Team

Amateur shutterbug, mediocre cook & ultrasound junkie living in sunny San Diego, California. I am a graduate of The Ultrasound Leadership Academy and the UCSD Ultrasound Fellowship Program. Currently the Ultrasound Director and Co-Fellowship Director for the Southwest Healthcare Medical Education Consortium. I am also the creator of EMcurious, The NUEM blog, and UCSD Ultrasound, with a strong interest in digital education. Contact me at emedcurious@gmail.com

Twitter: @emedcurious

Ultrasound Director and Ultrasound Fellowship Director at Denver Health in Denver, Colorado. He has special interests in Deep Learning augmentation of Ultrasound Education, Teleguidance, and technologic innovations in Ultrasound Education. He shared the ACEP Innovation in Ultrasound Education Award in 2018 with Dr. Macias.

Contact: mriscinti.com Twitter: @mriscinti

Tessa Damm, DO is a practicing intensivist trained and board certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Neurocritical Care. She practices multidisciplinary critical care in Milwaukee, WI where she uses bedside ultrasound in daily clinical practice and teaching. She serves as the Associate Regional Medical Director for Critical Care for Wisconsin SSM Health and as a Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health as well as teaching critical care fellows from the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Twitter: @DrDamm

Emergency Medicine Physician in Northern Colorado. Trained in Southwest Michigan at Spectrum Health Lakeland and is a graduate Fellow of Emergency Ultrasound at Denver Health. Adjunct Faculty at Denver Health Emergency Medicine Residency. Spends off days in the mountains of sunny Colorado, shredding pow and running trails with his wife and their dog, Aspen.

Check us out on social media @thepocusatlas!

Contact: scheel.emdo@gmail.com

Twitter: @tscheelEMUS

Fourth year medical student at Albany Medical College applying to emergency medicine residencies this upcoming cycle. Very interested in clinical education and ultrasound . I am thankful for the opportunity to help educate students and providers on some of the basics of ultrasound anatomy through this platform. I spend most of my free time playing guitar/bass/drums and taking my 5 year old Golden retriever/Bassett hound buddy for long walks.

Emergency Medicine PGY4 at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY, with a special interest in Medical Education and Diversity and Inclusion in Medicine. Headed to Miami, Florida as an Attending Physician in the Jackson Health System next year. When I'm not in the ER, I enjoy hiking with my husband Jaime and building lego rockets with my son, Favian.

Kiara is an OB/GYN resident physician at New York Presbyterian - Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Outside of her clinical roles, she is a health policy nerd, a patient advocate, and is committed to combatting disparities in our health care system. As a Coloradan at heart, outside of work, she recharges in the mountains by rock climbing, mountain biking, and snowboarding.

Currently, practicing Emergency Medicine at UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital and serves as a Faculty Instructor at the University of Colorado Department of Emergency Medicine. Graduate of Denver Health Ultrasound Fellowship and Denver Health Emergency Medicine Residency where he served as Chief Resident. Outside of the ED, he can be found exploring Colorado by bike, by snowboard, by microbrewery, or on foot.

Contact: michael.heffler@denverem.org

Twitter: @MikeHefflerMD

Current emergency medicine resident at Prisma Health - Uof SC Columbia with a passion for ultrasound. During medical school, I developed a strong interest in ultrasound curriculum development and medical student education.

Contact information: michaeldcox2022@gmail.com

Director of Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship, NYU Langone/Bellevue Medical Center

Interests include innovative curriculum development and interactive US learning modalities.

Outside of the ED, I can be found soaking up NYC's amazing theatre scene (or could be, pre-covid!), and exploring the city via bike.

Assistant Professor and Educational Technology and Innovation Officer at McGovern Med at UTHealth. I’m passionate about creating free, innovative and well-designed medical education tools like ddxof.com. See all of my work at fadial.com.

Twitter: @thame

Emergency medicine resident at NYU/Bellevue in New York City. Hannah spends her spare time escaping the city for outdoor adventures, experimenting in the kitchen, and perfecting her veterinary POCUS skills at home on her greyhound, Luna.

Advanced Resuscitation and Ultrasound Fellow at Stony Brook University Hospital, Long Island, New York. Interests in emergency critical care and bedside ultrasound. I grow most of my own food.

Twitter: @garrettghentMD Email: garrett.ghent@gmail.com

PGY-1 at Cook County EM in Chicago, IL with a love for POCUS, social EM, and high resolution gifs. You can find me hanging out at the local coffee shop or climbing gym.

Twitter: @HizonBrian

Elias Jaffa, MD, MS is an emergency physician currently practicing in the rural southeastern US. During his emergency ultrasound fellowship at Duke University Hospital, he found his way back to his first love—technology. Since then, he has worked on a number of POCUS-focused software and hardware solutions, including an open-source platform for facilitating telePOCUS.

Learn more about his work at https://jaffamd.com and https://github.com/jaffamd .

Emergency Ultrasound Director

Summerlin Hospital Medical Center

Las Vegas, Nevada

Director, Emergency Ultrasound

MetroHealth Medical Center

Professor, Case Western Reserve Medical School, Cleveland, OH

Past President, ACEP Ultrasound Section

Dr. Robert Jones has been performing point-of-care ultrasounds since 1991 and has developed and led emergency ultrasound programs at several emergency medicine residency programs. Dr. Jones has served as president of ACEP’s ultrasound section and has authored handbooks, textbook chapters, policy statements and research articles on point-of-care ultrasound. Dr. Jones is the author of the on-line materials at EMSONO.COM as well as the SONOBRIDGE ultrasound curriculum and has incorporated thousands of cases obtained over the past 27 years into the modules.

Twitter: @RJonesSonoEM

Website: Kings County US

Twitter @RELewiss

Twitter: @RubbleEM

Fourth year, Emergency Medicine bound medical student at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, NY. Working on this project has given me a lot of insight into the uses and importance of ultrasound in the ED. I like spending my spare time defying gravity flying the trapeze or at gymnastics. Feel free to contact me at lisa.feit@downstate.edu

Resident in Emergency Medicine at the University of New Mexico and graduate from SUNY Downstate Medical School in Brooklyn, NY. I have come to respect the enormous utility of US in the ED and hope to learn a great deal while working on this project over the upcoming years. Outside of academics I spend my free time rock climbing or traveling (to a rock climbing destination.) Feel free to contact me at carissa.solari@downstate.edu

Kathryn H Pade, MD

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego. Also serves as the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Associate Fellowship Director.

Outside of the ED, she spends time at the beach, hiking and baking.

Current Associate Fellowship Director of Riverside Community Hospital Ultrasound Fellowship. Graduate of Denver Health Ultrasound Fellowship and LAC+USC Emergency Medicine Residency with a special interest in medical education. Outside of work, I enjoy running, biking, diving, and spending time with family and friends.

Contact: nhunguyenle1@gmail.com

Twitter: @NhuNguyenLe

My role is the Director of Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound at Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

I am also the Topic Expert for Medical Ultrasound for the Feinberg School of Medicine (I lead the med student ultrasound curriculum).

My hobbies are snowboarding, mixology and bourbon sampling.

She completed her ultrasound fellowship in 2019 at Denver Health and is currently finishing PEM fellowship at University of Colorado.  She is part of the ultrasound team at the Children’s Hospital Colorado and involved in multiple projects on POCUS curriculum development and nerve block task trainers.  Twitter @pedipocus

Outside of work, she enjoys hanging with her 2 kiddos and drinks an excessive amount of coffee.

Pediatric emergency medicine physician and director of emergency ultrasound at Arkansas Children’s Hospital/University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Outside of work and parenting, I am a coffee addict and enjoy relaxing while in nature.

Paul is the PEM POCUS Director at Nicklaus/Miami Children’s Hospital.

Outside of the ED, he likes to hang out with his wife and two daughters, SCUBA dive, and travel.

Twitter @Khalil3paul

Pediatrician and neonatologist from India, Cochrane systematic review author and POCUS enthusiast with a focus on adopting POCUS across the practice spectrum from primary care to ED

Emergency Medicine resident training at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, VA. I developed a passion for ultrasound education during my first two years of medical school and served as an ultrasound tutor as well as organized educational events. It is a joy to help anyone grow in their confidence with ultrasound and I am excited to continue my love for teaching as a resident. When I have a day off, you can either catch me at the gym, looking at watches, jamming on my guitar to another John Mayer song, watering my indoor plants, seeing when Aimé Leon Dore is dropping another collection or catching up with my growing stack of books to finish reading.

Emergency Medicine Resident at Denver Health. Erick is interested in using ultrasound and AI to improve patient care and doctor-patient relationships. He also enjoys espresso, long runs, and taking pictures of his Goldendoodle, Obi.

Contact: erick.otiniano@gmail.com

Connect with me on LinkedIn

X: @ErickMOtiniano

I am third-year medical student at Western University of Health Sciences, and has a keen passion for pediatrics and radiology. My background includes an MSc in Global Health and Development, and a consequent certificate in global health radiology with a particular emphasis on pediatric radiology and ultrasound in low-resource settings. Outside of school, I like to play soccer and explore new places with my dog. Feel free to contact me at natasha.holden@westernu.edu .

Fourth year medical student at Western University of Health Sciences. I fell in love with ultrasound in the ED while working with an ultrasound fellowship trained attending while I was a scribe in college. I realized I had a passion for ultrasound education during my first two years of medical school and served as the president of ultrasound club to create organized educational events and develop curriculum. I love to help anyone grow in their confidence with ultrasound and I am excited to continue my love for teaching as an aspiring ED physician. 

Third year medical student at Western University of Health Sciences. My clinical experiences as an ER-Tech have built the foundation for my passion towards Emergency Medicine and its application of Ultrasound. As a former EMIG president, I collaborated with ED physicians and POCUS enthusiasts to deliver educational workshops and am eager to continue advancing my passion for teaching and education. Outside of medical school I enjoy playing basketball, cooking (especially my kabobs), being outdoors, and of course spending time with friends and family.

I am a fourth-year medical student at Western University of Health Sciences.
My fascination for science was sparked as a child by shows like Bill Nye the Science Guy and Cosmos, leading me to pursue physics and later medicine. As a life-long learner, I am enthusiastic about sharing my knowledge, and have continued that with The POCUS Atlas. Beyond medicine, I enjoy cooking, snowboarding, and improv theater. Feel free to contact me at Kenny.le@westernu.edu.