Dr Damien Tagan is Privat Docent at the University of Lausanne’s Faculty of Biology and Medicine in Switzerland. Dr Tagan specialises in internal medicine, intensive care medicine, emergency medicine and POCUS. In 2008, he was a founding member of AURUS (the Association of Emergency and Intensive Care Physicians Interested in Ultrasonography), which provided training in focused ultrasonography to hundreds of clinicians through online and practical courses for over ten years. He is the founder and the president of the POCUS Academy, which has succeeded AURUS.

Yanick est cardiologue-intensiviste à l'Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur et à l'Institut de cardiologie de Montréal. Ces vingt dernières années, il a été un pionnier de l’enseignement de l’échographie POCUS au Canada et à travers le monde et a contribué à la formation de milliers de professionnels de la santé dans cette discipline. Il a fondé ICCU (cours d'ultrasonographie en ligne) et co-fondé Vimedix (simulateur d'ultrasonographie haute-fidélité). Il collabore avec le Dr Tagan depuis plus de 15 ans et agit à titre de partenaire et aviseur sénior pour la POCUS Academy.

Olivier is a Privat Dozent and attending physician at Geneva University Hospitals. He is a specialist in internal medicine and emergency medicine. As a POCUS specialist, he has been teaching focused ultrasonography with the AURUS for many years and is responsible for the teaching and use of POCUS in his institution. He is also expanding his activities in the field of clinical POCUS research.

Alain is Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School in the USA. He is a specialist in critical care, pulmonary and internal medicine. He is an internationally respected physician and scientist who has been teaching and using point-of-care ultrasonography in critical care for many years. 

Grégoire is chief physician attached to the critical care department of the Riviera-Chablais hospital. He specializes in internal medicine, intensive care medicine and POCUS ultrasonography.

Vincent is the Head of the Emergency Department at the Hôpital Fribourgeois and a Professor at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He is a specialist in internal medicine, intensive medicine, emergency medicine and POCUS ultrasonography. Since the founding of the AURUS, he has been one of the association’s most active tutors and has contributed to the promotion of focused ultrasonography across Switzerland.

Tania is an Attending Physician at the Riviera-Chablais Hospital’s Internal Medicine Department. She is a specialist in internal medicine, emergency medicine and point-of-care ultrasonography. 

Virginie is Senior Physician in Lausanne University Hospital’s Internal Medicine Department. She is a specialist in internal medicine and POCUS ultrasonography (emergency and thoracic ultrasound). She teaches and implements basic ultrasound in internal medicine. As Lausanne University Hospital’s referent on venous access within the Internal Medicine Department, Virginie conducts various research projects on this topic.

Matteo is an Attending Physician at Lausanne University Hospital and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lausanne’s Faculty of Biology and Medicine. He is a specialist in internal medicine and medical education, with many published articles and a book on procedural skills in internal medicine. He is the Coordinator for undergraduate and postgraduate courses teaching POCUS in Lausanne and is also active in the field of clinical POCUS research.

Marco is an Attending Physician in Lausanne University Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, where he is in charge of coordinating, implementing and training transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography in its ICU. He obtained a French university DIU in critical care echocardiography in 2008 and a European Diploma in Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography (EDEC) in 2017. He is a course director for the Swiss Society of Ultrasonography in Medicine. 

Huy is an Emergency Physician who has worked in hospital emergency rooms, helicopter medical teams and pre-hospital emergency care in the Paris metropolitan area for 15 years, and he has practised POCUS in a variety of clinical settings. Convinced of the tremendous advantages of using ultrasound in daily medical practice, he has completed diplomas in vascular, paediatric, abdominal, urology and thyroid ultrasonography. He is an POCUS instructor and responsible for the implementation of POCUS in the Hôpital Fribourgeois Emergency Department.

Lorenzo is a specialist in internal medicine, anesthesiology, intensive care medicine and pre-hospital emergency medicine. He is a certified SSUM supervisor for basic heart and lung ultrasonography and an AURUS tutor in advanced echocardiography. 

Zied is an Attending Physician in Lausanne University Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit wheree he is a member of the haemodynamic and cardiovascular group. In 2016, he obtained an inter-university diploma in Ultrasonographic Techniques in Intensive Care from the University of Lorraine and Loire, in France.
In 2020, he was certified as a POCUS tutor in the basics of emergency, transthoracic and transoesophageal cardiac ultrasonography, thoracic ultrasonography and ultrasonography in neuro-resuscitation.

Guillaume is head of the critical care department at Riviera-Chablais Hospital. He has dual training in general internal medicine and intensive care medicine. He also holds a POCUS diploma in transthoracic echocardiography and pleuropulmonary ultrasound.

Malik is a specialist in general internal medicine and intensive care medicine. He is an Attending Physician in Lausanne University Hospital’s Internal Medicine Service, where he actively participates in implementing POCUS. He is a certified SSUM teacher for POCUS on the topics of basics in emergency echography, focused echocardiography, focused thoracic echography and vascular punctures.

Yannick was an emergency physician in France’s Army Health Service. He holds a french university diploma in echography and teaches POCUS to emergency doctors and general practitioners. He was formerly a trainer for WINFOCUS France, co-founded the ‘Echo-urgences’ blog", and since 2019 he has been working at the Hôpital de La Tour’s Emergency Department, in Geneva. He is the author of the ‘Guide to Ultrasound in Primary Care’.   

Philippe has worked as an emergency physician for 20 years and has been integrating clinical ultrasound into his practice for many years. Convinced of ultrasound’s usefulness as an extension of clinical examinations, he became a POCUS tutor and now helps to develop ultrasound training courses for emergency physicians.