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Nathan Cutshall
Dr. Nathan Cutshall is a current Primary Care Sports Medicine fellow at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU). Originally from Maine, he completed his undergraduate degree in medical anthropology at the University of Washington. This was followed by medical school at the University of Colorado, and family medicine residency at the Mountain Area Health Education…Read More
Hayley Winninghoff
Dr. Hayley Winninghoff is currently a sports medicine fellow at Oregon Health & Science University. Originally from Seattle, Washington, she completed undergraduate training at Pomona College, medical school at the University of Washington, and family medicine residency at Kaiser Permanente Napa Solano. She is excited to be incorporating ultrasound into her daily clinical practice in…Read More
Ian Thomas
Ian Thomas MD CAQSM RMSK RSCC CSCS is an associate professor at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. Medical School and Clinical Director of Point-of-Care Ultrasonography. After completing his Sports Medicine Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Dr. Thomas opened his own practice, Thomas Sports and Regenerative Orthopedics (TSARO), where he focuses on injury…Read More
Nicolas Hatamiya
Dr. Nicolas Hatamiya DO, CAQSM, is a Family Medicine trained Primary Care Sports Medicine physician. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery/Sports Medicine and Family & Community Medicine, where he is also the Associate Program Director for the UCSF Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship program. Dr. Hatamiya completed his…Read More
Marcela Karnikowski
Dr. Marcela Karnikowski is an Emergency physician from Brazil. She was taught POCUS during the EM training program, by some tutors passionate about POCUS. She developed a passion for this field, took a course and further became a POCUS instructor. She worked for seven years as an Emergency Physician in Brazil and had an experience…Read More
Laura Harris
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…Read More
Tanping Wong
Tanping Wong MD completed her Internal Medicine Residency training at New York University and worked for many years at Bellevue Hospital serving the immigrant population of New York City. She is currently a practicing hospitalist at New York Presbyterian Hospital working with residents and students at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Wong oversees the point-of-care program…Read More
Dallas Swanson
Dallas grew up in rural Northeastern Oregon. After graduation from OHSU medical school, Dallas came to Klamath Falls for residency at Cascades East Family Medicine before staying on as a faculty member. His professional interests are in quality improvement and healthcare/community partnerships. Outside of work he spends much of his time cooking, preserving and eating…Read More
Michael Armstrong
Michael Armstrong completed his Internal Medicine training at Wake Forest School of Medicine and is currently a General Medicine Ultrasound fellow at Oregon Health & Science University. He began using POCUS in residency when he completed his residency's designated POCUS pathway and has continued on this journey now in his fellowship. In his free time,…Read More
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