About

Summer Scavone is an Assistant Professor, core faculty, and Family Medicine Director of Ultrasound at the University of Virginia.   She completed a Point of Care Ultrasound Fellowship in Primary Care at Prisma Health/USC in Columbia, SC.  Since joining the UVA faculty in 2023, Dr. Scavone has developed the POCUS curriculum, including a core PGY1 POCUS rotation.   She sees patients and precepts residents in outpatient medicine, OB, and point-of-care ultrasound.  Dr. Scavone also developed a POCUS service-line including POCUS privileging in the department, billing, and PACS-EHR integration.   She sits on her university’s US Steering Committee, is adjunct faculty in the STFM POCUS Certificate Program, and is a participant in STFM’s Project FOCUS.

Dr. Scavone’s POCUS teaching experience includes:

• Locally: Resident and medical student workshops, didactics, skills labs and in clinical settings
• National and regional POCUS conferences (AAFP, AIUM)
• STFM POCUS Certificate program adjunct faculty

In addition to POCUS, Dr. Scavone has an interest in women’s health, procedures, and addiction medicine.  She believes that everyone should have equitable access to high-quality full-spectrum primary care.

Outside of medicine, Dr. Scavone enjoys hiking, traveling, cooking, reading, dabbling in woodworking, and trying to re-learn the clarinet.