Stories That Inspire Global Impact

Laura Harris is a graduate of the Joint Medical Program at UC Berkeley-UCSF (MS/MD combined education) and the Contra Costa Regional Family Medicine Residency. She also has an MPH in Maternal and Child Health, and has worked in global maternal health and emergency obstetric care in Ethiopia, Ghana, Burundi and other countries. She loves seeing…

Doug Williams currently leads AI related development efforts at GUSI. Doug is interested in the application of technology to healthcare delivery in low resource settings, previously working on cardiac arrhythmia detection and an USAID-funded project to develop intrapartum fetal monitoring and decision support tools. Prior to his focus on healthcare, Doug was a 30+ year…

Ryann Milne-Price MD MPH grew up in Montana, USA and enjoys exploring the outdoors, making art, and hanging with eclectic collections of farm animals. She attended the University of Washington for medical school and the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho for family medicine training. She started using POCUS during a global health fellowship through the…

Zahra Marjan Ghazi-Askar MD is a pediatric emergency physician at Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of Pediatric Ultrasound Education. She did her residency at New York Methodist Hospital and a pediatric emergency Fellowship at Cornell Presbyterian Hospital in NYC. She finished a point of care ultrasound Fellowship at Highland Hospital in the Bay…

Angelo is a Family Nurse Practitioner who completed a rural medicine residency after getting his Master’s at Yale, and has since practiced full scope primary care at Open Door Community Health Center in Humboldt County. Prior to working in medicine, he completed his BA at UC Berkeley, worked in the Bay Area doing business development…

Paul H. Bornemann, MD RMSK RPVI, is board certified in Family Medicine and a tenured Associate Professor of Family and Preventative Medicine, the Program Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program, and Director of Primary Care Ultrasound at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He is a veteran with eight years’ experience working…

Kris Merrill is a medical student at the University of California San Francisco. Kris earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science and had multiple careers in technology before pursuing his passion for medicine. He supported scientific research as a marine electronics technician in Antarctica and worked as a site reliability engineer and engineering manager…

Dr. L.B. Williams is a veteran educator with over 20 years of experience. Dr. Williams has a PhD in Urban Education Leadership from Claremont Graduate University and leads Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training for schools from the elementary to the postgraduate level. She founded Black Girls Brilliance (BGB) in 2016, after her research identified a…

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…