Join our panel discussion among Point-of-Care ultrasound champions, as they share their experiences on the value of not only archiving, but fully leveraging the value of POCUS practice in the hospital environment to drive clinical excellence, financial reimbursement and operational efficiencies.
Colin Bell is an emergency physician in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is active nationally within the Canadian POCUS community and is
currently the clinical practice lead for the CAEP Emergency Ultrasound Committee. Colin was previously the POCUS director for the Emergency Department at the Kingston Health Sciences Centre. He completed his POCUS Fellowship at the Denver Health Medical Centre in 2016.
Assisted with the development and review of the following content: Webinar: Beyond POCUS Archiving: Why is it So Important?
John Hipskind is a board-certified emergency physician in Visalia, CA. He is active nationally within the POCUS community. He currently is assistant medical director of emergency ultrasound at Kaweah Health. He also is Kaweah Health’s EUFAC accredited emergency ultrasound fellowship director and its ACEP CUAP accredited graduate medical education ultrasound director.
John did his EM residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago in 1995 prior to the widespread use of POCUS. He became an early adapter using radiology leftovers, listened to US based podcasts as they became available, completed his POCUS fellowship through the Ultrasound Leadership Academy and is now Advanced Emergency Medicine Focus Practice Designated through ABEM.
Assisted with the development and review of the following content: Webinar: Beyond POCUS Archiving: Why is it So Important?
Dr. Ferre is a Utah native who completed his undergraduate work at the University of Utah. He graduated from medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin and completed an emergency medicine residency at Maine Medical Center. Following residency, Dr. Ferre served 3 years on active duty for the United States Air Force where he was the Emergency Ultrasound Director for the SAUSHEC EM Residency program. During his active-duty service, he completed 2 tours in Iraq with the 332 EMDG in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. After separating from the Air Force, he completed an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at Palmetto Health Richland in South Carolina.
Dr. Ferre spent 9 years at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he founded the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship and the Emergency Ultrasound Division. He moved to Indiana in 2019, where he currently serves as the POCUS Division Chief in the Department of EM and is the program director for the Indiana University School of Medicine POCUS initiative.
Assisted with the development and review of the following content: Webinar: Beyond POCUS Archiving: Why is it So Important?