Plenary Speakers

David Amponsah, M.D.

Ultrasound Division Head
Department of Emergency Medicine
Henry Ford Hospital

Abigail Brackney MD, FACEP

Associate Ultrasound Division Head
Department of Emergency Medicine
Henry Ford Hospital

Scott Dulchavsky MD PhD

Professor of Surgery, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Wayne State University School of Medicine and Michigan State University.
Roy D. McClure Chairman of Surgery and Surgeon in Chief
Henry Ford Health System

Richard Hoppmann, M.D., FACP

Professor of Medicine, Past Dean, Founder of the Ultrasound Institute University of South
Carolina School of Medicine
Founder and Past President – SUSME
Past President – WINFOCUS
President – AIUM

Thomas Marshburn MD
NASA Astronaut

Full bio at: https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/thomas-h-marshburn

Resa Lewiss MD

Professor of Emergency Medicine
TEDMED speaker and TimesUp Healthcare founder
Host and founder of the Visible Voices Podcast

Michael Blaivas MD

Chief Medical Officer, Anavasi Diagnostics.
Chief Medical Officer, ThinkSono.
Chief Medical Officer AutonomUS Med Tech. Machine Learning
Innovator in Point-of-Care Medical Devices, Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and Software

Caroline Dowers, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine
Henry Ford Health System

Megan Guy MD

Associate Ultrasound Fellowship Director and Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
UC Irvine Medical Center

Lianne McLean MD BCH BAO, MHI, FRCPC

POCUS Director and a Staff Physician at the Hospital for Sick Children
Assistant Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto

Therese Meade DO

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Program Director Emergency Medicine Residency
Central Michigan University

John Fitzsimmons MD

Assistant Professor
Division of Human Anatomy
Michigan State University

Chris Clark MD

Department of Emergency Medicine
Henry Ford Health System

Lawrence A. Melniker, MD, MS, MBA

Vice Chief for Quality Management
Department of Emergency Medicine
NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

J. Antonio Bouffard MD

Detroit Medical Center

Mark Favot MD

Sinai Grace Emergency Medicine

Tomás Villén MD

Associate Professor. Director of Point of Care Ultrasound Curriculum. Direction of International Relations Office. Francisco de Vitoria University. Madrid
Chair of Ultrasound Section of Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine
Member of Board of Directors of WINFOCUS

J. Chris Fox MD

Professor and Chair of emergency medicine
Director of ultrasound in medical education
University of California Irvin

John Joseph MD

Henry Ford Hospital
Department of Emergency Medicine

Akshay Srikanth MD

Henry Ford Hospital
Department of Emergency Medicine

Tom Jelic MD FRCPC

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of Manitoba

Julian Suszanski MD

Community Ultrasound Director
Vanderbilt University

Maya Harel-Sterling MDCM, FRCPC

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Point-of-care Ultrasound (POCUS) Faculty
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

Jennifer Cotton MD, RDMS

University of Utah
Department of Emergency Medicine

Rosalia Mahr MD

Department of Emergency Medicine
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Kevin Piro MD

Oregon Health & Science University
Director of Internal Medicine Ultrasound Education

Delia Gold, MD

Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Andrew Butki DO

Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director
Wayne State University Emergency Ultrasound Director
Ascension St John Hospital Core Faculty
McLaren Oakland Hospital Staff Physician
Central Peninsula Hospital, Soldotna AK

Sudhir Baliga MD

Henry Ford Hospital
Department of Emergency Medicine

Jeanette Mladenovic MD MBA

Dr. Mladenovic, an academic administrator and educator, developed her interest in point of care ultrasound in 2004.
Most recently, she served as President of the Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and Research; and in her last academic position, she was Executive Vice-President and Provost at Oregon Health
Sciences University (OHSU).