People
The Workshop Staff
Chris Fox, MD RDMS FPD AEMUS
Conference Chair
Dr. Fox has worked in higher education since 2001. Through two consecutive grants from the UniHealth Foundation Dr. Fox developed and published a unique four-year integrated POCUS curriculum for UCI medical students, making UCI the second medical school in the United States and the first on the west coast to fully integrate ultrasound into medical education. The curriculum he developed has been emulated and repurposed at over thirty medical schools throughout the nation. Dr. Fox is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and is the Chair of the UCI Department of Emergency Medicine. He has received a focused practiced designation in advanced emergency ultrasound and is a registered diagnostic medical sonographer. Since joining the faculty at UCI, Dr. Fox has reviewed over 100,000 emergency ultrasound scans and trained 40 fellows in emergency ultrasound.
Megan Guy, MD
Conference Chair
Dr. Guy has completed her residency in emergency medicine at UCLA-Harbor and her ultrasound fellowship at UCI where she holds the position of Assistant Clinical Professor and Associate ultrasound fellowship director.
Edmund Hsu, MD
Conference Chair
Dr. Hsu has completed his residency in emergency medicine in Mount Sinai St Luke's-Roosevelt. He is fellowship trained in both ultrasound and medical simulation and acts as the UCI emergency department Ultrasound Director and the UCI Medical School Director of Ultrasound Medical Education.
Amanda dos Santos, MD
Faculty
Dr. dos Santos has completed her emergency medicine residency at Summa Health in Akron, OH and is currently one of the ultrasound fellows at UCI where she also serves as an emergency physician and clinical instructor.
Kyle Dornhofer, MD
Faculty
Dr. Dornhofer continues his long-term commitment to the UCI community where he attended medical school, emergency medicine residency and is now completing his emergency ultrasound fellowship.
Nora Perez-Moreno and Brenda Nash are experienced sonographers and served as the previous course coordinators for the Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Elective (627A) course. Both graduated at the top of their class with honors and received their Associate in Science degrees from Orange Coast College in Diagnostic Medical Sonography. They have extensive clinical experience working at hospitals within Orange County including Hoag, Kaiser, and West Anaheim Medical Center. They are both passionate about addressing social determinants of health and improving patient care, as they believe that ultrasound is a tool that has the potential to bridge health disparity gaps. To further the University of California Irvine’s mission of diversity, equity and inclusion, they sought out training from the UCI Health Affairs Office of Education and received their certificates in Health Equity and Diversity.
Nora Perez-Moreno, RDMS
Organizer
Brenda Nash, RDMS
Organizer