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Monday, March 31, 2025
7:00am – 8:00am .
Elastography and CEUS Oral Presentations
Location: Nassau
Larry Mo, PhD – Yorlabs
CE: 1
7:10am – 7:17am .
Reproducibility and Repeatability of Multi-Sample Point Shear Wave Elastography: A Prospective Single-Center Study
Location: Nassau
Jean-Michel Correas, MD PhD – Paris University and Necker University Hospital
Elastography
7:18am – 7:25am .
Diagnostic Performance of Liver Shear Wave Elastography using a Deep Abdominal Transducer with MRE as the Reference Standard in Patients with suspicion of MASLD
Location: Nassau
Jean-Michel Correas, MD PhD – Paris University and Necker University Hospital
Elastography
7:26am – 7:33am .
Longitudinal Ultrasound Shear Wave Local Elastography in Neurosurgery
Location: Nassau
Hsiao-Chuan Liu – University of Southern California
Elastography
7:34am – 7:41am .
BEFAST (Bubble-Enhanced FAST) for the Evaluation of Solid Organ Injury in Hemodynamically Stable Blunt Abdominal Trauma
Location: Nassau
Laura Oh, MD – Emory University
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
8:00am – 9:30am .
Ultrasound in Medical Education Oral Presentations 2
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Christine M. Schutzer (COP LEADER), RT, BS, RDMS, MEHP (she/her/hers) – Oregon Health & Science University
CE: 1.5
8:02am – 8:09am .
Ultrasound Use and Risk Profiles in Emergency Medicine: A Survey of Resident and Attending Physicians
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Lauren D. Branditz, MD (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
Ultrasound in Medical Education
8:03am – 8:10am .
Anatomy Review And Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia Workshop For Emergency Medicine Residents
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Lauren D. Branditz, MD (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
Ultrasound in Medical Education
8:11am – 8:18am .
Building an immediate feedback simulation model for in-plane needle guidance training
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Erick Torres, MD – University of California, San Diego
Ultrasound in Medical Education
8:19am – 8:26am .
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Community of Practice: Guest Speaker Programing
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Gabe O'Hara (he/him/his) – The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Ultrasound in Medical Education
8:27am – 8:34am .
Enhancing The Ultrasound Research Experience For Medical Students: The Second Iteration Of A Funded Ultrasound Research Interest Group
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Ryan Brankovic – The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Ultrasound in Medical Education
8:51am – 8:58am .
Evaluating the Role of Traditional and Non-Traditional Educational Resources in Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Educator Preferences and Practices
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Arthur Broadstock, MD – University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Ultrasound in Medical Education
9:07am – 9:14am .
Impacts of a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Residency Track on Exam Quality
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Laurel Gutierrez, MD – University of Michigan
Ultrasound in Medical Education
9:15am – 9:22am .
Fellows In FOCUS: Proficiency Of Pediatric Critical Care Fellows In Focused Cardiac Ultrasound
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Lisbeth Labrada, MD (she/her/hers) – Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children
Ultrasound in Medical Education
8:02am – 8:09am .
Bridging Theory and Practice: Evaluating the Alignment of a Medical Student Workshop on the RUSH Exam with Cognitive Apprenticeship Theory
Location: Orange
Katherine Harmon, MD (she/her/hers) – NYU Langone
Ultrasound in Medical Education
8:10am – 8:17am .
Starting Early- A four year advanced competency with ultrasound in medical school
Location: Orange
Hilary Davenport Stroud, DO (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Ultrasound in Medical Education
8:18am – 8:25am .
Breast Ultrasound Volume Sweep Imaging: A New Horizon in Expanding Imaging Access for Breast Cancer Detection
Location: Orange
Yu Tina Zhao, MD (she/her/hers) – URMC
Ultrasound in Global Health
8:26am – 8:33am .
Adaptable Saline Standoff Pads: A Novel Method for Ultrasound Visualization
Location: Orange
Sumer Sebik, MD – The Ohio State University
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
8:34am – 8:41am .
Polyhydramnios diagnosed by amniotic fluid index and deepest vertical pocket simultaneously is associated with adverse obstetric outcomes
Location: Orange
Alexandra JD Phelps, MD (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Obstetric Ultrasound
8:42am – 8:49am .
Noninvasive evaluation of portal hypertension in pediatric patients using subharmonic-aided pressure estimation
Location: Orange
Hailee Mayer – Drexel University
Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
8:50am – 8:57am .
Dynamic in vitro assessment of subharmonic-aided pressure estimation sensitivity using monodisperse and polydisperse microbubbles
Location: Orange
John R. Eisenbrey, PhD – Thomas Jefferson University
Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
8:58am – 9:10am .
Vancomycin Release and Antibacterial Efficacy In Vivo following Ultrasound-Triggering of a Novel Spinal Device
Location: Orange
Lauren J. Delaney, PhD (she/her/hers) – Thomas Jefferson University
Basic Science and Instrumentation
9:30am – 10:00am .
Council of Communities: A USIG COP committee initiative to increase ultrasound engagement and accountability among a network of ultrasound Communities of Practice.
Location: Exhibit Hall
Nathaniel Mack – The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Ultrasound in Medical Education
9:30am – 10:00am .
Establishing Financial Milestones to Track an Ultrasound Community of Practice Ecosystem
Location: Exhibit Hall
Nathaniel Mack – The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Ultrasound in Medical Education
9:30am – 10:00am .
Extended Focused Assessment With Sonography In Trauma Injury Pattern Associations In Blunt Versus Penetrating Trauma
Location: Exhibit Hall
Kelsee Felux McCarty, MD – Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Temple
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
9:30am – 10:00am .
Integration of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Within Preclinical Medical Education
Location: Exhibit Hall
Harleen Shergill – Ohio State University College of Medicine
Ultrasound in Medical Education
9:30am – 10:00am .
Quantitative contrast ultrasound for intraoperative femoral head perfusion assessment in infants with developmental dysplasia of the hip
Location: Exhibit Hall
Laith R. Sultan, MD – Children’s hospital of Philadelphia
Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
9:30am – 10:00am .
Reducing Cyst False Positive Cases Using Multiparametric Breast 2D-SWE
Location: Exhibit Hall
Gabriela Torres, PhD (she/her/hers) – Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc.
Elastography
9:30am – 10:00am .
The role of subharmonic contrast-enhanced ultrasound in preoperative evaluation of suspicious lymph nodes in prostate cancer patients undergoing radical prostatectomy
Location: Exhibit Hall
Amr Mohammed, MD (he/him/his) – Thomas Jefferson University
Urology
9:30am – 10:00am .
Ultrasonographic Injury Pattern Associations In Activated Versus Non-Activated Trauma Patients
Location: Exhibit Hall
Kelsee Felux McCarty, MD – Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Temple
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
1:00pm – 2:30pm .
Musculoskeletal and Ultrasound Guidance Oral Presentation and Case Reports
Location: Nassau
Nicholas Nacey, MD (he/him/his) – UVA
CE: 1.5
1:02pm – 1:09pm .
Age Comparisons of Pediatric Lateral Ankle Avulsion Injuries: An Ultrasound Study
Location: Nassau
Cassidy M. Schultz, BS – Texas Scottish Rite
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
1:10pm – 1:17pm .
High-frequency ultrasound vascular imaging for quantifying the microcirculation in primary and secondary Raynaud’s Phenomenon patients
Location: Nassau
Kibo Nam, PhD – Thomas Jefferson University
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
1:18pm – 1:25pm .
One-third of Asymptomatic United States-Based Youth Baseball Players Exhibited Subapophyseal Avulsions: An Ultrasound Study
Location: Nassau
Jacob C. Jones, MD – Scottish Rite For Children
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
1:26pm – 1:33pm .
The Etiology of the Os Subfibular: A Prospective Ultrasound Study
Location: Nassau
Jacob C. Jones, MD – Scottish Rite For Children
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
1:34pm – 1:41pm .
Ultrasound-Guided Clavipectoral Plane Block for Acute Clavicle Fracture in the Emergency Department
Location: Nassau
Richard J. Gawel, MD – Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
1:42pm – 1:49pm .
Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Zone 3 REBOA
Location: Nassau
John Dubensky, DO – Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
1:50pm – 1:57pm .
Comparison of Novel Low-Cost Ultrasound-Guided Fascia Iliaca Block Phantoms
Location: Nassau
Laura Nolting, MD, FAEMUS (she/her/hers) – Prisma Health Richland
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
1:58pm – 2:05pm .
Erector Spinae Plane Block (ESPB) for Acute Herpetic Neuralgia
Justin Winkler, MD – Emergency Care Specialists (ECS)
Therapeutic Ultrasound
2:06pm – 2:13pm .
Regional Anesthesia for Gastrointestinal Malignancy: a New Frontier
Location: Nassau
Michael Shalaby, MD – The University of Pennsylvania Department of Emergency Medicine
Therapeutic Ultrasound
1:00pm – 2:30pm .
Pediatric and POCUS Peds Oral Presentation and Case Reports
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Sean Sousae, BS, CRA, RDMS, RVT – Phoenix Children's
CE: 1.5
1:02pm – 1:09pm .
Not As It Seems: The Use of Ultrasound In Diagnosing Pediatric Pneumonia
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Phillip Dunger, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine – Madigan Army Medical Center
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
1:10pm – 1:17pm .
Use of Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter Sonography for Intracranial Pressure Monitoring
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Jessica Egan, MD – Madigan Army Medical Center
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
1:18pm – 1:25pm .
A Rare Case Of Pediatric Malignant Phyllodes Tumor
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Dora Chen, MD (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Pediatric Ultrasound
1:26pm – 1:33pm .
Measurement of Cerebral Vascular Physiology under Non-Chronic Hemodynamic Conditions
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Oliver D. Kripfgans, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
Neurosonology
1:34pm – 1:41pm .
Correlation Of Cerebrospinal Fluid Volume in Spinal Canal With Severity Of Intraventricular Hemorrhage Among Preterm Infants Using Point Of Care Ultrasound
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Sasha P. Gordon, BS, RDMS, RVT – Primary Children's Hospital
Neurosonology
1:42pm – 1:49pm .
Utility of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Evaluation of Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Marie C. Papamarcos, M.D. – Madigan Army Medical Center
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
1:50pm – 1:57pm .
Utilizing Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Diagnose Infiltrative Retinal Detachment in a Pediatric Patient with Leukemia
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Nora E. Mertz-Bynum (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University College of Human Medicine - Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Research Group
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
1:58pm – 2:05pm .
Associating Mesenteric Lymph Nodes as Cause of Abdominal Pain in Pediatric Patients with Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Ee Tay, MD (she/her/hers) – NYU Langone Health
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
2:06pm – 2:13pm .
Distal Urethral Stone in A Pediatric Patient
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Ee Tay, MD (she/her/hers) – NYU Langone Health
Pediatric Ultrasound
2:14pm – 2:21pm .
Illuminating Pediatric Congenital Heart Defects with Point of Care Ultrasound: A Case Series
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Denise N. Fraga, MD, MPA – Carolinas Medical Center - Wake Forest Baptist - Atrium Health
Pediatric Ultrasound
2:30pm – 3:00pm .
Assessment of Medical Trainee Engagement in the Dermatology Ultrasound Community of Practice at The Ohio State University
Location: Exhibit Hall
Sonja Kobayashi – The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Dermatology
2:30pm – 3:00pm .
Creating POCUS Champions: A Longitudinal Multi-disciplinary POCUS Curriculum for Faculty
Location: Exhibit Hall
Michael Wollenberg, MD (he/him/his) – Oregon Health & Science University
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
2:30pm – 3:00pm .
Feasibility and Reliability of Baseline Splenic Measurements in High School Athletes: A Comparative Study Between Sports Medicine and Ultrasound Fellowship-Trained Physicians
Location: Exhibit Hall
Carrie Johnson, MD, PhD – Mayo Clinic
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
2:30pm – 3:00pm .
Findings Of Mild Adenomyosis On Transvaginal Ultrasound Do Not Impact Pregnancy Rate Or Pregnancy Outcomes In Single Euploid Frozen Embryo Transfers
Location: Exhibit Hall
Irene Peregrin-Alvarez, MD (she/her/hers) – Baylor College of Medicine
Gynecologic Ultrasound
2:30pm – 3:00pm .
Incidence of low-lying placenta after initiation of routine transvaginal ultrasound for cervical length screening
Location: Exhibit Hall
Emilie L. Vander Haar, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine
Obstetric Ultrasound
2:30pm – 3:00pm .
Obstetric Triage Clinical Audit and Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Implementation
Location: Exhibit Hall
Lauren Hosek, MD (she/her/hers) – Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
2:30pm – 3:00pm .
Passing the Probe: A Paradigm for Needs Assessments and Curricular Development for POCUS Adoption Across Specialties
Location: Exhibit Hall
Joseph O'Keefe, MD (he/him/his) – NYU Langone Health
Ultrasound in Medical Education
3:00pm – 4:30pm .
Artificial Intelligence Oral Presentations
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Anil Chauhan, MD – University of Minnesota
CE: 1.5
3:02pm – 3:09pm .
A deep learning approach for automatic detection of ultrasound transducer uniformity artifacts
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Chunming Gu (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic
Artificial Intelligence
3:10pm – 3:17pm .
A multimodal deep learning method for predicting cervical lymph node metastasis from PTC
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Dong Xu, MD,PHD – Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou Institute of Medicine (HIM), Chinese Academy of Sciences
Artificial Intelligence
3:18pm – 3:25pm .
The Clinical Value of AI in Assisting Junior Radiologists in Diagnostic Ultrasound for Thyroid Nodules: A Multicenter Prospective Study
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Dong Xu, MD,PHD – Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou Institute of Medicine (HIM), Chinese Academy of Sciences
Artificial Intelligence
3:26pm – 3:33pm .
Denoising of 3D Acoustic CT orthopedic and pediatric images using deep learning
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
James W. Wiskin, PhD (he/him/his) – QT Imaging
Artificial Intelligence
3:42pm – 3:49pm .
Joint improvement of ultrasound and strain elastography image quality with deep learning
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Alycen Wiacek, PhD (she/her/hers) – Oakland University
Artificial Intelligence
3:58pm – 4:05pm .
Review Of Artificial Intelligence In Obstetric Ultrasound
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
James E. Maher, III, MD, MSHA – Augusta University Dept of OB
Manvi Punukollu (she/her/hers) – Medical College of Georgia
Artificial Intelligence
4:06pm – 4:13pm .
TRIBUTE: An Edge Decision Support Tool For Traumatic Brain Injury
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Zain Rasheed (he/him/his) – Novateur Research Solutions
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
4:14pm – 4:21pm .
Next-Generation Photoacoustic Imaging: Harnessing OMUS for the future of Precision Vascular Point of Care Diagnostics with AI integration
Location: Flagler/Gilchrist
Xavier Rottenberg, PhD (he/him/his) – Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
3:00pm – 4:30pm .
POCUS and Sonography Oral Presentations and Case Reports
Location: Nassau
Prithul Bom, MS, MBA (she/her/hers) – Regulatory Technology Services
CE: 1.5
3:02pm – 3:09pm .
Not Your Typical Vision Loss: A Rare Finding Of Ocular Metastasis
Location: Nassau
Kaitlynn Butler, MD – Eastern Virginia Medical School
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
3:10pm – 3:17pm .
A Rare Case: Point-of-Care Ultrasound Evaluation of Jejunogastric Intussusception
Location: Nassau
Keith Errickson – Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
3:18pm – 3:25pm .
A Case Of Uterine Didelphys On Point-Of-Care Ultrasound In The Emergency Department
Location: Nassau
Casey Palmer, MD – Upstate Medical University
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
3:26pm – 3:33pm .
Beyond Identifying an IUP: Emergency Department identification of rare neonatal anomaly
Location: Nassau
Courtney Owens, MD (she/her/hers) – Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
3:34pm – 3:41pm .
POCUS For The Win: A Case of Cholecystitis and the Benefits and Pitfalls of Clinical vs. Comprehensive Ultrasound
Location: Nassau
Gavin D. Rogers, MD, MS, CCEeXAM, AEMUS-FPD, RDCS, RDMS (he/him/his) – Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University and Emergency Physicians of Tidewater
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
3:42pm – 3:49pm .
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Fibroadenoma Management Across Age Groups: Establishing Simplified Criteria for Improved Patient Outcomes
Location: Nassau
Brielle Paolini, MD PhD – Medical University of South Carolina
Sonography
3:50pm – 3:57pm .
BART Straight to the Heart: A Case of Culture-negative Aortic Endocarditis
Location: Nassau
Sophia Fornbacher, MD (she/her/hers) – Riverside Community Hosptial
Point-of-Care Ultrasound
3:58pm – 4:05pm .
Sonographic Evaluation of Sternal Tuberculosis
Location: Nassau
Kendra E. Petersen, BSHP, RDMS, RVT – Mayo Clinic
Interventional-Intraoperative Ultrasound
4:06pm – 4:13pm .
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Marker―A Phase 1 Trial on Ultrasound Twinkling of Breast Biopsy Markers
Location: Nassau
Matthew W. Urban, PhD – Mayo Clinic
Interventional-Intraoperative Ultrasound
3:02pm – 3:09pm .
Evaluating the Impact of Verbal vs. Nonverbal Feedback on Ultrasound-Guided IV Training Outcomes
Location: Citrus/Collier/Columbia
Timothy Buckley, MD – Florida Atlantic University
Ultrasound in Medical Education
3:10pm – 3:17pm .
Retrocardiac Stomach in Left CDH: Challenging the Expected Prognosis
Location: Citrus/Collier/Columbia
Minh-huy L. Huynh, MD (he/him/his) – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Pediatric Ultrasound
3:18pm – 3:25pm .
Prediction of Pre-eclampsia at 18–24 Weeks of Gestation Using Maternal Ophthalmic Artery Doppler - A Prospective Observational Study
Location: Citrus/Collier/Columbia
Divya Saikumar – KIMSHEALTH, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Obstetric Ultrasound
3:26pm – 3:33pm .
Increased Uterine Artery Resistance in sFlt-1 and Leptin-Induced Preeclampsia Mouse Models
Location: Citrus/Collier/Columbia
James E. Maher, III, MD, MSHA – Augusta University Dept of OB
Obstetric Ultrasound
3:34pm – 3:41pm .
Improved SWE Diagnostic Performance for Compensated Advanced Chronic Liver Disease by Dynamic Viscoelastic Analysis
Location: Citrus/Collier/Columbia
Gabriela Torres, PhD (she/her/hers) – Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc.
Elastography
3:42pm – 3:49pm .
Evaluating Outcomes in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy with Adjuvant Sonoporation Treatment Using Subharmonic-Aided Pressure Estimation (SHAPE)
Location: Citrus/Collier/Columbia
Priscilla Machado, M.D. (she/her/hers) – Thomas Jefferson University
Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
3:50pm – 4:02pm .
Noninvasive Evaluation of Kidney Transplants with Super-resolution Ultrasound Microvascular Imaging
Location: Citrus/Collier/Columbia
Chengwu Huang, PhD – Mayo Clinic
Basic Science and Instrumentation
4:03pm – 4:15pm .
Acoustic Droplet Vaporization Oxygen Scavenging in Whole Blood
Location: Citrus/Collier/Columbia
Kevin J. Haworth, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Cincinnati
Basic Science and Instrumentation