Stories That Inspire Global Impact

Dr. Sarah Shihadeh is a Hospitalist and a Medical Director at Hackensack Meridian Health-Mountainside. She is a former Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System. Dr. Shihadeh’s first encounter with POCUS was at a refugee camp in Jordan, where as a resident with minimal Ultrasound Skills, she helped a nephrologist diagnose a child…

Dr. Voronina is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician who completed a Hospital Medicine – Point of Care Ultrasound Fellowship at Weill Cornell. She has both participated in and helped teach the Weill Cornell Medicine Hospital Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasonography Course. She has also completed the SHM-Chest Point-of-care Ultrasound Certificate of Completion program, and has testamur status…

Dr. Jamar Williams is currently the Chairman/Program Director of Family, Community, & Global Medicine at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. He attended medical school in La Habana, Cuba, and completed residency training in both Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He also has training experience in EMS and Disaster Medicine. His interest in POCUS…

David Mwonga Mulli is a trained Radiosonographer/ Echocardiographer, currently working for the University of Nairobi, Kenya, Faculty of Health Science, Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Medicine (DIRM). He has interest in ultrasound Trainings, CMEs and Workshops for colleagues, and has recently done an ultrasound workshop for Radiographers in Kenya with Mindray Ultrasound Systems as…

Dr. Aisha Mirza received her Bachelor of Science with Honors in Neuroscience at the University of Alberta in 1999 and then studied wound healing and scar formation at the Masters level. She received early acceptance into the University of Calgary medical school and graduated in 2003 with her Medical Doctorate. Dr Mirza completed her residency…

Dr. Ric Ribeiro is an emergency medicine physician certified in point of care ultrasound (POCUS). After completion of his residency program at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 2006 he worked at the Victoria Hospital Emergency Department in the city of Prince Albert and served as the residency program coordinator. He currently is an Assistant…

Scott Grogan, DO, MBA, RMSK, FAAFP is a 2005 graduate of Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and a 2008 Family Medicine Residency graduate from Madigan Army Medical Center, in Tacoma, WA. He has completed a Faculty Development and Leadership Fellowship as well as an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship in the U.S. Army. He also…

Werlley Januzzi MD holds the title of Cardiologist from the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. He is a physician at the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit of the Heart Institute of the University of São Paulo (InCorFMUSP), and Chief of the Emergency Division at Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual, where he also works as a medical educator…

Dr. Nilan Schnure completed medical school and internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania, where he trained in the Primary Care residency program, was a member of the Medical Education Leadership Track, and then served as a Chief Resident. During this time he participated in the integrated ultrasound curriculum in the medical school and…