9 FEBRUARY 2021, 11:00 EST
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11.00 AM – 11.05 AM |
Welcome Stephanie Cohen MD
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11.05 AM – 12.00 PM |
Keynote Address POCUS + Global Health: A Continuum Trish Henwood MD
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12.00 PM – 12.50 PM |
Presentations from Resource Limited Settings |
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Rwanda Ndebwanimana Vincent MD |
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Panama & Malawi Liliana Morales-Perez MD & Beth D’Amico MD
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Rwanda Ndebwanimana Vincent MD
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South Sudan Ezibon Phillip Arijo MD Medécins Sans Frontières |
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Ethiopia & Tanzania Tal Berkowitz MD
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12.50 PM – 1.00 PM |
Announcements |
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Executive Board Elections |
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Upcoming Meetings and Dues
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Keynote Speaker
Meet Dr. Trish Henwood
Associate Professor of Emergency & Director of Global Strategic Partnerships - Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia
Dr. Trish Henwood is also the President and Co-Founder of Point-of-care Ultrasound in Resource-limited Environments (PURE), a non-profit organization focused on ultrasound education and research in the developing world. She has developed and led ultrasound training programs in Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Liberia and support efforts in numerous other international settings.
Prior to joining Jefferson in 2019, she was the Associate Chief of the Division of Emergency Ultrasound and Director of the Fellowship in Emergency Ultrasound and Global Ultrasound Programs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA.
Dr. Henwood focuses on emergency ultrasound education with a research focus on the role of ultrasound in global health and humanitarian settings. She is an International Advisor to the Ultrasound Committee of the African Federation of Emergency Medicine, an Ultrasound Telemedicine Specialist for Médecins San Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), and former co-chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians Global Health Ultrasound Subcommittee.
She has a background in disaster and outbreak response, and has been leading the Emergency Medicine COVID-19 response for Jefferson Health’s 10 EDs since March 2020.