Editorial Board

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

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

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)

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.