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Will is core faculty with the Brown Family Medicine Residency program, and medical director of the Family Care Center in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He has been using and teaching POCUS since 2016. He completed a GUSI training in 2020, and did an Ultrasound for Midwives course in obstetric ultrasound. In his previous role as Associate…

Yiju Teresa Liu, MD, AEMUS-FPD is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at UCLA and practices at Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She is the hospital-wide POCUS committee chair, directs the POCUS fellowship for Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine graduates, and runs ultrasound rotations for family medicine residents, pediatric subspecialty fellows, and emergency medicine…

Dr Alberto Romero Galán, is a specialist in family and community medicine, and a mentor for clinical ultrasound in Spain as a member of the ultrasound group of the Spanish Society of General and Family Medicine (SEMG). He is also registered as an IMC (Irish Medical Council) specialist in Ireland. He works as a GP…

Dr. Jay Ruby is a family physician and core faculty member at the Kaiser Permanente Seattle Family Medicine Residency. They completed FM residency at Swedish First Hill in Seattle in 2021 and graduated from the University of New Mexico Maternal Child Health fellowship in 2023. They are passionate about medical education, reproductive justice, anti-racism in…

Michelle is an FM/OB fellow at Swedish First Hill. Although born and raised in NYC, she fell in love with rural medicine and full scope family medicine during her training career. After 5 years in the Midwest and 1 year in the PNW, she will be taking her FM/ surgical OB skills back to NYC…

Dr. Samuel Hatfield is a hospital medicine provider at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and board-certified in Internal Medicine. He has also received Point of Care Ultrasound for Hospital Medicine certification through SHM/CHEST. He began his journey in Ultrasound in residency in Houston, Texas, but realized its true potential as a clinical tool while…

Dylan Gibson completed his family medicine training at Walter Sisulu University and is currently working in a sleep lab in South Africa while teaching POCUS part-time. He began using POCUS while working at a rural district hospital in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Since then he has become a certified POCUS instructor for the Emergency…

Monti Sharma is a neonatologist and pediatric pulmonologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is the director of neonatal ultrasound, and his interest is expansion of neonatal POCUS out of the NICU and into all settings where neonates are cared for.

Jeffrey M. Carness, FASA, FASE, CPHQ, 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…