Jeffrey Carness, MD, FASA, 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 Testamur 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.