Marcela Preto Zamperlini

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.