Christine Schutzer RT, BS, RDMS, MEHP

Christine Schutzer RT, BS, RDMS, MEHP is the Curriculum & Operations Director for the Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Program at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). She was a clinical sonographer for 15 years with the last 7 of those serving as the Lead Sonographer at Legacy Health in the Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic. Since 2015 she has been working in medical education teaching a variety of UME, GME and CME learners, creating and implementing POCUS curricula. She has been a speaker and hands-on instructor at local, regional and national conferences including AIUM, SUSME, OSPA, WCUME, APGO/CREOG and WINFOCUS. She currently serves as the Secretary for the Ultrasound in Medical Education Community of Practice for AIUM.   

Dr. Jennifer Cotton

Dr. Cotton is an emergency physician and emergency ultrasound faculty at the University of Utah. She is the point of care ultrasound curriculum director for University of Utah's medical school. She also runs an interdisciplinary faculty training program for attending physicians who work with students and trainees to further patient care and give learners ultrasound mentoring from within their own future specialties. In addition, she trains community physicians in grant funded programs aiming to improve patient care for underserved patient populations. 

Dr. Zach Soucy

Dr. Soucy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Dartmouth Health in Lebanon, NH. He attended UNECOM for medical school and trained in EM at the Mayo Clinic followed by AEUS fellowship at UC Davis. Dr. Soucy currently holds the positions of Vice Chair of Research, Director of Emergency Ultrasound and Co-Chair of the System Wide POCUS committee.  At DH, he founded and is the current director of the Advanced Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship. Dr. Soucy has been Co-PI on nine Department of Defense SBIR grants studying AI enabled US devices totaling over 5 million dollars in funding.  

Dr. Rob Strony

Born and raised in Scranton, PA, a 15 year + practicing Emergency Medicine Clinician and Point

of Care Ultrasound Expert with passion for navigating and optimizing value based and quality-

based outcomes in the Payor-Provider space. Leadership focus on Population Health

Management, Transitional Care, Chronic/Complex Condition Management, Chronic Disease

Burden Capture/Risk Adjustment Documentation, as well as creating and effectively managing

Population Health Based Teams and Workflows. Prior experience at two large integrated health

systems including Quality and Population Health Officer, Hospital Health Plan Medical Director,

Hospital Flow Officer, Fellowship Director, Residency Director, Workflow Consultant, Assistant

Department Director. Additional educational experience via Physician Executive MBA and

Graduate Certificate in Population Health.

Dr. Samantha Chao

Samantha Chao MD, HEC-C is a certified clinical ethicist and faculty in Emergency Medicine at Michigan Medicine. She completed medical school and residency training at the University of Michigan. She also developed and completed a novel fellowship in health care ethics after finishing residency. Her research and academic interests include the application of clinical ethics in emergency medicine as well as destigmatizing language in chart documentation and oral presentation.

Jennifer Bagley MPH, RDMS, RVT

Jennifer Bagley is a Professor and Sonography Program Director in the Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences. Jennifer has been a sonographer for over 30 years and has been a faculty member at OU for 18 years.  

Jennifer has been involved in several original research projects, and most of the projects include her undergraduate students.  

She has participated in developing best practices guidelines for sonographers to prevent work-related musculoskeletal disorders, and through that work she began exploring the relationship of WRMSDs to occupational burnout.  

Dr. Jennifer Brueckner-Collins, PhD

As a Professor of Anatomical Sciences at University of Louisville School of Medicine, my primary professional role is teaching clinical anatomy for first year medical and dental students.  My scholarly work focuses on anatomical sciences education, including development and assessment of instructional interventions that support student academic success and personal wellbeing.   I co-direct our School's Distinction in Medical Education track for medical students that promotes scholarly endeavors in basic science and clinical education, along with teaching experience and exposure to key aspects of academic medicine.  Medical education is truly my professional passion and calling.    

Sarah Rusnak,  MS, RD, LD

Sarah Rusnak is a clinical instructor in the College of Medicine’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. There in addition to teaching, she leads trainings on the use of educational technologies to enhance learning. She serves as a university Learning Systems Affiliate and Digital Accessibility Designee for HRS and provides support to all who teach within HRS. In addition, she serves as Faculty Consultant for Educational Technology to the College of Medicine’s Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring, and Engagement.     

Wilma Chan, MD, EdM

Dr. Chan iss an Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Penn.  She completed her Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Chicago and an ultrasound fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She holds a master’s in Education from Harvard, focusing on Technology, Innovation, and Education, and earned her medical and undergraduate degrees from Tufts University. 

She joined the Department of Emergency Medicine in 2015 and serves as the inaugural Director of Ultrasound Education at the Perelman School of Medicine. Her interests include design thinking in education and strategic integration of emerging technologies across medical training.