Stories That Inspire Global Impact

Dr. Back works at a critical access hospital in the southwestern US with the Indian Health Service. He attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and completed a residency in family medicine at the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program. He first encountered POCUS while in residency at Contra…

Dr. Charisse Kwan is Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario and POCUS Faculty within the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine in London, Ontario, Canada. She is the current President of the P2Network, a group of international pediatricians, who are committed to globally sharing expertise, building research collaborations and offering mentorship in the use…

Dr. Sally Graglia is an emergency medicine physician with fellowship training in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). After completing Emergency Medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) – Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Graglia pursued fellowship training in Ultrasound at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). During her fellowship, she worked with PURE (Point-of-care Ultrasound…

Dr. Erickson completed medical school at the University of Minnesota, followed by family medicine training at Tacoma Family Medicine in Washington state. He has spent his career practicing rural, full-spectrum family medicine including point of care ultrasound, operative obstetrics, and GI endoscopy. He has previously taught in a variety of settings including precepting medical student…

Kaya Belknap, MD, MPH is a family physician currently working in Nakuru, Kenya. She grew up in South Sudan and Kenya and moved to the US for university and medical school. She completed her residency and fellowship training at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in California then returned to Africa to practice. She received POCUS…

Dr. Nahreen Ahmed is originally from the Greater Philadelphia area, she attended Drexel University College of Medicine and subsequently went on to residency at the University of Illinois in Chicago where she concomitantly completed her Master’s Degree in Public Health and was also invited to stay on for a Chief Residency. She went on to…

Dr. Diego Arufe completed his medical studies at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2005. In 2010, he finished his residency in Internal Medicine at the “Alfredo Lanari” Institute for Medical Research. He then pursued a fellowship in Hepatology and Liver Transplantation at the Austral University Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011–2013).…

Dr. Romeo Wahome (MD) is currently a senior medical officer at Mbarara Regional and Referral Hospital (Uganda), involved in training and mentorship of other specialties in POCUS and Ultrasonography in resource limited environments. He is currently a finalist resident in Emergency Medicine, a PURE mentorship graduate with several publications in POCUS, with emphasis in the…

Dr. Ximena Wortsman is a radiologist and was the founding Chair of the dermatologic ultrasound community at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), which is the scientific organization in charge of education and accreditation of ultrasound in the USA. She has received the category of a fellow member of AIUM that recognizes individuals…