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 is 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. 

Chris Fox MD

A professor and chair of emergency medicine and immediate past President of the Society of Ultrasound in Medical Education, Dr. Fox’s clinical research interests lie in advanced emergency ultrasound. Prior to his role in the Department of Emergency Medicine, he served as assistant dean for Student Affairs at the UCI School of Medicine, and as Director of the ultrasound fellowship in emergency medicine and has graduated 40 fellows. He became the Chair of Emergency Medicine in 2019. In addition, Dr. Fox has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and contributed to three textbooks, two of them as sole editor.  He has been invited to lecture more than 450 times in 49 states and 15 countries, including a TEDx UCI talk titled, “The Point of Care Revolution; Ultrasound,” watched 34,000 times. Through two consecutive grants from the UniHealth Foundation totaling $1.38M, Dr. Fox developed and published a unique four-year integrated point-of-care ultrasound curriculum for UCI medical students.   

Ed Hsu MD

Dr. Edmund Hsu is a board-certified emergency physician at UCI Health specializing in simulation medicine and point-of-care ultrasound. He completed his medical degree at UCF, residency at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s-Roosevelt, and fellowships in simulation and ultrasound at UC Irvine. He holds a focused practice designation in advanced emergency ultrasound and a Master’s in Instructional Design and Technology from CSU Fullerton. Dr. Hsu serves as the UC Irvine ED Ultrasound Director and Director of Ultrasound Medical Education. His research focuses on integrating point-of-care ultrasound with medical education and simulation to improve training and patient care. 

Kasia Hampton, M.D

A multilingual emergency doc with passion for education, POCUS in particular, experienced in both civilian and military, pre- and in-hospital patient care. Trained, taught or practiced in a number of countries, including the United States, Belgium, Poland, Germany and war-torn Ukraine. Most passionate about POCUS-guided improvements in pediatric emergency care, regardless of settings. Strongly believes in winning hearts with the goal of changing minds! Currently works for the Defence Health Agency at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. 

Lianne McLean, M.D

Dr McLean is an emergency medicine staff physician and point-of-care ultrasound faculty at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. She's the founder and chair of the Canadian Paediatric Emergency POCUS Consortium and one of the co-hosts of GEL jr, the paediatric branch of the Ultrasound G.E.L Podcast. She's an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Paediatrics with research interests in medical education, technology implementation, knowledge translation and innovation. 

Larry Melniker, M.D

Dr. Larry Melniker has over 30 yrs of clinical experience, 10 yrs of work in Quality Management; completed a Fellowship & MS in Clinical Epidemiology at Cornell in 2004, a Healthcare MBA at George Washington University in 2017; and, this year, the HANYS Advanced Executive Leadership for Physicians Program.

In 2005, he helped found the World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound (WINFOCUS), which has educated over 50,000 clinicians in over 50 nations in point-of-care, clinical ultrasound [POCUS]. Additionally, WINFOCUS sponsors an International Consensus Conference Series of which he is the Chief Methodologist. Its first 3 manuscripts have been cited in >1000 publications. Currently, we are conducting work on Ultrasound in Undergraduate Medical Education and Ultrasound for Torso Trauma; and, next year, will focus on Ultrasound in Graduate & Post-Graduate Medical Education

Dr. Daniel Lichtenstein

Prof. Daniel Lichtenstein is a medical intensivist and visiting Professor, who has worked at the medical ICU, University Hospital Ambroise-Paré in Paris, since 1989. This ICU, previously chaired by Prof. François Jardin, is believed to be the first ICU that had ultrasound onsite for cardiac purposes.In 1991 Prof. Lichtenstein defined critical ultrasound, including lung ultrasound, as a whole body approach to the critically ill with immediate therapeutic applications. 

Gabriel Bosslet, MD

Gabriel Bosslet is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Occupational Medicine and is Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development at Indiana University School of Medicine. He is the former Fellowship Director for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He sees patients in the ICU at University and Eskenazi Hospitals and in his neuromuscular pulmonary diseases clinic in Indianapolis, IN. 

Rob Ferre, MD

Dr. Rob Ferre loves to share his love of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) with students, residents, colleagues and anyone who will listen. He is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and currently serves as the Vice Chair of Innovation and POCUS Division Chief in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He directs the POCUS program for Indiana University School of Medicine and leads a team of innovative educators that have established a 4-year longitudinal POCUS program for UME and common core POCUS curriculum for GME. He serves as the POCUS Medical Director for IU Health and is an international expert in POCUS workflows. He has worked collaboratively with industry partners to improve POCUS workflows through his role as the Chair of the Industry Round Table within the American College of Emergency Physician’s Emergency Ultrasound Section. He is currently the Chair of Emergency Ultrasound Section within ACEP. 

Mike Blaivas, MD

Dr. Blaivas studied aerospace engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan prior to switching to biology. He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Blaivas went on to complete an emergency medicine residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center, followed by an emergency ultrasound fellowship at Christ Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago (University of Illinois). He has held faculty positions in multiple universities and is currently a professor of medicine (affiliate) at the University of South Carolina, School of Medicine. Dr. Blaivas is a pioneer of point-of-care ultrasound having published over 250 peer reviewed articles on point-of-care imaging, diagnostic and interventional applications, multiple book chapters and is the editor of 6 medical textbooks. 

Dr. Tom Heller

Dr. Tom Heller specialized in general internal medicine and infectious diseases and has been working in South Africa and in Malawi for more than 10 years. His special focus lies on aspects of care for patients with advanced HIV disease, TB co-infection and other opportunistic diseases. Throughout his career, his interests were ultrasound protocols and application for resource-limited settings and sonographic diagnosis of infectious diseases. He taught ultrasound in Germany, Italy, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Gabon, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Peru, and Laos. 

Dr. Tomas Villen

Tomas Villen MD PhD is an Emergency Physician and Associate Professor and POCUS Curriculum Director at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria Medical School in Madrid (Spain). He's the chair of the ultrasound section of the Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine and member of the European Society of Emergency Medicine. Main research interests include heart failure, lung ultrasound and assessment in medical education. 

Dr.  Burcu Azapoglu Kaymak

Dr. Burcu Azapoğlu Kaymak is an Emergency Medicine Specialist at SBÜ Fatih Sultan Mehmet Training and Research Hospital in Istanbul, Türkiye. She is a Board Member of WINFOCUS and Course Director of WINFOCUS Türkiye, with many years of experience in point-of-care ultrasound education. She also serves as an instructor in the Ultrasound Sections of the Emergency Medicine Association of Türkiye (EMAT) and the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EuSEM), and currently holds the position of Secretary of the EMAT Education Committee. She is dedicated to advancing ultrasound training and promoting its integration into routine emergency care. 

Brian Coley, MD

Dr. Coley is Radiologist-in-Chief at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, overseeing a department with a well-deserved history as one of the premier clinical, research, and teaching departments of pediatric radiology, in one of the premier academic pediatric hospitals in the world. A central goal of the Department of Radiology and Cincinnati Children’s is to continue to develop and invest in the people and infrastructure that allows us to improve pediatric health, including partnerships with community, academic, and commercial colleagues. He is a past president of the Society for Pediatric Radiology and of the American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine 

Ben Smith, MD

Dr. Ben Smith, MD, FACEP is a Professor and Interim Chair of Emergency Medicine at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, where he directs a fellowship for emergency ultrasound. He is an award winning international ultrasound educator and is an active developer and author of several ultrasound education websites. CoreUltrasound.com is a free open-access ultrasound podcast and blog used by tens of thousands of users monthly. SonoClipShare.com is an ultrasound QA and scan repository that facilitates international education. On these websites he has developed and published multiple free software tools to aid ultrasound educators. 

Dr. Emma Batistich

Born and raised proud Kiwi, Dr. Batistich is an Emergency Physician working in her hometown of Auckland, New Zealand. She is also a Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine Physician in aeromedicine and is a co-lead for ultrasound education at her organisation, focusing on training advanced paramedics in the use of ultrasound in the prehospital setting.

She is a strong advocate for global Emergency Medicine and believes that POCUS is essential in advancing equitable emergency care in low-and-middle-income countries. She is an educator with PEARLS (POCUS for Emergency and Acute care in Resource-Limited Settings) working predominately with the amazing doctors in Tonga to advance their ultrasound skills.

Dr. Vicki Noble

Dr. Noble is one of the founding leaders in point-of-care ultrasound, a world-renowned ultrasound educator, and a true evangelist for the specialty. In addition to publishing over 100 articles, she co-authored the Manual of Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound, a core component of ultrasound curricula worldwide. She is the former Chair of the ACEP Ultrasound Section, President of the Society of Ultrasound in Medical Education, and has served on the Boards of many major ultrasound organizations, including AIUM, WINFOCUS, and PURE. She also served on the writing committee for the Critical Care Echocardiography board exam for the National Board of Medical Examiners.

Dr. Richard Hoppmann

Richard A. Hoppmann MD, FACP, FAIUM, is Professor of Medicine and Dean Emeritus at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He is Founder of the Society of Ultrasound in Medical Education and the University of South Carolina Ultrasound Institute. He has served as President of WINFOCUS and now serves as Past President of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. He has received many teaching awards including the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award. Dr Hoppmann has published extensively on ultrasound education, has presented at many professional meetings across the globe, has been the recipient of over $2M in ultrasound education grants, and has been issued four ultrasound related patents.