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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Giovanni Volpicelli

Giovanni is currently an Emergency Physician at the Emergency Department of San Luigi Gonzaga University Hospital, Torino, Italy. From 2016 he is qualified Associate Professor of Internal Medicine. He was the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the 1st International Consensus Conference on Lung Ultrasound and he is Member of the Scientific Committee of the 2nd International Consensus Conference on Ultrasound in Trauma and Board Member of the 1st International Consensus Conference on Ultrasound in Medical Education. His research focuses on the clinical applications of PoCUS in emergency and intensive care. He has authored and co-authored chapters of international books in emergency medicine and emergency ultrasound, and 140 indexed publications in peer-reviewed international journals with more than 6000 citations and h-index 34. He contributed to the foundation of The Ultrasound Journal and was active Editorial Board Member since the launch of the journal.

Deputy Editor

Richard Hoppmann

Richard A. Hoppmann MD, FACP, FAIUM is a Professor of Medicine and Past Dean at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Ultrasound Institute in Columbia, SC. Dr Hoppmann earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at the Medical University of South Carolina, completed his internal medicine residency at East Carolina University School of Medicine, and completed his rheumatology fellowship at Wake Forest University Bowman-Gray School of Medicine. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. In 2006, as Associate Dean of Medical Education, he introduced the first integrated ultrasound curriculum (iUSC) across all four years of medical student education at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine-Columbia. 

Since that time, he has also helped develop a number of ultrasound training programs, including one for physician assistants and a primary care ultrasound fellowship. He is founder and served as the first President of the Society of Ultrasound in Medical Education (SUSME) which hosts and co-hosts a number of national and international ultrasound education meetings such as the World Congress of Ultrasound in Medical Education and the Ultrasound in Anatomy and Physiology Education Conference. 

Dr Hoppmann is President-elect of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and a Past President of the World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound (WINFOCUS). He has published and presented extensively on ultrasound education. He has been the recipient of almost $2M in ultrasound education grants, including those training a spectrum of teachers and healthcare practitioners and has been issued four patents related to ultrasound and ultrasound education.   

Areas of expertise: Internal Medicine, Rheumatology 

Associate Editors

Keith Barron

Keith Barron, MD, FACP is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Prisma Health Midlands / University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, South Carolina. He completed both medical school and residency at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and is board certified in internal medicine. Dr. Barron works clinically as an academic hospitalist and program director for the Primary Care Ultrasound Fellowship. He coordinates all point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) activities for Prisma Health Internal Medicine. 


Areas of expertise: Point-of-care ultrasound, Lung ultrasound, Medical education

Gianmaria Cammarota

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  • Since 12 May 2023, Associate Professor, disciplinary sector Med 41 – Anaesthesiology, at the Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy. 
  • Physician in the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria “Maggiore della Carità” di Novara, Novara, Italy.
  • Simulation learning program coordinator at SIMNOVA simulation center, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy.


Areas of expertise: Anaesthesiology and intensive care, mechanical ventilation, point-of care-ultrasound, and advanced respiratory monitoring.

Luciano Cardinale

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From September 2023 until now: employed at “Edoardo Agnelli” Hospital – ASLTO3, Pinerolo. Italy. Consultant of Conventional Radiology in CIDIMU Clinic, Turin. Up to now 170 publications in national or international journals and books chapters.

Lecturer in more than 200 conventions.

Areas of expertise: Lung, CT, and CHEST Imaging.

Thomas Fraccalini

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Thomas Fraccalini is member of the staff of emergency physicians at the Emergency Department of San Luigi Gonzaga University Hospital, Torino, Italy.

He is board certified in Geriatric Medicine. He also obtained a University Master degree in Pain Therapy and Palliative Medicine.

His clinical and academic interests include application of PoCUS in emergency clinical practice, and ultrasound-guided procedures.


Areas of expertise: Geriatrics and Gerontology Medicine; Palliative Medicine

Luna Gargani

Luna Gargani is a Cardiologist and Researcher of the University of Pisa. She has been trained in cardiology and clinical research at the Institute of Clinical Physiology of the National Research Council in Pisa, and has been a research fellow at Northwestern University in Chicago. 

Dr Gargani is a recognized expert and pioneer in lung ultrasound. Her main research interests are cardiovascular imaging and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). She is currently the Echo Deputy Chair of the Certification and Accreditation Committee of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI).

Areas of expertise: Lung ultrasound, Echocardiography, Point-of-care ultrasound

Alberto Goffi

Alberto Goffi, MD, is a Staff Physician at St. Michael’s Hospital – Unity Health Toronto and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Medicine and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine (IDCCM). After graduating from the University of Torino (Italy) and completing his internal medicine/emergency medicine training in the same city, he moved to Toronto in 2010 for a fellowship in adult critical care medicine. His clinical and academic interests include neurocritical care and point-of-care ultrasound in acute care medicine, with a focus on the clinical utility of ultrasound in critical care medicine and optimal teaching strategies for its competency achievement. He is the co-lead of the IDCCM Critical Care Ultrasound Curriculum and the co-lead of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC) Adult Critical Care Medicine fellowship.

Alberto loves travelling for teaching; he has already taught ultrasound and neurocritical care in five different continents. In 2015, he won the Young Lecturer Award at the ESICM annual meeting. In 2019, he has been selected as the recipient of the Frank S. Rutledge Award of Excellence in Critical Care Teaching. Outside of work, Alberto has a passion for creating logos and drawings digitally; the IDCCM logo is one of his creations. In the past 3 years, he has learned that nothing is more fulfilling in life than playing with Sofia and Oliver, his two children. 

Areas of expertise: Critical care medicine, Point-of-care ultrasound, Neurocritical care

Christian B. Laursen

Christian B. Laursen is working as a professor and head of research at Odense Respiratory Research Unit (ODIN), Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. In his clinical work he is a lead consultant at the Department of Respiratory Medicine at Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark. His main research interest has been in diagnostic tools, particularly the use of thoracic ultrasound and interventional pulmonology within the field of respiratory medicine and emergency medicine. At an international organizational level, he has previously chaired the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Ultrasound Assembly, participated in ERS Task Forces and served as ERS Monograph guest editor on subjects within the field of ultrasound. He has been actively involved in the establishment of an evidence based ERS Thoracic Ultrasound Training Program, and still serves as part of the committee organizing the training program.

Areas of expertise: Respiratory medicine, thoracic ultrasound, interventional pulmonology.

Federico Longhini

New Content ItemFederico Longhini is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Magna Graecia of Catanzaro. His field of scientific interest is critical care medicine and acute respiratory failure, including invasive mechanical ventilation, NIV and High Flow Nasal Cannula.

Areas of expertise: Critical Care Medicine, and Acute Respiratory Failure.



Irene W. Y. Ma

Dr Irene Ma is a general internist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Dr Ma received her MSc in Clinical Epidemiology from Stanford University, a PhD in Medical Education from the University of Calgary and completed an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She is the Chair and Founding Member of the Canadian Internal Medicine Ultrasound group and has been working in the last decacde on bringing POCUS to the practice of Internal Medicine in Canada in an evidence-based manner.  

Areas of expertise: General internal medicine; Medical education; Point of care ultrasound

Adi Osman

Adi Osman, MD, is a Senior Consultant Emergency Physician and Emergency Critical Care at Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital, Ipoh, Malaysia. He graduated from the National University of Malaysia University (UKM) and completing his Master in Medicine (Emergency Medicine ) in 2002. He completed his Critical Care fellowship and Emergency & Critical Care Ultrasound fellowship in Italy in 2010. His clinical and academic interests include usage of airway ultrasound in clinical practice, ultrasound-guided procedure in emergency and critical care and resuscitative transoesophageal ultrasound in critical care. 

Dr Osman is currently the Director for Emergency Critical Care Fellowship program in Ministry of Health Malaysia. He is one of the appointed supervisors for European Diploma in Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography (EDEC) organized by European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). He is the chairman and one of the founding member of WINFOCUS Malaysia and Indonesia. He has been working in the last decade on bringing POCUS to the practice of emergency medicine and intensive care in Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Philippines.  

Areas of expertise: Airway ultrasound, Ultrasound-guided procedures, Resuscitative Transoesophageal ultrasound

Hatem Soliman-Aboumarie

Dr Hatem Soliman-Aboumarie is a consultant cardiothoracic intensivist with a special interest in Critical Care Echocardiography, Lung Ultrasound, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Heart and Lung Transplantation. Dr Soliman-Aboumarie is an honorary senior lecturer at the School of Cardiovascular Sciences and Medicine at King's College London, and serves as a Member of the Board, Councillor for Echocardiography at the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI). 

Dr Soliman-Aboumarie is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (UK), American National Board of Adult Echocardiography, European Diploma of Intensive Care Medicine, Diploma in Cardiology from London, UK. Diploma in Clinical Education, University of Edinburgh, UK. He was elected as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the UK (FHEA), Fellow of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (FEACVI) and Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE). 

He regularly teaches point of care ultrasound around nationally in the UK and internationally as he has taught in many countries around the globe. He was awarded the EACVI Excellence in Education Award (Outstanding Early Career Educator) in the 2021. 

Areas of expertise: Critical Care Ultrasound, Echocardiography, Extracorporeal Mechanical Support (ECMO)

Guido Tavazzi

New Content ItemDr. Guido Tavazzi is an assistant professor of Anesthesia and Intensive care at University of Pavia and a consultant of General intensive Care of the Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Hospital. He has a PhD on Heart-lung interaction in mechanical circulatory support and has spent 2 years as research and echocardiographic fellow at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London UK.

He is board member and chair of the Research section of European Society of Cardiology – Acute Cardiovascular Care (ESC-ACVC) and part of the steering committee of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine – European Diploma in Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography (ESICM-EDEC).

Areas of expertise: Acute cardiac care, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Point of care ultrasound and Echocardiography.

Luigi Vetrugno

Dr Luigi Vetrugno received his accreditation as Associate Professor of Anesthesia in March 2017. Dr Vetrugno was on the sub-specialty staff for Cardiothoracic Critical Care and Anesthesia between 2002 to 2009, which provided clinical services for a broad range of cardiothoracic surgery, cardiac transplantation and mechanical assist device management. From October 2009 to November 2021, Dr Vetrugno was on the sub-specialty staff for Liver Transplantation and Post-transplant Unit. Currently, his clinical work is focused on general intensive care and anesthesia. 

Dr Vetrugno is the Scientific Director of the Lung and Cardiac Ultrasound Certified Course for the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia Resuscitation and Intensive Care. 

Areas of expertise: Lung ultrasound; Cardiac ultrasound; Diaphragm ultrasound

Tomás Villen

Dr Tomas Villen is a Fellow in Emergency Ultrasound at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA. He is also an Associate Professor and Director of Point of Care Ultrasound Curriculum at the Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid, Spain. 

Dr Villen is the Chair of Ultrasound Section of Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine and a member of the WINFOCUS Board of Directors. 


Areas of expertise: Ultrasound in medical education; Lung ultrasound; Ultrasound in emergency medicine. 

Mateusz Zawadka

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Mateusz Zawadka, MD, PhD, DESAIC, is a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care at the 2nd Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the University Clinical Centre and an assistant professor at the Medical University of Warsaw. Dr Zawadka completed his research and clinical fellowships at St. Bartholomew and King’s College Hospital in London, UK, and earned his PhD in the field of perioperative echocardiography.

With a focus on critical care echocardiography, procedural ultrasound, and education, Dr Zawadka is dedicated to advancing medical knowledge. He is a member of the WINFOCUS Board of Directors and contributes actively to the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine as a part of the NEXT committee. Additionally, as a dedicated member of the Echocardiography and Ultrasound section of the Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, he actively supports the development of a local point-of-care education program.

Areas of expertise: Critical Care Medicine, Anaesthesia, and Point-of-care ultrasound.

Editor-in-Chief
Giovanni Volpicelli, MD, FCCP, San Luigi Gonzaga University Hospital, Italy

Deputy Editor
Richard Hoppmann, MD, FACP, FAIUM, University of South Carolina, USA

Associate Editors
Keith Barron, MD, FACP, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, USA
Luna Gargani, MD, University of Pisa, Italy
Alberto Goffi, MD, University of Toronto, Canada
Irene Ma, PhD, University of Calgary, Canada
Adi Osman, MD, Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun, Malaysia
Hatem Soliman-Aboumarie, MBBS, MRCP, MSc, EDICM, DipCard, DipMedEd, FHEA, FASE, FEACVI, Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Luigi Vetrugno, MD, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Tomás Villen, MD, Francisco de Vitoria University, Spain
Guido Tavazzi, MD PhD, University of Pavia, Italy
Mateusz Zawadka, MD PhD DESAIC, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Federico Longhini, MD, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Gianmaria Cammarota, MD PhD, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Christian Borbjerg Laursen, MD PhD, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Thomas Fraccalini, MD, San Luigi Gonzaga University Hospital, Italy
Luciano Cardinale, MD, Edoardo Agnelli Hospital, Italy 

Editorial Board Members
Richard Copetti, MD, Latisana General Hospital, Italy
Lawrence A. Melniker, MD, MS, MBA, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, USA
Peiman Nazerian, MD, Careggi University Hospital, Italy
Vicky Noble, MD, Harvard Medical School, USA
Luca Neri, MD, Niguarda Hospital, Italy 
Ramòn Nogué, MD, University of Lleida, Spain
James W Tsung, MD, MPH, Mount Sinai Hospital, USA
Gabriele Via, MD., EDIC, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Italy 

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