Stories That Inspire Global Impact

Jordan Hoese, MD, MPH is a rural full-scope Family Medicine physician at an FQHC in Klamath Falls, OR. Originally from southern California, she attended medical school at UT Southwestern in Dallas, TX and residency at OHSU Cascades East in Klamath Falls, OR. She also earned an MPH in Global Health and Health Disparities. She is…

Emily is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and, after stints in New England, Chile, and Los Angeles, returned to the area to complete both residency and ultrasound fellowship training at University of California San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital. She now practices in the community as well as at UCSF/SFGH, where she remains…

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…