Episodes

Barry Ziring, MD, serves as a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College and the Division Director of Internal Medicine at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, PA.

Donald Rainville, RDMS (ABD & OBGYN), RVT, RDCS and RT(R), began his love for medical ultrasound in 1978 as a SSGT Phase II Radiology Program Instructor with the U.S. Air Force. With 42 years of experience in medical ultrasound imaging, Don now serves as the Vice President of Clinical Innovation at EchoNous. His primary areas of interest are ultrasound education, product design, and artificial intelligence related to medical ultrasound devices. Babajide Ayinde, Ph.D., specializes in deep learni...

Karthik Vadamalai, MD, received his medical degree at Kilpauk Medical College located in Tamilnadu, India. Driven to practice evidence-based medicine, he pursued his internal medicine residency at Rochester General Hospital, New York, and a critical care medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Dr. Vadamalai also completed a master’s degree in medical education at the University of Pittsburgh. With support from the UPMC internal medicine team and his critical ca...

Carrie Hayes, MHS, PA-C, RDMS, RVT, is an Interventional Radiology Physician Assistant for Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California and has over fifteen years of experience as a Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer and Vascular Technologist. Additionally, she currently serves as the Clinical director for RAD-AID International, a radiology non-profit organization whose mission is to improve and optimize access to medical imaging and radiology in low resource regions of the world.

Dr. Thomas Kelly, CRNA is an advanced practice nurse who holds certification as a Nurse Anesthetist and holds a doctorate in Nursing Practice. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in 1978 and has pursued his education to the highest level, serving as an Assistant Professor of Nurse Anesthesia Science and Assistant Director of Nurse Anesthesia in Thomas Jefferson University's Master's program. Dr. Kelly now serves as a senior member of the NeuroScience Intervention t...

Dr. Victor Rao is a radiologist and POCUS pioneer who first introduced POCUS to future medical professionals at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine (USCSOM). Here, he developed the POCUS curriculum, and the POCUS learning and eLearning content geared towards medical and physician assistant students. Dr. Rao went on to present POCUS to the Arusha Lutheran Medical Center in Tanzania and the University of Santo Thomas in Manila, Philippines. His passions are ultrasound and point-of-...

Richard Markell, DVM, MRCVS, MBA, is a veterinarian, key opinion leader, business and science entrepreneur, and an experienced consultant in the veterinary clinical practice, pharmaceutical, educational, and medical equipment sectors. He has been in his elite equine veterinary practice for 31 years. He has traveled all over the globe as a former veterinarian for the United States Equestrian Team and for international horses and clients. He is currently the Director of the Veterinary Program at B...

Thomas Baribeault is the founder of the Society for Opioid-Free Anesthesia (SOFA) and is currently serving as President. SOFA is a non-profit organization dedicated to education and research on opioid-free anesthesia and post-operative pain management. Thomas currently practices in Atlanta, Georgia and is responsible for implementing opioid free anesthesia and post-operative pain protocols. He received a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the Ohio State University, a Master of Science in nursing ...

Katie Wiskar, MD, is an academic general internist working at Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. She recently completed a year of dedicated POCUS fellowship including training in Western University's prestigious Critical Care Ultrasound program. Her POCUS passions include all things echocardiography, clinical integration of ultrasound findings, and correcting common POCUS myths and misunderstandings.

Yale Tung Chen, MD, is an emergency medicine physician living with an active COVID-19 infection. He currently serves as the Director of the Ultrasound Division at Hospital Universitario La Paz in Madrid, Spain.

Daphné Savoy is a Physician Recruiter in Northern British Columbia (Canada) - she is passionate about life in the North. Daphné lived in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, before moving to her current home in Fort St. John, British Columbia. In her free time, Daphné enjoys fishing, spending time in the wilderness, and dreaming about having her own team of sled dogs!

Dr. Nicole Yedlinsky is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, KS. She received her medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, LA. She completed Family Medicine Residency at Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, NC, and Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at VCU-Fairfax Family Practice, Fairfax, VA. She practices family medicine, obstetrics, and sports medici...

"The face to me, of the climate crisis, is the little kid struggling to breath, and that, is scary as hell." Dr. Covert-Bowlds is a family doctor at Kaiser Permanente Northgate Medical Center in Seattle. He has been doing ultrasound for soft tissue diagnosis and treatment, joint and bursa aspirations, and injections. Climate activists with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility Climate and Health Task Force. He is also a daily bicycle commuter.

"The biggest trend is the innovation that is happening on the clinical side of Athletic Training, right now. It's integrating a lot of the imaging technology that allows us to do a better job."- Skylar Richards, Director of Sports Science & Head Athletic Trainer at FC Dallas. Listen as Skylar Richards discusses his use of point-of-care ultrasound in role as an Athletic Trainer. Starting in the MLS in 2007, Skylar's primary focus is not the classic sports science approach but injury prevention ...

“To listen to breathing, people used to put their ear to the chest and their ear on the heart listen to the heart as well. Now we have the stethoscope….ultrasound is a step beyond the stethoscope. We aren’t just listening; we are looking now.”- Dr. Hong Wang Listen as Dr. Hong Wang discusses how she learned Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) and uses it in her practice of Anesthesiology. Hong Wang, MD, PhD, FASE, FASA.Dr. Wang attended the Peking University School of Medicine in Beijing, China. ...

Listen as author, Dr. Paul Atkinson, discusses the use of point-of-care ultrasound in Emergency Medicine and Resuscitation. Dr. Paul Atkinson is Professor in Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie University and Saint John Regional Hospital, New Brunswick, Canada. He is the current chair of the provincial Emergency Medicine research committee. Paul is also deputy editor of CJEM, Chief Medical Officer at WorkSafeNB, and is currently VP for ultrasound research for the International Federation for Emerge...

Listen to Mark Shaffer, MD as he discuss his use of POCUS for rural healthcare. Dr. Shaffer grew up outside of Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 2004 and from Harvard Medical School in Boston in 2009. Dr. Shaffer then moved south to Columbia, South Carolina where he completed his Family Medicine Residency at Richland Hospital in 2012. After residency, he felt called to international service and pursued a Global Health Fellowship with the USC School of Medicin...

Listen to Dr. Sanjay Patel, Director of Medical Procedure Services at John H. Stronger, Jr. Hospital in Cook County discuss his use of POCUS for diagnostic procedures.

Listen to Malka Stromer, owner of Sound Sports Imaging, LLC as she discusses integrating POCUS into medical school curriculum.

Listen to Fouad Al-Noor, Co-founder & CEO at ThinkSono talk about POCUS and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the work their startup is doing.

Listen to Janelle Bludorn, PA-C, Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill talk about POCUS for the digital generations and share her thought leadership.

Listen to Gordon Johnson, M.D., F.H.M., President of the Medical Staff at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, talk about how POCUS is changing the Diagnostic Process.

Listen to Niek Vink (from Netherlands) and Stuart Wildman (from UK) talk about POCUS Improving Physiotherapy Internationally.

Listen to Suean Pascoe, B. App.Sc (MRT, GradDip MedUS, AMS, Cert IV workplace training, GradCert Clinical Teaching (Melb), Director, Zedu Ultrasound Training Solutions, talk about how POCUS is revolutionizing Australian Medical Practices.