Michael Macias MD Founder, Designer
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
Matthew Riscinti MD Co-founder, Editor
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 Image Atlas Senior Editor
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
Timothy Scheel DO Communications and Social Media Strategist
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
Michael Amador Colorized Atlas Editor
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.
Sarah Angarita-Jones MD MPH OB Section Editor
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 Blough MD OB Dating Atlas/OB Section Editor
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.
Michael Heffler MD Nerve Block Chief Editor, Image Atlas Editor
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
Michael Cox, DO Digital Education Intern
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
Lindsay Davis MD Colorized Anatomy Atlas Editor
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.
Tom Fadial MD Evidence Atlas App Developer, Editor
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
Hannah St. Francis MD, Color Atlas Editor
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.
Garrett Ghent MD Lead Editor for the Evidence Atlas
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
Brian Hizon MD Atlas Hierarchy Designer
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 Image Review Senior Editor, UI Consultant
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 .
Sathyaseelan Subramaniam MD FAAP Pediatrics Editor
Emergency Ultrasound Director
Summerlin Hospital Medical Center
Las Vegas, Nevada
Robert Jones DO FACEP, Ultra-Contributor
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
John F Kilpatrick MD Consultant
Website: Kings County US
Resa E. Lewiss MD Consultant
Twitter @RELewiss
Rachel Liu MD Consultant, Gamification Specialist
Twitter: @RubbleEM
Lisa Feit MS4 Former Co-chief of Operations
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
Carissa Solari Former Chief of Operations & Social Media Specialist
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 POCUS Atlas Jr Editor
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.
Nhu Nguyen Le, MD Image Review Editor
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
Russ Horowitz MD POCUS Atlas Jr Editor
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.
Julia Brant MD POCUS Atlas Jr Editor
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.
Maher M. Abulfaraj MD POCUS Atlas Jr Editor
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 Khalil MD POCUS Atlas Jr Editor
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
Dr. Vanitha Jagannath POCUS Atlas Jr Editor
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
Carlo Zamora Digital Education Intern
Third year medical student at Liberty University who developed a passion for ultrasound during my first two years of medical school and now serve and teach my classmates as an ultrasound tutor. It is a joy to help anyone grow in their confidence with ultrasound and I aim to continue teaching during residency and beyond. When I give into taking a study break, you can either catch me at the gym, chilling with my guitar and jamming to another John Mayer song, seeing when Aimé Leon Dore is dropping another collection or catching up with my growing stack of books to finish reading.
Erick Otiniano POCUS Atlas Image Editor
Fourth-year medical student at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine (UCRSOM) and past Director of UCRSOM’s Ultrasound Student Instructor Cadre, which trains second-year medical students to teach first-years anatomy through ultrasound. He is applying Emergency Medicine for the 2024 match and 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
