Courses Directors
Barry Knapp, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Gavin Rogers, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Co-Director of Ultrasound Education
Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Associate Ultrasound Fellowship Director
Riverside Regional Medical Center
Newport News, VA
Planning Committee
David Bahner, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Columbus, OH
Kaitlynn Butler, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Kevin M. Piro, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director
Internal Medicine Ultrasound Education
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine
Portland, OR
Speakers
Alfred Abuhamad, MD
Executive Vice President
Mason C. Andrews Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Radiation
Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Michael Blaivas, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAIUM
Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Columbia, SC
Creagh Boulger, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Donald Byars, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences
Eastern Virginia Medical School
at Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Jennifer Carnell, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director of Emergency Ultrasound
Director of Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Michelle E. Clinton, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director of Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Roanoke, VA
Kean O. Feyzeau, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences
Eastern Virginia Medical School at
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Chris Fox, MD, FAIUM, FPD-AEUS
Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine
University of California Irvine
Irvine, CA
A professor and chair of emergency medicine and associate dean of inpatient medicine, Dr. Fox’s clinical research interests lie in emergency ultrasound. He is dedicated to promulgating the use of ultrasound at the point-of-care through research, teaching, leadership and clinical expertise, mirroring UCI’s mantra, Discover, Teach, Heal. Dr. Fox earned his MD from Tufts University School of Medicine. He did his residency in emergency medicine at UCI. He also completed a fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago in emergency ultrasound. Dr. Fox joined UCI School of Medicine in 2001. Through two consecutive grants from the UniHealth Foundation totaling $1.38M, Dr. Fox developed and published a unique four-year integrated point-of-care ultrasound curriculum for UCI medical students that we use to this day. In addition, Dr. Fox has published 120 peer-reviewed papers and contributed to three textbooks, two of them as sole editor. He has been invited to lecture more than 450 times in 49 states and 18 countries, including a TEDx UCI talk titled, “The Point of Care Revolution; Ultrasound,” watched 37,000 times.
Lauren M. Gallion, MD
Instructor of Emergency Medicine
Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences
at Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Craig Goodmurphy, PhD, MSc
Professor of Radiology
Professor of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Penn State College of Medicine
Hershey, PA
Matthew Jones, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director of Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship
Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences
Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University
John Kendall, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Associate Vice Chair
Director of Emergency Ultrasound
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, CA
Frederick W. Kremkau, PhD, FACR, FAIMBE, FAIUM, FASA
Professor of Ultrasound Education
Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences
Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Professor Emeritus
Radiology Sciences
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC
Dr. Kremkau is Professor of Ultrasound Education at Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University and Professor Emeritus of Radiologic Sciences at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He holds BEE, MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and the University of Rochester.
He is a Past President of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, holds fellowship in multiple organizations and authored 10 editions of the textbook, Kremkau’s Sonography Principles and Instruments, which is in its 11th edition under new authorship.
Natalie Nguyen, DO
Family Medicine
Director of Point of Care Ultrasound Family Medicine & Internal Medicine Residency Programs
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
Las Angeles, CA
Jonathan R. Nogueira, DO
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director of Ultrasound
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Roanoke, VA
Ilya Ostrovsky, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Assistant Residency Program Director
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Newark, NJ
Robert F. Reardon, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of Minnesota Medical School
Hennepin Healthcare
Minneapolis, MN
Eric A. Savitsky, MD
Chief Executive Officer
SonoSim, Inc.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Emergency Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Katherine Schaffer, MD
Emergency Medicine Physician
Global Health Fellowship
Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences
Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University
Christina Shenvi, MD, PhD, MBA
Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC
Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. An internationally recognized educator and recipient of the ACEP Outstanding Speaker Award and the Tintinalli Outstanding Educator award, she leads medical student education and faculty development programs and speaks widely on teaching, learning, and the habits and strategies that contribute to career success.
Elena S. Sinkovskaya, MD, PhD
Board Member of Tiny Hearts Project
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Director of Ultrasound Research and Education
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences
Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Felipe Teran, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York
Felicia Toreno, PhD, MS, RT, RDMS
Associate Professor of Medical Education
Lead Sonographer
Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences
Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University
Michael Wollenberg, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR
Jeffrey Yates, MPA, PA-C
Associate Professor of Physician Assistant Program
Director of MPA Ultrasound Education
Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences
EVMS School of Health Professions at Old Dominion University
