Equip your team with a veteran POCUS insider viewpoint
I'm an emergency physician who has spent the last decade working at the intersection of clinical point-of-care ultrasound and the systems trying to scale it.
The work has taken me through fellowship training at Carolinas Medical Center and three emergency ultrasound directorships — two of them divisions I stood up from scratch, owning everything from machine selection and image archiving to credentialing, QA workflows, and clinician training. I've performed or reviewed several thousand clinical scans across academic and community departments. Along the way I founded The POCUS Preceptor, a training and program design practice that has worked with health systems and clinicians across the country. I still practice emergency medicine — in the trenches of community EDs, where most point-of-care ultrasound actually gets used.
What I keep coming back to is this: the bottleneck in POCUS adoption is not knowledge, and it's not technology. It's the operational layer between them — credentialing pathways nobody has time to build, QA workflows that don't fit existing systems, billing capture that never gets set up, and product designs that don't account for how clinicians actually work under pressure. That's the layer I work in.
These days I divide my time across three things. I advise the companies building POCUS technology — device, AI, and software teams who need a real-world clinical read on what they're making, plus the investors and health systems betting on the space; I currently serve as Clinical Advisor at CircuCare, a wearable cardiac ultrasound company. I run The POCUS Preceptor's training and program design work. And I write — for publications, for my own readers, and for whoever in the field is trying to think clearly about where this technology is going.
If you're building or investing in something that touches this space — or trying to figure out why your own POCUS program isn't working the way it should — I'd like to hear from you.
Background, in brief (sidebar block)
MD, New York Medical College
Residency, Emergency Medicine, NY Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist
Fellowship, Emergency Ultrasound, Carolinas Medical Center (Atrium)
Current Director of Clinical Ultrasound
Holyoke Medical Center
Former Director of Emergency Ultrasound
The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Berkshire Medical Center
Board certified, Emergency Medicine; Advanced Emergency Ultrasound certification (AEMUS through ABEM)
Clinical Advisor, CircuCare
Founder, The POCUS Preceptor
Assistant Professor, UMass Chan Medical School
Clinical practice: Baystate Health, Berkshire Health Systems, Holyoke Medical Center
