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