9 FEBRUARY 2021, 11:00 EST

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11.00 AM – 11.05 AM

Welcome

Stephanie Cohen MD

 

11.05 AM – 12.00 PM

Keynote Address

POCUS + Global Health: A Continuum

Trish Henwood MD

 

12.00 PM – 12.50 PM

Presentations from Resource Limited Settings

 

Rwanda

Ndebwanimana Vincent MD

 

Panama & Malawi

Liliana Morales-Perez MD & Beth D’Amico MD

 

 

Rwanda

Ndebwanimana Vincent MD

 

 

South Sudan

Ezibon Phillip Arijo MD

Medécins Sans Frontières

 

Ethiopia & Tanzania

Tal Berkowitz MD

 

12.50 PM – 1.00 PM

Announcements

 

Executive Board Elections

 

Upcoming Meetings and Dues

 

Keynote Speaker

Meet  Dr. Trish Henwood

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.

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