Damien Tagan is a Privat-Docent at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. A specialist in internal medicine, intensive care medicine, emergency medicine, and point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS), he founded AURUS (Association of Emergency and Intensive Care Physicians Interested in Ultrasonography) in 2008. For over a decade, this association trained hundreds of clinicians in targeted ultrasonography through a combination of online courses and hands-on workshops. He is now the founder and president of the POCUS Academy, which succeeded AURUS.

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Yanick Beaulieu 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 Grosgurin is a Privat-Docent 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 Broccard  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 Christen 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 Ribordy 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 contributed to the promotion of focused ultrasonography across Switzerland.

Tania Bolognini 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 Moulin 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 Monti 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 Rusca 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 Tran-Minh is an emergency physician with 15 years of experience working in hospital emergency departments, prehospital care, and as a helicopter physician, where he has performed ultrasound in a wide range of medical settings. Convinced of the tremendous benefits of this technique, he expanded his expertise by obtaining certifications in vascular, pediatric, abdominal, urological, and thyroid ultrasonography. Since 2019, he has served as an attending physician in the Emergency Department of the Fribourg Cantonal Hospital, where he is responsible for promoting and integrating POCUS within the institution.

Lorenzo Gavino is specialized in internal medicine, anesthesiology, intensive care medicine, and prehospital emergency medicine. He is a certified supervisor by the Swiss Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (SSUM) for cardiac and lung ultrasonography, and also serves as a tutor in advanced echocardiography. He currently works in the intensive care unit at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV).

Zied Ltaief 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 Benmachiche 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 Lebret 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 Dussoix 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.

Yvan Fournier is a specialist in general internal medicine, emergency medicine, and point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS). Head of the Emergency Department at the Intercantonal Hospital of the Broye in Payerne, he performs bedside ultrasound on a daily basis and shares his expertise as a tutor in both basic and advanced courses organised by AURUS.

Dominique Schwab is a specialist in general internal medicine, emergency medicine, and abdominal ultrasonography. As an attending physician in the Emergency Department of the Riviera-Chablais Hospital, he performs ultrasonography on a daily basis and shares his expertise as a tutor in basic courses organised by AURUS.