Stories That Inspire Global Impact

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…