Point of Care Ultrasound Course

Dr. Coleman is an academic hospitalist at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She completed her internal medicine residency training at the J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program at Emory University School of Medicine in 2023, earning a distinction in POCUS. Her clinical duties include teaching teams on the wards as well as rotating on the inpatient POCUS and procedure service.

Dr. Galen is currently the Director of Ultrasound and Procedure training as well as Associate Program Director in The Einstein/Montefiore Internal Medicine Residency Program. He has led hundreds of resident teaching conferences and has worked to formalize curricula for point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and bedside procedures.

Dr. Franco-Sadud is an academic hospitalist at the Naples Community Hospital, where he oversees the implementation of POCUS curriculum in a recently established residency program, affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in Florida. He has participated in numerous international, national, and regional POCUS courses, and co-chaired the Society of Hospital Medicine guidelines for ultrasound-guided procedures. Dr. Franco-Sadud is a current member of the national POCUS steering committee.

Since 2015, Dr. Akbashev has been teaching POCUS to residents, fellows, NPs, Faculty, and anyone else who will listen. His philosophy is to keep it simple, avoid unnecessary jargon, and avoid unnecessary measurements. Mikhail co-leads the POCUS Distinction track for Emory Internal Medicine Residency and teaches POCUS at national and regional conferences.

As a hospitalist, Dr. Williams oversees the training of residents and medical students caring for hospitalized veterans at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. He also serves as Director of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) for the Department of Medicine. His research focuses on medical education and measuring the impact of the POCUS curriculum on learners and patients.

Dr. Wong is a hospitalist at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian Hospital. She is a POCUS enthusiast who leads POCUS education for the internal medicine residents. She is the program director for Hospital Medicine POCUS fellowship and course director for Weill Cornell's 5-day CME POCUS course.

Dr. Umpierrez is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. He has dedicated his career to bedside teaching and to the development of a sustainable bedside procedure service to provide expedited care for inpatients. At the Medical College of Wisconsin, he served as the Medical Director for the Medicine Bedside Procedure Service and the Resident Procedure Elective.

Dr. Cheung is an academic hospitalist at Grady Memorial Hospital and an assistant professor at Emory University in Atlanta. She created and currently leads the POCUS curriculum for the Senior Medicine Internal Medicine Clerkship. Dr. Cheung is a faculty mentor for the Emory Internal Medicine residency POCUS distinction program. She has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Weill Cornell Hospital Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasonography.

Dr. Ria Dancel, MD, SFHM, FAAP, FACP is a dually appointed Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics and is the Director of the Internal Medicine Procedure Service and Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The procedure service was created in 2014 to provide efficient and safe procedural services and to standardize resident education and competency. She created novel diagnostic POCUS curricula for residents in 2019 and 2020.  Dr. Dancel has a certificate of completion in critical care ultrasonography through the American College of Chest Physicians and holds a testamur from the National Board of Echocardiography for special competence in critical care echocardiography. 

Erin Finn is an assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of North Carolina. She completed her residency and subsequent chief year in Med Peds at UNC in 2021 and then completed a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) fellowship at UNC, also obtaining a certificate of completion in POCUS from the Society of Hospital Medicine and CHEST. She loves to teach POCUS to the pediatrics, med peds, and medicine residents at UNC and is passionate about ultrasound-guided procedures. She has taught POCUS nationally at SHM Converge, CHEST, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She lives in NC with her husband, brother, two dogs, three cats, one lizard, and two kids, Mia and Jackson.

Dr. Cutler is an Associate Program Director and hospitalist at Weill Cornell Medicine with a passion for POCUS and medical education. He teaches at the annual Weill Cornell POCUS Course and helps run the POCUS fellowship and POCUS Procedure team there as well.

Dr. Gigi Liu is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who is a hospitalist and a proceduralist with clinical expertise in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and bedside ultrasound-guided procedures. She has been involved in teaching and disseminating knowledge, as well as techniques of POCUS locally, nationally, and internationally at the undergraduate medical education level to continued medical education level through multiple organizations.

Dr. Soni is a professor of medicine and academic hospitalist at the University of Texas Health San Antonio and the South Texas Veterans Health Care System. He is trained in internal medicine and an internationally recognized leader in point-of-care ultrasound, or POCUS.  Dr. Soni has collaborated with a broad range of healthcare professionals to develop training curricula in POCUS and has been teaching POCUS nationally and internationally since 2007.  Dr. Soni has led POCUS implementation for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He has directed the VA's POCUS Patient Safety Center and was awarded a VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) grant to evaluate implementation of POCUS use in the VA healthcare system.