Stories That Inspire Global Impact

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…

Doug Williams currently leads AI related development efforts at GUSI. Doug is interested in the application of technology to healthcare delivery in low resource settings, previously working on cardiac arrhythmia detection and an USAID-funded project to develop intrapartum fetal monitoring and decision support tools. Prior to his focus on healthcare, Doug was a 30+ year…

Ryann Milne-Price MD MPH grew up in Montana, USA and enjoys exploring the outdoors, making art, and hanging with eclectic collections of farm animals. She attended the University of Washington for medical school and the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho for family medicine training. She started using POCUS during a global health fellowship through the…

Paul H. Bornemann, MD RMSK RPVI, is board certified in Family Medicine and a tenured Associate Professor of Family and Preventative Medicine, the Program Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program, and Director of Primary Care Ultrasound at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He is a veteran with eight years’ experience working…

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…

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…

Elizabeth Sayre began working with GUSI in September 2019. Her professional background includes non-profit and arts administration, music performance, university teaching, advocacy for traditional artists, grant writing, arts philanthropy, interpretation/translation (Spanish and French), and organizing educational travel to Cuba for health professionals . She has researched and played Afro-Cuban music since 1992, and has authored…