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.