Consultant General Physician and Nephrologist, Portiuncula & Galway University Hospitals

Dr Paul O'Hara is a consultant physician and nephrologist in Portiuncula and Galway University Hospitals. A graduate of University of Limerick (2012), and TU Dublin (2008) in Medicine and Biomedical Science respectively, graduating first in class in both degrees. He completed the RCPI higher specialist training in Nephrology and GIM in 2021. He holds an MSc in leadership and health profession education from RCSI and a certificate in Med Ed from University of Dundee.

He is the Associate Academic Officer for Portiuncula University Hospital. He is also Honorary Senior Lecturer within the School of Medicine in University of Galway and Simulation Lead within Portiuncula University Hospital. He is a Focused Acute Medicine Ultrasound (FAMUS) Accredited Supervisor and RCPI Lead for the POCUS Train The Trainer Program. His interests include curriculum design in medical education, inter professional simulation for preparedness to practice and point of care ultrasound in general medicine/nephrology.

Hospitalist and Director of the Internal Medicine POCUS Fellowship at University of Illinois Chicago

Prof. Stefan Tchernodrinski completed his medical training in Bulgaria in 1995 and practiced there until 2004 when he relocated to the USA and started his internal medicine residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He has been a hospitalist and clinician-educator since 2007 and has been practicing and teaching POCUS nationally and internationally. He is currently an associate professor of medicine and director of the POCUS fellowship and internal medicine training at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also the WINFOCUS (World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound) collaborator for Bulgaria.

Consultant Physician, University Hospital Limerick

Dr Sabu is a Consultant Physician working at University Hospital Limerick since 2008. From 2004, when the concept of bedside Echocardiogram was in the early stage of development, Dr Sabu realized the importance of it in patient care in the acute setting. He then started to perform the bedside echocardiogram. In their infancy the portable machines were a rarity. With his profound interest, Medicine department at UHL procured Sonosite 180 plus, one of the early machines available for bedside assessment, and thus started the bedside assessment in the acute setting. Dr Sabu attended workshops in Echocardiogram and POCUS at Royal Bromptom Hospital, London; Ealing Hospital, London and Addenbrooks Hospital, Cambridge. He has gained more than 20 years of experience in POCUS. He has been training NCHDs posted with him, in the usefulness as well as in the safety and effectiveness of its role in clinical assessment, for many years. His areas of interest are Rapid assessment of heart and circulation, Thoracic ultrasound, Ultrasound of abdomen for assessment in acute clinical scenarios, musculoskeletal USS, Vascular USS and Ultrasound guided acute medical procedures. He is a staunch advocate to include POCUS as part of clinical assessment in BST and HST training programs in Internal Medicine.