Stories That Inspire Global Impact

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…

Dr. Kamran Karim DO, CAQSM, is a Family Medicine trained Primary Care Sports Medicine physician. He is currently the primary care sports medicine fellowship director in Spokane, WA and serves as family medicine faculty. Dr. Karim completed his medical training at Western University of Health Sciences and his Family Medicine training at Family Medicine Residency…

Dr. Emory Williams is a family physician currently providing primary care with obstetrics in an FQHC system near Seattle, WA. After finishing residency at Swedish First Hill Family Medicine Residency in Seattle, they completed UCSF’s HEAL Initiative Global Health Fellowship where they worked on the Navajo Nation and in Liberia. Emory has been interested in…

Sebastian is a family physician from Lawrence, Kansas. Following residency training at the University of Michigan, he completed a novel Advanced Primary Care POCUS fellowship at UM in the departments of Family and Emergency Medicine with a focus on reducing barriers to care in limited resource primary care settings. He has experience in limited resource…

Dr. Ann Lockhart, a Family Medicine and Obstetrics physician, has taught obstetric POCUS in both the inpatient and outpatient settings since finishing her residency at Contra Costa County in 2004. She grew up in rural North Carolina and found her passion for medicine as an undergrad at Duke University while working with migrant farmworkers. She…

Patrick has worked as an emergency medicine PA at Mass General Hospital in Boston for 9 years, and works part time in critical care at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He was introduced to PoCUS early in his career through the Division of Emergency Ultrasound and Center for Ultrasound Research and Education at MGH and immediately…

Hana has been an emergency medicine PA at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for about 20 years. She is EM PA Ultrasound director in the Emergency Department responsible for POCUS training of more than 60 EM PAs. She found her passion for POCUS when working with Ultrasound gurus like Mike Stone, Heidi Kimberly. and…

Allen Wong MD is a second year primary care sports medicine fellow at Oregon Health and Sciences University. He attended undergraduate and medical school at the University of Hawaii and completed family medicine residency at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix and primary care sports medicine fellowship at the University of New Mexico.…

Dr. Jose Zumba was raised in Sacramento, CA where he has spent most of my life. He did his medical school training at Loma Linda University where he first learned about POCUS. He had the privilege of continuing using POCUS throughout residency and currently uses it as an attending in Internal Medicine. He uses POCUS…