About

Dr. Targan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she practices both inpatient and outpatient medicine. She completed her Family Medicine Residency in 2021 at the University of Colorado, where she served as a Chief Resident. In 2020-2021, she was the National Resident Representative for the American Academy of Family Physicians Point-of-Care Ultrasound Member Interest Group. In 2022, she completed a Career Development fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she learned to acquire and interpret bedside ultrasound images.

Dr. Targan serves as her Department’s Assistant Ultrasound Director. In this role, she coordinates point-of-care ultrasound activity in the department, participates in quality assurance, and is deeply involved in POCUS education of medical students, residents, fellows, and faculty colleagues. Her local educational activity includes leading and instructing hands-on POCUS workshops in the medical school and Family Medicine residency, developing a POCUS elective for the medical school, serving as core faculty for the department’s Advanced Primary Care Ultrasound Fellowship, and mentoring faculty colleagues in their journey to gain ultrasound privileges.

Dr. Targan has been featured at the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians Future of Family Medicine Conference and in the Michigan Family Physician as a POCUS leader, where she discusses the application of POCUS in primary care to prospective applicants to the field to demonstrate the breadth of family medicine. She is also the proud founder and editor of her department’s quarterly POCUS Newsletter, The POCUS Focus, which features scholarly POCUS activity and clinical cases for interested colleagues.

POCUS teaching experience:

• Local/institutional
  • UNC: hands-on instruction with medical students and residents via their monthly ultrasound curricula
  • UM: hands-on instruction and mentoring with medical students, residents, fellows, and faculty as above
• Statewide level
  • North Carolina with medical students via NCAFP workshop
  • Michigan with medical students, residents, and faculty via MAFP conferences
• National level
  • AAFP’s POCUS Member Interest Group (2020-2021), virtual teaching

POCUS publications:

• Wenner R, Kelley S, Targan A, Capizzano JN. Reflections on Implementing a Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Program After Three Years at University of Michigan (UM) Family Medicine, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine UltraCon, Austin, TX, April 2024.
• Wenner R, Kelley S, Targan A, Capizzano JN. Point of Care Ultrasound in Primary Care Aided in an Unexpected Soft Tissue Mass Diagnosis, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine UltraCon, Austin, TX, April 2024.
• Kelley S, Capizzano JN, Targan A, Wenner R. From Zero to 100 in Three Years: Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) at University of Michigan Family Medicine. Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Spring Conference, Los Angeles, CA, May 2024.
• Capizzano JN, Kelley S, Wenner R, Targan A. POCUS in Your Medical Practice: Implementation Strategies and Challenges. Michigan Academy of Family Physicians Family Medicine Conference & Expo, Mackinac Island, MI, July 2024.
• Targan A, Gutierrez L, Beduhn B, Wenner R, Kelley S, Capizzano JN. Impacts of a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Residency Track on Exam Quality. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: October 2025, volume 44, Special Issue: 2025 AIUM Annual Convention Proceedings, p S106-S107. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jum.148_70067