, Dr. Neal is an accomplished pianist and vocalist, an Eagle Scout, an avid gardener and aquarist, has scaled mountains, served in missions in Africa, an avid connoisseur of American History, acts as family chef, and maintains his great grandfather’s 1965 Ford pickup.

    Nelson Fundi

    GUSI Instructor

    Nelson Fundi is a Medical Doctor specializing in the provision of Primary Care. Currently he is finalizing his residency in Family Medicine at the Aga Khan University in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a passion for POCUS having received training as part of the residency, attended workshops led by leading faculty from Contra Costa, and completed an elective at Contra Costa Regional Medical Centre certified by Global Ultrasound Institute (GUSI). Currently he serves as a volunteer POCUS trainer with the departments of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the Aga Khan University-Nairobi and with the Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation. His long-term goal is to be clinician-researcher participating in provision of both emergent and non- emergent care in which he firmly believes POCUS would play a key role especially in low resource settings.

    Nicholas LeFevre

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Nicholas LeFevre is a family physician and faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. He completed a point of care ultrasound fellowship through the Ultrasound Leadership Academy has directed POCUS curricula at 3 residency programs (The Greater Lawrence FMR, JPS FMR, and Mizzou FMR). He helped write the AAFP POCUS Residency Curriculum Guideline, has authored textbook chapters on POCUS, and teaches ultrasound locally and nationally through AAFP and STFM. He maintains a full-spectrum family medicine practice including inpatient, outpatient, and maternity care, and is passionate about the use of POCUS in all of these settings to improve the quality of care we provide.

    Nicholas Weida

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Nicholas Weida grew up in rural Pennsylvania before moving to Boston for medical school and then to Seattle for residency. Desire to continue to practice full spectrum family medicine drew him to Lawrence, but he fell in love with LFMR due to the deep commitment of the residency and clinic staff to the surrounding community and each other. He rounds on inpatient medicine, the ICU, and Labor and Delivery.

    His curricular interests include addiction medicine and point of care ultrasound. He enjoys working within an innovative and constantly changing healthcare delivery system and particularly enjoys contributing to the creativity and innovation in LFMR. Often the best innovations in our own FQHC started with successful resident projects.

    Additionally, Nick spends time every year in rural Alaska working at an Indian Health Service site. In his spare time, Nick enjoys biking, hiking, and traveling.

    Nicolas Hatamiya

    GUSI Instructor
    Dr. Nicolas Hatamiya DO, CAQSM, is a Family Medicine trained Primary Care Sports Medicine physician. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery/Sports Medicine and Family & Community Medicine, where he is also the Associate Program Director for the UCSF Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship program. Dr. Hatamiya completed his medical training at Western University of Health Sciences and his Family Medicine training at Stanford Health Care – O’Connor Hospital, where he was selected as chief resident. He then completed additional training in primary care sports medicine at UCLA, where he served as a team physician for local high schools, the UCLA Bruins, and professional teams. He is passionate about medical education and POCUS in primary care, with a particular emphasis on musculoskeletal ultrasound.

    Nicole Yedlinsky

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Nicole Yedlinsky is Associate Professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. She is program director for the primary care sports medicine fellowship and core faculty for the family medicine residency program. She teaches point-of-care ultrasound and musculoskeletal medicine at the University of Kansas Medical School. She completed residency at Womack Army Medical Center and fellowship at Fairfax Family Practice as part of the National Capital Sports Medicine Consortium. Dr. Yedlinsky has special interests in ultra-endurance sport, women’s health, care of the military veteran, and healthcare that is accessible and patient-focused.

    Nilan Schnure

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Nilan Schnure completed medical school and internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania, where he trained in the Primary Care residency program, was a member of the Medical Education Leadership Track, and then served as a Chief Resident. During this time he
    participated in the integrated ultrasound curriculum in the medical school and residency program, which inspired him to train for an additional year in Penn’s multispecialty point-of- care ultrasound fellowship. He came to appreciate how point-of-care ultrasound brought him back to the bedside, strengthened relationships with patients, created a shared understanding of their disease processes, and expedited diagnosis and management. He also valued the ever-expanding opportunities for education, and led workshops and hands-on sessions for medical students, primary care residents, nephrology fellows, critical care nurse practitioners, and attendees at multiple national conferences. He is now starting as primary care faculty at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon with a dedicated role for ultrasound education, quality assurance, and point-of-care ultrasound implementation in the primary care setting.

    Nimeka Phillip

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Nimeka Phillip is a family physician who values full-spectrum care.  She works as an attending physician in the Obstetrics department at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, California, as a detention health provider at the Contra Costa County jail, as a hospitalist at Adventist Health in Ukiah, California and as a residency preceptor in primary care and Obstetrics at the Adventist Health Family Medicine Residency Program in Ukiah, California.  Dr. Phillip graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine, in Havana, Cuba, attended family medicine residency at the Mountain Area Health Education Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina and attended Obstetrics Fellowship at Cone Health in Greensboro, North Carolina.  She is passionate about improving outcomes for people in low-resource settings, where ultrasound can be a powerful tool to provide care. Her hobbies are language studies, dance, running, travel and family activities with her young daughters.

    Noha Eshera

    GUSI Instructor

    Noha Eshera is an FM-OB working in Northern California. She attended the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency where she found great mentorship in POCUS training. She then went on to complete an obstetrics fellowship at Tacoma General Hospital. Noha has participated in several global health projects throughout Africa and the Middle East. These projects have often included teaching POCUS to midwives, clinical officers and GPs. She has found POCUS to be an integral clinical tool for expanding healthcare access in resource-constrained settings.

    Odette Zero

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Odette Zero is a family medicine physician with special interest in full-spectrum family medicine for underserved and immigrant patient populations. She learned about POCUS during medical school at Brown University and developed skills in POCUS during her residency training at Swedish First Hill and the Downtown Family Medicine, located within the King County Public Health Department in Seattle, WA. She strongly believes in POCUS as a vehicle for health equity in low-resource settings, and as a Guatemalan-American physician, hopes to support expansion of POCUS access in Guatemala and beyond. In her free time, she enjoys reading, tennis, traveling and tending to her house plants.

    Oluseun Olufade

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Oluseun Olufade (MD) is an Assistant Professor of Orthopedics at Emory School of Medicine. He is board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sports medicine and Interventional spine. Dr. Olufade received his undergraduate degree at Rutgers University in New Jersey and went on to attend the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He did his residency and post-graduate training at Temple University Hospital and Crozer Keystone Healthcare System in Pennsylvania.

    Dr. Olufade practices sports medicine and spine care with a special interest in youth sports, active adult, regenerative medicine and orthobiologics. His approach is focused on the non-surgical treatment of sports and orthopedic injuries, including ultrasound and fluoroscopic-guided procedures and the use of stem cell therapy and platelet-rich plasma (PRP). He treats adolescents and adults, and his patients range from middle school students to professional athletes. He is involved in research in regenerative medicine and has presented at numerous regional and national conferences.

    Dr. Olufade is currently a physician for several athletic teams and organizations, including: U.S. Soccer Physician Network, Atlanta Hawks, Emory University, Northview High School and Mt Pisgah Christian School. He is also actively involved in the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM), where he serves as Co-Chair of Ultrasound Instructional Course Lecture, Chair for the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) curriculum subcommittee and Co-chair for the Diversity Mentoring Program. Dr. Olufade is also a medical review board member for VeryWellHealth.com and is active in national and local media.

    Opal Taylor

    GUSI Instructor

    Opal Taylor, MD, MPH is an attending emergency medicine physician at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, California. Dr. Taylor was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone and grew up in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa. She completed her residency training in emergency medicine and earned her Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) training certificate at Highland General Hospital, Alameda County Regional Medical Center, Oakland, California in 2008. Prior to moving to California, she completed a Master’s of Public Health degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, with a focus on Humanitarian Assistance and Refugee Studies. She earned her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine in 2003.

    Dr. Taylor is passionately motivated to care for the underserved. This has led her to focus on point of care ultrasound (POCUS), which is an essential diagnostic tool that is widely available and portable to remote settings that are under-resourced and in disaster situations. She uses POCUS daily as part of her emergency medicine practice at the county hospital as well as internationally in medical mission trips to developing countries. Dr. Taylor spent 6 weeks teaching ultrasound to medical providers on Congolese and Burundian refugee camps in Tanzania. She subsequently volunteered with International Medical Corps in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake and had the first-hand experience of working in a disaster setting where POCUS was the principal imaging modality available in the tent hospital emergency department.

    Pascual Daza-Ramirez

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Pascual Daza-Ramirez, MD MBA MRCGP MPH(Cantab) EIA(EMCC) BMUS, is a Senior Hon. Clinical Lecturer of Exeter Medical School (UK), a GP Trainer and Educational Supervisor (Health Education England) and a Senior Mentor to newly qualified Family Physicians enrolled in the Fellowship Programme of South West of England NHS Leadership Academy.

    He is an attending Family Medicine Physician (General Practitioner) at Middleway Surgery, where he is the lead Research Physician, near Carlyon Bay in St Austell on the south coast of Cornwall (UK).

    Pascual runs in person POCUS training courses three times a year in Cornwall (UK). He also has served as an instructor on the “London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Ultrasound Course for the Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene” (London). In the last twelve months he has trained over sixty junior doctors (residents) ultrasound imaging acquisition techniques and clinical image interpretation.

    Pascual was born and educated in Barcelona (Spain) where he gained his medical degree from UB (la Universidad de Barcelona) Medical School and his MBA qualification from European University Business School. He completed postgraduate training in Family Medicine (General Practice) in Truro (Cornwall) followed by academic training in Public Health and Epidemiology at Cambridge University and Pharmaceutical Medicine at Cardiff University in Wales (UK). He is a member of the British Medical Ultrasound Society (BMUS) and a member of the Royal College of General Practitioner (RCGP) in England.

    Pascual’s hobbies entail dinghy sailing, playing tennis, and competing in local amateur tournaments. He also has an interest in guitar playing (mainly flamenco with occasional attempts at blues and jazz with his Gibson Les Paul), but feels he is not good enough to play in public yet.

    Patrick Doyle

    GUSI Instructor

    Patrick has worked as an emergency medicine PA at Mass General Hospital in Boston for 9 years, and works part time in critical care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was introduced to PoCUS early in his career through the Division of Emergency Ultrasound and Center for Ultrasound Research and Education at MGH and immediately fell in love with his favorite critical care tool: ultrasound! Patrick lectures, assists in research, onboards new hires and performs image QA with the CURE team. He has taught PoCUS workshops at AAPA annually and has been an instructor for the YesIscan student US competition since its inauguration in 2018. Patrick has also taught critical access courses to rural providers in Missouri, an MSK course to hand surgeons in Ohio, and recently a “Train the Trainer” course to PA faculty at UMKC in Kansas City. Patrick lives in Boston with his girlfriend, not far from where he grew up. In his spare time he enjoys skiing, hiking, paddling and, like a true Bostonian, rooting for all of his hometown sports teams. Patrick will put his phased array probe up against your stethoscope any day!

    Paul Bornemann

    GUSI Instructor

    Paul H. Bornemann, MD RMSK RPVI, is board certified in Family Medicine and a tenured Associate Professor of Family and Preventative Medicine, the Program Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program, and Director of Primary Care Ultrasound at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He is a veteran with eight years’ experience working as an army physician including a combat deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. His military awards include the Combat Medical Badge for providing medical care under direct fire. He has had interest in point-of-care ultrasound since first learning of its benefits during a combat deployment in 2010. He currently has certification from the Alliance for Physician Certification & Advancement (APCA) in musculoskeletal (RMSK) and vascular (RPVI) ultrasound. He has worked with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and was the founding chair of the AAFP Point-of-Care Ultrasound Member Interest Group, in 2015. He has experience introducing point-of-care ultrasound curricula in several family medicine residency programs and teaches ultrasound frequently both nationally and internationally. He has published multiple journal articles on point-of-care ultrasound and edited the textbook, Ultrasound for Primary Care (Wolters Kluwer 2020), the first book on this topic.

    Peter Weimersheimer

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Peter Weimersheimer is the Founder and CEO of VTEMSONO, where he leads initiatives in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) education, system development, and sustainable ultrasound program design. His work focuses on empowering clinicians to effectively integrate POCUS across diverse environments — particularly in resource-limited settings, pre-hospital medicine, and rural health systems.

    As a Professor Emeritus of Emergency Medicine at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Dr. Weimersheimer brings over 30 years of clinical and ultrasound experience. He founded and directed the University of Vermont Emergency Ultrasound Section, the Emergency Medicine Residency POCUS curriculum, a TEE program, a regional anesthesia program, and the Medical School POCUS program.

    His academic and leadership roles have included developing system-wide ultrasound credentialing, education, and practice standards, as well as serving as Vice President of Clinical Implementation and Education at Butterfly Network. His current academic and clinical interests include lung ultrasound, POCUS-guided regional anesthesia and analgesia, and expanding ultrasound use in pre-hospital and rural care.

    Above all, Dr. Weimersheimer is a clinician, educator, and innovator dedicated to improving patient outcomes through the thoughtful and strategic integration of ultrasound into everyday medical practice.

    Raquel Rodriguez

    GUSI Instructor

    La doctora Rodríguez es especialista en radiodiagnóstico por imagen con sede en
    Mallorca, donde trabaja en el Hospital de Inca. Se formó en el Hospital Universitario de
    Salamanca, donde completó su residencia en radiología durante cuatro años, y ha
    continuado su formación en instituciones de renombre internacional, como el Hospital
    Karolinska en Estocolmo y el Hospital Universitario de La Fe en Valencia.
    Miembro activo de la Sociedad Española de Radiología y de la Sociedad de Radiología
    Francesa, Raquel tiene una especial dedicación a la radiología del aparato digestivo,
    campo en el que también participa activamente en el Comité de Patología Inflamatoria
    del Aparato Digestivo de su hospital. Aunque actualmente desempeña su carrera como
    radióloga generalista, su experiencia en esta área le ha permitido profundizar en el
    diagnóstico y tratamiento de enfermedades digestivas.
    A lo largo de su carrera, ha acumulado una sólida experiencia profesional en diversos
    hospitales de España y París, lo que le ha permitido enriquecer su práctica clínica con
    una visión global e interdisciplinaria. Raquel ha participado activamente en congresos
    nacionales e internacionales y ha completado diversos cursos y másteres especializados
    en radiología, lo que ha enriquecido su formación y práctica profesional. Su enfoque
    abarca diversas subespecialidades dentro de la radiología, adaptándose a las necesidades
    del entorno hospitalario y contribuyendo a la educación médica.
    Raquel destaca la importancia de la ecografía en atención primaria como una
    herramienta clave para mejorar la calidad de la atención médica. Considera fundamental
    que los médicos de atención primaria reciban una formación adecuada en las bases de
    esta técnica, ya que puede contribuir significativamente a una detección temprana de
    enfermedades y a una gestión más eficaz de los pacientes.
    Además, Raquel tiene una gran pasión por la docencia y por transmitir su conocimiento
    a otros profesionales de la salud. Le gusta compartir sus experiencias y aprendizajes con
    futuros radiólogos y médicos, contribuyendo al crecimiento y la formación continua en
    su especialidad.

    Raymond Rowan

    GUSI Instructor
    Dr. Raymond Rowan is an experienced General Practitioner with a special interest in musculoskeletal injuries, sports medicine, and primary care ultrasound. Over the years, he has developed expertise in musculoskeletal health, earning qualifications in Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) and Musculoskeletal Injection Therapy to enhance clinical practice. His commitment to continuous professional development has led him to complete a Diploma in Musculoskeletal Examination and Injury Management, as well as a Professional Diploma in Clinical Leadership. With a background spanning emergency medicine, pediatrics, and care of the elderly he bring a well-rounded approach to patient care.
    He was part of the first cohort of GPs in Ireland to receive formal POCUS training for primary care and continue to advocate for its integration into everyday clinical practice. He regularly use POCUS in nursing homes and in care for the elderly, improving diagnostic accuracy and patient management for older adults. In addition to his clinical work, he is actively involved in medical education as a tutor for medical students and a supervisor for GP trainees and residents. He is excited to be working with GUSI to educate and encourage the use of POCUS in primary care in Ireland, helping to enhance diagnostic capabilities and patient care.
    Beyond his medical expertise, he is an accomplished endurance athlete, competing in Ironman events while promoting injury prevention and rehabilitation. Through his clinical, educational, and athletic endeavors, He strive to drive innovation, excellence, and patient-centered care.

    Renee Dversdal

    GUSI Instructor

    Renee Dversdal, MD, FACP, FAIUM is a Professor of Medicine and academic hospitalist at Oregon Health & Science University.  Her ultrasound obsession started during her Internal Medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and has continued to grow since returning to OHSU in 2012.  As the Director of OHSU Point of Care Ultrasound, she works in ultrasound education across the medical education spectrum from MD/NP/PA students to residents/fellows & faculty from OHSU & abroad.  She co-founded and formerly directed the General Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship, which was the first of its kind on the West Coast.  Prior to adding a part time Chief Medical Officer role for an ultrasound startup company in 2020 she was active nationally/internationally Co-Directing CME courses for AIUM & ACP, serving as a Board Member for the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and Founding/Co-Chairing the American College of Physicians Point of Care Ultrasound Advisory Group. 

    Ricardo (Ric) Ribeiro

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Ric Ribeiro is an emergency medicine physician certified in point of care ultrasound (POCUS). After completion of his residency program at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 2006 he worked at the Victoria Hospital Emergency Department in the city of Prince Albert and served as the residency program coordinator. He currently is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta, and the Emergency Department residency coordinator at the Grey Nuns Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. He has taught several Core Acute Care POCUS and Resuscitation POCUS workshops/bootcamps for the last six years.

    Riccardo Govoni

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Riccardo Govoni, MD

    General Practitioner, Secretary S.I.M.G. Parma, tutor doctor for the Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Parma, expert in POCUS ultrasound, board member of the A.M.T.I. sports medicine association.

    Dr. Riccardo Govoni is a general practitioner based in Parma, with over 13 years of experience in primary care and continuity of care services. Over the years, he has developed a solid expertise in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), with particular attention to musculoskeletal and generalist fields.

    He has attended numerous ultrasound courses organized by SIEMG and various others over the years. He is passionate about integrating ultrasound into daily clinical practice as an essential tool for rapid and effective diagnosis and in the field of eco-guided and eco-assisted osteoarticular infiltrations.

    His commitment to continuous medical education also translates into supporting students in acquiring ultrasound skills, with the aim of improving the quality of care through a more conscious and patient-oriented approach.

    Richard Kozinski

    GUSI Instructor

    Richard P. Kozinski MD is originally from Chugiak, Alaska and completed his medical educationat the Medical University of Lodz, Poland. Between medical school and residency, he helped manage a large rheumatology office, which exposed him to the utility of ultrasound-guided procedures. While completing his Family Medicine residency at Yuma Regional Medical Center in Yuma, Arizona, his interest in ultrasound in the primary care setting expanded with additional elective course work in ultrasound, CME and purchasing his own portable ultrasound device. His interest solidified after being accepted to the Primary Care Ultrasound Fellowship at Prisma Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, SC. His previous experiences with information technology allowed further connections with industry leaders, IT project managers and other POCUS champions to continue expansion of ultrasound in the primary care setting. His goals are to continue being a clinical educator in POCUS, continue advocating use of ultrasound in the primary setting, and utilizing bedside ultrasound in hospitalist medicine.

    Robert Theal

    GUSI Instructor

    Robert Theal, MD is a Family Physician at Kaiser Fontana Hospital and a former Assistant Program Director of the Fontana Family Medicine Program. He has been a faculty member since 1989. He received his original POCUS training at the Martinez Ultrasound Course and has been practicing POCUS in the clinic and on the wards since 2018. He helped develop the longitudinal Fontana Family Medicine POCUS curriculum and teaches POCUS at the Annual Kaiser Urgent Care Symposium.

    He is an instrument-rated private pilot. He recently retired and is a Partner Emeritus at SCPMG and a Kaiser School of Medicine faculty member.

    He enjoys babysitting his grandchildren and his new hobby of woodworking.

    Robinson Ferre

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Robinson Ferre is an emergency physician and point of care ultrasound (POCUS) enthusiast. He currently serves as the POCUS Program Director for Indiana University School of Medicine where he leads a team of world-class educators that oversee POCUS education for 1,400 medical students scattered across 9 regional campuses. He is also the Division Chief of the POCUS Division within the Department of Emergency Medicine and oversees POCUS integration for Indiana University Health, a network of 16 hospitals scattered across the state of Indiana. In 2020, he started a Primary Care POCUS Fellowship program for primary care physicians seeking additional training in POCUS.

    Prior to coming to Indiana University, he founded the Emergency Ultrasound Division and the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University. Throughout his career, Dr. Ferre has trained thousands of physicians across the globe in using POCUS to improve patient care.

    Romeo Wahome

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Romeo Wahome (MD) is currently a senior medical officer at Mbarara Regional and Referral Hospital (Uganda), involved in training and mentorship of other specialties in POCUS and Ultrasonography in resource limited environments. He is currently a finalist resident in Emergency Medicine, a PURE mentorship graduate with several publications in POCUS, with emphasis in the East African Environment and trauma with roots in Uganda and Kenya. He strives to expose as many healthcare providers to POCUS and its benefits to reduce in-hospital mortality. Dr. Wahome is a father, husband, and Christian with several community outreach programs.

    Russ Horowitz

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Russ Horowitz attended SUNY Downstate Medical Center and completed his pediatrics residency at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC. He then completed a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Children’s Memorial Hospital and an emergency ultrasound fellowship at Cook County Hospital both in Chicago, IL. He is the Director of Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago and the Director of Ultrasound Education at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.  He has taught POCUS at national and international meetings and conferences and has worked with all types of adult and pediatric providers.

    His passion is ultrasound education and making it easy.  

    Ryan Petering

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Ryan Petering is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland, OR. He has trained at East Tennessee State University (MD and undergrad) and OHSU (Family Medicine residency and Sports Medicine fellowship). He currently serves as Sports Medicine Fellowship Director and Sports Medicine Medical Director. Musculoskeletal Ultrasound is a cornerstone of his academic career. Specifically, musculoskeletal ultrasound curriculum development and practice implementation are focus areas. This includes work locally in Portland, Oregon, at OHSU as well as regionally and nationally thru partnerships with GUSI, the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine (AMSSM), AAFP, OAFP, and STFM. He teaches medical students, medical residents, fellows and attendings/faculty to use MSK ultrasound as a key part of medical decision making and practice. He manages multiple CME courses thru OHSU, including hands-on scanning and use of cadavers to teach MSK diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. Outside of work, Ryan and family spending time in the outdoors skiing, kayaking, surf-skiing, mountain biking and living the van life in his DIY sprinter van.

    Ryan Wong

    GUSI Instructor

    Ryan Wong is currently an Internal Medicine Resident at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is very grateful for the opportunities his mentors provided for him to grow his POCUS skills and he wishes to pass that knowledge on to the next generation of learners. During his time as a medical student and resident, he developed a passion for applying POCUS to clinical decision-making and teaching others interested in POCUS. He currently serves as one of the three POCUS scholars for his residency program, continues to spread the utility of POCUS in the critical care setting, and is eager to expand the field of POCUS with the growing popularity of VExUS scanning. He plans to pursue a fellowship in both cardiology and critical care where ultrasound is growing in popularity and its utility in helping the critically ill, especially patients requiring mechanical circulatory support.

    Ryann Milne-Price

    GUSI Instructor

    Ryann Milne-Price MD MPH grew up in Montana, USA and enjoys exploring the outdoors, making art, and hanging with eclectic collections of farm animals. She attended the University of Washington for medical school and the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho for family medicine training. She started using POCUS during a global health fellowship through the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency in California while working in Contra Costa County’s emergency room. She started teaching ultrasound in the Bay Area with GUSI during this fellowship and incorporated some ultrasound training while faculty on a rural family medicine rotation in Neno, Malawi, for MBBS4 medical students. In the future she hopes to work in rural areas of the US where POCUS will be essential, and to continue connecting with people globally in a collective effort to improve primary care and public health.

    Sabrina Berdouk

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Sabrina Berdouk is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and a leading educator in Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) based in Dubai, UAE. With dual postgraduate training in Family and Emergency Medicine from the University of Toronto and the University of Montreal, she brings a strong blend of clinical acumen and academic innovation to her work. Her passion for advancing ultrasound education has led her to design and lead several successful programs, including the FAST Ultrasound Course, UPVEIN and integrates bedside ultrasound into clinical decision-making and education.

    Sahar Ahmad

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Sahar Ahmad is an Associate Professor of Medicine, with Tenure, at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University; She has several educational roles in the institution including: Program Director of Critical Care Fellowship; Director of Ultrasound Education for the Department of Medicine and Chair of the Ultrasound Curriculum Taskforce for the School of Medicine; Director of Critical Care Education at the Division of Pulmonary Critical Care; and Director of Simulation for the Internal Medicine Residency.

    She serves administrative roles as well, including Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit, Chair of the Sepsis Team and Core Member for the Cardiac Arrest Committee at Stony Brook University Hospital.

    Dr. Ahmad grew up in Brooklyn and is a NY native. She came to Stony Brook after completing her medical training at Cornell Medical College, Surgery internship at Northwell Hospital System, Internal Medicine residency at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, and fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care at the Albert Einstein/ Montefiore Medical System in the Bronx.

    She is currently an active faculty physician at the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine. Her research interests include ultrasound for clinical use; ultrasound for cardiac arrest; MICU outcomes; simulation and ultrasound education.

    Dr. Ahmad has been teaching point-of-care-ultrasound for over a decade including at national and regional courses and at the student, residency, fellowship, and faculty physician levels. More specific to Stony Brook, since starting at the institution at 2013, she has lead the initiative to develop and implement an integrated longitudinal course for the School of Medicine; and has started formal clinical ultrasound education programs for: Pulmonary & Critical Care fellows, Nephrology fellows, Gastroenterology fellows, Surgery residents, Internal Medicine residents, Physician Assistant students and other groups. Stony Brook Ultrasound (SBUS), under Dr. Ahmad’s direction, includes these educational initiatives as well a robust research lab & quality control programs throughout the hospital.

    Dr. Ahmad is cardiology echocardiography board testamur status.

    Salah Awadalla

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Salah Awadalla MD RDCS, was born in San Francisco, California, but lived most of his life in New Orleans, Louisiana which he considers his hometown. He completed his undergraduate studies at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans (LSUHSC) where he earned his Bachelor’s in Cardiopulmonary Science and specialized in heart ultrasound. He is a registered cardiac sonographer and had the privilege of working as an adult and pediatric cardiac sonographer at Tulane Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New Orleans. Afterwards, he attended medical school at St. George’s University School of Medicine and is now completing his Family Medicine Residency at McLaren St Luke’s in Perrysburg, Ohio. In his free time, he enjoys watching the New Orleans Saints play football (WHO DAT) and he has alsodeveloped a passion for MMA; Khabib Nurmagomedov and Mohammad Ali are his favorite athletes.

    Sally Graglia

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Sally Graglia is an emergency medicine physician with fellowship training in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). After completing Emergency Medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) – Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Graglia pursued fellowship training in Ultrasound at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). During her fellowship, she worked with PURE (Point-of-care Ultrasound in Resource-limited Environments) in Uganda which led her to take an appointment with the Liberia College of Physicians and Surgeons (LCPS) as Ultrasound Education Director in Monrovia, Liberia. Dr. Graglia has experience in various capacities and environments including Africa, Central and South America, and Eastern Europe. Her passions include medical education, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), and global health.

    Salvador Portugal

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Salvador Portugal is an Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where he serves as Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship Program and Medical Director of Sports Medicine Rehabilitation. He is an Interventional Spine & Sports Medicine Physiatrist at the NYU Langone Orthopedic Center.
    He completed his residency in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the NYU Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and fellowship in Musculoskeletal/Pain Medicine at UMDNJ–New Jersey Medical School. He is board certified in PM&R and Sports Medicine, with additional certification in Musculoskeletal Sonography (RMSK).
    Dr. Portugal serves as President of the New York Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (NYSPMR) and Head Team Physician for St. Joseph’s University–Brooklyn athletics. Nationally, he is a member of the Residency & Fellowship Directors Council of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, the Council of PM&R State Society Presidents, and the Program Planning Committee for the American Academy of PM&R. He also contributes to the Sports Economics Workgroup of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.
    A recognized educator, he directs the musculoskeletal ultrasound curriculum for the NYU PM&R residency and teaches at national ultrasound courses. He has received multiple Teacher of the Year Awards and is listed among Castle Connolly Top Doctors and New York Super Doctors.

    Sam Hwu

    GUSI Instructor
    Sam Hwu, MD, FAAFP, CAQSM, RMSK is a Primary Care Sports Medicine physician with Providence Medical Group in the Portland, OR, area where he practices Sports Medicine and Family Medicine. He completed his Family Medicine training at Tufts University/Cambridge Health Alliance and then a Sports Medicine fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University – Fairfax Family Practice. While at Unity Health Care, an FQHC, in Washington, DC, he co-developed with Dr. Will Dixon a POCUS curriculum for the National Family Medicine Residency program. He has taught POCUS workshops for the DC Academy of Family Physicians chapter and at FMEC conferences. A unique and special opportunity to work in New Zealand truly shaped Dr. Hwu’s appreciation and love for POCUS, and he is excited to spread the POCUS excitement to all learners with the goal of improving patient care and the patient experience.

    Samuel Hatfield

    GUSI Instructor
    Dr. Samuel Hatfield is a hospital medicine provider at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and board-certified in Internal Medicine. He has also received Point of Care Ultrasound for Hospital Medicine certification through SHM/CHEST. He began his journey in Ultrasound in residency in Houston, Texas, but realized its true potential as a clinical tool while working in the Eastern Province of Rwanda. He hopes through GUSI to help train clinicians in similar practice settings how to utilize this incredible tool to enhance their clinical practices
    Dr. Samuel (Sam for short) is most experienced in using ultrasound in the inpatient setting for acutely ill patients. Still, he continues to find joy in expanding his skills in ultrasound in different areas. Ultrasound is one of his many academic and clinical interests, which include clinical education, QI, and implementation science.

    Santiago Beltramino

    GUSI Instructor

    Specialist in Internal Medicine and Critical Care

    Critical Care Unit Chief – Institute of Transplantation and High Complexity (ITAC), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Dr. Beltramino is a physician from Buenos Aires, Argentina, specializing in Internal Medicine and Critical Care. He completed medical school at Universidad Nacional de Rosario in 2007, followed by an Internal Medicine residency at the Alfredo Lanari Institute of Medical Research (UBA) in 2012 and a Critical Care Medicine specialization at UBA (2013). He later completed a Renal Transplant Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic (2022).

    Since 2015, he has led the Intensive Care Unit at ITAC, a leading transplant center in Argentina, where he coordinates a multidisciplinary team focused on critically ill immunosuppressed patients, including transplant recipients, oncohematologic patients, and patients with cirrhosis. Additionally, he trains 20 physicians annually in critical care for immunosuppressed patients.

    Dr. Beltramino actively integrates Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) into daily clinical practice and has taught POCUS courses to both residents and practicing physicians, particularly for emergency medicine, nephrology, and critical care applications. He has trained numerous physicians in ultrasound-guided management of shock, renal failure, and transplant complications.

    His research includes publications in PubMed-indexed journals and conference presentations on topics such as COVID-19 in transplant patients, post-transplant tuberculosis, and venous congestion in kidney transplantation. He was awarded the Florencio Fiorini Research Grant for innovative projects.

    He also maintains a private practice in Buenos Aires and collaborates with the Argentine Society of Hepatology.

    Sara Scott

    GUSI Instructor

    Sara Scott, MD attended medical school at the University of Michigan and completed her family medicine residency at The Ohio State University. She began using point-of-care ultrasound during a global health fellowship through the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency in California and went on to use and teach ultrasound extensively while living in Malawi with the HEAL Fellowship. She views POCUS as a powerful tool for empowering health care workers in under-resourced settings, improving access to care, and strengthening connection with patients. Outside of medicine, she enjoys hiking, running, and playing ultimate frisbee.

    Sarah Bain

    GUSI Instructor

    Sarah Bain, MD, FCCM, FASA, is a board-certified cardiothoracic anesthesiologist and critical care intensivist. She attended medical school at George Washington School of Medicine in DC and completed her residency and two fellowships at Stanford University. She is an NBE Diplomate in transesophageal echocardiography and a Testamur in critical care echocardiography. She has been a member of the SCCM Ultrasound Committee and faculty at the SCCM Ultrasound course since 2017, serving as Vice Chair (2022–2023) and Chair (2023–2024). She has been a faculty teacher and lecturer for the SCCM, ATS, ASE, and WSSA societies and is currently the co-editor of the 3rd Edition of SCCM’s Critical Care Ultrasound textbook.

    Since 2017, she has been Academic Faculty at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. Her hospital leadership roles have included Associate Program Director of the Anesthesia Residency, Division Chief of Cardiothoracic and Structural Heart Anesthesia, and elected medical staff representative on the Medical Executive Committee. She is now the Hospital Director of Point-of-Care Ultrasound and Chair of the Hospital POCUS Committee.

    She lives in Seattle with her husband and two sons. In her spare time, she is an avid athlete, painter, and book lover.

    Sarah Shihadeh

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Sarah Shihadeh is a Hospitalist and a Medical Director at Hackensack Meridian Health-Mountainside. She is a former Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System. Dr. Shihadeh’s first encounter with POCUS was at a refugee camp in Jordan, where as a resident with minimal Ultrasound Skills, she helped a nephrologist diagnose a child with Polycystic Kidney Disease, possibly saving her life. From that day onwards, Dr. Shihadeh dedicated all her free time to learn POCUS. After a few short years, she started teaching ultrasound at her institution and quickly earned a reputation for her excellent Ultrasound teaching skills. Dr. Shihadeh was the POCUS chair at the Mount Sinai Health System. Her work at that role secured a large budget to train the Hospitalist Division. She co-directed the MSH Ultrasound course and is still faculty at the course after her departure from Mt. Sinai. Dr. Shihadeh teaches ultrasound locally and internationally. She also runs a POCUS elective for IM residents. While Dr.Shihadeh does not believe POCUS will replace the stethoscope or the physical exam, she firmly believes that it improves patient care and reduces waste

    Scott Grogan

    GUSI Instructor

    Scott Grogan, DO, MBA, RMSK, FAAFP is a 2005 graduate of Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and a 2008 Family Medicine Residency graduate from Madigan Army Medical Center, in Tacoma, WA. He has completed a Faculty Development and Leadership Fellowship as well as an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship in the U.S. Army. He also earned his Masters in Business Administration from Pacific Lutheran University before spending four years as a Family Medicine Residency Director. On active duty he deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and in support of domestic COVID-19 relief. He has held bedside ultrasound privileges since 2016 and has been teaching and leading POCUS efforts since then with emphases on musculoskeletal, inpatient, and critical care applications. He currently holds certification from the Alliance for Physician Certification & Advancement (APCA) in musculoskeletal ultrasound (RMSK). He has led local, regional, and national hands-on POCUS workshops, including virtual skills development conferences during the COVID-19 pandemic peak. He has lectured on POCUS efforts at all levels and has multiple POCUS publications in both non-peer-reviewed and peer-reviewed sources. He has served as the Vice Chair and the Co-Chair for the American Academy of Family Physicians Member Interest Group and is the founding Co-Chair of the Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians POCUS Subcommittee. He has also worked as the subject matter expert to integrate POCUS with electronic health records across the Military Health System. When not combining his love of teaching and clinical ultrasound he spends his time snowboarding, biking, hiking, or fishing, usually with all his kids in tow.

    Scott Rogers

    GUSI Instructor

    Scott Rogers BSc, MSc, is a Sonographer having trained in Diagnostic medical imaging at St. George’s Medical School London followed by an MSc in Medical Ultrasound at the University of the West of England. Scott has been scanning for many years, working in both the NHS and private sector in general abdominal, urology, gynaecology and musculoskeletal ultrasound. Scott has a passion for teaching and has trained numerous candidates from various universities and hospitals and is enthusiastic for the benefits POCUS brings to healthcare.

    Scott was born in Cornwall, UK but grew up on the west coast of Canada. He has since returned to Cornwall where he lives by the sea with his family. When he is not organising study days or preparing university lectures, Scott enjoys a quiet glass of wine and good jazz.

    Sebastian Schoneich

    GUSI Instructor

    Sebastian is a family physician from Lawrence, Kansas. Following residency training at the University of Michigan, he completed a novel Advanced Primary Care POCUS fellowship at UM in the departments of Family and Emergency Medicine with a focus on reducing barriers to care in limited resource primary care settings. He has experience in limited resource settings in urban Kansas City, rural Zambia, and the NE New Mexico wilderness. He currently works with Arc Health providing acute and primary care to tribal communities in rural NW New Mexico where POCUS is indispensable.

    Shaik Farid Abdull Wahab

    GUSI Instructor

    Shane Kinard

    GUSI Instructor

    Shane Kinard, MD, FACP, practices hospital medicine at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, the academic center for Pennsylvania State Health in south central Pennsylvania. He is co-director for the Internal Medicine Residency Point of Care Ultrasound program, which offers weekly POCUS rounds on inpatients and bimonthly didactics on basic inpatient diagnostic ultrasound modalities as well as a “POCUS FOCUS” pathway for two residents annually seeking a more rigorous exposure. He uses POCUS primarily on the IM consult service for procedural guidance, but also for diagnostics for stable and unstable patients when responding to consults and the hospital rapid response team. He is an assistant director for the Medical Emergency Team, which coveres rapid responses and code blues outside the ICU setting. Outside of work, he enjoys travelling with his wife and twin sons, running, baking, and listening to audiobooks on a variety of topics.

    Shane Murphy

    GUSI Instructor

    Shane Murphy is a Family Physician currently based in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. He holds postgraduate diplomas in HIV medicine and primary emergency care, as well as an MPH(Roehampton) and MMed (Wits). However, it was during the pursuit of his higher diploma in emergency medicine that he met local PoCUS enthusiasts and swiftly joined the flock. He is an accredited instructor for Emergency Ultrasound through the Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa.

    Dr Murphy is passionate about PoCUS and democratising healthcare education for rural and primary care practitioners. He is currently driving the establishment of a PoCUS curriculum for general practitioners through the South African Academy of Family Physicians in collaboration with GUSI. Don’t wait, insonate!

    Sheila Ayesa Masheti

    GUSI Instructor

    I am a dedicated nurse, KRCHN (Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse)/BScN with 11 years’ nursing experience. I have been involved in setting up and implementation of community projects to provide disseminated care model to patients. I am passionate about research and continued education to enable evidence based practices in resource limited populations. I have successfully coordinated research activities in the IMPALA 2 Project (International Multidisciplinary Programme to Adress Lung health and TB in Africa) at Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Respiratory Disease Research (KEMRI CRDR) / Kenyatta National Hospital on POCUS, and successfully put together two POCUS trainings in Nairobi using the Train the Trainer (ToT) model. Other previous experiences include clinical trial nurse-KEMRI between 2020 and 2021; University of Maryland Baltimore-Partnership for Advanced Care and Treatment (PACT) Endeleza project, December 2017-June 2019; and Clinical Nurse-MSF Belgium Kibera project, May 2013-December 2016.

    Shima Mohammed Ibrahim

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Shima Mohammed Ibrahim is an Obstetrician and Gynecologist. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree from the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Aden, Yemen. From 2005 to 2013, she served as a resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and later earned her Master’s degree in the specialty from the Yemen Medical Council for Medical Specialties.

    During her residency, Dr. Shima completed an Ultrasound Course in Obstetrics and Gynecology. In the following years, she received training as a POCUS (Point-of-Care Ultrasound) Trainer and has since trained several midwives and physicians in the field.

    Dr. Shima takes pride in being one of the POCUS trainers in Yemen. She strongly believes that the widespread use of POCUS will play a vital role in reducing maternal and fetal complications, improving healthcare outcomes, and lowering maternal and fetal mortality rates across the country.

    Simon Hayward

    GUSI Instructor

    Simon Hayward BSc (Hons) PGCert MCSP is a Physiotherapist/Physical Therapist (PT) in Diagnostic Thoracic Ultrasound (TUS) at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Research Fellow (Coventry University) in the United Kingdom (U.K.). He studied Physiology (BSc Hons) at Kings College London followed by Physiotherapy (BSc Hons) at Manchester Metropolitan University, qualifying in 2006. In 2022 he completed a PGCert in Medical Education at the University on Central Lancashire.

    Simon’s experience has been in the National Health Service (NHS), primarily within respiratory and critical care services where he has been using TUS to inform his clinical practice since 2013. In 2016 he initiated a TUS training programme aimed primarily at PTs. To date over 300 PTs have attended his introduction to Thoracic Ultrasound course with more than 70 having gained their TUS accreditation within the U.K.

    Simon considers himself an early career researcher and has published numerous studies and reviews around TUS. Most recently he has contributed to national PT TUS guidelines and co-developed a framework for TUS education, governance, and scope of practice. He has published qualitative work on the barriers to PT TUS adoption and implementation. He has also been invited to speak and present on TUS at numerous national and international conferences and is considered the leading authority on physiotherapy-initiated TUS within the UK.

    In 2018 Simon was invited to join the Focused Ultrasound Intensive Care (FUSIC) committee, part of the Intensive Care Society (ICS) in the U.K., which is responsible for accrediting clinicians in TUS.

    Simone Melai

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Simone Melai MD

    General Practitioner | POCUS Trainer | Expert in Generalist Ultrasound and Eco-Color Doppler

    Dr. Simone Melai works in Cerreto Guidi (Florence) as a General Practitioner.

    Over the years, he has developed solid experience in POCUS, now part of his daily work in the Generalist field, with skills also in eco-color doppler.

    He is convinced that a medical examination in 2025 should often be eco-assisted with an overall view of individual imaging findings.

    He believes that sharing his experience with other colleagues is a fundamental part of his work. For several years, he has been a lecturer in the Ecos-Pocus cycle and has participated as a trainer in other POCUS training courses.

    Smita Sinha

    GUSI Instructor

    Smita Sinha Kumar, MD, is a PGY2 at Institute for Family Health, Kingston, NY. Dr. Sinha (her preferred name) graduated from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India with a Masters’ degree in Obstetrics and Gynecology. After graduation she joined as a faculty and provider at Manipal Teaching Hospital in Pokhara, Nepal. That one year working with underserved, low resource setting in a picturesque idyllic location shaped her next career choices. Dr. Sinha realized the value of her service and deeply felt the unmet requirements of marginalized communities. She then joined a teaching university hospital in rural Punjab, India where she established the first low-cost fertility service and brought minimally invasive surgery to the area. She established residency training program in ObGyn and taught medical students. She then moved on to USA with a scholarship to study MBA Healthcare at Clarkson University, NY where she graduated with the Joseph Finkelstein Award 2020 for academic excellence and cross-cultural understanding. She worked as Project Manager in upstate NY before being drawn back to patient care when she joined Family Medicine Residency.

    Dr. Sinha was awarded the AAFP Foundation, Family Medicine Leads Emerging Leader Institute Scholarship award 2022 and participated in a longitudinal leadership training program and wrote a curriculum in reproductive health to help enhance in office comprehensive care of
    persons assigned female sex at birth. Recognizing the value POCUS can bring to primary care, she is championing resident training at her residency program. She is working with the GUSI team to boost POCUS in primary care. She believes in advocating for her patients and was recently in Capitol Hill lobbying Congress to support Teaching Health Centers with increasing grants to keep afloat their service in high need, underserved areas typically served by these programs. She looks forward to continuing to serve, learn and improve everyday.

    Stanislav Kravchuk

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Stanislav Kravchuk is an internist in Ukraine at a district hospital. He graduated from Bogomolets National Medical University in Kyiv in 2019, did residency in internal medicine and recently completed a fellowship in gastroenterology.

    During medical school he was a vice-president of Ukrainian Medical Students’ Association and actively promoted globalization of medical education by organizing international student’s medical exchanges programs. His ultrasound experience started in 2021 after primary medicine internship in rural area with Dr. Vadym Vus. Later this year together with a team of young physicians they did several POCUS-trainings and eventually created in 2022 the FOCUS-POCUS team to share essential knowledge about ultrasound clinical potential among Ukrainian medical society.

    After beginning of Russian invasion in Ukraine, Dr. Kravchuk moved to the West of Ukraine and taught civils and territorial defense troops tactical medicine.

    Now, he is working as an emergency doctor where use POCUS in every day’s practice. He is eager to make POCUS a basic skill for Ukrainian civil and military medical specialists.

    Stefano Zito

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Stefano Zito is an Emergency Medicine physician in Italy in a Regional Trauma Center Hospital. He completed medical school in 2013, did residency in internal medicine and completed a fellowship in Geriatrics. He worked as a Hospitalist and then found his calling in the emergency department. His Ultrasound experience started in 2015 when he completed a Masters in Abdominal Ultrasound; afterwards, he added all the others modules to complete his POCUS background. Ever since, ultrasound has been a foundational part of his daily work.

    Stefano is now on his third long-term mission with Doctors Without Borders, the organization through which he became a POCUS expert, member of the international telemedicine platform, and Trainer, with special competency in FASH (HIV/TB ultrasound). At the beginning of the Covid pandemic, he worked as an Emergency Room clinical coordinator in his hospital and taught a special unit of Family Medicine on lung ultrasound focused on COVID pneumonia.

    Stephen Erickson

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Erickson completed medical school at the University of Minnesota, followed by family medicine training at Tacoma Family Medicine in Washington state. He has spent his career practicing rural, full-spectrum family medicine including point of care ultrasound, operative obstetrics, and GI endoscopy. He has previously taught in a variety of settings including precepting medical student and resident rural rotations, a temporary family medicine residency faculty position in Greeley, CO, and teaching office procedure CME courses through the National Procedures Institute.

    He is an avid user of POCUS in his own busy clinical practice, and an enthusiastic advocate for colleagues seeking to add POCUS to theirs. He helped develop and implement multi-specialty POCUS training, credentialling, and quality assurance pathways at his health system.

    When not scanning, he enjoys sailing, travelling, and a broad array of outdoor activities.

    Stephen Ramsey

    GUSI Instructor
    Stephen Ramsey graduated from Medical College of Georgia’s DPT program in 2014. He began work initially at University Hospital in Augusta GA in the CVICU, but quickly transitioned to Piedmont Atlanta Hospital, in Atlanta, GA in 2015. Stephen completed the Cardiovascular and pulmonary Residency program through Mercer University in July 2016 and achieved board certification in Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical therapy in 2017. Stephen works full time clinically in the cardiac ICUs, primarily with patients on temporary mechanical circulatory support devices. He is the Residency coordinator for the Mercer-Piedmont CVP Residency Program and serves as the clinical coordinator for the critical care PT/OT staff at Piedmont. He is adjunct faculty at Mercer University where he teaches the entry level Cardiovascular and pulmonary content. Stephen also assists with Diagnostic Ultrasound Education for the Mercer Physician Assistant Program. His areas of research include mobilizing patients with femorally placed mechanical circulatory support devices, and the use of diagnostic ultrasound in PT practice.

    Svetlana Zakharchenko

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Zakharchenko is a board-certified emergency physician who has completed an ultrasound fellowship at NYU/Bellevue. She has led an ultrasound division at the Hackensack University Medical Center as a director from 2013-2021. Throughout her career, she has trained hundreds of residents and attendings on proper POCUS, as well as built an ultrasound medical school curriculum at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. She developed and implemented a sophisticated institutional infrastructure for POCUS utilization and departmental reimbursement. Dr. Zakharchenko has additionally taught critical care ultrasound workshops at PA-CUSP, INDUS-EM and worked with the ministries of health in Ghana and Rwanda on building most effective approaches to ultrasound education for clinicians. She is a founder of FOCUS Ultrasound Solutions, a consulting company designed to meet community hospitals’ infrastructural and educational POCUS needs. She is passionate about improving quality of care through this life-saving technology. In her free time, Dr. Zakharchenko powerlifts, spends time with her two sons, and volunteers locally and internationally.

    Tahani Salaeh Abdo Mohamed

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Tahani Salaeh Abdo Mohamed is a highly experienced Obstetrician and Gynecologist with over 20 years of dedicated service in maternal and women’s health. She obtained her Bachelor of General Medicine and Surgery (2003) and Master’s degree in Obstetrics and Gynecology (2008) from the University of Aden.

    Throughout her career, Dr. Tahani has served in several prominent hospitals in Aden, including Al Sadaqa Hospital, Al Wali Hospital, Al Sha’ab Hospital, and the Obstetric Emergency Center in Al-Tawahi.

    She has also completed specialized training in obstetric emergency and neonatal care, diabetes prevention, and mental health resilience for frontline health workers, further enhancing her expertise and commitment to improving women’s health outcomes.

    Tanping Wong

    GUSI Instructor

    Tanping Wong MD completed her Internal Medicine Residency training at New York University and worked for many years at Bellevue Hospital serving the immigrant population of New York City. She is currently a practicing hospitalist at New York Presbyterian Hospital working with residents and students at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Wong oversees the point-of-care program at Weill Cornell for internal medicine residents. She is also the program director for the Point-of-Care Ultrasound Fellowship at Cornell as well as the course director for Cornell’s 5-day POCUS class. Dr. Wong is passionate about learning and teaching POCUS and all the possibilities that POCUS provides.

    Tanveer Hassam

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Hassam is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician with fellowship training in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). After completing Internal Medicine residency at New-York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Dr. Hassam pursued fellowship training in ultrasound at Weill Cornell Medicine. During her fellowship, she led the pocus elective for internal medicine residents and has taught at several regional conferences. She holds testamur status in critical care echocardiography (CCEeXAM) and is certified in point of care ultrasound by the SHM-CHEST. Originally from Tanzania, she is passionate about POCUS education and expanding this skill globally and hopes to explore the applicability of teleultrasound. Dr. Hassam is a certified Yoga Instructor and enjoys teaching Hatha and Vinyasa yoga in her free time.

    Taylor Amburgy

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Amburgy is a resident at McLaren St. Luke’s Family Medicine Residency. He completed medical school training at New York Institute of Technology School of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University. Dr. Amburgy’s focus of learning POCUS and teaching others is to continue facilitating a wave of understanding that POCUS can be part of the solution to inefficiencies in the United States medical system and bridging gaps to medical care in low resource areas. He has the desire to give patients the most comprehensive care at the time of their appointment and believes in the near future it will be almost expected of physicians to have POCUS available. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with family, friends, weight training, and traveling. He recently visited Yosemite and Grand Canyon National Park’s enjoying time away in nature.

    Temesgen Beyene Abicho

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Temesgen Beyene (MD) is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Consultant in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the College of Health Sciences, Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, and Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He is an international fellow at Institute for Healthcare Improvement focused on Quality, Process Improvement, and Safety of Patients through POCUS utilization. He is the current POCUS lead at his department establishing first ever East African POCUS fellowship training through his existing POCUS collaboration from Toronto Addis Ababa Academic
    Collaboration in Emergency Medicine.

    He was the recipient of Developing Countries POCUS Educator Scholar from Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Groups of Australia and trained on Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound course. He worked as a postgraduate director at the Department of Emergency Medicine from 2018 to 2022 transitioning to chair his department. He finished the Ultrasound Leadership Academy Fellowship with Honors in EM Ultrasound under Ultrasound Leadership Academy.

    He has been teaching POCUS to both undergraduate and postgraduate medical students since 2018. He has organized POCUS workshops in contextualized echo-guided life support, upper airway POCUS ultrasound, and critical care cardiac ultrasound in Ethiopia through his department and the Ethiopian Society of Emergency Professionals. His work focuses on teaching, clinical care, and clinical research.

    He is professionally certified by Harvard Medical School in the Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program Clinical Trial Concentration in 2017. He is an academician, leader, and advocate of emergency and critical care in treating patients at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Teaching Hospital (the largest tertiary care hospital in Ethiopia). He has extensive experience in international conference presentations, chairing conferences, moderating sessions and peer-reviewed publications.

    Currently he is very passionate in spreading POCUS teaching anywhere to anyone at any time.

    Terri Tang

    GUSI Instructor
    Terri was born in Wuhan, China and grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She went to Arizona State University for undergrad majoring in Biological Sciences with a minor in Chinese language. After undergrad, she completed a master’s in the Science of Healthcare Delivery at ASU before attending the University of Arizona for medical school. Her first time in the Bay was coming to UCSF for residency where she is currently doing an Ultrasound fellowship. Outside of work, Terri is an avid Costco lover and plans to eat her way through the City. Her cats back home in Arizona are Donggua and Sagua named after the PBS cartoon “Sagwa the Siamese Cat”. Please let her know if you need a catsitter!

    Thomas Betjeman

    GUSI Instructor

    Thomas Betjeman, MD is a family physician by training who currently works at Presbyterian hospitals both as a hospitalist and an ED physician. He completed medical school at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, residency at the University of New Mexico rural program in Santa Fe, and completed a fellowship in Global Health at UCSF Contra Costa in California.

    He currently works half-time as a hospitalist at Socorro General Hospital, where he is also the Med/Peds director and Chief of Staff, and covers emergency department shifts at the Presbyterian facilities in Albuquerque on a PRN basis. He is also the medical director for the NRAO Very Large Array EMS service.

    Originally from New York, he came to New Mexico after living many years living and working abroad (including Mali, Indonesia, Malawi, and Peru), primarily following the gravity of rural medicine, multicultural living, and the great outdoors.

    He is an avid explorer, snowboarder, mountain biker, rock climber, and surfer.

    Thomas Robertson

    GUSI Instructor

    Thomas Robertson, MD, FACP, is an Internal Medicine physician, Associate Professor of Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine, Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency, and Director of Ultrasound Education at Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, PA. He completed a Global Health and Underserved Populations residency and his work now focuses on medical education and care for underserved populations. He practices in a mix of outpatient and inpatient settings, and created and directs POCUS education for the internal medicine residents, faculty, and medical students at AHN. Additionally, he works internationally enhancing medical educational partnerships, commonly through POCUS. He has taught POCUS at numerous national and international conferences and has a genuine passion for medical education. POCUS enhances so many aspects of medical care and brings a newfound joy to the practice of medicine. He is so excited to help educate learners from any background grow their POCUS skills! Otherwise, his true joy comes from being a husband and father, as well as playing any and all sports.

    Tiffany Huang

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Tiffany Huang is a recent graduate of point-of-care ultrasound fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. She will be starting soon as a family physician at Esperanza Health Center, a federally qualified health center in North Philadelphia serving a primarily Spanish-speaking population. Previously, she completed Family Medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. She believes that POCUS has the potential to improve patient outcomes, enhance the doctor-patient relationship, and even possibly decrease healthcare costs. She is especially interested in the impact POCUS can have system-wide in an underserved community. At her upcoming position at Esperanza Health Center, she will be working to create an ultrasound program to hopefully bring POCUS to a traditionally underserved patient population and support the education of clinic staff in a primary care setting.

    Timothy Kennell Jr.

    GUSI Instructor

    Timothy Kennell is currently a Pulmonary and Critical Care fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed medical school, his doctoral thesis in clinical informatics, and residency at the same institution. During his time as a resident, he developed a passion for POCUS and its ability to provide immediate diagnostic information in order to assist in clinical decision-making. In the last year of residency, he served as one of two POCUS scholars for his residency program, engaging in ultrasound teaching and research. Transitioning to fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine, POCUS now serves as a foundational skill, providing crucial data for rapid life-saving decisions. He has remained engaged in POCUS research and resident teaching throughout fellowship and plans to become critical care ultrasound boarded in the coming year.

    Tommaso Barnini

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Tommaso Barnini, MD
    General Practitioner | POCUS Trainer | Expert in Musculoskeletal and General Ultrasound

    Dr. Tommaso Barnini is a general practitioner based in Florence, with over ten years of experience in primary care and out-of-hours medical services. Over the years, he has developed strong expertise in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), with a particular focus on musculoskeletal and general applications.

    He teaches in several POCUS training courses across Italy, including the ECOS POCUS series, where he is involved in both theoretical instruction and hands-on practical training. He is passionate about integrating ultrasound into daily clinical practice as a key tool for rapid and effective diagnosis.

    His commitment to ongoing medical education is also reflected in his support for fellow doctors and healthcare professionals in acquiring ultrasound skills, with the goal of improving the quality of care through a more informed and patient-centered approach.

    Tommaso Gistri

    GUSI Instructor

    General Practitioner | SIUMB Lecturer of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

    Dr. Tommaso Gistri works as a General Practitioner in Viareggio (LU), with over ten years of experience in Primary Care and Continuity of Care services. Over the years, he has learned ultrasound by attending numerous SIUMB courses in musculoskeletal, internal medicine, and vascular fields.

    He teaches at the SIUMB School of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound ECOMSKBO in Bologna. He uses ultrasound daily in his General Practice office, where he performs point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to make more precise diagnoses and autonomously follow patients with chronic problems requiring ultrasound follow-up.

    Víctor Barreales

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Víctor Barreales Rodríguez, médico especialista en Medicina Interna.
    Miembro de la Unidad de ecografía clínica de Medicina Interna en el Complejo
    Asistencial Universitario de León y del grupo de trabajo de ecografía de la
    Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna.
    Además de su labor asistencial en el hospital, Víctor es el encargado de
    ecocardiografía del servicio de Medicina Interna tanto en el Hospital de León
    como en el Hospital Monte San Isidro.
    Ha impartido varios cursos de formación en ecografía clínica a médicos
    residentes y adjuntos de varios hospitales de Castilla y León.
    Víctor nació en León, estudió medicina en la Universidad de Valladolid y se
    especializó en Medicina Interna en el Complejo Asistencial Universitario de
    Salamanca. Se formó en ecografía clínica en el Hospital Universitario Infanta
    Leonor en Madrid, aplicando lo aprendido allí en los hospitales donde ha
    trabajado posteriormente.
    Una vez terminada la especialidad de Medicina Interna ha trabajado en los
    hospitales de León, El Bierzo y Hospital Monte San Isidro.
    Actualmente Víctor se encuentra cursando el máster oficial de Ecografía Clínica
    de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

    Victor Vaz

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Victor Vaz is a PGY-3 Internal Medicine resident at Mount Auburn Hospital, a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School, and an incoming Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) fellow at Yale University.

    After graduating from Faculdade Ciências Médicas De Minas Gerais in Brazil, Dr. Vaz completed a two-year research fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, focusing on thoracic malignancies. His work has led to numerous peer-reviewed publications, over 800 citations, and an h-index of 11.

    During his residency, Dr. Vaz embraced the transformative potential of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS), particularly in critical care. He recognized its ability to address healthcare disparities by enabling quick assessments and timely interventions, especially in underserved areas. He developed a POCUS curriculum for his residency program and nursing staff, aiming to improve patient outcomes.

    Dr. Vaz is deeply committed to advancing medical education, particularly through the integration of POCUS, and remains focused on bridging healthcare gaps. As he begins his PCCM fellowship at Yale, he continues to work on initiatives to improve accessibility and quality of care, particularly in global underserved populations.

    Viveta Lobo

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Viveta Lobo is an academic emergency physician who serves as the Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Program and Co-Director of the System-wide POCUS program at Stanford Health Care. She directs multiple courses within the medical school relating to point-of-care ultrasound and resuscitative care. Her research involves the study of various point-of-care ultrasound applications, especially in the management of critical care patients. Dr. Lobo has led several successful educational innovations in emergency ultrasound including at various CME workshops nationally, ACEP meetings, and internationally. She has co-directed UltraFest, a free national medical student ultrasound symposium at Stanford.

    Werlley Januzzi

    GUSI Instructor

    Werlley Januzzi MD holds the title of Cardiologist from the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. He is a physician at the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit of the Heart Institute of the University of São Paulo (InCorFMUSP), and Chief of the Emergency Division at Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual, where he also works as a medical educator and medical residency leader. He is an Ultrasound Instructor at Cedep-Iamspe (Educational Center for Professional Development) and serves as an emergency ultrasound specialist. Currently, he is developing a research line in Pocus Ultrasound in acute settings and sudden cardiac arrest.

    Will Dixon

    GUSI Instructor

    Will is core faculty with the Brown Family Medicine Residency program, and medical director of the Family Care Center in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He has been using and teaching POCUS since 2016. He completed a GUSI training in 2020, and did an Ultrasound for Midwives course in obstetric ultrasound. In his previous role as Associate Program Director at The National Family Medicine Residency Program in Washington, DC, he developed and administered a 12-module POCUS curriculum.

    Ximena Wortsman

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Ximena Wortsman is a radiologist and was the founding Chair of the dermatologic ultrasound community at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), which is the scientific organization in charge of education and accreditation of ultrasound in the USA. She has received the category of a fellow member of AIUM that recognizes individuals who have substantially contributed in a most distinguished fashion to the field of ultrasound.

    She has more than 170 publications, including two books on dermatologic ultrasound, “Dermatologic Ultrasound with Clinical and Histologic Correlations” and the “Atlas of Dermatologic Ultrasound.”

    She serves in the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Academy International (JAADi) and the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. Additionally, she is a reviewer for several scientific journals. Dr. Wortsman is a member of several scientific societies in the dermatologic, radiologic, and ultrasound fields.

    She is the medical director of the Institute for Diagnostic Imaging and Research of the Skin and Soft Tissues in Santiago, Chile, and an adjunct professor in the Departments of Dermatology at the University of Chile and Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago, Chile.

    Her research comprises a wide field of applications of ultrasound in dermatology, particularly the ultrasonographic early detection and characterization of common dermatologic conditions. Nowadays, her practice is fully dedicated to performing dermatologic ultrasound examinations and research on this field.

    Yannick Ndefo

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Yannick Ndefo is a general practitioner from Cameroon. He received his degree from the esteemed Université des Montagnes in Bagante, West Cameroon. After completing his medical education in 2018, he joined the Kangaroo Foundation for a UNICEF initiative that aims to use the Kangaroo approach to increase preterm babies’ survival rates. This project was carried out in the eastern region of Cameroon, which is heavily affected by both the poverty and the conflict in the neighboring country. He began learning about obstetric ultrasound as a self-taught sonographer to identify high-risk pregnancies in an effort to enhance pregnancy outcomes. In his hunt for information on ultrasonography, he came across Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) via the Canadian website EDE (Emergency Department Echography), and he got in touch with the company.

    Dr. Yannick has been offering free POCUS courses in his nation while attending numerous national and international conferences. As a POCUS Ambassador for Cameroon and Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, and a pioneer in the use of POCUS in environments with limited resources, he seeks to establish a local POCUS group of local experts.

    Yiju Teresa Liu

    GUSI Instructor

    Yiju Teresa Liu, MD, AEMUS-FPD is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at UCLA and practices at Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She is the hospital-wide POCUS committee chair, directs the POCUS fellowship for Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine graduates, and runs ultrasound rotations for family medicine residents, pediatric subspecialty fellows, and emergency medicine residents.

    Dr. Liu completed an ultrasound fellowship in 2008 and has since co-founded SonoGames (SAEM) and SonoSlam (AIUM), directed ultrasound fellowships for emergency physicians and pediatricians, designed and implemented longitudinal medical school POCUS curriculum, and ran POCUS CME courses for APPs and primary care physicians. Dr. Liu has been active nationally and served as President of the Academy of Emergency Ultrasound for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, as Board Member for the Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships, and as Founding Board Member for Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Accreditation Council. She continues to teach POCUS nationally and internationally to emergency physicians, internists, pediatricians, midwives, and advanced practice clinicians.

    Yuka Uruma

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Yuka Uruma is a physician with a strong passion for global health and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) education. She completed her medical degree at Nagoya City University and her foundation training at Wakkanai City Hospital in Japan, where she gained broad clinical experience. She is also registered with GMC (General Medical Council) in United Kingdom.

    Dr. Uruma has extensive experience teaching POCUS across Japan, serving as an instructor at national conferences and workshops including the Japanese Association for Home Care Medicine, the Family Medicine Winter Seminar, and the Hokkaido Primary Forum. She also led the Asahikawa Medical University Student POCUS League, training medical students in ultrasound technique and clinical application.

    Her global health activities include volunteering in medical camps and providing ultrasound education in Kenya, reflecting her dedication to improving healthcare access and training worldwide. Skilled in echocardiography as well as abdominal, lung, and musculoskeletal ultrasound, Dr. Uruma integrates practical diagnostic imaging into clinical and educational settings.

    Dr. Uruma is committed to advancing the use of ultrasound in primary care and fostering international collaboration in medical education.

     

    Zena Jerop

    GUSI Instructor

    Zena Jerop is a skilled Clinical Officer with over three years of experience in providing comprehensive healthcare services. She completed her clinical medicine education at the Kenya Medical Training College (Kakamega KMTC), where she earned her Clinical Officer diploma. Zena has further enhanced her expertise with certifications in point-of-care testing and clinical diagnostics.

    Throughout her career, Zena has developed a deep understanding of patient care, emergency response, and medical training. Driven by a passion for improving healthcare outcomes, particularly in underserved areas, she has specialized in point-of-care testing and training. Zena firmly believes that empowering healthcare workers with the skills to perform point-of-care testing not only improves patient care but also reduces diagnostic delays, ultimately saving lives. She is also a strong advocate for the integration of digital health tools, which she believes can further support healthcare professionals in delivering efficient and accurate diagnoses in real time.

    Aaron Inouye

    GUSI Instructor

    Aaron Inouye has working in emergency medicine since graduating from Pacific University’s Physician Assistant program in 2016; in addition to his clinical work he recently accepted a position Assistant Professor at Colorado Mesa University. He completed a fellowship in point-of-care ultrasound and teaches ultrasound to students, PAs, NPs, and physicians across the country. Aaron is on the board of directors for the Society of Point of Care Ultrasound and a member of ACEP’s Ultrasound Subcommittee for APPs. Excited about all things ultrasound, Aaron is especially interested in developing effective training programs, both for practicing clinicians and for students. Outside of work, Aaron enjoys going up and down mountains on his bike and skis, preferably while chasing his son and his dog.

    Abby Chua

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Abby Chua grew up in New Jersey and for five years worked in refugee relief for the International Rescue Committee’s Health Technical Unit serving in missions in Africa, Central Europe, and on the Thai-Burma border. She earned her Masters in Public Health from Columbia University, but during her Masters work grew more interested in patients than in data analysis. She went on to complete her medical school training at the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her internal medicine residency and fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center where she received formal ultrasound training. She has been teaching ultrasound since 2008 and earned an award for her resident teaching. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at SUNY Stony Brook University Hospital where she tells house staff and her medical students she has forgotten how to examine patients without an ultrasound. Her passions are medical education, utilizing data to effect broad clinical change, and her toddler.

    Abdolghader Pakniyat

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Abdolghader Pakniyat is an Emergency Medicine specialist based in Dubai. He is European Board–certified in Emergency Medicine (EBEEM) and holds ARDMS credentials in ultrasound (RDMS-Abdomen). His clinical focus includes critical care and trauma, where he effectively implements Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) across various critical scenarios such as trauma, shock, critical care, and emergency medicine. Dr. Pakniyat has also made significant contributions to POCUS education and research.

    Abiola Fasina

    GUSI Instructor

    Abiola Fasina, MD, MSHP, DTM&H, FMCEM is an emergency critical physician and a health policy consultant based in Lagos, Nigeria. Dr. Fasina completed her training in emergency medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. After several years of practice, she then completed a two-year fellowship in emergency point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and a Masters in Health Policy Research (MSHP) at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Fasina is actively involved in emergency medicine care development and POCUS education in Nigeria and practices clinical emergency and critical care medicine. She is an active board member and fellow of the Faculty of Emergency Medicine at the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, inaugurated in 2019.

    Her work has focused on capacity building of emergency health systems in low and middle-income African countries around POCUS and medical technology. She has worked in Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar and has extensive international experience. She is the medical director and CEO of Emergency Healthcare Consultants (EHCON), a healthcare consulting company focused on capacity building and training in emergency medicine and critical care. EHCON has managed several medical facilities particularly, in the era of COVID-19 including the Eti-Osa COVID-19 Isolation and Treatment Centre that was located at Landmark in Victoria Island, Lagos and the VEDIC COVID-19 Hospital in Lekki. EHCON runs the West Africa SonoXpert Academy with Sonosite/Fujifilm focused on POCUS education and training. Dr. Fasina is also the Chief Medical Officer / Consultant Emergency Physician at R-Jolad Hospital, Lagos Nigeria

    Adam Rothman

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Adam Rothman is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a pulmonary and critical care physician based at Mount Sinai West in New York City. He first developed a passion for point-of-care ultrasound and medical education during his fellowship training, where he participated in a medical education track and devised several simulation center-based projects involving bedside ultrasound and ultrasound-based procedures. An attending physician since 2019, Dr. Rothman became an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Mount Sinai Morningside/West in April 2021. In this capacity, he has been tasked with implementing a comprehensive point-of-care ultrasound curriculum (consisting of a longitudinal lecture series, simulation-based training, and a two-week elective for hands-on training), to achieve basic knowledge and competency in POCUS for over 225 residents. Dr. Rothman continues to have a passion for POCUS, medication education, and simulation training and has been honored to teach and speak at regional and national conferences about his POCUS experiences.

    Adjoa Boatemaa Bonsu

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Adjoa Boatemaa Bonsu is a radiology resident at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana. Her professional background spans diagnostic imaging, clinical research, and medical education, with specific expertise in multimodal image interpretation and a strong interest in the integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare. She has been actively involved in teaching, research, and health communication, contributing to initiatives that aim to enhance diagnostic capacity and knowledge dissemination in the medical field.

    Her clinical experience includes prior roles as a house officer at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and a radiographer at C&J Hospitals and Diagnostic Centre. She has also served as a research assistant and academic preceptor, combining hands-on patient care with a passion for mentorship and capacity building. Beyond the clinical setting, she has taken leadership roles in medical associations and co-founded initiatives aimed at innovation and education in healthcare.

    Her commitment to continuous learning is reflected in her participation in professional development programs and fellowships in ultrasound and radiology. She is a regular contributor to scientific conferences and has authored and co-authored publications on radiologic education, image interpretation, and maternal health. Dr. Bonsu maintains active membership with professional bodies in Ghana and the UK, reflecting her regional and international engagement in radiology.

    Adrian Cascales

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Adrián Cascales Martínez, médico especialista en medicina física y
    rehabilitación, experto universitario en ecografía músculoesquelética por la
    Universidad Francisco de Vitoria y participante en numerosos cursos de
    ecografía intervencionista.
    Trabaja en hospitales de la Región de Murcia, utilizando siempre la ecografía
    como complemento en el diagnóstico de la patología neuro-músculoesquelética
    y para dirigir las técnicas intervencionistas en el tratamiento de estas. Durante
    todo el año, realiza docencia a alumnos de medicina y a otros doctores MIR en
    este ámbito, recibiendo multitud de reconocimientos y premios por ello.
    Adrián nació en Murcia (España). Creció y se educó en una familia muy
    vinculada al mundo deportivo. Estudió Medicina en la Universidad de Murcia,
    siempre interesado en las patologías del sistema osteomuscular. Se formó en
    Medicina Física y Rehabilitación en el Hospital Universitario de Salamanca,
    donde realizó su formación MIR, utilizando siempre la ecografía como
    herramienta clave en el diagnóstico y, sobre todo, como guía de terapias
    intervencionistas eco-dirigidas. Durante este periodo, además de en
    Salamanca, hizo cursos y estancias formativas en hospitales de otras ciudades
    españolas y europeas, siempre con médicos que utilizaban la ecografía en el
    día a día de su práctica clínica.
    Al acabar este periodo MIR, Adrián volvió a Murcia, donde prosiguió con su
    formación en ecografía y donde se desarrolló profesionalmente como médico
    rehabilitador intervencionista, utilizando siempre el ecógrafo para dirigir sus
    terapias. Trabaja en el Hospital Universitario Los Arcos del Mar Menor y en el
    Hospital HLA La Vega, en los que forma parte de la Unidad de
    Intervencionismo ecoguiado.
    Sus hobbies están relacionados con el deporte, sobre todo, el baloncesto,
    aunque también disfruta con los deportes acuáticos y de montaña. Le encanta
    la gastronomía y viajar.

    Agnes Lovell

    GUSI Instructor

    Agnes is a sonographer turned PA student. She has seven years of experience as a sonographer, specializing in vascular technology. During that time, she served as a clinical instructor, lead, and was on the board of directors of an accredited sonography program. She has lectured at regional and national vascular ultrasound conferences. She has a BS in Radiation and Imaging Sciences and is now a PA student at the University of Washington’s PA program completing her clinical year.

    As a self-declared sononerd, Agnes is passionate about expanding POCUS training at PA programs and engaging APPs in POCUS.

    In her spare time, she spends time with her family, cooking, reading, and mushroom hunting. 

    Agustín Manchado Bruno

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Agustín Manchado Bruno is a specialist in Internal Medicine and Intensive Care, with extensive experience in managing critically ill patients, transplant recipients, and the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the ICU. He currently serves as the Intensive Care Unit Coordinator at Instituto de Trasplante y Alta Complejidad (ITAC) and as a physician at Sanatorio Mater Dei.
    Dr. Manchado Bruno has a strong background in ultrasound training, having completed the Ultrasound in Internal Medicine Course at SAUMB (Argentina) as well as the General Intensive Care Ultrasound (GeNIUS) program is accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. He has participated in POCUS training for
    other physicians, as an instructor and course organizer, within the framework of internal medicine residency programs, courses for general practitioners, and intensive care fellows.
    Passionate about the role of POCUS in modern medicine, he advocates for its integration as an essential extension of the physical examination, improving patient care and diagnostic accuracy.

    Aicha Hull

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Aicha Hull is a Board-Certified Emergency Medicine physician, an Army Officer, the Program Director of an Advanced Emergency Ultrasound (AEMUS) Fellowship, and a mother of twins. She grew up on a remote ranch in Idaho and spent nine years as a wildland firefighter before transitioning to a career in medicine. After earning her MD and completing her Emergency Medicine residency, Dr. Hull served in operational military roles, deploying to Egypt and Afghanistan. Recognizing the critical role of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), she returned to academia to complete an AEMUS fellowship and is now a passionate advocate for POCUS across all medical disciplines.

    Aisha Mirza

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Aisha Mirza received her Bachelor of Science with Honors in Neuroscience at the University of Alberta in 1999 and then studied wound healing and scar formation at the Masters level. She received early acceptance into the University of Calgary medical school and graduated in 2003 with her Medical Doctorate. Dr Mirza completed her residency training in Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Alberta in 2007. She has been recognized for her teaching abilities through the Excellence in Teaching (2004) award by medical students and the Ivan Steiner Award for Teaching Excellence (2014) by the emergency residents.

    Dr. Mirza holds an appointment as Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Alberta. She has been a staff emergency physician at the Grey Nuns Hospital (Edmonton, Alberta) since 2008 and has practiced as an Associate of Dermatology since 2013. During her time as a staff physician Dr Mirza pursued further training in the fields of dermatology and ultrasound. In 2012, she achieved Master Instructor status from the Canadian Emergency Ultrasound Society (CEUS).

    She pursued her passion in aesthetics and skin diseases by completing a Practical Diploma in Dermatology with Honors from Cardiff University in 2014.

    Alberto Oviedo

    GUSI Instructor

    Alberto Ángel Oviedo García es médico de urgencias en el Hospital de Valme
    (Sevilla) desde hace más de dos décadas, con una trayectoria profesional
    centrada en la asistencia clínica y, muy especialmente, en la formación de
    profesionales sanitarios. Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía por la Universidad
    de Sevilla en 1996 y especialista en Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, el Dr.
    Oviedo ha desarrollado una carrera marcada por la excelencia en el ámbito de
    las urgencias hospitalarias y la ecografía clínica aplicada al paciente agudo.
    Desde los primeros años de su carrera, ha mostrado una clara vocación por la
    docencia, liderando y participando como formador en decenas de cursos
    acreditados por la Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucía (ACSA). Ha
    impartido más de un millar de horas docentes en áreas clave como ecografía
    abdominal, eFAST, musculoesquelética, vascular, pulmonar y ecocardiografía,
    formando a médicos de urgencias, atención primaria y residentes de toda
    Andalucía y otras comunidades.
    Ha dirigido actividades formativas organizadas por el Servicio Andaluz de Salud
    (SAS), incluyendo programas oficiales sobre ecografía pulmonar en COVID-19
    o patologías abdominales más frecuentes, y ha sido docente habitual en
    iniciativas punteras como las desarrolladas por la Fundación IAVANTE. Su
    compromiso con la enseñanza se extiende al ámbito universitario, habiendo
    sido profesor del Experto Universitario en Atención al Trauma Grave de la
    Universidad Internacional de Andalucía.
    Reconocido por su claridad didáctica y enfoque eminentemente práctico, el Dr.
    Oviedo ha sido pieza clave en la expansión del uso de la ecografía clínica en
    los servicios de urgencias andaluces, impulsando su integración como
    herramienta diagnóstica esencial. Su trayectoria es referente en la formación
    de profesionales sanitarios comprometidos con una atención rápida, precisa y
    centrada en el paciente

    Alberto Romero Galán

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Alberto Romero Galán, is a specialist in family and community medicine, and a mentor for clinical ultrasound in Spain as a member of the ultrasound group of the Spanish Society of General and Family Medicine (SEMG). He is also registered as an IMC (Irish Medical Council) specialist in Ireland.

    He works as a GP in out-of-hours services in Ireland and serves as a GP in the Irish Army in the barracks in Kilkenny. Alberto participates as a teacher of clinical ultrasound courses in person in Spain, with several in person courses during the year. One of them is of long duration (100 hours) and is held twice a year, offering students continuous teaching for several days, with direct supervision, and practical and theoretical classes. The rest of the courses are usually subject specific (neck, abdomen, musculoskeletal…).

    Alberto was born in Huelva (Spain), where he grew up and was educated until he moved to Seville to study Medicine. Once he finished his medical degree, he moved to Salamanca, where he did his specialized training period (equivalent to residency) as a family doctor, using ultrasound as a key tool in his practice for the study of patients. After that he worked as a doctor in a primary care center, until he moved to Ireland in 2022. This did not stop his training in ultrasound, which he has kept active in Spain and has allowed him to become a mentor.

    He enjoys reading, especially crime novels. His love for ultrasound has made its study into a hobby, as well. He also loves paddle tennis, ping-pong, board games, and soccer. He likes to travel, and his current job and situation allow him to do it often.

    Aleen Altamirano

    GUSI Instructor

    Alessandro Mereu

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Alessandro Mereu

    General Practitioner since 2016, SIEMG diploma since 2023. President of the Italian Academy of Primary Care (2022-2028), ordinary Italian member of WONCA.

    He works in Sesto Fiorentino (FI), carries out tutoring activities for the CFSMG of the Tuscany Region and coordinates ECM activities for the approximately 1000 General Practitioners of the AUSL Toscana Centro. He is a member of the GTS of the CFSMG of the Tuscany Region.

    Reviewer “Primary Health Care Research & Development”
    Member of the PRAC Risk Minimisation Alliance of the European Medicine Agency
    He performs POCUS daily in his professional activity.

    Alex McDonald

    GUSI Instructor

    Alex McDonald MD, FAAFP, CAQSM practices Family and Sports Medicine at Kaiser Permanente in Fontana CA. Dr. McDonald serves several roles including; Family Medicine Residency and Sports Fellowship Faculty, KP School of Medicine Sports Medicine Clerkship Director. He is also Speaker for the California Academy of Family Physicians; Trustee of the California Medical Association and board member of the San Bernardino County Medical Society board member. He is also a member Advisory Council to the California Immunization Coalition; and is a Co-founder #ThisIsOurShot a digital grassroot health care movement to build vaccine confidence. His professional interests include exercise and physical activity, Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Health Policy and Preventative Medicine. Dr. McDonald holds degrees from Connecticut College, the University of Vermont Larnar College of Medicine, Southern California Kaiser Permanente as well as Duke University. Dr. McDonald lives in Claremont, CA with his wife, three children and three dogs. He enjoys running, riding his bike, cooking, coffee and 8pm dance parties with his kids.

    Allen Wong

    GUSI Instructor

    Allen Wong MD is a second year primary care sports medicine fellow at Oregon Health and Sciences University. He attended undergraduate and medical school at the University of Hawaii and completed family medicine residency at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix and primary care sports medicine fellowship at the University of New Mexico. He has a strong interest in learning and teaching the use of ultrasound in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for musculoskeletal conditions. He enjoys hiking, live music, and finding the best egg tarts during his travels.

    Allison Noesekabel

    GUSI Instructor

    Amanda Klinger

    GUSI Instructor

    Amanda Klinger is an internal medicine hospitalist based in New York who practices at
    Bellevue Hospital. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the New York University
    Grossman School of Medicine, where she serves as a faculty advisor for the Internal Medicine
    Residency Global Health Electives Program and the Education Co-Lead for AMPATH Ghana, an
    academic partnership amongst Ghanaian medical institutions and the AMPATH consortium of
    universities, led by NYUGSOM. With extensive training in global health, including a global
    health fellowship in Botswana where she originally honed her skills in Point-of-Care Ultrasound,
    Amanda focuses on improving healthcare delivery and education both locally and internationally.
    While at NYU/Bellevue, she has contributed to hands-on POCUS teaching for internal medicine
    residents and faculty members.

    Amanda attended the New York University Grossman School of Medicine after which she
    completed an internal medicine residency and global health fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess
    Medical Center. She is passionate about the transformative potential of Point-of-Care Ultrasound
    (POCUS) in enhancing access to high quality healthcare in low-resource settings. In her free
    time, she loves to play indoor and beach volleyball.

    Andrea Balbarini

    GUSI Instructor

    Dott. Andrea Balbarini,
    Medico di Medicina Generale dal 2023, diploma di ecografia generalista presso la scuola SIEMG dal 2024.
    Membro del comitato esecutivo dell’EURIPA (European rural and isolated practitioners association), iscritto alla WONCA.
    Lavora a Lama Mocogno e Polinago (Modena), svolge l’attività di animatore di formazione per i medici di medicina generale del distretto di Pavullo.
    Svolge quotidianamente POCUS nella sua attività professionale.

    Bruno Vargas

    GUSI Instructor

    Bruno Vargas is originally from Mexico City. He first trained as an Emergency Medical Technician at la Universidad Panamericana (UP) before starting medical school at la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City. Later he did his social service year in the Sierra Madre of Chiapas with Partners in Health Mexico/Compañeros en Salud (CES) in 2019, where he was trained in Global Health, social medicine, and introduced to Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS). At that moment while working in a resource-limited setting he became passionate about POCUS. He graduated as a general practitioner, and afterward stayed with CES during the pandemic as part of the COVID-19 task force, training community healthcare workers and “pasantes” (first-year doctors doing their year of social service). He finished the Ultrasound Leadership Academy (ULA) fellowship and has started a POCUS training program at his site with midwives, nurses, doctors, and trainees from these areas. He is currently doing a Global Health Fellowship with HEAL as a site fellow in Chiapas with CES. He has committed to a lifelong career in global health providing healthcare access to the most marginalized communities. He has a profound respect and admiration for nature and loves any kind of outdoor activities, especially bicycling, high mountain, and scuba-diving.

    Doug Williams

    Doug Williams currently leads AI related development efforts at GUSI. Doug is interested in the application of technology to healthcare delivery in low resource settings, previously working on cardiac arrhythmia detection and an USAID-funded project to develop intrapartum fetal monitoring and decision support tools. Prior to his focus on healthcare, Doug was a 30+ year veteran of the computer industry, serving as a Senior Director in the CTO Office for Red Hat, a leading open source company, and as a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard. Doug holds MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and has been granted 17 US Patents.

    Elizabeth Sayre

    Operations

    Elizabeth Sayre began working with GUSI in September 2019. Her professional background includes non-profit and arts administration, music performance, university teaching, advocacy for traditional artists, grant writing, arts philanthropy, interpretation/translation (Spanish and French), and organizing educational travel to Cuba for health professionals . She has researched and played Afro-Cuban music since 1992, and has authored 15 articles and co-authored a book chapter on traditional musicians and music. She studied graduate ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University, and holds an MA from the Graduate Program in Literature at Duke University, as well as dual Bachelors’ degrees from MIT in Chemical Engineering and Humanities.

    Gaitan D’Antoni

    AI

    Gaitan D’Antoni is currently working on the AI related development efforts at GUSI. Gaitan is interested in all aspects of computer technology. He previously worked on an USAID-funded project to develop health related Android applications in low resource settings. He took on-line courses to learn Android and AI development after having retired as a Distinguished Technologist from Hewlett-Packard following a 35+ year career in the computer industry. His work included customer support, application development and operating system development. Gaitan holds a BS degree in Computer Science from The University of Houston.

    Ian Thomas

    GUSI Instructor

    Ian Thomas MD CAQSM RMSK RSCC CSCS is an associate professor at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. Medical School and Clinical Director of Point-of-Care Ultrasonography. After completing his Sports Medicine Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Dr. Thomas opened his own practice, Thomas Sports and Regenerative Orthopedics (TSARO), where he focuses on injury prevention, biomechanical analysis, diagnostic ultrasonography, regenerative medicine, and interventional orthopedics with special interest in gymnastics and golf medicine.

    Dr. Thomas has a passion for using ultrasonography to promote health equity by overcoming barriers to quality care and counts writing a $50,000 grant to develop the point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum during his residency training as one of his top professional accomplishments.

    He was awarded the American Academy of Physicians (AAFP) Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education, an honor given to only 12 Family Medicine residents in the country. Additionally, he was awarded the Best Leadership Project Award and Best Overall Leadership Project Awards from the AAFP Emerging Leaders Institute (ELI) out of thirty chosen in the country where he dedicated his project to building an ultrasound workshop for the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians in 2023 in coordination with 13 academic institutions across 3 countries as well as raising funding for the ultrasound curriculum for the only Family Medicine Residency in Malawi, Africa.

    Dr. Thomas has taught full-spectrum ultrasonography at over 30 courses for residencies, regional, and national conferences for the Global Ultrasound Institute, American Academy of Family Physicians, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine as well as written book chapters and board questions on the subject. Dr. Thomas currently serves as Chair of the Ultrasound Assessment Council for Inteleos, Ad Hoc Instructor for the American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine, and Global Ultrasound Institute Lead Instructor.

    Dr. Thomas is a former gymnastics head coach and program director, and in his free time, he enjoys coaching gymnastics, traveling abroad, and learning new languages

    Jahheart Rabina

    Admin Associate

    Jahheart Cris Rabina holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Human Resource Management from Saint Joseph College. In 2019, she completed an 18-unit course for a Diploma in Professional Education to prepare for the Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers, which she successfully passed in 2022.

    For the past five years, she has chosen not to practice her profession, instead working as a Customer Service Representative, where she discovered a passion for assisting customers. Jahheart is currently an Admin Associate at GUSI Philippines, primarily supporting the HR department and In-Person courses.

    In her free time, she enjoys spending quality moments with her family, watching historical Korean dramas, listening to music, and singing karaoke, which provides her with a sense of calm.

    Laura Harris

    GUSI Instructor

    Laura Harris is a graduate of the Joint Medical Program at UC Berkeley-UCSF (MS/MD combined education) and the Contra Costa Regional Family Medicine Residency. She also has an MPH in Maternal and Child Health, and has worked in global maternal health and emergency obstetric care in Ethiopia, Ghana, Burundi and other countries. She loves seeing how POCUS improves patient care and patient-provider connection. She currently provides prenatal and primary care at a federally qualified health center serving uninsured and underinsured patients, and works on labor and delivery at a county hospital. Working in these settings has shown her how POCUS can be an especially powerful tool for under-resourced populations – providing needed healthcare screenings as well as helping with acute diagnoses. She is passionate about teaching ultrasound and expanding access in low resource settings, with a special interest in obstetric ultrasound.

    Lea Ramos

    GUSI Philippines Director

    Liesl Annandale

    Training & Coordination, Southern Africa

    Liesl Annandale completed her B.Rad (diagnostic) at the University of Pretoria in 2004 and her B.Tech (ultrasound) degree at the University of Johannesburg in 2010. After completing her studies, she has worked both in clinical and commercial environments.

    Liesl dedicated the past eight years to uplifting communities through POCUS education in various low-resource African settings, including Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

    She has a passion for education and the amelioration it ensures communities. She believes that, with the limited resources and poor economic growth, each of us is responsible for leading the way in improving the quality of health care provided to women in our African countries.

    She is convinced that we can achieve this with continuous investment in education, the vision and goodwill of dedicated experts, committed Ministries of Health, vital partners in companies, and the selfless, hardworking healthcare professionals investing their time for the general good of society.

    She is an avid trail runner in her free time, enjoys spending time outdoors with her boisterous two sons and adventurous husband, and is an enthusiastic supporter of the local Winelands she calls home. Time is her most significant investment, and books are a devoted companion.

    Lindsey Lao

    Admin Associate

    Lindsey Lao is an Admin Associate at GUSI Philippines, primarily supporting the fellowships program. A graduate of Information Technology from the Systems Technology Institute (STI), Lindsey blends her technical expertise with a genuine passion for fostering opportunities for others.

    An outdoor enthusiast, she loves exploring nature and enjoys engaging in various activities that allow her to connect with the world around her. Family is a cornerstone of Lindsey’s life; she treasures the time spent with her loved ones and finds joy in creating meaningful memories together. Music and singing are her creative outlets, providing a wonderful balance to her busy life.

    Lindsey’s dedication to caring for her grandparents has sparked a strong interest in the healthcare industry, particularly in GUSI’s mission. Her compassion and eagerness to support others drive her commitment to making a positive impact in the lives of those around her. With a warm heart and a strong work ethic, Lindsey is poised to contribute significantly to both her community and her professional field.

    Matthew Haldeman

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Matthew Haldeman is a Family Physician with fellowship training in both global health and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). After completing his residency at Self Regional Healthcare in South Carolina in 2014, he worked both as a hospitalist physician and an ER physician in a rural setting, while also completing his CTropMed® certification in clinical tropical medicine. From 2017-2019, he completed a fellowship in Global Health and a Master’s of Public Health at the University of South Carolina, followed by fellowship-level training in POCUS. Dr. Haldeman currently serves as a Physician Educator with Seed Global Health, through which he is posted as a faculty at the University of Zambia’s Family Medicine residency program–Zambia’s first-ever training program in that specialty. In addition to teaching Family Medicine, he has integrated POCUS education into the residency’s curriculum and conducts POCUS research in Zambia. He has experience in various low-resource settings including Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Zambia, as well as Belize in Central America. His passions include POCUS in global health, tropical medicine, and medical education.

    Pascual Daza-Ramirez

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Pascual Daza-Ramirez, MD MBA MRCGP MPH(Cantab) EIA(EMCC) BMUS, is a Senior Hon. Clinical Lecturer of Exeter Medical School (UK), a GP Trainer and Educational Supervisor (Health Education England) and a Senior Mentor to newly qualified Family Physicians enrolled in the Fellowship Programme of South West of England NHS Leadership Academy.

    He is an attending Family Medicine Physician (General Practitioner) at Middleway Surgery, where he is the lead Research Physician, near Carlyon Bay in St Austell on the south coast of Cornwall (UK).

    Pascual runs in person POCUS training courses three times a year in Cornwall (UK). He also has served as an instructor on the “London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Ultrasound Course for the Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene” (London). In the last twelve months he has trained over sixty junior doctors (residents) ultrasound imaging acquisition techniques and clinical image interpretation.

    Pascual was born and educated in Barcelona (Spain) where he gained his medical degree from UB (la Universidad de Barcelona) Medical School and his MBA qualification from European University Business School. He completed postgraduate training in Family Medicine (General Practice) in Truro (Cornwall) followed by academic training in Public Health and Epidemiology at Cambridge University and Pharmaceutical Medicine at Cardiff University in Wales (UK). He is a member of the British Medical Ultrasound Society (BMUS) and a member of the Royal College of General Practitioner (RCGP) in England.

    Pascual’s hobbies entail dinghy sailing, playing tennis, and competing in local amateur tournaments. He also has an interest in guitar playing (mainly flamenco with occasional attempts at blues and jazz with his Gibson Les Paul), but feels he is not good enough to play in public yet.

    Paul Bornemann

    GUSI Instructor

    Paul H. Bornemann, MD RMSK RPVI, is board certified in Family Medicine and a tenured Associate Professor of Family and Preventative Medicine, the Program Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program, and Director of Primary Care Ultrasound at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He is a veteran with eight years’ experience working as an army physician including a combat deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. His military awards include the Combat Medical Badge for providing medical care under direct fire. He has had interest in point-of-care ultrasound since first learning of its benefits during a combat deployment in 2010. He currently has certification from the Alliance for Physician Certification & Advancement (APCA) in musculoskeletal (RMSK) and vascular (RPVI) ultrasound. He has worked with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and was the founding chair of the AAFP Point-of-Care Ultrasound Member Interest Group, in 2015. He has experience introducing point-of-care ultrasound curricula in several family medicine residency programs and teaches ultrasound frequently both nationally and internationally. He has published multiple journal articles on point-of-care ultrasound and edited the textbook, Ultrasound for Primary Care (Wolters Kluwer 2020), the first book on this topic.

    Ryann Milne-Price

    GUSI Instructor

    Ryann Milne-Price MD MPH grew up in Montana, USA and enjoys exploring the outdoors, making art, and hanging with eclectic collections of farm animals. She attended the University of Washington for medical school and the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho for family medicine training. She started using POCUS during a global health fellowship through the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency in California while working in Contra Costa County’s emergency room. She started teaching ultrasound in the Bay Area with GUSI during this fellowship and incorporated some ultrasound training while faculty on a rural family medicine rotation in Neno, Malawi, for MBBS4 medical students. In the future she hopes to work in rural areas of the US where POCUS will be essential, and to continue connecting with people globally in a collective effort to improve primary care and public health.

    Stephen Erickson

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Erickson completed medical school at the University of Minnesota, followed by family medicine training at Tacoma Family Medicine in Washington state. He has spent his career practicing rural, full-spectrum family medicine including point of care ultrasound, operative obstetrics, and GI endoscopy. He has previously taught in a variety of settings including precepting medical student and resident rural rotations, a temporary family medicine residency faculty position in Greeley, CO, and teaching office procedure CME courses through the National Procedures Institute.

    He is an avid user of POCUS in his own busy clinical practice, and an enthusiastic advocate for colleagues seeking to add POCUS to theirs. He helped develop and implement multi-specialty POCUS training, credentialling, and quality assurance pathways at his health system.

    When not scanning, he enjoys sailing, travelling, and a broad array of outdoor activities.

    Svetlana Zakharchenko

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Zakharchenko is a board-certified emergency physician who has completed an ultrasound fellowship at NYU/Bellevue. She has led an ultrasound division at the Hackensack University Medical Center as a director from 2013-2021. Throughout her career, she has trained hundreds of residents and attendings on proper POCUS, as well as built an ultrasound medical school curriculum at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. She developed and implemented a sophisticated institutional infrastructure for POCUS utilization and departmental reimbursement. Dr. Zakharchenko has additionally taught critical care ultrasound workshops at PA-CUSP, INDUS-EM and worked with the ministries of health in Ghana and Rwanda on building most effective approaches to ultrasound education for clinicians. She is a founder of FOCUS Ultrasound Solutions, a consulting company designed to meet community hospitals’ infrastructural and educational POCUS needs. She is passionate about improving quality of care through this life-saving technology. In her free time, Dr. Zakharchenko powerlifts, spends time with her two sons, and volunteers locally and internationally.

    Latoya B. Williams

    Advisory Board

    Dr. L.B. Williams is a veteran educator with over 20 years of experience. Dr. Williams has a PhD in Urban Education Leadership from Claremont Graduate University and leads Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training for schools from the elementary to the postgraduate level. She founded Black Girls Brilliance (BGB) in 2016, after her research identified a lack of resources (academic support, mental health counseling, college and career mentoring, etc) available for Black Girls in K-12 settings. BGB now operates in the U.S. and South Africa. Currently, Dr. Williams’ work is at the intersections of education, health care access and mental health, where she and a team of developers have created technological tools to address the resource gap in these areas for girls and their families. She serves on the GUSI Advisory Board, sharing her expertise on curriculum development, DEI, and POCUS in Africa.

    Marjan Ghazi-Askar

    GUSI Instructor
    Zahra Marjan Ghazi-Askar MD is a pediatric emergency physician at Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of Pediatric Ultrasound Education. She did her residency at New York Methodist Hospital and a pediatric emergency Fellowship at Cornell Presbyterian Hospital in NYC. She finished a point of care ultrasound Fellowship at Highland Hospital in the Bay Area. Her vision is to bring POCUS education to general pediatricians in residency and beyond to give back to my primary field of training, and to utilize the latest available technology in teleguidance to fill the gaps is teaching POCUS and credentialing providers globally.

    Navneet Kathuria

    Senior Medical Advisor

    Navneet Kathuria, M.D., of New York County, currently serves as President & CEO, Optimal Analytics. During the past 25 years, Dr. Kathuria has worked in all aspects of health care from medical practitioner to educator and executive, most recently as Chief Medical Officer for Community Health Care Network. In his prior role as vice president of Hackensack Meridian Health’s Population Health Management, Dr. Kathuria provided strategic and operational leadership for the development of the Population Health platform across the Hackensack Meridian Health network. Prior to joining Hackensack Meridian Health, Dr. Kathuria established Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Globalization as the school’s chief performance improvement officer and served as vice chairman of Quality Assurance and deputy chief medical officer for Mount Sinai Hospital. He is also a published author and co-edited “The Handbook of Hospital Medicine.” Dr. Kathuria received his medical degree from Albany Medical College in New York and trained in internal medicine at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, in hematology at Yale University, and in general medicine at Columbia University. He earned his MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.

    Neil Jayasekera

    Advisory Board

    Neil is a family physician who has dedicated his career to providing medical care to the underserved both nationally and internationally. He has provided full spectrum care in low resource settings and understands the utility and need for POCUS. Neil’s practice has included work in emergency medicine, obstetrics, ambulatory care, inpatient, rural, and disaster medicine. In 2011, as a core faculty member at Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency, he created a global health fellowship and one of the first POCUS curriculum training programs in Family Medicine. He is proud that graduates of Contra Costa have become recognized leaders in POCUS education. He has taught POCUS to thousands of providers and has been the principal organizer of POCUS workshops at AAFP, CAFP, STFM, Contra Costa, and other family medicine residency programs in the United States and abroad. Neil is the primary author and editor of the American Academy of Family Physicians Point of Care Ultrasound Curriculum Guidelines and has co-authored multiple articles on the use of POCUS in Primary Care and Global Health.

    Aaron Inouye

    GUSI Instructor

    Aaron Inouye has working in emergency medicine since graduating from Pacific University’s Physician Assistant program in 2016; in addition to his clinical work he recently accepted a position Assistant Professor at Colorado Mesa University. He completed a fellowship in point-of-care ultrasound and teaches ultrasound to students, PAs, NPs, and physicians across the country. Aaron is on the board of directors for the Society of Point of Care Ultrasound and a member of ACEP’s Ultrasound Subcommittee for APPs. Excited about all things ultrasound, Aaron is especially interested in developing effective training programs, both for practicing clinicians and for students. Outside of work, Aaron enjoys going up and down mountains on his bike and skis, preferably while chasing his son and his dog.

    Abby Chua

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Abby Chua grew up in New Jersey and for five years worked in refugee relief for the International Rescue Committee’s Health Technical Unit serving in missions in Africa, Central Europe, and on the Thai-Burma border. She earned her Masters in Public Health from Columbia University, but during her Masters work grew more interested in patients than in data analysis. She went on to complete her medical school training at the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her internal medicine residency and fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center where she received formal ultrasound training. She has been teaching ultrasound since 2008 and earned an award for her resident teaching. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at SUNY Stony Brook University Hospital where she tells house staff and her medical students she has forgotten how to examine patients without an ultrasound. Her passions are medical education, utilizing data to effect broad clinical change, and her toddler.

    Abdolghader Pakniyat

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Abdolghader Pakniyat is an Emergency Medicine specialist based in Dubai. He is European Board–certified in Emergency Medicine (EBEEM) and holds ARDMS credentials in ultrasound (RDMS-Abdomen). His clinical focus includes critical care and trauma, where he effectively implements Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) across various critical scenarios such as trauma, shock, critical care, and emergency medicine. Dr. Pakniyat has also made significant contributions to POCUS education and research.

    Abiola Fasina

    GUSI Instructor

    Abiola Fasina, MD, MSHP, DTM&H, FMCEM is an emergency critical physician and a health policy consultant based in Lagos, Nigeria. Dr. Fasina completed her training in emergency medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. After several years of practice, she then completed a two-year fellowship in emergency point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and a Masters in Health Policy Research (MSHP) at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Fasina is actively involved in emergency medicine care development and POCUS education in Nigeria and practices clinical emergency and critical care medicine. She is an active board member and fellow of the Faculty of Emergency Medicine at the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, inaugurated in 2019.

    Her work has focused on capacity building of emergency health systems in low and middle-income African countries around POCUS and medical technology. She has worked in Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar and has extensive international experience. She is the medical director and CEO of Emergency Healthcare Consultants (EHCON), a healthcare consulting company focused on capacity building and training in emergency medicine and critical care. EHCON has managed several medical facilities particularly, in the era of COVID-19 including the Eti-Osa COVID-19 Isolation and Treatment Centre that was located at Landmark in Victoria Island, Lagos and the VEDIC COVID-19 Hospital in Lekki. EHCON runs the West Africa SonoXpert Academy with Sonosite/Fujifilm focused on POCUS education and training. Dr. Fasina is also the Chief Medical Officer / Consultant Emergency Physician at R-Jolad Hospital, Lagos Nigeria

    Adam Rothman

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Adam Rothman is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a pulmonary and critical care physician based at Mount Sinai West in New York City. He first developed a passion for point-of-care ultrasound and medical education during his fellowship training, where he participated in a medical education track and devised several simulation center-based projects involving bedside ultrasound and ultrasound-based procedures. An attending physician since 2019, Dr. Rothman became an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Mount Sinai Morningside/West in April 2021. In this capacity, he has been tasked with implementing a comprehensive point-of-care ultrasound curriculum (consisting of a longitudinal lecture series, simulation-based training, and a two-week elective for hands-on training), to achieve basic knowledge and competency in POCUS for over 225 residents. Dr. Rothman continues to have a passion for POCUS, medication education, and simulation training and has been honored to teach and speak at regional and national conferences about his POCUS experiences.

    Adjoa Boatemaa Bonsu

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Adjoa Boatemaa Bonsu is a radiology resident at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana. Her professional background spans diagnostic imaging, clinical research, and medical education, with specific expertise in multimodal image interpretation and a strong interest in the integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare. She has been actively involved in teaching, research, and health communication, contributing to initiatives that aim to enhance diagnostic capacity and knowledge dissemination in the medical field.

    Her clinical experience includes prior roles as a house officer at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and a radiographer at C&J Hospitals and Diagnostic Centre. She has also served as a research assistant and academic preceptor, combining hands-on patient care with a passion for mentorship and capacity building. Beyond the clinical setting, she has taken leadership roles in medical associations and co-founded initiatives aimed at innovation and education in healthcare.

    Her commitment to continuous learning is reflected in her participation in professional development programs and fellowships in ultrasound and radiology. She is a regular contributor to scientific conferences and has authored and co-authored publications on radiologic education, image interpretation, and maternal health. Dr. Bonsu maintains active membership with professional bodies in Ghana and the UK, reflecting her regional and international engagement in radiology.

    Adrian Cascales

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Adrián Cascales Martínez, médico especialista en medicina física y
    rehabilitación, experto universitario en ecografía músculoesquelética por la
    Universidad Francisco de Vitoria y participante en numerosos cursos de
    ecografía intervencionista.
    Trabaja en hospitales de la Región de Murcia, utilizando siempre la ecografía
    como complemento en el diagnóstico de la patología neuro-músculoesquelética
    y para dirigir las técnicas intervencionistas en el tratamiento de estas. Durante
    todo el año, realiza docencia a alumnos de medicina y a otros doctores MIR en
    este ámbito, recibiendo multitud de reconocimientos y premios por ello.
    Adrián nació en Murcia (España). Creció y se educó en una familia muy
    vinculada al mundo deportivo. Estudió Medicina en la Universidad de Murcia,
    siempre interesado en las patologías del sistema osteomuscular. Se formó en
    Medicina Física y Rehabilitación en el Hospital Universitario de Salamanca,
    donde realizó su formación MIR, utilizando siempre la ecografía como
    herramienta clave en el diagnóstico y, sobre todo, como guía de terapias
    intervencionistas eco-dirigidas. Durante este periodo, además de en
    Salamanca, hizo cursos y estancias formativas en hospitales de otras ciudades
    españolas y europeas, siempre con médicos que utilizaban la ecografía en el
    día a día de su práctica clínica.
    Al acabar este periodo MIR, Adrián volvió a Murcia, donde prosiguió con su
    formación en ecografía y donde se desarrolló profesionalmente como médico
    rehabilitador intervencionista, utilizando siempre el ecógrafo para dirigir sus
    terapias. Trabaja en el Hospital Universitario Los Arcos del Mar Menor y en el
    Hospital HLA La Vega, en los que forma parte de la Unidad de
    Intervencionismo ecoguiado.
    Sus hobbies están relacionados con el deporte, sobre todo, el baloncesto,
    aunque también disfruta con los deportes acuáticos y de montaña. Le encanta
    la gastronomía y viajar.

    Agnes Lovell

    GUSI Instructor

    Agnes is a sonographer turned PA student. She has seven years of experience as a sonographer, specializing in vascular technology. During that time, she served as a clinical instructor, lead, and was on the board of directors of an accredited sonography program. She has lectured at regional and national vascular ultrasound conferences. She has a BS in Radiation and Imaging Sciences and is now a PA student at the University of Washington’s PA program completing her clinical year.

    As a self-declared sononerd, Agnes is passionate about expanding POCUS training at PA programs and engaging APPs in POCUS.

    In her spare time, she spends time with her family, cooking, reading, and mushroom hunting. 

    Agustín Manchado Bruno

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Agustín Manchado Bruno is a specialist in Internal Medicine and Intensive Care, with extensive experience in managing critically ill patients, transplant recipients, and the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the ICU. He currently serves as the Intensive Care Unit Coordinator at Instituto de Trasplante y Alta Complejidad (ITAC) and as a physician at Sanatorio Mater Dei.
    Dr. Manchado Bruno has a strong background in ultrasound training, having completed the Ultrasound in Internal Medicine Course at SAUMB (Argentina) as well as the General Intensive Care Ultrasound (GeNIUS) program is accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. He has participated in POCUS training for
    other physicians, as an instructor and course organizer, within the framework of internal medicine residency programs, courses for general practitioners, and intensive care fellows.
    Passionate about the role of POCUS in modern medicine, he advocates for its integration as an essential extension of the physical examination, improving patient care and diagnostic accuracy.

    Aicha Hull

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Aicha Hull is a Board-Certified Emergency Medicine physician, an Army Officer, the Program Director of an Advanced Emergency Ultrasound (AEMUS) Fellowship, and a mother of twins. She grew up on a remote ranch in Idaho and spent nine years as a wildland firefighter before transitioning to a career in medicine. After earning her MD and completing her Emergency Medicine residency, Dr. Hull served in operational military roles, deploying to Egypt and Afghanistan. Recognizing the critical role of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), she returned to academia to complete an AEMUS fellowship and is now a passionate advocate for POCUS across all medical disciplines.

    Aisha Mirza

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Aisha Mirza received her Bachelor of Science with Honors in Neuroscience at the University of Alberta in 1999 and then studied wound healing and scar formation at the Masters level. She received early acceptance into the University of Calgary medical school and graduated in 2003 with her Medical Doctorate. Dr Mirza completed her residency training in Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Alberta in 2007. She has been recognized for her teaching abilities through the Excellence in Teaching (2004) award by medical students and the Ivan Steiner Award for Teaching Excellence (2014) by the emergency residents.

    Dr. Mirza holds an appointment as Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Alberta. She has been a staff emergency physician at the Grey Nuns Hospital (Edmonton, Alberta) since 2008 and has practiced as an Associate of Dermatology since 2013. During her time as a staff physician Dr Mirza pursued further training in the fields of dermatology and ultrasound. In 2012, she achieved Master Instructor status from the Canadian Emergency Ultrasound Society (CEUS).

    She pursued her passion in aesthetics and skin diseases by completing a Practical Diploma in Dermatology with Honors from Cardiff University in 2014.

    Alberto Oviedo

    GUSI Instructor

    Alberto Ángel Oviedo García es médico de urgencias en el Hospital de Valme
    (Sevilla) desde hace más de dos décadas, con una trayectoria profesional
    centrada en la asistencia clínica y, muy especialmente, en la formación de
    profesionales sanitarios. Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía por la Universidad
    de Sevilla en 1996 y especialista en Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, el Dr.
    Oviedo ha desarrollado una carrera marcada por la excelencia en el ámbito de
    las urgencias hospitalarias y la ecografía clínica aplicada al paciente agudo.
    Desde los primeros años de su carrera, ha mostrado una clara vocación por la
    docencia, liderando y participando como formador en decenas de cursos
    acreditados por la Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucía (ACSA). Ha
    impartido más de un millar de horas docentes en áreas clave como ecografía
    abdominal, eFAST, musculoesquelética, vascular, pulmonar y ecocardiografía,
    formando a médicos de urgencias, atención primaria y residentes de toda
    Andalucía y otras comunidades.
    Ha dirigido actividades formativas organizadas por el Servicio Andaluz de Salud
    (SAS), incluyendo programas oficiales sobre ecografía pulmonar en COVID-19
    o patologías abdominales más frecuentes, y ha sido docente habitual en
    iniciativas punteras como las desarrolladas por la Fundación IAVANTE. Su
    compromiso con la enseñanza se extiende al ámbito universitario, habiendo
    sido profesor del Experto Universitario en Atención al Trauma Grave de la
    Universidad Internacional de Andalucía.
    Reconocido por su claridad didáctica y enfoque eminentemente práctico, el Dr.
    Oviedo ha sido pieza clave en la expansión del uso de la ecografía clínica en
    los servicios de urgencias andaluces, impulsando su integración como
    herramienta diagnóstica esencial. Su trayectoria es referente en la formación
    de profesionales sanitarios comprometidos con una atención rápida, precisa y
    centrada en el paciente

    Alberto Romero Galán

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Alberto Romero Galán, is a specialist in family and community medicine, and a mentor for clinical ultrasound in Spain as a member of the ultrasound group of the Spanish Society of General and Family Medicine (SEMG). He is also registered as an IMC (Irish Medical Council) specialist in Ireland.

    He works as a GP in out-of-hours services in Ireland and serves as a GP in the Irish Army in the barracks in Kilkenny. Alberto participates as a teacher of clinical ultrasound courses in person in Spain, with several in person courses during the year. One of them is of long duration (100 hours) and is held twice a year, offering students continuous teaching for several days, with direct supervision, and practical and theoretical classes. The rest of the courses are usually subject specific (neck, abdomen, musculoskeletal…).

    Alberto was born in Huelva (Spain), where he grew up and was educated until he moved to Seville to study Medicine. Once he finished his medical degree, he moved to Salamanca, where he did his specialized training period (equivalent to residency) as a family doctor, using ultrasound as a key tool in his practice for the study of patients. After that he worked as a doctor in a primary care center, until he moved to Ireland in 2022. This did not stop his training in ultrasound, which he has kept active in Spain and has allowed him to become a mentor.

    He enjoys reading, especially crime novels. His love for ultrasound has made its study into a hobby, as well. He also loves paddle tennis, ping-pong, board games, and soccer. He likes to travel, and his current job and situation allow him to do it often.

    Aleen Altamirano

    GUSI Instructor

    Alessandro Mereu

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Alessandro Mereu

    General Practitioner since 2016, SIEMG diploma since 2023. President of the Italian Academy of Primary Care (2022-2028), ordinary Italian member of WONCA.

    He works in Sesto Fiorentino (FI), carries out tutoring activities for the CFSMG of the Tuscany Region and coordinates ECM activities for the approximately 1000 General Practitioners of the AUSL Toscana Centro. He is a member of the GTS of the CFSMG of the Tuscany Region.

    Reviewer “Primary Health Care Research & Development”
    Member of the PRAC Risk Minimisation Alliance of the European Medicine Agency
    He performs POCUS daily in his professional activity.

    Alex McDonald

    GUSI Instructor

    Alex McDonald MD, FAAFP, CAQSM practices Family and Sports Medicine at Kaiser Permanente in Fontana CA. Dr. McDonald serves several roles including; Family Medicine Residency and Sports Fellowship Faculty, KP School of Medicine Sports Medicine Clerkship Director. He is also Speaker for the California Academy of Family Physicians; Trustee of the California Medical Association and board member of the San Bernardino County Medical Society board member. He is also a member Advisory Council to the California Immunization Coalition; and is a Co-founder #ThisIsOurShot a digital grassroot health care movement to build vaccine confidence. His professional interests include exercise and physical activity, Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Health Policy and Preventative Medicine. Dr. McDonald holds degrees from Connecticut College, the University of Vermont Larnar College of Medicine, Southern California Kaiser Permanente as well as Duke University. Dr. McDonald lives in Claremont, CA with his wife, three children and three dogs. He enjoys running, riding his bike, cooking, coffee and 8pm dance parties with his kids.

    Allen Wong

    GUSI Instructor

    Allen Wong MD is a second year primary care sports medicine fellow at Oregon Health and Sciences University. He attended undergraduate and medical school at the University of Hawaii and completed family medicine residency at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix and primary care sports medicine fellowship at the University of New Mexico. He has a strong interest in learning and teaching the use of ultrasound in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for musculoskeletal conditions. He enjoys hiking, live music, and finding the best egg tarts during his travels.

    Allison Noesekabel

    GUSI Instructor

    Amanda Klinger

    GUSI Instructor

    Amanda Klinger is an internal medicine hospitalist based in New York who practices at
    Bellevue Hospital. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the New York University
    Grossman School of Medicine, where she serves as a faculty advisor for the Internal Medicine
    Residency Global Health Electives Program and the Education Co-Lead for AMPATH Ghana, an
    academic partnership amongst Ghanaian medical institutions and the AMPATH consortium of
    universities, led by NYUGSOM. With extensive training in global health, including a global
    health fellowship in Botswana where she originally honed her skills in Point-of-Care Ultrasound,
    Amanda focuses on improving healthcare delivery and education both locally and internationally.
    While at NYU/Bellevue, she has contributed to hands-on POCUS teaching for internal medicine
    residents and faculty members.

    Amanda attended the New York University Grossman School of Medicine after which she
    completed an internal medicine residency and global health fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess
    Medical Center. She is passionate about the transformative potential of Point-of-Care Ultrasound
    (POCUS) in enhancing access to high quality healthcare in low-resource settings. In her free
    time, she loves to play indoor and beach volleyball.

    Andrea Balbarini

    GUSI Instructor

    Dott. Andrea Balbarini,
    Medico di Medicina Generale dal 2023, diploma di ecografia generalista presso la scuola SIEMG dal 2024.
    Membro del comitato esecutivo dell’EURIPA (European rural and isolated practitioners association), iscritto alla WONCA.
    Lavora a Lama Mocogno e Polinago (Modena), svolge l’attività di animatore di formazione per i medici di medicina generale del distretto di Pavullo.
    Svolge quotidianamente POCUS nella sua attività professionale.

    Aaron Inouye

    GUSI Instructor

    Aaron Inouye has working in emergency medicine since graduating from Pacific University’s Physician Assistant program in 2016; in addition to his clinical work he recently accepted a position Assistant Professor at Colorado Mesa University. He completed a fellowship in point-of-care ultrasound and teaches ultrasound to students, PAs, NPs, and physicians across the country. Aaron is on the board of directors for the Society of Point of Care Ultrasound and a member of ACEP’s Ultrasound Subcommittee for APPs. Excited about all things ultrasound, Aaron is especially interested in developing effective training programs, both for practicing clinicians and for students. Outside of work, Aaron enjoys going up and down mountains on his bike and skis, preferably while chasing his son and his dog.

    Abby Chua

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Abby Chua grew up in New Jersey and for five years worked in refugee relief for the International Rescue Committee’s Health Technical Unit serving in missions in Africa, Central Europe, and on the Thai-Burma border. She earned her Masters in Public Health from Columbia University, but during her Masters work grew more interested in patients than in data analysis. She went on to complete her medical school training at the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her internal medicine residency and fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center where she received formal ultrasound training. She has been teaching ultrasound since 2008 and earned an award for her resident teaching. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at SUNY Stony Brook University Hospital where she tells house staff and her medical students she has forgotten how to examine patients without an ultrasound. Her passions are medical education, utilizing data to effect broad clinical change, and her toddler.

    Abdolghader Pakniyat

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Abdolghader Pakniyat is an Emergency Medicine specialist based in Dubai. He is European Board–certified in Emergency Medicine (EBEEM) and holds ARDMS credentials in ultrasound (RDMS-Abdomen). His clinical focus includes critical care and trauma, where he effectively implements Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) across various critical scenarios such as trauma, shock, critical care, and emergency medicine. Dr. Pakniyat has also made significant contributions to POCUS education and research.

    Abiola Fasina

    GUSI Instructor

    Abiola Fasina, MD, MSHP, DTM&H, FMCEM is an emergency critical physician and a health policy consultant based in Lagos, Nigeria. Dr. Fasina completed her training in emergency medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. After several years of practice, she then completed a two-year fellowship in emergency point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and a Masters in Health Policy Research (MSHP) at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Fasina is actively involved in emergency medicine care development and POCUS education in Nigeria and practices clinical emergency and critical care medicine. She is an active board member and fellow of the Faculty of Emergency Medicine at the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, inaugurated in 2019.

    Her work has focused on capacity building of emergency health systems in low and middle-income African countries around POCUS and medical technology. She has worked in Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar and has extensive international experience. She is the medical director and CEO of Emergency Healthcare Consultants (EHCON), a healthcare consulting company focused on capacity building and training in emergency medicine and critical care. EHCON has managed several medical facilities particularly, in the era of COVID-19 including the Eti-Osa COVID-19 Isolation and Treatment Centre that was located at Landmark in Victoria Island, Lagos and the VEDIC COVID-19 Hospital in Lekki. EHCON runs the West Africa SonoXpert Academy with Sonosite/Fujifilm focused on POCUS education and training. Dr. Fasina is also the Chief Medical Officer / Consultant Emergency Physician at R-Jolad Hospital, Lagos Nigeria

    Adam Rothman

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Adam Rothman is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a pulmonary and critical care physician based at Mount Sinai West in New York City. He first developed a passion for point-of-care ultrasound and medical education during his fellowship training, where he participated in a medical education track and devised several simulation center-based projects involving bedside ultrasound and ultrasound-based procedures. An attending physician since 2019, Dr. Rothman became an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Mount Sinai Morningside/West in April 2021. In this capacity, he has been tasked with implementing a comprehensive point-of-care ultrasound curriculum (consisting of a longitudinal lecture series, simulation-based training, and a two-week elective for hands-on training), to achieve basic knowledge and competency in POCUS for over 225 residents. Dr. Rothman continues to have a passion for POCUS, medication education, and simulation training and has been honored to teach and speak at regional and national conferences about his POCUS experiences.

    Adjoa Boatemaa Bonsu

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Adjoa Boatemaa Bonsu is a radiology resident at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana. Her professional background spans diagnostic imaging, clinical research, and medical education, with specific expertise in multimodal image interpretation and a strong interest in the integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare. She has been actively involved in teaching, research, and health communication, contributing to initiatives that aim to enhance diagnostic capacity and knowledge dissemination in the medical field.

    Her clinical experience includes prior roles as a house officer at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and a radiographer at C&J Hospitals and Diagnostic Centre. She has also served as a research assistant and academic preceptor, combining hands-on patient care with a passion for mentorship and capacity building. Beyond the clinical setting, she has taken leadership roles in medical associations and co-founded initiatives aimed at innovation and education in healthcare.

    Her commitment to continuous learning is reflected in her participation in professional development programs and fellowships in ultrasound and radiology. She is a regular contributor to scientific conferences and has authored and co-authored publications on radiologic education, image interpretation, and maternal health. Dr. Bonsu maintains active membership with professional bodies in Ghana and the UK, reflecting her regional and international engagement in radiology.

    Adrian Cascales

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Adrián Cascales Martínez, médico especialista en medicina física y
    rehabilitación, experto universitario en ecografía músculoesquelética por la
    Universidad Francisco de Vitoria y participante en numerosos cursos de
    ecografía intervencionista.
    Trabaja en hospitales de la Región de Murcia, utilizando siempre la ecografía
    como complemento en el diagnóstico de la patología neuro-músculoesquelética
    y para dirigir las técnicas intervencionistas en el tratamiento de estas. Durante
    todo el año, realiza docencia a alumnos de medicina y a otros doctores MIR en
    este ámbito, recibiendo multitud de reconocimientos y premios por ello.
    Adrián nació en Murcia (España). Creció y se educó en una familia muy
    vinculada al mundo deportivo. Estudió Medicina en la Universidad de Murcia,
    siempre interesado en las patologías del sistema osteomuscular. Se formó en
    Medicina Física y Rehabilitación en el Hospital Universitario de Salamanca,
    donde realizó su formación MIR, utilizando siempre la ecografía como
    herramienta clave en el diagnóstico y, sobre todo, como guía de terapias
    intervencionistas eco-dirigidas. Durante este periodo, además de en
    Salamanca, hizo cursos y estancias formativas en hospitales de otras ciudades
    españolas y europeas, siempre con médicos que utilizaban la ecografía en el
    día a día de su práctica clínica.
    Al acabar este periodo MIR, Adrián volvió a Murcia, donde prosiguió con su
    formación en ecografía y donde se desarrolló profesionalmente como médico
    rehabilitador intervencionista, utilizando siempre el ecógrafo para dirigir sus
    terapias. Trabaja en el Hospital Universitario Los Arcos del Mar Menor y en el
    Hospital HLA La Vega, en los que forma parte de la Unidad de
    Intervencionismo ecoguiado.
    Sus hobbies están relacionados con el deporte, sobre todo, el baloncesto,
    aunque también disfruta con los deportes acuáticos y de montaña. Le encanta
    la gastronomía y viajar.

    Agnes Lovell

    GUSI Instructor

    Agnes is a sonographer turned PA student. She has seven years of experience as a sonographer, specializing in vascular technology. During that time, she served as a clinical instructor, lead, and was on the board of directors of an accredited sonography program. She has lectured at regional and national vascular ultrasound conferences. She has a BS in Radiation and Imaging Sciences and is now a PA student at the University of Washington’s PA program completing her clinical year.

    As a self-declared sononerd, Agnes is passionate about expanding POCUS training at PA programs and engaging APPs in POCUS.

    In her spare time, she spends time with her family, cooking, reading, and mushroom hunting. 

    Agustín Manchado Bruno

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Agustín Manchado Bruno is a specialist in Internal Medicine and Intensive Care, with extensive experience in managing critically ill patients, transplant recipients, and the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the ICU. He currently serves as the Intensive Care Unit Coordinator at Instituto de Trasplante y Alta Complejidad (ITAC) and as a physician at Sanatorio Mater Dei.
    Dr. Manchado Bruno has a strong background in ultrasound training, having completed the Ultrasound in Internal Medicine Course at SAUMB (Argentina) as well as the General Intensive Care Ultrasound (GeNIUS) program is accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. He has participated in POCUS training for
    other physicians, as an instructor and course organizer, within the framework of internal medicine residency programs, courses for general practitioners, and intensive care fellows.
    Passionate about the role of POCUS in modern medicine, he advocates for its integration as an essential extension of the physical examination, improving patient care and diagnostic accuracy.

    Aicha Hull

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Aicha Hull is a Board-Certified Emergency Medicine physician, an Army Officer, the Program Director of an Advanced Emergency Ultrasound (AEMUS) Fellowship, and a mother of twins. She grew up on a remote ranch in Idaho and spent nine years as a wildland firefighter before transitioning to a career in medicine. After earning her MD and completing her Emergency Medicine residency, Dr. Hull served in operational military roles, deploying to Egypt and Afghanistan. Recognizing the critical role of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), she returned to academia to complete an AEMUS fellowship and is now a passionate advocate for POCUS across all medical disciplines.

    Aisha Mirza

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Aisha Mirza received her Bachelor of Science with Honors in Neuroscience at the University of Alberta in 1999 and then studied wound healing and scar formation at the Masters level. She received early acceptance into the University of Calgary medical school and graduated in 2003 with her Medical Doctorate. Dr Mirza completed her residency training in Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Alberta in 2007. She has been recognized for her teaching abilities through the Excellence in Teaching (2004) award by medical students and the Ivan Steiner Award for Teaching Excellence (2014) by the emergency residents.

    Dr. Mirza holds an appointment as Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Alberta. She has been a staff emergency physician at the Grey Nuns Hospital (Edmonton, Alberta) since 2008 and has practiced as an Associate of Dermatology since 2013. During her time as a staff physician Dr Mirza pursued further training in the fields of dermatology and ultrasound. In 2012, she achieved Master Instructor status from the Canadian Emergency Ultrasound Society (CEUS).

    She pursued her passion in aesthetics and skin diseases by completing a Practical Diploma in Dermatology with Honors from Cardiff University in 2014.

    Alberto Oviedo

    GUSI Instructor

    Alberto Ángel Oviedo García es médico de urgencias en el Hospital de Valme
    (Sevilla) desde hace más de dos décadas, con una trayectoria profesional
    centrada en la asistencia clínica y, muy especialmente, en la formación de
    profesionales sanitarios. Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía por la Universidad
    de Sevilla en 1996 y especialista en Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, el Dr.
    Oviedo ha desarrollado una carrera marcada por la excelencia en el ámbito de
    las urgencias hospitalarias y la ecografía clínica aplicada al paciente agudo.
    Desde los primeros años de su carrera, ha mostrado una clara vocación por la
    docencia, liderando y participando como formador en decenas de cursos
    acreditados por la Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucía (ACSA). Ha
    impartido más de un millar de horas docentes en áreas clave como ecografía
    abdominal, eFAST, musculoesquelética, vascular, pulmonar y ecocardiografía,
    formando a médicos de urgencias, atención primaria y residentes de toda
    Andalucía y otras comunidades.
    Ha dirigido actividades formativas organizadas por el Servicio Andaluz de Salud
    (SAS), incluyendo programas oficiales sobre ecografía pulmonar en COVID-19
    o patologías abdominales más frecuentes, y ha sido docente habitual en
    iniciativas punteras como las desarrolladas por la Fundación IAVANTE. Su
    compromiso con la enseñanza se extiende al ámbito universitario, habiendo
    sido profesor del Experto Universitario en Atención al Trauma Grave de la
    Universidad Internacional de Andalucía.
    Reconocido por su claridad didáctica y enfoque eminentemente práctico, el Dr.
    Oviedo ha sido pieza clave en la expansión del uso de la ecografía clínica en
    los servicios de urgencias andaluces, impulsando su integración como
    herramienta diagnóstica esencial. Su trayectoria es referente en la formación
    de profesionales sanitarios comprometidos con una atención rápida, precisa y
    centrada en el paciente

    Alberto Romero Galán

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Alberto Romero Galán, is a specialist in family and community medicine, and a mentor for clinical ultrasound in Spain as a member of the ultrasound group of the Spanish Society of General and Family Medicine (SEMG). He is also registered as an IMC (Irish Medical Council) specialist in Ireland.

    He works as a GP in out-of-hours services in Ireland and serves as a GP in the Irish Army in the barracks in Kilkenny. Alberto participates as a teacher of clinical ultrasound courses in person in Spain, with several in person courses during the year. One of them is of long duration (100 hours) and is held twice a year, offering students continuous teaching for several days, with direct supervision, and practical and theoretical classes. The rest of the courses are usually subject specific (neck, abdomen, musculoskeletal…).

    Alberto was born in Huelva (Spain), where he grew up and was educated until he moved to Seville to study Medicine. Once he finished his medical degree, he moved to Salamanca, where he did his specialized training period (equivalent to residency) as a family doctor, using ultrasound as a key tool in his practice for the study of patients. After that he worked as a doctor in a primary care center, until he moved to Ireland in 2022. This did not stop his training in ultrasound, which he has kept active in Spain and has allowed him to become a mentor.

    He enjoys reading, especially crime novels. His love for ultrasound has made its study into a hobby, as well. He also loves paddle tennis, ping-pong, board games, and soccer. He likes to travel, and his current job and situation allow him to do it often.

    Aleen Altamirano

    GUSI Instructor

    Alessandro Mereu

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Alessandro Mereu

    General Practitioner since 2016, SIEMG diploma since 2023. President of the Italian Academy of Primary Care (2022-2028), ordinary Italian member of WONCA.

    He works in Sesto Fiorentino (FI), carries out tutoring activities for the CFSMG of the Tuscany Region and coordinates ECM activities for the approximately 1000 General Practitioners of the AUSL Toscana Centro. He is a member of the GTS of the CFSMG of the Tuscany Region.

    Reviewer “Primary Health Care Research & Development”
    Member of the PRAC Risk Minimisation Alliance of the European Medicine Agency
    He performs POCUS daily in his professional activity.

    Alex McDonald

    GUSI Instructor

    Alex McDonald MD, FAAFP, CAQSM practices Family and Sports Medicine at Kaiser Permanente in Fontana CA. Dr. McDonald serves several roles including; Family Medicine Residency and Sports Fellowship Faculty, KP School of Medicine Sports Medicine Clerkship Director. He is also Speaker for the California Academy of Family Physicians; Trustee of the California Medical Association and board member of the San Bernardino County Medical Society board member. He is also a member Advisory Council to the California Immunization Coalition; and is a Co-founder #ThisIsOurShot a digital grassroot health care movement to build vaccine confidence. His professional interests include exercise and physical activity, Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Health Policy and Preventative Medicine. Dr. McDonald holds degrees from Connecticut College, the University of Vermont Larnar College of Medicine, Southern California Kaiser Permanente as well as Duke University. Dr. McDonald lives in Claremont, CA with his wife, three children and three dogs. He enjoys running, riding his bike, cooking, coffee and 8pm dance parties with his kids.

    Allen Wong

    GUSI Instructor

    Allen Wong MD is a second year primary care sports medicine fellow at Oregon Health and Sciences University. He attended undergraduate and medical school at the University of Hawaii and completed family medicine residency at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix and primary care sports medicine fellowship at the University of New Mexico. He has a strong interest in learning and teaching the use of ultrasound in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for musculoskeletal conditions. He enjoys hiking, live music, and finding the best egg tarts during his travels.

    Allison Noesekabel

    GUSI Instructor

    Amanda Klinger

    GUSI Instructor

    Amanda Klinger is an internal medicine hospitalist based in New York who practices at
    Bellevue Hospital. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the New York University
    Grossman School of Medicine, where she serves as a faculty advisor for the Internal Medicine
    Residency Global Health Electives Program and the Education Co-Lead for AMPATH Ghana, an
    academic partnership amongst Ghanaian medical institutions and the AMPATH consortium of
    universities, led by NYUGSOM. With extensive training in global health, including a global
    health fellowship in Botswana where she originally honed her skills in Point-of-Care Ultrasound,
    Amanda focuses on improving healthcare delivery and education both locally and internationally.
    While at NYU/Bellevue, she has contributed to hands-on POCUS teaching for internal medicine
    residents and faculty members.

    Amanda attended the New York University Grossman School of Medicine after which she
    completed an internal medicine residency and global health fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess
    Medical Center. She is passionate about the transformative potential of Point-of-Care Ultrasound
    (POCUS) in enhancing access to high quality healthcare in low-resource settings. In her free
    time, she loves to play indoor and beach volleyball.

    Andrea Balbarini

    GUSI Instructor

    Dott. Andrea Balbarini,
    Medico di Medicina Generale dal 2023, diploma di ecografia generalista presso la scuola SIEMG dal 2024.
    Membro del comitato esecutivo dell’EURIPA (European rural and isolated practitioners association), iscritto alla WONCA.
    Lavora a Lama Mocogno e Polinago (Modena), svolge l’attività di animatore di formazione per i medici di medicina generale del distretto di Pavullo.
    Svolge quotidianamente POCUS nella sua attività professionale.

    Brian K. Mbugua

    GUSI Instructor

    Mr Brian K. Mbugua is a dedicated Clinician, Cardiac Sonographer, and Echocardiography Instructor with a strong background in Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). He holds a Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery from the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) and further specializes in Echocardiography and ECG through a certification course at KMTC.

    His ultrasound expertise extends beyond cardiac imaging, having undergone advanced training in Obstetric and Gynecological, eFAST, AAA, DVT, Vascular Access and Lung Ultrasound. As an instructor in Echocardiography and ECG, he is passionate about teaching and equipping healthcare providers with hands-on ultrasound skills to improve patient care.

    With a commitment to advancing ultrasound education and bedside diagnostics, Mr. Brian K. Mbugua aims to contribute to GUSI’s mission by delivering high-quality POCUS training and fostering ultrasound proficiency among healthcare professionals.

    Sheila Ayesa Masheti

    GUSI Instructor

    I am a dedicated nurse, KRCHN (Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse)/BScN with 11 years’ nursing experience. I have been involved in setting up and implementation of community projects to provide disseminated care model to patients. I am passionate about research and continued education to enable evidence based practices in resource limited populations. I have successfully coordinated research activities in the IMPALA 2 Project (International Multidisciplinary Programme to Adress Lung health and TB in Africa) at Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Respiratory Disease Research (KEMRI CRDR) / Kenyatta National Hospital on POCUS, and successfully put together two POCUS trainings in Nairobi using the Train the Trainer (ToT) model. Other previous experiences include clinical trial nurse-KEMRI between 2020 and 2021; University of Maryland Baltimore-Partnership for Advanced Care and Treatment (PACT) Endeleza project, December 2017-June 2019; and Clinical Nurse-MSF Belgium Kibera project, May 2013-December 2016.

    Aaron Inouye

    GUSI Instructor

    Aaron Inouye has working in emergency medicine since graduating from Pacific University’s Physician Assistant program in 2016; in addition to his clinical work he recently accepted a position Assistant Professor at Colorado Mesa University. He completed a fellowship in point-of-care ultrasound and teaches ultrasound to students, PAs, NPs, and physicians across the country. Aaron is on the board of directors for the Society of Point of Care Ultrasound and a member of ACEP’s Ultrasound Subcommittee for APPs. Excited about all things ultrasound, Aaron is especially interested in developing effective training programs, both for practicing clinicians and for students. Outside of work, Aaron enjoys going up and down mountains on his bike and skis, preferably while chasing his son and his dog.

    Adrian Cascales

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Adrián Cascales Martínez, médico especialista en medicina física y
    rehabilitación, experto universitario en ecografía músculoesquelética por la
    Universidad Francisco de Vitoria y participante en numerosos cursos de
    ecografía intervencionista.
    Trabaja en hospitales de la Región de Murcia, utilizando siempre la ecografía
    como complemento en el diagnóstico de la patología neuro-músculoesquelética
    y para dirigir las técnicas intervencionistas en el tratamiento de estas. Durante
    todo el año, realiza docencia a alumnos de medicina y a otros doctores MIR en
    este ámbito, recibiendo multitud de reconocimientos y premios por ello.
    Adrián nació en Murcia (España). Creció y se educó en una familia muy
    vinculada al mundo deportivo. Estudió Medicina en la Universidad de Murcia,
    siempre interesado en las patologías del sistema osteomuscular. Se formó en
    Medicina Física y Rehabilitación en el Hospital Universitario de Salamanca,
    donde realizó su formación MIR, utilizando siempre la ecografía como
    herramienta clave en el diagnóstico y, sobre todo, como guía de terapias
    intervencionistas eco-dirigidas. Durante este periodo, además de en
    Salamanca, hizo cursos y estancias formativas en hospitales de otras ciudades
    españolas y europeas, siempre con médicos que utilizaban la ecografía en el
    día a día de su práctica clínica.
    Al acabar este periodo MIR, Adrián volvió a Murcia, donde prosiguió con su
    formación en ecografía y donde se desarrolló profesionalmente como médico
    rehabilitador intervencionista, utilizando siempre el ecógrafo para dirigir sus
    terapias. Trabaja en el Hospital Universitario Los Arcos del Mar Menor y en el
    Hospital HLA La Vega, en los que forma parte de la Unidad de
    Intervencionismo ecoguiado.
    Sus hobbies están relacionados con el deporte, sobre todo, el baloncesto,
    aunque también disfruta con los deportes acuáticos y de montaña. Le encanta
    la gastronomía y viajar.

    Alberto Oviedo

    GUSI Instructor

    Alberto Ángel Oviedo García es médico de urgencias en el Hospital de Valme
    (Sevilla) desde hace más de dos décadas, con una trayectoria profesional
    centrada en la asistencia clínica y, muy especialmente, en la formación de
    profesionales sanitarios. Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía por la Universidad
    de Sevilla en 1996 y especialista en Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, el Dr.
    Oviedo ha desarrollado una carrera marcada por la excelencia en el ámbito de
    las urgencias hospitalarias y la ecografía clínica aplicada al paciente agudo.
    Desde los primeros años de su carrera, ha mostrado una clara vocación por la
    docencia, liderando y participando como formador en decenas de cursos
    acreditados por la Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucía (ACSA). Ha
    impartido más de un millar de horas docentes en áreas clave como ecografía
    abdominal, eFAST, musculoesquelética, vascular, pulmonar y ecocardiografía,
    formando a médicos de urgencias, atención primaria y residentes de toda
    Andalucía y otras comunidades.
    Ha dirigido actividades formativas organizadas por el Servicio Andaluz de Salud
    (SAS), incluyendo programas oficiales sobre ecografía pulmonar en COVID-19
    o patologías abdominales más frecuentes, y ha sido docente habitual en
    iniciativas punteras como las desarrolladas por la Fundación IAVANTE. Su
    compromiso con la enseñanza se extiende al ámbito universitario, habiendo
    sido profesor del Experto Universitario en Atención al Trauma Grave de la
    Universidad Internacional de Andalucía.
    Reconocido por su claridad didáctica y enfoque eminentemente práctico, el Dr.
    Oviedo ha sido pieza clave en la expansión del uso de la ecografía clínica en
    los servicios de urgencias andaluces, impulsando su integración como
    herramienta diagnóstica esencial. Su trayectoria es referente en la formación
    de profesionales sanitarios comprometidos con una atención rápida, precisa y
    centrada en el paciente

    Alberto Romero Galán

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Alberto Romero Galán, is a specialist in family and community medicine, and a mentor for clinical ultrasound in Spain as a member of the ultrasound group of the Spanish Society of General and Family Medicine (SEMG). He is also registered as an IMC (Irish Medical Council) specialist in Ireland.

    He works as a GP in out-of-hours services in Ireland and serves as a GP in the Irish Army in the barracks in Kilkenny. Alberto participates as a teacher of clinical ultrasound courses in person in Spain, with several in person courses during the year. One of them is of long duration (100 hours) and is held twice a year, offering students continuous teaching for several days, with direct supervision, and practical and theoretical classes. The rest of the courses are usually subject specific (neck, abdomen, musculoskeletal…).

    Alberto was born in Huelva (Spain), where he grew up and was educated until he moved to Seville to study Medicine. Once he finished his medical degree, he moved to Salamanca, where he did his specialized training period (equivalent to residency) as a family doctor, using ultrasound as a key tool in his practice for the study of patients. After that he worked as a doctor in a primary care center, until he moved to Ireland in 2022. This did not stop his training in ultrasound, which he has kept active in Spain and has allowed him to become a mentor.

    He enjoys reading, especially crime novels. His love for ultrasound has made its study into a hobby, as well. He also loves paddle tennis, ping-pong, board games, and soccer. He likes to travel, and his current job and situation allow him to do it often.

    Carmelo Herrera

    GUSI Instructor

    El Dr. Carmelo Herrera Carcedo es un médico de familia con más de 30 años de experiencia, especializado en ecografía clínica. Es miembro activo de la Sociedad Española de Ecografía (S.E.ECO.) y de la Sociedad Española de Médicos Generales y de Familia (SEMG). Actualmente, co-coordina el Área de Ginecología del Grupo de Trabajo de Ecografía de la SEMG, contribuyendo al desarrollo de protocolos y formación en esta especialidad.

    En su consulta privada en Burgos, ubicada en el Hospital San Juan de Dios, ofrece una amplia gama de estudios ecográficos con tecnología de última generación, incluyendo ecografías abdominales, musculoesqueléticas, de mama, tiroides, obstétricas y de cadera infantil. Su enfoque se centra en proporcionar diagnósticos precisos y rápidos, sin esperas ni necesidad de derivaciones previas.

    Además de su labor clínica, el Dr. Herrera es docente en la Escuela Nacional de Ecografía de la SEMG, participando activamente en la formación de profesionales de la salud en técnicas ecográficas avanzadas.

    Edgard Marcano

    GUSI Instructor

    Soy un Médico Cirujano graduado en la Universidad de Oriente en 2013, con una especialización en Medicina Intensiva obtenida en el Complejo Asistencial  niversitario de Salamanca (HUSA). A lo largo de mi carrera, he desarrollado una sólida trayectoria en el ámbito de la medicina crítica y la investigación, con un enfoque en la Coordinación de Trasplante de Órganos y Tejidos, valoración ecográfica del paciente crítico, tromboelastografía, hemorragias subaracnoideas, estudios de seguridad en pacientes críticos, gestión clínica y terapias de circulación extracorpórea.

    Formación Académica:

    • Médico Cirujano: Universidad de Oriente, 2013.
    • Especialización en Medicina Intensiva: Complejo Asistencial Universitario de
      Salamanca (HUSA), España.
    • Certificaciones:
    • BLS/ACLS por la American Heart Association (AHA), 2013.
    • Electrocardiografía Básica, 2013.
    • Toxicología, 2013.
    • Estudios Superiores:
    • Donación y trasplantes de órganos.
    • Gestión clínica.

    Experiencia Profesional:

    2013-2014: Ejercicio simultáneo en medicina pública y privada en el área de emergencia, cuidado y atención de pacientes críticos, y consultas de adultos y niños.
    2015-2022: Médico Intensivista en el Complejo Asistencial Universitario de Salamanca (HUSA), España.
    Desde 2023: Médico Intensivista en los Servicios de Medicina Intensiva de Hospiten Roca
    y el Hospital Universitario Doctor Negrín en Gran Canaria, España.
    Investigador Principal del Proyecto REMOS: Un proyecto impulsado por la Sociedad
    Española de Medicina Intensiva, Crítica y Unidades Coronarias (SEMICYUC).
    Investigación y Publicaciones:

    Mi experiencia en investigación comenzó en el campo de la parasitología, específicamente en la caracterización y descripción de la triatominofauna y tropismo en la enfermedad de Chagas. He participado activamente en numerosos congresos médicos nacionales e internacionales, presentando trabajos de investigación y ponencias sobre temas relacionados con la medicina crítica.

    Miembros y Sociedades Profesionales:

    • Sociedad Castellano-Leonesa de Medicina Intensiva, Crítica y Unidades Coronarias (SCLMICYUC)
    • Sociedad Española de Medicina Intensiva, Crítica y Unidades Coronarias (SEMICYUC)
    • Sociedad Europea de Medicina Crítica (ESICM)
    • European Society of Transplants (ESOT)
    • Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca (IBSAL)
    • Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias (SEMES)
    • Colegio de Médicos de Salamanca (COMSAL), España
    • Colegio de Médicos del Estado Anzoátegui, Venezuela

    Divulgación Científica y Aptitudes:

    Poseo una destacada capacidad de oratoria, lo que me ha permitido ser un promotor activo de la divulgación científica, particularmente en el ámbito de la medicina intensiva. He emprendido un proyecto de divulgación digital a través de Twitter, bajo el usuario @el_intensivista, donde comparto conocimientos y actualizaciones en mi área de especialidad. Además, cuento con publicaciones de índole no técnico-científico.

    Formación en Gestión y Administración:

    Además de mi formación clínica, obtuve un Máster en Gestión Sanitaria, lo que ha fortalecido mi capacidad para liderar y gestionar equipos en entornos de alta complejidad. Actualmente, estoy cursando un MBA, con el objetivo de ampliar mis competencias en administración y dirección de servicios de salud, integrando
    conocimientos de gestión empresarial en mi práctica médica.

    Jorge Permanyer

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Jorge Permanyer Barrier es médico especialista en ecografía
    musculoesquelética, con una trayectoria clínica y docente de referencia
    nacional e internacional. Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía por la Universidad
    de Barcelona (1983), complementó su formación con un Diploma Universitario
    en Ecografía en la Universidad de Nîmes-Montpellier (Francia), entre 2004 y
    2005.
    Desde los años 90, ha liderado diversos servicios clínicos vinculados al
    diagnóstico por imagen. Fue director médico del Centro de Accidentes
    Laborales de Cerdanyola del Vallès durante casi dos décadas y ha ejercido
    como ecografista en centros de reconocido prestigio como el Institut Ferran de
    Reumatología (Clínica CIMA), el Centro de Diagnóstico Dr. Manchón, la Clínica
    Hospital Diagonal o el Centre Mèdic Can Mora.
    En el ámbito docente, el Dr. Permanyer ha sido una figura clave en el desarrollo
    y expansión de la formación en ecografía musculoesquelética en España. Fue
    coordinador de la Sección de Ecografía del aparato locomotor de la Escuela de
    Ecografía de la SEMG hasta 2017, y ha impartido docencia en dicha institución,
    así como en la Sociedad Española de Ecografía (SEECO), la Universidad de
    Barcelona y la Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM),
    participando en múltiples másteres y cursos de posgrado.
    Ponente habitual en congresos nacionales e internacionales, ha presidido y
    formado parte de comités organizadores y científicos de eventos clave como el
    Congreso Internacional de Ecografía o el Congreso Europeo EUROSON. Su
    labor formativa se ha visto reforzada con la codirección de los cursos de
    ecografía del aparato locomotor de la Clínica Diagonal durante cinco ediciones
    consecutivas.
    Miembro activo de numerosas sociedades científicas, entre ellas la SEMG,
    SERAM, SEECO, SEUS, SEDIM, la Sociedad Europea de Ecografía
    (EFSUMB) y el American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), el Dr.
    Permanyer ha contribuido también a la literatura científica con capítulos de
    libros y publicaciones en revistas especializadas, especialmente en el campo
    de la ecografía musculoesquelética aplicada al deporte y la patología laboral.

    Jose Carlos Sánchez

    GUSI Instructor

    Jose Carlos Sánchez Sánchez es médico especialista en Radiodiagnóstico
    con más de 25 años de experiencia al frente del Servicio de Radiología del
    Hospital de Poniente (Almería). Formado en la Universidad de Salamanca y
    con residencia en el Hospital Regional Carlos Haya de Málaga, ha combinado
    su labor asistencial con un fuerte compromiso docente, siendo tutor de
    residentes y estudiantes de medicina de la Universidad de Almería.
    Especialmente implicado en el cribado de cáncer de mama, ha sido lector del
    programa desde 1998 y coordinador intrahospitalario desde 2001. Es también
    un referente nacional en ecografía clínica, con una prolífica actividad como
    autor y coordinador de manuales y programas de formación universitaria,
    incluyendo el “ABC de ecografía abdominal” (Editorial Panamericana, 2024) y
    el Máster en Ecografía Clínica para atención primaria (TECH, 2021).
    Miembro activo de la SEMG, donde es jefe del grupo de trabajo de ecografía
    clínica y colabora desde hace dos décadas en congresos nacionales, José
    Carlos combina conocimiento, experiencia y vocación por la mejora continua de
    la calidad asistencial, con acreditación avanzada en la carrera profesional por
    la ACSA.

    Marga Algaba

    GUSI Instructor

    Soy médico de Urgencias en un hospital de Sevilla, Valme, desde 2004; comencé mi
    andadura en ecografía en 2006, junto con el Dr Alberto Oviedo, buscando al principio
    formación a nivel internacional, para comenzar poco después en docencia, a través de
    varias sociedades científicas como SEMERGEN, SEMES, SIEC y WINFOCUS; en los
    últimos años somos referentes en formación del proyecto itinerario formativo en
    ecografía clínica del Sistema Andaluz de salud , aparte de participar en múltiples cursos
    y talleres, especialmente para médicos de Familia y Urgencias en cualquier nivel
    asistencial, aunque también hemos hecho formación para otras especialidades como
    pediatras, neumólogos, traumatología,….
    Creemos en la ecografía clínica como una herramienta básica para el clínico,
    absolutamente integrada en nuestra consulta, a continuación de la anamnesis y la
    exploración, agilizando y optimizando el tiempo diagnóstico de una forma inocua,
    eficiente y precisa, con todo lo que supone para paciente y profesional en seguridad y
    autonomía, así como imprescindible para la mayoría de las técnicas invasivas en nuestro
    ámbito.
    Mi mayor ilusión es transmitir el entusiasmo en esta técnica que tanto nos ayuda en el
    quehacer diario.
    Saludos,
    Margarita Algaba Montes

    Martín Marchese

    GUSI Instructor

    El Dr. Martín Marchese Ratti es médico de urgencias, ecografista, director
    médico y docente con una sólida trayectoria en la formación de profesionales
    sanitarios en ecografía clínica. Es Licenciado en Medicina con diploma de honor por
    el Instituto Universitario del prestigioso Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, donde
    también se desempeñó como profesor adjunto de Embriología.
    Combina su labor asistencial con una intensa actividad docente, y en los últimos años
    ha participado como ponente en congresos nacionales de ecografía clínica y medicina
    familiar, entre ellos los celebrados en Palma de Mallorca, Bilbao, Santiago de
    Compostela, Granada y A Coruña.
    Es autor y director de la 3.ª edición del libro El ABC de la Ecografía Abdominal,
    publicado en 2024 por Editorial Panamericana, y director de la 2.ª edición del
    programa Experto en Ecografía Clínica para Médicos de Familia, desarrollado junto
    con la SEMG (Sociedad Española de Médicos Generales y de Familia), Editorial
    Panamericana y la Universidad de Barcelona, publicado en 2025.
    Como coordinador adjunto del Grupo de Trabajo de Ecografía de la SEMG, ha
    contribuido a la organización y desarrollo de numerosos cursos y actividades
    formativas.
    Entre 2020 y 2021, codirigió el programa de formación en ecografía clínica del
    Servicio Murciano de Salud (SMS), en el que se formaron más de 600 médicos,
    impartiendo personalmente más de 400 horas de formación presencial. En 2022 ha
    sido docente en el programa de formación en ecografía clínica del Servicio Andaluz
    de Salud (SAS). Actualmente es también docente en el programa de formación del
    Servicio de Salud de Castilla-La Mancha (SESCAM).
    En el ámbito digital, ha creado y desarrollado Webformed, una plataforma de
    formación online especializada en ecografía clínica, que ha servido como soporte a la
    formación de más de 1.400 profesionales sanitarios.
    Su actividad docente se complementa con una extensa trayectoria clínica
    como médico de urgencias, exjefe de servicio y médico de transporte aéreo de
    pacientes críticos, con especial énfasis en la aplicación práctica de la ecografía
    clínica en contextos de atención inmediata y toma rápida de decisiones.

    Pascual Daza-Ramirez

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Pascual Daza-Ramirez, MD MBA MRCGP MPH(Cantab) EIA(EMCC) BMUS, is a Senior Hon. Clinical Lecturer of Exeter Medical School (UK), a GP Trainer and Educational Supervisor (Health Education England) and a Senior Mentor to newly qualified Family Physicians enrolled in the Fellowship Programme of South West of England NHS Leadership Academy.

    He is an attending Family Medicine Physician (General Practitioner) at Middleway Surgery, where he is the lead Research Physician, near Carlyon Bay in St Austell on the south coast of Cornwall (UK).

    Pascual runs in person POCUS training courses three times a year in Cornwall (UK). He also has served as an instructor on the “London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Ultrasound Course for the Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene” (London). In the last twelve months he has trained over sixty junior doctors (residents) ultrasound imaging acquisition techniques and clinical image interpretation.

    Pascual was born and educated in Barcelona (Spain) where he gained his medical degree from UB (la Universidad de Barcelona) Medical School and his MBA qualification from European University Business School. He completed postgraduate training in Family Medicine (General Practice) in Truro (Cornwall) followed by academic training in Public Health and Epidemiology at Cambridge University and Pharmaceutical Medicine at Cardiff University in Wales (UK). He is a member of the British Medical Ultrasound Society (BMUS) and a member of the Royal College of General Practitioner (RCGP) in England.

    Pascual’s hobbies entail dinghy sailing, playing tennis, and competing in local amateur tournaments. He also has an interest in guitar playing (mainly flamenco with occasional attempts at blues and jazz with his Gibson Les Paul), but feels he is not good enough to play in public yet.

    Raquel Rodriguez

    GUSI Instructor

    La doctora Rodríguez es especialista en radiodiagnóstico por imagen con sede en
    Mallorca, donde trabaja en el Hospital de Inca. Se formó en el Hospital Universitario de
    Salamanca, donde completó su residencia en radiología durante cuatro años, y ha
    continuado su formación en instituciones de renombre internacional, como el Hospital
    Karolinska en Estocolmo y el Hospital Universitario de La Fe en Valencia.
    Miembro activo de la Sociedad Española de Radiología y de la Sociedad de Radiología
    Francesa, Raquel tiene una especial dedicación a la radiología del aparato digestivo,
    campo en el que también participa activamente en el Comité de Patología Inflamatoria
    del Aparato Digestivo de su hospital. Aunque actualmente desempeña su carrera como
    radióloga generalista, su experiencia en esta área le ha permitido profundizar en el
    diagnóstico y tratamiento de enfermedades digestivas.
    A lo largo de su carrera, ha acumulado una sólida experiencia profesional en diversos
    hospitales de España y París, lo que le ha permitido enriquecer su práctica clínica con
    una visión global e interdisciplinaria. Raquel ha participado activamente en congresos
    nacionales e internacionales y ha completado diversos cursos y másteres especializados
    en radiología, lo que ha enriquecido su formación y práctica profesional. Su enfoque
    abarca diversas subespecialidades dentro de la radiología, adaptándose a las necesidades
    del entorno hospitalario y contribuyendo a la educación médica.
    Raquel destaca la importancia de la ecografía en atención primaria como una
    herramienta clave para mejorar la calidad de la atención médica. Considera fundamental
    que los médicos de atención primaria reciban una formación adecuada en las bases de
    esta técnica, ya que puede contribuir significativamente a una detección temprana de
    enfermedades y a una gestión más eficaz de los pacientes.
    Además, Raquel tiene una gran pasión por la docencia y por transmitir su conocimiento
    a otros profesionales de la salud. Le gusta compartir sus experiencias y aprendizajes con
    futuros radiólogos y médicos, contribuyendo al crecimiento y la formación continua en
    su especialidad.

    Víctor Barreales

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Víctor Barreales Rodríguez, médico especialista en Medicina Interna.
    Miembro de la Unidad de ecografía clínica de Medicina Interna en el Complejo
    Asistencial Universitario de León y del grupo de trabajo de ecografía de la
    Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna.
    Además de su labor asistencial en el hospital, Víctor es el encargado de
    ecocardiografía del servicio de Medicina Interna tanto en el Hospital de León
    como en el Hospital Monte San Isidro.
    Ha impartido varios cursos de formación en ecografía clínica a médicos
    residentes y adjuntos de varios hospitales de Castilla y León.
    Víctor nació en León, estudió medicina en la Universidad de Valladolid y se
    especializó en Medicina Interna en el Complejo Asistencial Universitario de
    Salamanca. Se formó en ecografía clínica en el Hospital Universitario Infanta
    Leonor en Madrid, aplicando lo aprendido allí en los hospitales donde ha
    trabajado posteriormente.
    Una vez terminada la especialidad de Medicina Interna ha trabajado en los
    hospitales de León, El Bierzo y Hospital Monte San Isidro.
    Actualmente Víctor se encuentra cursando el máster oficial de Ecografía Clínica
    de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

    Alessandro Mereu

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Alessandro Mereu

    General Practitioner since 2016, SIEMG diploma since 2023. President of the Italian Academy of Primary Care (2022-2028), ordinary Italian member of WONCA.

    He works in Sesto Fiorentino (FI), carries out tutoring activities for the CFSMG of the Tuscany Region and coordinates ECM activities for the approximately 1000 General Practitioners of the AUSL Toscana Centro. He is a member of the GTS of the CFSMG of the Tuscany Region.

    Reviewer “Primary Health Care Research & Development”
    Member of the PRAC Risk Minimisation Alliance of the European Medicine Agency
    He performs POCUS daily in his professional activity.

    Andrea Balbarini

    GUSI Instructor

    Dott. Andrea Balbarini,
    Medico di Medicina Generale dal 2023, diploma di ecografia generalista presso la scuola SIEMG dal 2024.
    Membro del comitato esecutivo dell’EURIPA (European rural and isolated practitioners association), iscritto alla WONCA.
    Lavora a Lama Mocogno e Polinago (Modena), svolge l’attività di animatore di formazione per i medici di medicina generale del distretto di Pavullo.
    Svolge quotidianamente POCUS nella sua attività professionale.

    Carlo Toscani

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Carlo Toscani, MD

    Specialist in Radiodiagnostics, General Practitioner, Master’s Degree in Economics and Finance.

    Forty-five years old, Specialist in Radiodiagnostics at the University of Parma, Dr. Carlo Toscani is a general practitioner serving in Fidenza (Parma), having returned to clinical activity in the area for about three years.
    Passionate about ultrasound and particularly about handheld devices, he is convinced that a medical examination in 2025 should often be eco-assisted, especially regarding abdominal pathology, which he studies with an eye trained on heavy machines.
    With an unusual passion for teaching, he does not disdain ultrasounding the chest, venous system, and soft tissues, with a “whole-body” approach to the ultrasound examination.
    In another life, he worked at an insurance broker after a degree in economics and finance.

    Paolo Pace

    GUSI Instructor

    He works as a General Practitioner in Cantù (CO), where he uses POCUS on a daily basis for both diagnostic and musculoskeletal interventional activities.

    He took his first steps in ultrasound after attending numerous courses (mainly organized by SIUMB and SIEMG), initially in the Emergency Department and in the Continuity of Care setting. Subsequently, he worked as an ultrasound specialist in correctional healthcare and as a freelance physician in private outpatient clinics.

    He firmly believes that the general practitioner should reclaim their role as a clinician, particularly by focusing on first-level diagnostics at the point of care (not only POCUS, but also electrocardiography and spirometry).

    [email protected]

    Riccardo Govoni

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Riccardo Govoni, MD

    General Practitioner, Secretary S.I.M.G. Parma, tutor doctor for the Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Parma, expert in POCUS ultrasound, board member of the A.M.T.I. sports medicine association.

    Dr. Riccardo Govoni is a general practitioner based in Parma, with over 13 years of experience in primary care and continuity of care services. Over the years, he has developed a solid expertise in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), with particular attention to musculoskeletal and generalist fields.

    He has attended numerous ultrasound courses organized by SIEMG and various others over the years. He is passionate about integrating ultrasound into daily clinical practice as an essential tool for rapid and effective diagnosis and in the field of eco-guided and eco-assisted osteoarticular infiltrations.

    His commitment to continuous medical education also translates into supporting students in acquiring ultrasound skills, with the aim of improving the quality of care through a more conscious and patient-oriented approach.

    Simone Melai

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Simone Melai MD

    General Practitioner | POCUS Trainer | Expert in Generalist Ultrasound and Eco-Color Doppler

    Dr. Simone Melai works in Cerreto Guidi (Florence) as a General Practitioner.

    Over the years, he has developed solid experience in POCUS, now part of his daily work in the Generalist field, with skills also in eco-color doppler.

    He is convinced that a medical examination in 2025 should often be eco-assisted with an overall view of individual imaging findings.

    He believes that sharing his experience with other colleagues is a fundamental part of his work. For several years, he has been a lecturer in the Ecos-Pocus cycle and has participated as a trainer in other POCUS training courses.

    Tommaso Barnini

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Tommaso Barnini, MD
    General Practitioner | POCUS Trainer | Expert in Musculoskeletal and General Ultrasound

    Dr. Tommaso Barnini is a general practitioner based in Florence, with over ten years of experience in primary care and out-of-hours medical services. Over the years, he has developed strong expertise in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), with a particular focus on musculoskeletal and general applications.

    He teaches in several POCUS training courses across Italy, including the ECOS POCUS series, where he is involved in both theoretical instruction and hands-on practical training. He is passionate about integrating ultrasound into daily clinical practice as a key tool for rapid and effective diagnosis.

    His commitment to ongoing medical education is also reflected in his support for fellow doctors and healthcare professionals in acquiring ultrasound skills, with the goal of improving the quality of care through a more informed and patient-centered approach.

    Tommaso Gistri

    GUSI Instructor

    General Practitioner | SIUMB Lecturer of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

    Dr. Tommaso Gistri works as a General Practitioner in Viareggio (LU), with over ten years of experience in Primary Care and Continuity of Care services. Over the years, he has learned ultrasound by attending numerous SIUMB courses in musculoskeletal, internal medicine, and vascular fields.

    He teaches at the SIUMB School of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound ECOMSKBO in Bologna. He uses ultrasound daily in his General Practice office, where he performs point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to make more precise diagnoses and autonomously follow patients with chronic problems requiring ultrasound follow-up.

    Liesl Annandale

    Training & Coordination, Southern Africa

    Liesl Annandale completed her B.Rad (diagnostic) at the University of Pretoria in 2004 and her B.Tech (ultrasound) degree at the University of Johannesburg in 2010. After completing her studies, she has worked both in clinical and commercial environments.

    Liesl dedicated the past eight years to uplifting communities through POCUS education in various low-resource African settings, including Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

    She has a passion for education and the amelioration it ensures communities. She believes that, with the limited resources and poor economic growth, each of us is responsible for leading the way in improving the quality of health care provided to women in our African countries.

    She is convinced that we can achieve this with continuous investment in education, the vision and goodwill of dedicated experts, committed Ministries of Health, vital partners in companies, and the selfless, hardworking healthcare professionals investing their time for the general good of society.

    She is an avid trail runner in her free time, enjoys spending time outdoors with her boisterous two sons and adventurous husband, and is an enthusiastic supporter of the local Winelands she calls home. Time is her most significant investment, and books are a devoted companion.

    Alberto Romero Galán

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Alberto Romero Galán, is a specialist in family and community medicine, and a mentor for clinical ultrasound in Spain as a member of the ultrasound group of the Spanish Society of General and Family Medicine (SEMG). He is also registered as an IMC (Irish Medical Council) specialist in Ireland.

    He works as a GP in out-of-hours services in Ireland and serves as a GP in the Irish Army in the barracks in Kilkenny. Alberto participates as a teacher of clinical ultrasound courses in person in Spain, with several in person courses during the year. One of them is of long duration (100 hours) and is held twice a year, offering students continuous teaching for several days, with direct supervision, and practical and theoretical classes. The rest of the courses are usually subject specific (neck, abdomen, musculoskeletal…).

    Alberto was born in Huelva (Spain), where he grew up and was educated until he moved to Seville to study Medicine. Once he finished his medical degree, he moved to Salamanca, where he did his specialized training period (equivalent to residency) as a family doctor, using ultrasound as a key tool in his practice for the study of patients. After that he worked as a doctor in a primary care center, until he moved to Ireland in 2022. This did not stop his training in ultrasound, which he has kept active in Spain and has allowed him to become a mentor.

    He enjoys reading, especially crime novels. His love for ultrasound has made its study into a hobby, as well. He also loves paddle tennis, ping-pong, board games, and soccer. He likes to travel, and his current job and situation allow him to do it often.

    Andrew Cupples

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Andrew Cupples is at heart a general practitioner with broad interests in many aspects of healthcare, but has particular expertise and specialist training in Minor Surgery, Men and Women’s Fertility Planning, Musculoskeletal Medicine, and Endocrinology in Primary Care.

    He is currently one of if not the only, GP in Northern Ireland using Point of Care Ultrasound techniques for routine Primary Care work in practice. He is working towards changing this through my work in GUSI! He enjoys his role as an accredited GP Trainer and Medical Student educator, and he is also a trainer in Minor Surgical and Joint Injection Techniques. He has been performing Minor Surgery and corticosteroid injections in practice for over 13 years.

    Duane Smith

    GUSI Instructor

    I am currently working as an echocardiographer within Ultracardiac Ltd (a private company operating in the South-West of England). Prior to this I worked at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, initially as a Healthcare Support Worker then progressing in the field of healthcare over a 7-yr period, gaining experience within Cardiac, Vascular and Respiratory Sciences, specialising in Cardiology. I went on to complete a MSc in Cardiac Science at Manchester Metropolitan University, alongside completing a Scientific Training Programme allowing me to hold the title of Clinical Scientist in the UK. I am both SCST and BSE accredited, specialising in Echocardiography. I am also an end-point assessor for Bristol University, assisting in the growth of Cardiac Physiologists in the UK.

    I am passionate about healthcare development, education delivery and optimising patient care. I am excited to be given the opportunity to work with the GUSI team to provide POCUS training to primary healthcare providers, aiming to streamline patient care delivery in the UK, reducing waiting times and unnecessary referrals.

    Laura Holmes

    GUSI Instructor
    Laura Holmes BSc (Hons) PGDip is a Sonographer having trained in Diagnostic medical imaging at the University of Exeter followed by a PGDip Medical Ultrasound at City, University of London. Laura has been scanning for 12 years working in both the NHS and private sector scanning general abdominal, obstetrics and gynecology, renal, and testes ultrasound where she has also had the opportunity to train other student sonographers. She has been approached to assist in the training of POCUS by a local GP and is excited to teach others what she has learned over the years. She hopes this will benefit many patients enabling them to receive more timely diagnoses and treatments.
    In her spare time, Laura loves to sing, sea swim, and bake for her family and friends

    Michael Armstrong

    GUSI Instructor

    Michael Armstrong completed his Internal Medicine training at Wake Forest School of Medicine and is currently a General Medicine Ultrasound fellow at Oregon Health & Science University. He began using POCUS in residency when he completed his residency’s designated POCUS pathway and has continued on this journey now in his fellowship. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his dogs, cat, and wife, in addition to biking and generally being outdoors.

    Pascual Daza-Ramirez

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr Pascual Daza-Ramirez, MD MBA MRCGP MPH(Cantab) EIA(EMCC) BMUS, is a Senior Hon. Clinical Lecturer of Exeter Medical School (UK), a GP Trainer and Educational Supervisor (Health Education England) and a Senior Mentor to newly qualified Family Physicians enrolled in the Fellowship Programme of South West of England NHS Leadership Academy.

    He is an attending Family Medicine Physician (General Practitioner) at Middleway Surgery, where he is the lead Research Physician, near Carlyon Bay in St Austell on the south coast of Cornwall (UK).

    Pascual runs in person POCUS training courses three times a year in Cornwall (UK). He also has served as an instructor on the “London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Ultrasound Course for the Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene” (London). In the last twelve months he has trained over sixty junior doctors (residents) ultrasound imaging acquisition techniques and clinical image interpretation.

    Pascual was born and educated in Barcelona (Spain) where he gained his medical degree from UB (la Universidad de Barcelona) Medical School and his MBA qualification from European University Business School. He completed postgraduate training in Family Medicine (General Practice) in Truro (Cornwall) followed by academic training in Public Health and Epidemiology at Cambridge University and Pharmaceutical Medicine at Cardiff University in Wales (UK). He is a member of the British Medical Ultrasound Society (BMUS) and a member of the Royal College of General Practitioner (RCGP) in England.

    Pascual’s hobbies entail dinghy sailing, playing tennis, and competing in local amateur tournaments. He also has an interest in guitar playing (mainly flamenco with occasional attempts at blues and jazz with his Gibson Les Paul), but feels he is not good enough to play in public yet.

    Raymond Rowan

    GUSI Instructor
    Dr. Raymond Rowan is an experienced General Practitioner with a special interest in musculoskeletal injuries, sports medicine, and primary care ultrasound. Over the years, he has developed expertise in musculoskeletal health, earning qualifications in Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) and Musculoskeletal Injection Therapy to enhance clinical practice. His commitment to continuous professional development has led him to complete a Diploma in Musculoskeletal Examination and Injury Management, as well as a Professional Diploma in Clinical Leadership. With a background spanning emergency medicine, pediatrics, and care of the elderly he bring a well-rounded approach to patient care.
    He was part of the first cohort of GPs in Ireland to receive formal POCUS training for primary care and continue to advocate for its integration into everyday clinical practice. He regularly use POCUS in nursing homes and in care for the elderly, improving diagnostic accuracy and patient management for older adults. In addition to his clinical work, he is actively involved in medical education as a tutor for medical students and a supervisor for GP trainees and residents. He is excited to be working with GUSI to educate and encourage the use of POCUS in primary care in Ireland, helping to enhance diagnostic capabilities and patient care.
    Beyond his medical expertise, he is an accomplished endurance athlete, competing in Ironman events while promoting injury prevention and rehabilitation. Through his clinical, educational, and athletic endeavors, He strive to drive innovation, excellence, and patient-centered care.

    Scott Rogers

    GUSI Instructor

    Scott Rogers BSc, MSc, is a Sonographer having trained in Diagnostic medical imaging at St. George’s Medical School London followed by an MSc in Medical Ultrasound at the University of the West of England. Scott has been scanning for many years, working in both the NHS and private sector in general abdominal, urology, gynaecology and musculoskeletal ultrasound. Scott has a passion for teaching and has trained numerous candidates from various universities and hospitals and is enthusiastic for the benefits POCUS brings to healthcare.

    Scott was born in Cornwall, UK but grew up on the west coast of Canada. He has since returned to Cornwall where he lives by the sea with his family. When he is not organising study days or preparing university lectures, Scott enjoys a quiet glass of wine and good jazz.

    Yuka Uruma

    GUSI Instructor

    Dr. Yuka Uruma is a physician with a strong passion for global health and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) education. She completed her medical degree at Nagoya City University and her foundation training at Wakkanai City Hospital in Japan, where she gained broad clinical experience. She is also registered with GMC (General Medical Council) in United Kingdom.

    Dr. Uruma has extensive experience teaching POCUS across Japan, serving as an instructor at national conferences and workshops including the Japanese Association for Home Care Medicine, the Family Medicine Winter Seminar, and the Hokkaido Primary Forum. She also led the Asahikawa Medical University Student POCUS League, training medical students in ultrasound technique and clinical application.

    Her global health activities include volunteering in medical camps and providing ultrasound education in Kenya, reflecting her dedication to improving healthcare access and training worldwide. Skilled in echocardiography as well as abdominal, lung, and musculoskeletal ultrasound, Dr. Uruma integrates practical diagnostic imaging into clinical and educational settings.

    Dr. Uruma is committed to advancing the use of ultrasound in primary care and fostering international collaboration in medical education.

     

    Charlie Sacro

    Doug Williams

    Doug Williams currently leads AI related development efforts at GUSI. Doug is interested in the application of technology to healthcare delivery in low resource settings, previously working on cardiac arrhythmia detection and an USAID-funded project to develop intrapartum fetal monitoring and decision support tools. Prior to his focus on healthcare, Doug was a 30+ year veteran of the computer industry, serving as a Senior Director in the CTO Office for Red Hat, a leading open source company, and as a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard. Doug holds MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and has been granted 17 US Patents.

    Elizabeth Sayre

    Operations

    Elizabeth Sayre began working with GUSI in September 2019. Her professional background includes non-profit and arts administration, music performance, university teaching, advocacy for traditional artists, grant writing, arts philanthropy, interpretation/translation (Spanish and French), and organizing educational travel to Cuba for health professionals . She has researched and played Afro-Cuban music since 1992, and has authored 15 articles and co-authored a book chapter on traditional musicians and music. She studied graduate ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University, and holds an MA from the Graduate Program in Literature at Duke University, as well as dual Bachelors’ degrees from MIT in Chemical Engineering and Humanities.

    Eva Lorelie Pimentel

    Bio

    Gaitan D’Antoni

    AI

    Gaitan D’Antoni is currently working on the AI related development efforts at GUSI. Gaitan is interested in all aspects of computer technology. He previously worked on an USAID-funded project to develop health related Android applications in low resource settings. He took on-line courses to learn Android and AI development after having retired as a Distinguished Technologist from Hewlett-Packard following a 35+ year career in the computer industry. His work included customer support, application development and operating system development. Gaitan holds a BS degree in Computer Science from The University of Houston.

    Jahheart Rabina

    Admin Associate

    Jahheart Cris Rabina holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Human Resource Management from Saint Joseph College. In 2019, she completed an 18-unit course for a Diploma in Professional Education to prepare for the Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers, which she successfully passed in 2022.

    For the past five years, she has chosen not to practice her profession, instead working as a Customer Service Representative, where she discovered a passion for assisting customers. Jahheart is currently an Admin Associate at GUSI Philippines, primarily supporting the HR department and In-Person courses.

    In her free time, she enjoys spending quality moments with her family, watching historical Korean dramas, listening to music, and singing karaoke, which provides her with a sense of calm.

    Jozel Oraiz

    Bio

    Kris Merrill

    Kris Merrill is a medical student at the University of California San Francisco. Kris earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science and had multiple careers in technology before pursuing his passion for medicine. He supported scientific research as a marine electronics technician in Antarctica and worked as a site reliability engineer and engineering manager for Bay Area tech startups. As a deaf person with bilateral cochlear implants who loves to travel, Kris is incredibly motivated to help make GUSI more accessible for DHH and global learners.

    Latoya B. Williams

    Advisory Board

    Dr. L.B. Williams is a veteran educator with over 20 years of experience. Dr. Williams has a PhD in Urban Education Leadership from Claremont Graduate University and leads Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training for schools from the elementary to the postgraduate level. She founded Black Girls Brilliance (BGB) in 2016, after her research identified a lack of resources (academic support, mental health counseling, college and career mentoring, etc) available for Black Girls in K-12 settings. BGB now operates in the U.S. and South Africa. Currently, Dr. Williams’ work is at the intersections of education, health care access and mental health, where she and a team of developers have created technological tools to address the resource gap in these areas for girls and their families. She serves on the GUSI Advisory Board, sharing her expertise on curriculum development, DEI, and POCUS in Africa.

    Lea Ramos

    GUSI Philippines Director

    Liesl Annandale

    Training & Coordination, Southern Africa

    Liesl Annandale completed her B.Rad (diagnostic) at the University of Pretoria in 2004 and her B.Tech (ultrasound) degree at the University of Johannesburg in 2010. After completing her studies, she has worked both in clinical and commercial environments.

    Liesl dedicated the past eight years to uplifting communities through POCUS education in various low-resource African settings, including Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

    She has a passion for education and the amelioration it ensures communities. She believes that, with the limited resources and poor economic growth, each of us is responsible for leading the way in improving the quality of health care provided to women in our African countries.

    She is convinced that we can achieve this with continuous investment in education, the vision and goodwill of dedicated experts, committed Ministries of Health, vital partners in companies, and the selfless, hardworking healthcare professionals investing their time for the general good of society.

    She is an avid trail runner in her free time, enjoys spending time outdoors with her boisterous two sons and adventurous husband, and is an enthusiastic supporter of the local Winelands she calls home. Time is her most significant investment, and books are a devoted companion.

    Lindsey Lao

    Admin Associate

    Lindsey Lao is an Admin Associate at GUSI Philippines, primarily supporting the fellowships program. A graduate of Information Technology from the Systems Technology Institute (STI), Lindsey blends her technical expertise with a genuine passion for fostering opportunities for others.

    An outdoor enthusiast, she loves exploring nature and enjoys engaging in various activities that allow her to connect with the world around her. Family is a cornerstone of Lindsey’s life; she treasures the time spent with her loved ones and finds joy in creating meaningful memories together. Music and singing are her creative outlets, providing a wonderful balance to her busy life.

    Lindsey’s dedication to caring for her grandparents has sparked a strong interest in the healthcare industry, particularly in GUSI’s mission. Her compassion and eagerness to support others drive her commitment to making a positive impact in the lives of those around her. With a warm heart and a strong work ethic, Lindsey is poised to contribute significantly to both her community and her professional field.

    Mai Hong

    Head of Operations

    Mai Hong is a strategic operations leader with over a decade of experience driving transformation in healthcare, health tech, and client services. As an operator, problem-solver, and builder, she specializes in scaling organizations through operational redesign, cross-functional collaboration, and the implementation of high-impact workflows that improve efficiency, employee engagement, and client experience. She has led teams through rapid growth phases and has built multiple departments from the ground up, including client services, patient navigation, and people operations.

    Her career spans leadership roles at Cleerly, Teladoc (formerly Livongo), and Advocate Health Care. She holds a Master of Public Health from Boston University, and in a past life was a teacher in Chicago Public Schools. Outside of work, she likes to foster dogs for her local shelter and enjoys trail running.

    Navneet Kathuria

    Senior Medical Advisor

    Navneet Kathuria, M.D., of New York County, currently serves as President & CEO, Optimal Analytics. During the past 25 years, Dr. Kathuria has worked in all aspects of health care from medical practitioner to educator and executive, most recently as Chief Medical Officer for Community Health Care Network. In his prior role as vice president of Hackensack Meridian Health’s Population Health Management, Dr. Kathuria provided strategic and operational leadership for the development of the Population Health platform across the Hackensack Meridian Health network. Prior to joining Hackensack Meridian Health, Dr. Kathuria established Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Globalization as the school’s chief performance improvement officer and served as vice chairman of Quality Assurance and deputy chief medical officer for Mount Sinai Hospital. He is also a published author and co-edited “The Handbook of Hospital Medicine.” Dr. Kathuria received his medical degree from Albany Medical College in New York and trained in internal medicine at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, in hematology at Yale University, and in general medicine at Columbia University. He earned his MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.

    Neil Jayasekera

    Advisory Board

    Neil is a family physician who has dedicated his career to providing medical care to the underserved both nationally and internationally. He has provided full spectrum care in low resource settings and understands the utility and need for POCUS. Neil’s practice has included work in emergency medicine, obstetrics, ambulatory care, inpatient, rural, and disaster medicine. In 2011, as a core faculty member at Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency, he created a global health fellowship and one of the first POCUS curriculum training programs in Family Medicine. He is proud that graduates of Contra Costa have become recognized leaders in POCUS education. He has taught POCUS to thousands of providers and has been the principal organizer of POCUS workshops at AAFP, CAFP, STFM, Contra Costa, and other family medicine residency programs in the United States and abroad. Neil is the primary author and editor of the American Academy of Family Physicians Point of Care Ultrasound Curriculum Guidelines and has co-authored multiple articles on the use of POCUS in Primary Care and Global Health.

    Paolo Pace

    GUSI Instructor

    He works as a General Practitioner in Cantù (CO), where he uses POCUS on a daily basis for both diagnostic and musculoskeletal interventional activities.

    He took his first steps in ultrasound after attending numerous courses (mainly organized by SIUMB and SIEMG), initially in the Emergency Department and in the Continuity of Care setting. Subsequently, he worked as an ultrasound specialist in correctional healthcare and as a freelance physician in private outpatient clinics.

    He firmly believes that the general practitioner should reclaim their role as a clinician, particularly by focusing on first-level diagnostics at the point of care (not only POCUS, but also electrocardiography and spirometry).

    [email protected]

    Toure Jones

    Touré Jones brings over 20 years of experience in design, marketing, and digital strategy to the Global Ultrasound Institute. With a background that includes work for major brands like Pinterest and Bath & Body Works, Touré leads digital strategy at GUSI, shaping how the organization communicates, educates, and expands its global impact.

    At GUSI, he develops integrated marketing campaigns, improves user experience, and ensures every digital interaction supports the mission to make point-of-care ultrasound more accessible and effective. His work spans web performance, messaging, and platform development, all focused on delivering value to clinicians across specialties and care settings.

    Touré leads with strategy, delivers with precision, and brings a collaborative, people-first mindset to every project. His focus is on helping GUSI grow its reach through clear, useful, and innovative digital experiences.

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