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.