Educator of the Month
At @jeff_sono, we have the pleasure of hosting an Educator of the Month program. Doctors and professionals from other programs and backgrounds visit us to provide insightful guest lectures and demonstrations.
2023-2024 Educators
2022 - 2023 Educators
Daniel Lichtenstein
Daniel Lichtenstein is a medical intensivist at Ambroise-Paré Hospital (Paris-West, France). In 1991 Prof. Lichtenstein defined Critical Ultrasound, a whole-body approach to the critically ill, mainly focused on lung ultrasound with extensions to acute respiratory failure (the BLUE-protocol), circulatory failure (the FALLS-protocol), and interventional ultrasound (thoracentesis, venous line insertions and more). He has extensive experience as an educator and advocates using simple equipment and a unique transducer.
2021 - 2022 Educators
Anna Maw, MD MS
Dr. Maw is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Director of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training Programs and Research Division of Hospital Medicine at University of Colorado Hospital. She founded and led the Weill Cornell Internal Medicine POCUS Program from 2012-2016. Her research focuses on optimizing health outcomes in hospitalized patients using POCUS.
Tricia Smith, MD MPH
Dr. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Emory University. She is ultrasound fellowship trained and her ongoing research involves the uses of point-of-care ultrasound in patients with advanced heart failure and Left Ventricular Assist Devices.
Maxime Gautier, MD
Dr Gautier is an emergency physician at SMUR(Service Mobile d'Urgence et de Réanimation aka EMS/Resuscitation) at Hôpital Lariboisière in Paris. He is an Instructor and Education Committee member for the Clinical Applications of Emergency Ultrasound.
Anthony Weekes, MD MSc
Dr. Weekes is the director of the emergency medicine research division at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. He has been the regional director of multi-center investigations of cardiac ultrasound in cardiac arrest resuscitation, and the principal investigator for the multi-center Pulmonary Embolism Short Term Clinical Outcomes Registry and the Clinical Outcomes in Pulmonary Embolism Research Registry at Atrium Health.
Edith P Mitchell, MD MACP FCPP FRCP
Dr Mitchell is a Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology at Sidney Kimmel Medical College. She is the Associate Director for Diversity Programs and Director of the Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities for the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center. She has spent her career helping individuals in medically underserved areas understand ways to improve cancer care. Dr. Mitchell’s research involves new drug evaluation and chemotherapy, development of new therapeutic regimens, chemoradiation strategies for combined modality therapy, patient selection criteria and supportive care for patients with gastrointestinal cancer.
Olusegun Olusanya, MD
Dr. Olusanya is a Critical Care Physician. He is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He is part of the UK Focused Ultrasound in intensive Care Committee, an associate editor of the Journal of the Intensive Care Society, and editor for the POCUS Journal .He is a member of the UK Intensive Care Society’s Trainee Committee, an editor for Life in the Fast Lane, an editor for The Bottom Line and a founding member of the UK group “Tea and Empathy” which supports doctors in distress. His interests include point-of-care ultrasound, burnout, and social media as an adjunct to medical education.
James Farrell, MD
Dr Farrell completed Internal Medicine training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Gastroenterology Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and advanced therapeutic endoscopic fellowship training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. At the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles he developed the largest endoscopic ultrasound program in California. In 2013 he was recruited to lead the Yale Center for Pancreatic Diseases at Yale School of Medicine and the Yale New Haven Hospital, while also joining the Yale Interventional Endoscopy Program.
Renee K Dversdal, MD
Dr. Dversdal is an Associate Professor of Medicine and academic hospitalist at Oregon Health & Science University. She helped to create and direct the General Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship in 2016, which was the first of a kind on the West Coast. She has been active in many national organizations. In 2020, Dr. Dversdal became the Chief Medical Officer for Vave Health.
Nahreen Ahmed, MD MPH
Dr Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania as well as a Global Health Scholar at the Center for Global Health. She founded the Bangladesh Ultrasound Initiative, a training program for critical care physicians in Dhaka, Bangladesh and then proceeded to become the head of Ultrasound for MedGlobal and Bridge to Health. Dr Ahmed has worked to bring Ultrasound training and medical care to crisis zones such as in Yemen, Rohingya, Sierra Leones as well as low resource hospitals in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
Traci B. Fox, EdD, RT(R), RDMS, RVT
Dr. Fox is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Imaging & Radiation Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University. She is a sonographer and educator for almost 20 years. She holds ARDMS certifications in abdomen, obstetrics & gynecology, breast, and vascular. In 2014, Dr. Fox earned her Doctorate in Education from Drexel University.
UPAndo Latinoamérica
UPAndo Latinoamérica is a collective project started in 2021 with a focus on creating open access educational materials in Spanish which cover different aspects of point of care ultrasound for emergency medicine, primary care and prehospital settings. Their aim is to contribute to the integration of POCUS in the practice of medicine in Latin America as part of providing just and dignified health care for all.
2020 - 2021 Educators
Almaz Dessie, MD
Dr. Dessie is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Faculty at Columbia University Medical Center.Her academic work focuses on advancing POCUS to improve the care of acutely ill and injured children globally.
Amy Zeidan, MD
Dr. Zeidan is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Emory School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Georgia Human Rights Clinic. Her work focuses on ultrasound implementation in resource limited settings domestically and use of ultrasound in forensic medical asylum evaluations.
Tanping Wong, MD
Dr. Wong is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University. She is a Hospitalist and the Internal Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship Director. She leads the US education for IM residents and directs the semi-annual 5 day Hospital Medicine POCUS course.
Penelope C. Lema, MD
Dr. Lema is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She serves as the Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs and Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Division and Fellowship. She is the Chair-Elect for the ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Section, Treasurer for SCUF, an elected Board of Director for NY ACEP and on the ACEP Council. She was honored as NY ACEP’s Physician of the Year in 2019 and received ACEP AAWEP’s 2020 Award for Outstanding Mentor.
Kiyetta Alade, MD, MEd
Dr. Alade is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital. She is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and the director of pediatric point-of-care ultrasound. She leads POCUS educational efforts for pediatric emergency medicine and assists in those efforts for pediatric surgery, critical c care medicine and global health. Her research interests are in medical education and pediatric POCUS.
Lisette Martinez, MBA
Lisette Martinez is the Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Heath. Lisette leads Jefferson’s integration of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and practices to ensure excellence in education, research and patient care.
Creagh Boulger, MD
Dr. Boulger is the Ultrasound Fellowship Director and Associate Ultrasound Director at Ohio State University. She is a nationally recognized medical educator who utilizes gamification and gaming techniques in events such as SonoGames and SonoSlam.
Cindy Hsu, MD
Dr. Hsu is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Surgery and Director of Critical Care Research at the University of Michigan. A K12 Scholar in Emergency Critical Care Research, her research interests center on neuroprotection after cardiac arrest and traumatic brain injury, critical care ultrasound and asynchronous medical education.
Adaira Landry, MD, MEd
Dr. Landry is a master educator, point of care ultrasound specialist, Assistant Residency Director for the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency programs, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and a Harvard Medical School Society Advisor. She is the Co-Chair for the Diversity and Inclusion committee for the Office of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Social Justice in the Department of EM at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Srikar Adhikari, MD
Dr. Adhikari is the Chief of the Emergency Ultrasound Section, Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director and Ultrasound Curriculum Director for medical students at the University of Arizona. He authored numerous manuscripts and book chapters in point-of-care ultrasound and has lectured at national and international venues.
Ignazio Marino, MD, ScD
Dr. Marino, a transplant surgeon, scientist and former politician, was the Mayor of Rome from 2013-2015. He is the Executive Vice President of Jefferson International Innovative Strategic Ventures.
2019 - 2020 Educators
Lori Stolz, MD
Dr. Stolz is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Emergency Ultrasound at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Stolz is the 2019-2020 President of AEUS (SAEM).
Joshua Rempell, MD, MPH
Dr. Rempell is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Program Director at Cooper University Hospital. He has focused on innovation in education across all levels of trainees.
Jamie Garfield, MD
Dr. Garfield is an Associate Professor of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery and Co-Director of the Invasive Procedure Laboratory at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Her clinical and research interests include interventional pulmonology, women’s health and gender disparities in lung disease, LGBTQ health and education.
Cameron Baston, MD, MSCE
Dr. Baston is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Baston’s interests lie in developing educational techniques for integrating point of care ultrasonography into the clinical practice of internal medicine and critical care specialists.
Kristy Shine, MD, PhD
Dr. Shine is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University and Director of Scholarly Inquiry, Design, at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College. Dr. Shine has worked in the medical device industry and holds graduate degrees in mechanical engineering and medical engineering/medical physics.
Austin Chiang, MD, MPH
Dr. Chiang is a trained gastroenterologist and advanced endoscopist. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor in Medicine, Director of the Endoscopic Bariatric Program and Chief Medical Social Media Officer for Jefferson Health.
Peter Weimersheimer, MD
Dr. Weimersheimer is a Professor of Surgery (EM) at the UVM Larner College of Medicine and POCUS Director. He developed a 4th year EM POCUS elective, POCUS IV program, the start of a 4 year medical school curriculum and an EM residency POCUS curriculum.
Sandra Brooks, MD
Dr. Brooks joined Jefferson in December 2019 as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for TJUH, Center City Division. A former Professor and Director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Maryland, as a physician executive, Dr. Brooks has focused on health equity, patient safety and quality.
Cian McDermott, FRCEM, FACEM
Dr. McDermott works as a Consultant in EM in the Mater University Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. Following several years in Melbourne, he returned to Ireland in 2017. Cian took the role of Director of Emergency Ultrasound Education in the Mater Hospital in 2018. He has had the honour of co-directing SMACC Ultrasound workshops.
Barbara Klinkhammer, RA
Dean Klinkhammer is the Executive Dean of the College of Architecture and the Built Environment at Thomas Jefferson University.
Her research focus is the 20th century architect Le Corbusier and on color in the built environment. She has numerous funded grants, peer-reviewed publications and design competition awards to her name.
Marina Del Rios, MD, MSc
Dr. Marina Del Rios is Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. She is core faculty member of the Emergency Medicine Residency program, Emergency Ultrasound Faculty and Health Disparities Research Coordinator. Dr. Del Rios is also the Community Sphere Physician Leader of the Illinois Heart Rescue Project, a state-wide QA/QI project tasked with more than doubling neurologically intact survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims.
2018 - 2019 Educators
Chef Shola Olunloyo
Shola Olunloyo is a distinguished member of the Philadelphia restaurant community. He is a well-accomplished research chef, who has successfully integrated ultrasound into culinary applications. He now runs an independent culinary test kitchen in Philadelphia: a partnership with multiple equipment manufacturers exploring the role of technology in cuisine. His innovative work can be found at www.instagram.com/studiokitchen1
Molly Muffler, MD
Dr. Mulflur completed her residency in Emergency Medicine and Fellowship in Emergency Ultrasound at Temple University. She is currently an emergency physician and the Director of Emergency Ultrasound and Director for Emergency Ultrasound Education for Jefferson Health Northeast in Philadelphia, PA.
Rachel Liu, BAO, MBBCh
Dr. Liu is the Fellowship Director for the Yale Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship, and the Director of Clinical Ultrasound Education for Yale School of Medicine. She is past President of AEUS (SAEM) after serving on its executive committee for four years, and is the current Chair for the ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Section.
Jennifer Marin, MD
Dr. Jennifer Marin is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound and the Medical Director for Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.
Patricia C. Henwood, MD
Dr. Henwood is the Associate Chief of the Division of Emergency Ultrasound and Director of Global Ultrasound Programs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She is the President and Co-Founder of Point-of-care Ultrasound in Resource-limited Environments (PURE). Dr. Henwood’s research focuses on the role of ultrasounds in global health and humanitarian settings.
Anthony J. Dean, MD
Anthony J. Dean is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Radiology and the immediate past Director of Emergency Ultrasound at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a founding member of the WINFOCUS (World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound) with a special interest int he potential for clinician performed ultrasonography to enhance the efficacy of healthcare in resource-poor settings. Dr. Dean recently completed a 1 year sabbatical in Guatemala funded by the Fulbright program.
Jason Nomura, MD
Dr. Nomura completed an Ultrasound Fellowship at Christiana Care after completing a combined emergency medicine. internal medicine residency. He is currently the Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship Director and Medical Director for point of Care Ultrasound at Chrstiana Care.
Haney Mallemat, MD
Dr. Mallemat is board certified in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine. He is an Associate Professor and works in both the Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit at Cooper Medical School at Rowan University in Camden, NJ
David F. Gaieski, MD
Dr. Gaieski is a professor of Emergency medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He is Vice Chair for Resuscitation Services and Director of Emergency Critical Care. His clinical and research expertise focuses on critical care topics including cardiopulmonary resuscitation and protocolized care for sepsis.
David Amponsah, MD
Dr. Amponsah is an emergency physician and Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship Program Director at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. He is was one of the first to integrate POC U/S into UME and the physical diagnosis
Laleh Gharahbaghian, MD
Dr. Gharahbaghian is an emergency physician and Emergency Medicine Medical Director at Stanford University Hospital in Detorit, Michigan. She founded SonoSpot and most recently SonoDoc Game
Danielle Royer, Ph. D
Dr. Royer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and Director of Human Body Block, the 1st year anatomy course at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She co-leads the integration of ultrasound in anatomy for medical students, and also teaches ultrasound to graduate students in the Modern Human Anatomy master’s program.
2017 - 2018 Educators
Dimitrios Papanagnou, MD, MPH, EdD(c)
Dimitrios Papanagnou is the Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine; the Assistant Dean for Faculty Development in the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University; and the Director for the In Situ Simulation Program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals.
Geoff Hayden, MD
Geoff Hayden, MD, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. He is currently co-director of the Design Thinking curriculum in the Sidney Kimmel Medical College.
Nova Panebianco, MD
Nova Panebianco, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently Interim Director of Emergency Ultrasound. She is a renowned ultrasound educator; who lectures both nationally and internationally. She recently received The Special Dean’s Award at the University of Pennsylvania for initiating an innovative 4-year vertical ultrasound curriculum for students at the Pearlman School of Medicine.
Rob Pugliese, PharmD, BCPS & Bon Ku, MD, MPP
Bon and Rob are Co-directors of JeffDesign at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College. They are passionate about the intersection of health and design.
Frances Mae West, MD, MS, FACP
Mae West MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the SKMC of TJUH, and the Associate Fellowship Director for the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine. She also serves as the pulmonologist for the Jefferson Weinberg ALS Center. She is working to design an ultrasound curriculum for both internal medicine and critical care fellows at TJUH.
Aaron Chen, MD
Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Director of Emergency Ultrasound at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Besides point-of-care ultrasound, he has published on soft tissue infections, in particular community-associated MRSA.
Wilma Chan, MD/EdM, FACEP
Dr. Chan is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the inaugural Director of Ultrasound Education at the Perelman School of Medicine.
Simon Carly, MD, FRCEM
Simon Carly is a Professor of Emergency Medicine in Manchester, England. He is interested in how resuscitation works (or doesn’t) in the ED. He has academic interests in technology enhanced medical education, and is very active in the #FOAMed world. He runs the internationally acclaimed St.Emlyn’s blog and podcast.
Thomas Costantino, MD
Dr. Costantino, MD, is Professor of Clinical Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine is currently the Fellowship Director and Chief of the Division of Emergency Ultrasound.
Josefin Elzén, MD
Dr. Josefin Elzén is a Consultant Physician in Anesthesia and Critical Care at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm.
Lev N. Nazarian, MD
Dr. Nazarian is a TJUH and SKMC Professor of Radiology and Vice Chair for Education. He serves as the editor-in-chief of JUM (Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine) and is on the Executive Committee of the AIUM - a multidisciplinary ultrasound organization. He holds special interest in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound.
Eric Carvin, BA
Eric Carvin directs social strategy at The Associated Press. Eric oversees AP’s use of social media to uncover breaking news, father user-generated content, connect with readers and share powerful content. He also guides AP’s journalists as they use social platforms in their pursuit of news.