Understanding Physiology with Ultrasound / Physiology in Health and Disease (PDF)

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 from middle school life science teachers to primary care physicians in rural South Carolina. He has been issued four patents related to ultrasound and ultrasound education.




Floyd E. Bell, III, M.D. is the Director of the Ultrasound Institute and Chair of Radiology at the University of South Carolina (UofSC) School of Medicine in Columbia, SC. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at the UofSC School of Medicine Columbia. He completed a transitional year internship atSpartanburg Regional Medical Center in Spartanburg, SC and then a diagnostic radiology residency at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC. He has published several papers on the use of ultrasound in medical education and has played a leadership role in the development and implementation of an integrated ultrasound curriculum at the UofSC School of Medicine Columbia. Dr. Bell has been frequently recognized for his excellence in teaching ultrasound to a wide variety of learners.




Dr. Victor Rao is a radiologist by training. He has worked at different mission hospitals and at his private practice in India managing a spectrum of patients in the OPD as well as in the hospital. He has performed various minor surgeries and procedures such as cesarean sections, appendectomies, bowel repair, tubal ligations, tumor/hemangioma resection and laceration repairs, angiography etc. As director of research he conducted human clinical trials in the USA todetermine the effectiveness of HIFU to treat BPH and recurrent prostate cancer. He was the director of the ultrasound institute at the USC School of Medicine for 11 years and helped create all learning and testing content for the Point-of-Care ultrasound program for medical and PA students. He helped develop the POCUS CME program and the primary care US fellowship curriculum and training at USCSOM. He helped train physicians in Arusha, Tanzania and UST Manila in Point-of-Care ultrasound. Currently he is working at Inteleos as a POCUS educator and he designs and creates educational and testing content for clinicians around the world including limited resource settings.