Contributors

Editors

O. John Ma, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon

James R. Mateer, MD, RDMS
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Staff Physician
Emergency Medicine
Waukesha Memorial Hospital
Waukesha, Wisconsin

Michael Blaivas, MD, RDMS
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
Northside Hospital Forsyth
Cumming, Georgia

Contributors

Frédéric Adnet, MD
Universite Paris XIII
Hopital Avicenne
Bobigny, France
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Chandra D. Aubin, MD, RDMS
Assistant Professor and Assistant Residency Director
Division of Emergency Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Second- and Third-Trimester Pregnancy

Aaron E. Bair, MD, MS
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of California–Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, California
Vascular Access

Michael Blaivas, MD, RDMS
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
Northside Hospital Forsyth
Cumming, Georgia
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries
Testicular
Deep Venous Thrombosis
Ocular Ultrasound

Jörg Braun, MD
German Air Rescue, Filderstadt
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Raoul Breitkreutz, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy
University Hospital, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Franziska Brenner, MD
Frankfurter Institut für Notfallmedizin und Simulationstraining (FINEST)
Frankfurt, Germany
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Thomas P. Cook, MD
Residency Program Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Andreas Dewitz, MD, RDMS
Director, Emergency Ultrasound
Department of Emergency Medicine
Boston Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
Soft Tissue
Additional Ultrasound-Guided Procedures

Giancarlo Fontana, MD
Niguarda Hospital Emergency Department
Milan, Italy
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

J. Christian Fox, MD, RDMS
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director of Emergency Ultrasound
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of California Irvine Medical Center
Director of Emergency and Trauma Ultrasound
University of California, Irvine
Gynecologic Concepts
Equipment

Bradley W. Frazee, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
Department of Medicine
UCSF Attending Physician
Alameda County Medical Center
Highland General Hospital
Oakland, California
Soft Tissue
Second- and Third-Trimester Pregnancy

Cristina Frigerio, MD
Niguarda Hospital Emergency Department
Milan, Italy
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Jessica R. Goldstein, MD
Assistant Professor
Case Western Reserve University
Associate Director Emergency Ultrasound
MetroHealth Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio
Additional Ultrasound-Guided Procedures

Carmela Graci, MD
Niguarda Hospital Emergency Department
Milan, Italy
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Elena Guffanti, MD
Emergency Department
Niguarda Cà Granda Hospital
Milan, Italy
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Lowell “Corky” Hecht, BA, RDMS, RDCS, RVT
Program Manager and Senior Clinical Instructor
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Physics and Image Artifacts

William Heegaard, MD
Assistant Chief
Department of Emergency Medicine
Hennepin County Medical Center
Associate Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Scott Joing, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Minnesota Medical School
Faculty Physician
Department of Emergency Medicine
Hennepin County Medical Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries
Cardiac
First-Trimester Pregnancy

Robert A. Jones, DO, RDMS, FACEP
Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Director
Division of Emergency Ultrasound
Director
Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship MetroHealth Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio
Additional Ultrasound-Guided Procedures

Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, CD, MD, MHSc, FRCSC, FACS
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery
Foothills Medical Centre
Associate Professor
Department of Critical Care Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Trauma

Thomas Kirschning, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Frédéric Lapostolle, MD
Universite Paris XIII
Hopital Avicenne
Bobigny, France
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Michael J. Lambert, MD, RDMS, FAAEM
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Fellowship Director, Emergency Ultrasound
Advocate Christ Medical Center
Oak Lawn, Illinois
Training and Program Development
Gynecologic Concepts

Matthew Lyon, MD, RDMS
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Section of Emergency Ultrasound
Department of Emergency Medicine
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, Georgia
Ocular Ultrasound

O. John Ma, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon
Trauma

Diku Mandavia, MD, FACEP, FRCP
Attending Staff Physician
Department of Emergency Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Los Angeles
County-USC Medical Center
Director of Emergency Ultrasound
Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Renal

Ingo Marzi, MD
Department of Trauma Surgery
University of Saarland
Hamburg, Germany
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

James R. Mateer, MD, RDMS
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Staff Physician
Emergency Medicine
Waukesha Memorial Hospital
Waukesha, Wisconsin
Trauma

Luca Neri, MD
Prehospital Emergency Service
Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital
Milan, Italy
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Nadine Nieuwkamp, MD
Frankfurter Institut für Notfallmedizin und Simulationstraining (FINEST)
Frankfurt, Germany
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Masaaki Ogata, MD
Director
Division of Emergency Medicine
Assistant Director
Department of Surgery
Kobe Nishi City Hospital
Kobe, Japan
General Surgery Applications

Aman K. Parikh, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of California, Davis
Sacramento, California
Vascular Access

Michael A. Peterson, MD, FAAEM
Associate Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Director
Emergency Ultrasound Training Program and Fellowship
Department of Emergency Medicine
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, California
Training and Program Development
Pediatric Applications

Tomislav Petrovic, MD
Universite Paris XIII
Hopital Avicenne
Bobigny, France
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Dave Plummer, MD
Department of Emergency Medicine
Hennepin County Medical Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Daniel D. Price, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
University of California–San Francisco
Director, Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship
Alameda County Medical Center–Highland Campus
Oakland, California
Pediatric Applications

Robert F. Reardon, MD
Faculty
Department of Emergency Medicine
Hennepin County Medical Center
Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries
Cardiac
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
First-Trimester Pregnancy

John S. Rose, MD
Division of Emergency Medicine
University of California–Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, California
Vascular Access

Will Scruggs, MD, RDMS
Director of Emergency Department Ultrasound
Hawaii Emergency Physicians Associated
Castle Medical Center
Kailua, Hawaii
Equipment

Dave Spear, MD, FACEP
Medical Director
Fire Department
Odessa Fire Department
Odessa, Texas
Emergency Ultrasound Director
Emergency Medicine
Parkland Hospital
Dallas, Texas
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Enrico Storti, MD
Niguarda Hospital Emergency Department
Milan, Italy
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Stuart Swadron, MD, FRCP(C), FACEP, FAAEM
Program Director
Residency in Emergency Medicine
Attending Staff Physician
Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Renal

Daniel Theodoro, MD, RDMS
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Hepatobiliary

Felix Walcher, MD, PhD
Department of Trauma Surgery
University Hospital Frankfurt
Hamburg, Germany
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries

Jason Wilkins, MD
CEO
Mannequin and Network Teaching Associates
Springfield, Missouri
Physics and Image Artifacts