Trent She, MD

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.