Stories That Inspire Global Impact

Dr. Victor Vaz is a PGY-3 Internal Medicine resident at Mount Auburn Hospital, a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School, and an incoming Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) fellow at Yale University. After graduating from Faculdade Ciências Médicas De Minas Gerais in Brazil, Dr. Vaz completed a two-year research fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,…

Dr. Sterrett is a board-certified Ob/Gyn and MFM subspecialist, with a Master of Public Health (MPH) focused in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship at MUSC in Charleston, SC, after which she joined the University of Washington Seattle's academic department as an attending. Currently,…

Dr. Joe Matel, a full spectrum family physician, uses point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in several settings. He is OB fellowship trained and a UCSF volunteer clinical professor at the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency teaching outpatient and surgical obstetrics. Previously, he was POCUS champion at the residency and brought POCUS to their curriculum while also bringing…

Jina has been a medicine PA at New York Presbyterian Hospital- Weill Cornell for about 12 years. She first started using ultrasound about 7 years ago when she was learning to do bedside procedures. Soon after, she realized how helpful POCUS is to evaluate and manage her patients on the floor, and she decided to…

Jessica Standish is a Family Medicine doctor. She did her Family Medicine residency at Glendale Adventist Medical Center and then completed a Global Health Fellowship at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center. Jessica attended medical school at the Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina (ELAM) in Havana, Cuba. She currently provides primary care to patients in the county…

Dr Pascual Daza-Ramirez, MD MBA MRCGP MPH(Cantab) EIA(EMCC) BMUS, is a Senior Hon. Clinical Lecturer of Exeter Medical School (UK), a GP Trainer and Educational Supervisor (Health Education England) and a Senior Mentor to newly qualified Family Physicians enrolled in the Fellowship Programme of South West of England NHS Leadership Academy. He is an attending…

Dr. Irbert Vega is an emergency medicine resident at the University of Connecticut/Hartford Hospital and will be completing an emergency ultrasound fellowship at Hartford Hospital in 2024. He completed his family medicine residency at Lancaster General Hospital in 2013 and went on to practice full spectrum family medicine in Sitka, Alaska, for seven years before…

Dr. Ben Beduhn is a long-time POCUS enthusiast. He completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin, residency at the University of Michigan, and Sports Medicine Fellowship at Swedish in Seattle, WA.He has used POCUS on the highest levels through support of professional, college, and high school sports teams. He currently works as a team…

Craig Rudy MD, CAQSM, is an Emergency Medicine trained Primary Care Sports Medicine physician.  Dr. Rudy completed his undergraduate medical education at OHSU.  This was followed by a residency in Emergency Medicine and fellowship in Primary Care Sports Medicine consecutively at OHSU.   He is currently working in community emergency medicine as well as at Oregon Health & Science University in Primary…