Dr Damien Tagan is head of the Riviera-Chablais Hospital’s Intensive Care Department and a 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 tfocused ultrasonography to hundreds of clinicians through online and practical courses for over ten years. He is the founder of the POCUS Academy, which has succeeded AURUS.

Dr Yanick Beaulieu is a cardiologist-intensivist at Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal and the Montreal Heart Institute. For the past twenty years, Yanick has been a pioneer in the teaching of POCUS ultrasound in Canada and around the world and has contributed to the training of thousands of health professionals in this discipline. Yanick founded ICCU, co-founded Vimedix (both sold to CAE in 2010), and founded Reacts (sold to Philips in 2020). Dr Beaulieu has collaborated with Dr Tagan for more than 15 years and acts as a partner and senior advisor for the 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.

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.

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. 

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.

Kouchiar is the Chief Physician in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Hôpital Fribourgeois in Switzerland. He has a diploma in emergency medicine and in POCUS and abdominal ultrasonography from the University of Paris V Descartes. As an emergency and internal physician, he promotes the use of ultrasonography daily. He also has a degree in pedagogy from the University of Geneva and has been organising practical ultrasonography courses for many years.

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. 

Philippe is Head of the Hôpital de la Tour’s Emergency Department, the largest private medical training centre in French-speaking Switzerland. He 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.

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. In Fribourg, he is an AURUS instructor and responsible for the implementation of POCUS in the Hôpital Fribourgeois’ Emergency Department.

Lorenzo is currently a Resident in anaesthesiology at Lausanne University Hospital. He 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 an Attending Physician in Fribourg Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. He is a specialist in internal and critical care medicine. He holds a certification in transthoracic echocardiography and pleuropulmonary ultrasonography.

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’.   

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.