Thank you for attending POCUS 2024

The second annual two-day Atlanta POCUS (Point of Care Ultrasound) Conference was held at the Miller Ward Alumni House on October 17 and 18, 2024. This conference was supported by Emory's Division of Hospital Medicine and is one of only seven courses approved by the Society of Hospital Medicine and American College of Chest Physicians, nationally as a course for their certificate of completion program for POCUS. The course provided attendees with hands-on training in a 2:1 learner-to-faculty ratio, didactics on POCUS for various organ systems, and clinical integration of POCUS into practice. The course was very successful, full to capacity, and received excellent feedback. Learners traveled from all over the country to attend.
Manpreet Malik, MD, and Sneha Neurgaonkar, MD, from the Division of Hospital Medicine, co-directed the course. Several Emory faculty taught the course along with nationally and internationally recognized external faculty. Emory faculty included: Mikhail Akbashev, MD (General Internal Medicine), Patricia Cheung, MPH, MD, PhD, (Hospital Medicine), Jason Williams, MD (Hospital Medicine), Caroline Coleman, MD (Hospital Medicine), and Adrian Umpierrez, MD (Hospital Medicine).
Save the Date! Our 2025 POCUS will take place on November 6-7, 2025. Stay tuned for more information.
Course Directors:

Manpreet S. Malik, MBBS, SFHM
Course Director
Dr. Malik is an academic hospitalist at Emory University in Atlanta. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory and clinically works at Grady Memorial Hospital. Dr. Malik is the program director for the Transitional Year program at Emory and has created and led multiple bedside ultrasound-guided procedure services, including the one at Grady. He provides faculty mentorship to residents on the POCUS Distinction pathway at Emory. Dr. Malik teaches and directs bedside ultrasound and procedure workshops for various professional societies and is the course director for Atlanta’s two-day POCUS course.

Sneha Neurgaonkar, MD
Assistant Course Director
Dr. Sneha Neurgaonkar is currently an academic hospitalist and associate director of the pocus/procedure service at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. She is a faculty mentor for the clinical distinctions POCUS track for the Emory Internal Medicine residency program. Dr. Neurgaonkar is also a faculty instructor for pocus and procedure courses at regional and national conferences.

Patricia Cheung, MD
Assistant Course Director
Patricia Cheung, MD PhD, 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. She 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.