About

A major focus of my academic career so far has been on medical education. During residency and my chief year, I created and directed Physical Exam Teaching Rounds to focus more dedicated teaching of physical exam skills at the bedside. I also became passionate about point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), initially during a global health rotation in Malawi, mentored closely by another med peds hospitalist, Dr. Ria Dancel. I became the med peds chief resident at the start of COVID in 2020 when many programs, including Dr. Dancel’s POCUS elective, were put on hold. Recognizing the importance of continuing to teach residents point-of-care ultrasound, Dr. Dancel, two other residents, and I designed a year-long comprehensive longitudinal POCUS curriculum for interested residents. Based on the success of this program, we were able to start UNC’s internal medicine intern POCUS curriculum for every IM and med peds intern, which just completed its inaugural year in June 2022. I currently co-direct our bi-weekly longitudinal intern POCUS curriculum and our 2-week intensive POCUS elective and hands-on and didactic sessions for the pediatric residency program. In addition, I help teach multiple medical school POCUS sessions and POCUS boot camps for the pediatric hospitalists, family medicine residents, pediatric pulmonology faculty/fellows, and nephrology fellows. I also teach ultrasound-guided procedures on the medicine procedure service and dedicated central line and hemodialysis line training for UNC interns and fellows. I recently earned my SHM-CHEST POCUS certificate of completion and joined the SHM POCUS SIG Executive Council. I am currently collaborating with other hospitalists and specialists to complete multiple POCUS research and procedural QI projects at UNC.