Zachary Boivin, MD

Secretary

Yale School of Medicine

My name is Zach Boivin, an ultrasound faculty member at Yale, and I am running for a member-at-large position for AEUS. Since starting fellowship, I have always enjoyed being active in both the AEUS and ACEP ultrasound sections, and have worked closely with AEUS to develop Probing the Literature sessions, sonogames round 2 stations, an ocular POCUS narrated lecture video, and more. My goal as member-at-large is to increase the number of members who get involved in AEUS activities to give a chance for all ultrasound faculty members, residents, and medical students with an interest in POCUS to shine.

Additionally, I would work to foster increased collaboration across AEUS committees to ensure members know of all opportunities to get involved. There are so many amazing AEUS members with different strengths and skill sets that can be utilized to further the goals of the section and I hope to work closely with everyone!

Jackie Jian, DO

Secretary

Guthrie Clinic Robert Packer Hospital

My name is Jackie Jian and I am running for the position of secretary for AEUS. I am currently an assistant professor at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, the emergency department ultrasound director at Guthrie Clinic Robert Packer Hospital, and core faculty for the emergency medicine residency. I finished my EUS fellowship at NYP-Brooklyn Methodist in 2023 and I obtained my AEMUS-FPD status in 2024.

My first exposure to SAEM and AEUS began with Sonogames in my third year of residency in 2021. I was able to appreciate AEUS’s dedication to its educational mission despite the difficulties of organizing a virtual competition due to the COVID19 pandemic. Invigorated with the gamification of learning, my team and I won 1st place in Sonogames 2022 and I have been involved as a station moderator since then.

I am running for secretary at AEUS to specifically contribute to its mission of resident education and outreach to increase the amount of members in AEUS. There are potential members among non-fellowship trained physicians who may be intimidated to join a community of stellar but ultra specialized ultrasound clinicians. I also want to focus on how to best assess our resident learners; while there is the SDOT model to assess image acquisition, there is no standardized assessment of their ultrasound interpretation skills. I believe AEUS is the perfect community to establish these guidelines and to write the exam.

Lindsay Davis, MD

Member-at-Large

Boston University

AEUS has a long history of promoting the advancement of clinical ultrasound by supporting education, research and policy, and I would be honored to serve the ultrasound community in the role of member at large.

I earned my medical degree at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA and remained at Temple for residency training in Emergency Medicine. After residency, I moved to New York City to complete my Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at NYU Langone Health/Bellevue Medical Center. I was recruited to join the Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Faculty at NYU in the role of Director of Resident Ultrasound Education and after a few years was promoted to Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director. In 2022, I joined the EM US faculty at Boston Medical Center, initially serving as the Director of the Medical Student US Elective, and now as the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director.

My decision to pursue further training in the field of emergency ultrasound after residency was driven not only by a desire to become an expert in the field, but particularly to become an exceptional educator to future generations of EM physicians. Since completing fellowship, I have held various education leadership roles. In these roles I have developed innovative curricula and learning experiences, overseen scholarly projects, and mentored learners. I also participate in ultrasound education on a national scale, from collaborations with POCUS Atlas, to being an active member in the ACEP EUS Fellowship Subcommittee and the SCUF Education Committee. Volunteering as a judge at SonoGames for multiple years has been an experience I valued and has contributed to my desire to get more involved in AEUS.

I hope to utilize my skills in education, communication, organization and creativity to give back to this collaborative and dedicated POCUS community. As member at large, I would strive to support the President and executive board by taking on whatever projects are priorities to meet AEUS’s goals for the year. In particular, I would love to help create innovative education resources, brainstorm ways to increase our engagement with residents and provide more visibility and support for residents interested in pursuing fellowship, and create thoughtful initiatives and programming that promote diversity and inclusion in the ultrasound community. I think there are opportunities for AEUS to provide peer mentorship opportunities for junior faculty or faculty new to their leadership positions. Lastly, I hope to work with the Education Officer to put on the most large-scale, innovative, educational and fun SonoGames to date.

Maya Lin, MD

Member-at-Large

NYU Department of Emergency Medicine

Hi, I’m Maya, and I am applying for the position of Director at Large. Over the past decade, I have dedicated myself to teaching ultrasound and, in recent years, have actively sought to become more engaged in the ultrasound community. When I first embarked on my academic journey, I was both intimidated and inspired by the ultrasound pioneers who came before me. With the encouragement of wise mentors from outside my institution, I began to get involved at regional and national levels. This involvement has opened numerous opportunities and has been incredibly fulfilling.

I am passionate about providing mentorship and sponsorship to junior faculty, fellows, residents, and medical students. One of my key goals is to support junior faculty and engage residents early in their careers, fostering a deep appreciation for ultrasound. SAEM is one of my favorite organizations because it offers countless opportunities for learners and educators at all levels to share knowledge and network. I am committed to continuing to bring people together from the community and finding innovative ways to increase their participation in AEUS.

David Mackenzie, MD

Member-at-Large

Maine Medical Center

My name is David Mackenzie. I am the ultrasound director and medical director at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Tufts University. I completed medical school at McGill University (2008), EM residency at Brown (2012), and ultrasound fellowship at MGH before moving to Maine. I was the first ultrasound-trained faculty member at MMC, and as director have helped build our mature EUS program, now a division of 8 faculty. I co-founded our AEMUS fellowship and medical student ultrasound programming and curriculum integration as well as APP training and system-level ultrasound. I am an experienced educator and researcher; my interests are in hemodynamic monitoring, POCUS test performance, and ultrasound in global health.

AEUS plays an essential role in promoting ultrasound in EM and beyond, in developing the careers of fellows and junior faculty, and providing meaningful educational and research support to our community. Within AEUS, I have had the opportunity to serve as a Sonogames judge and station developer and on the SAEMMIES awards committee. Within the ultrasound community, I have served on the SCUF annual meeting planning committee and was program committee lead for SCUF23 in Portland. Earlier in my career I served on the board of PURE, working to develop ultrasound programs in global health settings. I welcome the opportunity to support the AEUS Executive Committee's strategic priorities as a member-at-large; my experience has me well positioned to support AEUS aims and to further support AEUS membership.

Laura Oh, MD

Member-at-Large

Emory University

Trent She, MD

Member-at-Large

Hartford Hospital/University of Connecticut

I have been nominated and am running to be a Member-at-Large on the AEUS Executive Committee for the next year. To tell the membership a little about me, I am currently the Ultrasound Director at Hartford Hospital and am Fellowship Director for the Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship at the University of Connecticut/Hartford Hospital program. I finished medical school at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, did emergency medicine residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship at Mount Sinai St. Luke's West. I've been at Hartford Hospital and living in central Connecticut for the past 5 years and work with the emergency medicine residency from the University of Connecticut and enjoy the outdoors life with my wife and my 2-year old daughter.

I've always enjoyed teaching and working with learners of all types. To this end, I've sought positions both in my own institution, locally, regionally and nationally that would allow me greater exposure to experts in ultrasound education. I've been fortunate to work with some really smart, driven and amazing people in the ultrasound community in the six years since residency graduation and I would love to pay the ultrasound and greater emergency medicine community back.

I already do work with SAEM in a number of ways: I participate in Sonogames - probably the largest gathering of emergency medicine sonographers - as a question writer last year (winning an award for the Best Written Round 1 question) and will be one of the Round 2 section leads for Sonogames 2025 in Philadelphia this year. Every year, I have encouraged a team from our residency to participate in the Games and was fortunate to see our UConn residents win in 2022. Our now graduated fellow also updated the pneumothorax lecture of the Narrated Lecture series (which is now available on the AEUS Youtube channel).

As a Member-at-Large, my job and inititative will be to see what projects are currently underway through our ultrasound section and seek to help in anyway I can. Although I have an interest in ultrasound education, I also want to be an active and contributing member and will first plan to join any projects that need help and assistance. In addition, I also intend to invest myself in projects if I am not given anything to explicitly finish or whatever the Executive Committee will have me do.

Additionally, I hope to help strengthen mentorship programs within AEUS; it is only fair that with the mentorship and teaching that I received that I also be active in reciprocating. Further, I believe in the importance of promoting research and scholarly activity within our community. I have been able to partake in multicenter research and scholarly activity simply from being responsive to email and listserv opportunities through SAEM and these efforts have been instrumental in giving me the experience to advocate for research at my home institution. These type of collaborative efforts are sometimes difficult to start for young faculty, residents or medical students but with the strength of an organization backing strong experts in the field, these are important projects that should be pursued.

As proof of my interest and dedication to teaching, I have received several awards for excellence in education, including teaching awards from the emergency medicine residencies I have been a part of, the ACEP Junior Faculty Teaching Award and the ACEP Ultrasound Future Leader in Education Award.

For anyone reading this, thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to consider me. I promise that my training, educational and professional experiences, and active engagement with multiple societies (including SAEM) have prepared me for the responsibilities of a being a Member-at-Large on the Academy of Emergency Ultrasound board. I would be honored and thankful to have your support and I look forward to the opportunity to serve our organization and its members.

Rebecca Theophanous, MD

Member-at-Large

Duke University

I am an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Duke University and Emergency Ultrasound Director at the Durham VA Healthcare System. As ultrasound faculty and prior ultrasound course director, I am very involved with our residency, teaching clinical ultrasound, performing weekly image review, presenting advanced ultrasound topics, and teaching at monthly resident simulation sessions. I am active in SAEM and our ultrasound community, presenting didactic and research-based talks at SCUF, SAEM, and AAEM. I have experience writing POCUS guidelines and policy on my hospital’s POCUS taskforce, writing documents on image acquisition, documentation, archiving, equipment maintenance, disinfection policies, and billing for POCUS users across all specialties.

As an ultrasound researcher, I obtained a Master of Health Sciences in Clinical Research at Duke. I have published on innovative three-dimensional ultrasound, am a resident research mentor, and have collaborated with other departments on antibiotic stewardship initiatives, demonstrating my research, teaching, and networking skills. With grant funding from SAEMF-AEUS, my implementation science research involved training VA ED providers on POCUS and developing a documentation and archiving system. Currently as part of the SAEM ARMED MedEd cohort, I am working on POCUS simulation models, resident and faculty development, and competency testing.

I have board experience serving as AAEM-EUS councilor and SCUF education subcommittee. I help plan and organize ultrasound educational and hands-on sessions at AAEM and other group initiatives including monthly podcast series and writing newsletter articles. Election to AEUS would integrate my researcher and educator backgrounds to expand learning and networking opportunities for members.

David Haidar, MD

Education Officer

University of Michigan

Thank you for considering me for a position on the AEUS Executive Committee. I hope that as a member of this committee, I can help support the educational mission of ultrasound programs nationally by providing educational resources, growing the community through social media and the spotlight series, and providing mentorship to residents, fellows, and other early faculty members of AEUS. As Director of Resident Ultrasound Education and AEMUS Fellowship Director, I have experience mentoring both fellows and residents and have a strong interest in helping to develop a standardized national ultrasound curriculum for graduating EM residents.

Through AEUS, I hope to work with other leaders in ultrasound education to help achieve this vision, especially now that ABEM has moved to incorporate ultrasound education in its new certifying exam. I have been lucky enough to earn multiple education focused awards, including the AEUS Rising Star in Education Award, the SCUF Newbie Award, and a SAEMMIE for Best Broadscale Innovation. I have also served on multiple committees including the SCUF24 Planning Committee, AEUS Social Media and Awards Committee, SonoGames Creative Team as both a judge and question writer, and served as the CORD Academic Assembly Resident Track Chair as a resident and fellow. I hope that my experience on these national committees will help me better serve the AEUS community. Thank you so much for your consideration! 

Robert Stenberg, MD

Education Officer

Cleveland Clinic Akron General

Hi, my name is Bob Stenberg, and I wish to be considered for the AEUS Education Officer. I am the Emergency Ultrasound Director at Cleveland Clinic Akron General as well as the Fellowship Director. I completed medical school at University of Wisconsin, residency at University of North Carolina, and fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University. My focus is on education, with interests in nerve blocks, resuscitation and gamification. I currently serve as the Co-Chair of ACEP Critical Care/Resuscitation Subcommittee.

I love AEUS and Sonogames! I have published content on the AEUS website, run an annual 80+ learner regional games, and have participated in all rounds of Sonogames including a round 2 station lead. If I were elected, I would do my best to elevate Sonogames and continue creating online content, increasing ease and access for people to run local/regional operations. Thank you so much for your time and consideration.

Elizabeth Yetter, MD, MHPE

Education Officer

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

I’ve dedicated my career to ultrasound education and after contributing as a Sonogames Round 1 question writer and Round 2 station member, would love to contribute further to our educational endeavors and organization on a larger scale.

I have been fortunate to work with amazing mentors who continue to inspire me because of their continued passion to expand our scope and conjure up innovative ways to engage learners, from med students to attendings. To share my passion for education, I would like to promote learning through games and formative activities that any program can implement in a central, accessible repository similar to the one we have on our website. Overall, our executive committee has done a wonderful job promoting our field and I hope to contribute to their continuing efforts with expanding and updating the new educational videos, quiz questions, Sonogames, and other efforts.