About

Dr. Rudy Wenner is a Family Medicine Physician at the University of Michigan, where he practices broad-spectrum family medicine, utilizing his passion for education, procedures, and POCUS daily in both clinical and administrative capacities. Following medical school at Wayne State University School of Medicine, he completed residency at the University of Michigan and served as co-Chief Resident during his third year. Following residency, he completed an Academic Medicine Advanced Learner fellowship, focusing on resident education, and served as interim Assistant Program Director to the Family Medicine Residency. Since, he has stayed on as faculty, serving as Medical Director for the Briarwood Family Medicine, where he sees continuity patients. He rarely goes a week without teaching between multiple procedure clinics, the Briarwood POCUS clinic, attending the community hospital inpatient service, and multiple resident didactics / bootcamps / simulation center sessions throughout the year. His efforts and positive energy were recognized when selected by graduating residents with the Award for Excellence in Teaching (2024).

His POCUS experience started in medical  school / residency, but was more thoroughly expanded through self-driven efforts and passion during Academic Fellowship and early years as faculty, under the mentorship of Nicoll Capizzano. Currently, as one of the core POCUS faculty, he serves as the POCUS Clinic Co-Director, POCUS Track Lead, and Advanced POCUS Fellowship Faculty. His administrative acumen and role as medical director have assisted in expanding the Briarwood POCUS clinic from an educational and patient access standpoint. As POCUS faculty, he has helped with developing POCUS education across the department: developing and refining curriculum and bootcamps / workshops, elective opportunities, as well as teaching and mentoring both residents and faculty. These opportunities vary weekly between the POCUS clinic, POCUS rounding on inpatient, working 1:1 with residents during elective, simulation sessions, and beyond. He is a firm believer in the power of spreading education far and wide and is excited to continue to share POCUS across family medicine broadly.

POCUS Teaching Experience: (2023 – current)

• Locally with UM medical students, residents, and faculty
  • POCUS QA sessions (department-wide)
  • Quarterly POCUS Hands on Didactics (residents)
  • First and Second Year POCUS Bootcamps
  • Inpatient Rounding and electives
  • Weekly POCUS clinic (residents and faculty)
  • Other students: Residency prep course, diagnostics and therapeutics branch, FMIG, and Global Health Interest Group
• Regional:
  • POCUS Hands on faculty training at CMU

POCUS Presentations:

National

05/06/2024     From Zero to 100 in Three Years: Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Program at University of Michigan (UM) Family Medicine. STFM Annual Spring Conference. May, 6 2024. San Francisco, California.

03/31/2025     Impacts of a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Residency Track on Exam Quality. 2025 AIUM Annual Convention: The Ultrasound Event. March 31, 2025. Orlando, Florida.

05/07/2025     Benefits of Implementing a Dedicated Point-of-Care Ultrasound Clinic at a Family Medicine Department in an Academic Hospital. STFM 2025 Annual Spring Conference. May 7, 2025. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Regional

07/14/2024     POCUS in Your Medical Practice: Implementation Practices and Challenges. Michigan Family Medicine Conference and Expo 2024. July, 14 2024. Mackinaw Island, Michigan.

POCUS Publications / Posters:

1. Wenner R., Capizzano J., Kelley S., Targan L. Point-of-Care-Ultrasound in Primary Care Aided in an Unexpected Soft Tissue Mass Diagnosis. American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine. UltraCon. April 2024. Austin, Texas.
2. Wenner R., Capizzano J., Kelley S., Targan L. Reflections of Implementing a Point-of-Care-Ultrasound Program After Three Years at University of Michigan (UM) Family Medicine. American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine. UltraCon. April 2024. Austin, Texas.
3. 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_700