Rebecca Theophanous, MD

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.