About

As an academic Internal Medicine-Pediatric hospitalist, I am committed to teaching medical students and residents evidence based and high value inpatient care. I have given lectures focusing on quality improvement and evidence-based medicine. I have also mentored residents in regional and national presentations of clinical vignettes, research manuscripts, reviews, and clinical cases and am a regular faculty mentor for resident conferences. I joined the Internal Medicine-Pediatric residency program leadership team as the Associate Program Director in 2022. I am most passionate about bringing point of care ultrasound (POCUS) to the bedside as a diagnostic tool and an instrument to increase patient safety during invasive bedside procedures. As the director of the University of North Carolina Department of Medicine Procedure Service (MPS) since 2014, I developed and implemented a curriculum for ultrasound-guided procedures that pairs proceduralist faculty with internal medicine residents to improve patient safety and resident education in procedural medicine. The curriculum involves simulation training and one-on-one coaching during bedside procedures. The MPS has been well received by internal medicine residents and a highly requested rotation by residents within the department as well as those from family medicine and pediatrics. As a bedside diagnostic tool, POCUS has given us advantages we have not had since the invention of the stethoscope over 200 years ago. I am excited to lead education efforts in using this tool to improve diagnosis and to help more accurately guide therapy. I have spearheaded efforts to create a required longitudinal curriculum for first year residents and a more intensive 2-week elective for upper-level residents. I have also taught residents in family medicine, anesthesiology, surgery, pediatrics, and emergency medicine and other physicians at national and international conferences and workshops.