Contributors

The Sonosite Institute wouldn’t exist without our dedicated point-of-care ultrasound partners, who develop compelling educational content on point-of-care ultrasound.

 
    Maria O'Rourke Headshot
    Maria O'Rourke, MD, FACEP
    Emergency Medicine & Critical Care Institute, Executive Medical Director

    Dr. O’Rourke is an Emergency Medicine (EM) board-certified physician with over 20 years’ experience in academic and community settings. She graduated from Tufts School of Medicine and completed her EM residency and EM Ultrasound Fellowship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC. Dr. O’Rourke works clinically in California in a community-based setting and teaches the hospitalist POCUS.

    Dr. O'Rourke was Co- Chair of the ACEP Community US Committee for the last 2 years and created the ACEP Community US Guidelines and is currently participating with a group of experts to update the new EM TEE 2023 guidelines.  

    Dr. O’Rourke has been teaching Limited TEE in the Emergency Medicine and Critical Care setting since 2016 and has started multiple EM based TEE programs around the country.  

    Assisted with the development and review of the following content: Webinar: The Importance of Simulation Training for Transesophageal Ultrasound

    Webinars: Webinar: The Importance of Simulation Training for Transesophageal Ultrasound
    Phillips Perera, MD RDMS FACEP
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Department of Emergency Medicine
    Stanford University School of Medicine and Medical Center
    Current Student-Training in Clinical Research Program (Biostatistics and Epidemiology), UCSF Medical Center
    San Francisco, California

    Contributed several SoundBytes Case Study Videos throughout the Sonosite Institute.