Stories That Inspire Global Impact

Dr. Christine Prill is a current primary care sports medicine fellow at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU). Originally from Wisconsin, she completed her undergraduate training at University of Wisconsin - Madison, and medical training at Medical College of Wisconsin - Green Bay. She completed her family medicine residency at the University of Minnesota -…

Dr. Devon Hutton grew up in rural Colorado, which instilled in her a love of the outdoors. She found medicine through guiding and ski patrolling. After having to use her EMT in the backcountry more than a few times, she decided to expand her medical knowledge and skills. She went to the University of Minnesota…

I grew up in Botswana and moved to the US for my undergraduate degree, which I completed with honors in Genetics, Cell Biology and Development at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. I completed medical school at St. George’s University and did my medicine residency at Upstate University in Syracuse. I fell in love…

Anelah McGinness has taught point-of-care ultrasound since she was a medical student leading the pre-clinical Point-of-Care Ultrasound Elective at UCSF School of Medicine. During her pediatric residency at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, she developed her focus on pediatric POCUS and laid the foundation for a new POCUS curriculum for her pediatric residency in 2021.…

Dr. Abby Chua grew up in New Jersey and for five years worked in refugee relief for the International Rescue Committee's Health Technical Unit serving in missions in Africa, Central Europe, and on the Thai-Burma border. She earned her Masters in Public Health from Columbia University, but during her Masters work grew more interested in…

Deepika Ram, DO, is a board-certified Family Medicine physician. She completed her Family Medicine residency at The University of Texas San Antonio and went on to complete a fellowship in Global Health and Faculty Development at Brown University. She was highly involved with POCUS during her fellowship, conducting multiple in-person workshops and creating the first…

Dr. Sahar Ahmad is an Associate Professor of Medicine, with Tenure, at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University; She has several educational roles in the institution including: Program Director of Critical Care Fellowship; Director of Ultrasound Education for the Department of Medicine and Chair of the Ultrasound Curriculum Taskforce for the School…

Dr. Zakharchenko is a board-certified emergency physician who has completed an ultrasound fellowship at NYU/Bellevue. She has led an ultrasound division at the Hackensack University Medical Center as a director from 2013-2021. Throughout her career, she has trained hundreds of residents and attendings on proper POCUS, as well as built an ultrasound medical school curriculum…

Dr. Matthew Haldeman is a Family Physician with fellowship training in both global health and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). After completing his residency at Self Regional Healthcare in South Carolina in 2014, he worked both as a hospitalist physician and an ER physician in a rural setting, while also completing his CTropMed® certification in clinical tropical…