FOCUS on POCUS™

Mar 27 2023 91
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Welcome to the FOCUS on POCUS™ podcast hosted by the Point-Of-Care Ultrasound Certification Academy! Here we discuss all things related to point-of-care ultrasound: the practice, the trends, and its impact on healthcare. This program engages thought leaders who are defining global patient care with the “STETHOSCOPE OF THE FUTURE”. Be sure to tune in for interviews with thought leaders on the forefront of global POCUS.

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ThinkSono AI: Ultrasound. For Everyone.

Mar 27 2023 12 mins  
About Our Guest Fouad Al Noor is the Co-Founder and CEO of ThinkSono, an ultrasound AI company. Fouad has a Master of Engineering in Electronic Engineering with Nanotechnology from the University of Southampton, where he wrote his thesis on paper-based medical diagnostics using image processing. Prior to ThinkSono, Fouad worked as a medical Software Engineer at SAP in California, a

Cardiac Tamponade

Feb 21 2023 21 mins  
About Our Guest Dr. Pei-Chun McGregor, MD, FACC (she/her) is currently the Director of Ambulatory Cardiology and Stress Laboratory at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force Reserves. She is a board-certified general cardiologist with a focus on adult echocardiography, nuclear c

Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Primary Care

Jan 17 2023 14 mins  
About Our Guest Dr. James Wilcox is originally from Indiana. He earned his MD from Indiana University in 2014, and completed his Family Medicine Residency at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital in 2017. He then completed his Sports Medicine Fellowship at Western Michigan University in 2018. He first served in the rural community of Austin, Indiana, practicing the breadth of family med

Virtual POCUS Mentorship and Training in East Africa, Peru & Yemen

Dec 20 2022 16 mins  
About Our Guest William Cherniak, MD, is an Emergency physician with training in family medicine and global public health. He is a cofounder and board chair of Bridge to Health Medical and Dental Canada & USA and the founder and CEO of Rocket Doctor Inc. Bill has had research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, Academic Medicine, PLOS ONE and given numerou

Breakthroughs in Ultrasound Transducer Materials and Assemblies

Nov 18 2022 13 mins  
About Our Guest Dr. Alan Tai received his PhD in physics, specializing in quantum well research, from Boston College. Alan has worked at various medical ultrasound technology companies, including Philips as an engineer and GE Healthcare as a scientist. He has managed new medical ultrasound transducer products from development conception to successful commercial release. During his

Sonolucent Cranial Implants: A Novel Innovation

Oct 26 2022 18 mins  
About Our Guest David Zajc, RDMS, RVT, MBA, is the Senior Clinical Specialist at Longeviti Neuro Solutions with responsibilities in business development and Transcranioplasty ultrasound imaging. Prior to this, he worked in point of care ultrasound at GE, also in process improvement and as a quality consultant in hospitals. He also has a long tenure with various roles in a hospital

POCUS World Conference: Keynote Spotlight

Aug 19 2022 26 mins  
About Our Guest Larry Istrail, MD, is a hospitalist physician, entrepreneur, and author of The POCUS Manifesto. He has been covered by NPR and the Washington Post for various medical startups he has founded. He is the creator of the online POCUS educational site POCUSMedEd.com, and is certified in point-of-care ultrasound by the Society of Hospital Medicine and the American College

POCUS in Medical Education

Jul 25 2022 22 mins  
About Our Guest Kate Deiling has been the Ultrasound Instructor at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford, NJ, since the inception of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the pre-clerkship medical curriculum in 2019. As part of the school’s simulation center, she teaches first and second-year medical students all modules of POCUS that include online educati

The Health Wagon: Mobile Rural Healthcare Since 1980

May 25 2022 28 mins  
About Our Guest As a Family Nurse Practitioner and the President and CEO of St. Mary’s Health Wagon, Dr. Teresa Tyson leads a medical nonprofit in Central Appalachia. St. Mary’s Health Wagon exists as the region’s only safety net health care clinic for far southwest Virginia. Tyson leads her clinic in promoting the mission of providing quality, affordable, accessible care t

The Danish Society for Ultrasound in General Practice: A conversation with the Chair

Apr 06 2022 13 mins  
Troels Mengel-Jørgensen, GP, is a General Practitioner in Vodskov, Denmark. Presently, he serves as the Chairman of the Danish Society for Ultrasound in General Practice (DAUS), a board member of the Danish College of General Practice (DSAM). Troels is also associated with the Center for General Practice at Aalborg University (CAMAAU) in Aalborg, Denmark.