Dr. Yannick Ndefo is a general practitioner from Cameroon. He received his degree from the esteemed Université des Montagnes in Bagante, West Cameroon. After completing his medical education in 2018, he joined the Kangaroo Foundation for a UNICEF initiative that aims to use the Kangaroo approach to increase preterm babies’ survival rates. This project was carried out in the eastern region of Cameroon, which is heavily affected by both the poverty and the conflict in the neighboring country. He began learning about obstetric ultrasound as a self-taught sonographer to identify high-risk pregnancies in an effort to enhance pregnancy outcomes. In his hunt for information on ultrasonography, he came across Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) via the Canadian website EDE (Emergency Department Echography), and he got in touch with the company.

Dr. Yannick has been offering free POCUS courses in his nation while attending numerous national and international conferences. As a POCUS Ambassador for Cameroon and Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, and a pioneer in the use of POCUS in environments with limited resources, he seeks to establish a local POCUS group of local experts.