Stories That Inspire Global Impact

Jori Enfield, OMS-V, is a medical student at Touro University California, an Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) Teaching Fellow, and the founder and President of GUSI MedConnect—the national medical student engagement initiative of the Global Ultrasound Institute. Through MedConnect, he has launched instructor training programs, led educational content development, consulted on technology innovation projects, and built…

Dr. Breuner decided to become a doctor because his grandfather was one and he watched the TV show M.A.S.H. when he was growing up. He majored in Government at Harvard and attended medical school at UCSD. After residency at the University of Washington in Seattle, he spent a year caring for Afghan refugees in Pakistan.  Upon…

Dr. Courtney Wright completed her Family Medicine Residency at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in California. She has integrated POCUS into a wide range of clinical settings, including high-risk obstetric care, labor and delivery including surgical obstetrics, emergency departments, and inpatient medicine at a critical access hospital. One of her most memorable POCUS moments occurred…

Maytal completed medical school at New York Medical College followed by pediatrics residency at Northwell’s Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New York. She went on to complete pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and ventured to the west coast for ultrasound fellowship at University of…

Dr. Drew Tobler is a current Primary Care Sports Medicine fellow at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU) where he works with patients and athletes of all ages. Originally from Denver, Colorado he enjoys all things outdoors including backpacking, snowboarding, and rock-climbing. His passion for musculoskeletal medicine arose while obtaining his undergraduate degree at Creighton…

Jepchumba Tanui is a registered diagnostic radiographer with a keen interest in sonography. She currently holds a Diploma in Radiography and a Higher National Diploma in sonography from the Kenya Medical Training College. She has vast expertise in general diagnostic sonography. However, she has taken a keen interest in obstetrics/gynecology and maternal-fetal medicine as she…

Clinical Rad|Sonographer skilled in all ultrasound|radiography protocols but with special interest and skill in cardiovascular sonography (fetal, pediatric, and adult echocardiography). Currently working as a General/Cardiac Sonographer at The Nairobi Hospital, “healing the world one scan at a time.”

Dr. Ben Howard is a Family Physician and POCUS Champion at Broadlawns Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa. After completing residency at Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Indiana, he joined a full-spectrum practice in rural Iowa. Dr. Howard had the opportunity to work with medical students in his rural practice, and this ignited a passion…

Renee Dversdal, MD, FACP, FAIUM is a Professor of Medicine and academic hospitalist at Oregon Health & Science University.  Her ultrasound obsession started during her Internal Medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and has continued to grow since returning to OHSU in 2012.  As the Director of OHSU Point of Care Ultrasound, she works in…