The World Interactive Network Focused On Critical UltraSound (WINFOCUS) is the world leader scientific network committed to develop Point-of-Care Ultrasound practice, research, education, technology, and networking, addressing the needs of patients, institutions, services, and communities living in out-of-hospital and in-hospital critical scenarios.

Our Goals

• To identify critical scenarios where ultrasound, when implemented and incorporated into point-of-care, represents a critical added value to improve management, performance and outcomes.
• To identify ultrasound “point-of-care” applications within extra-hospital and in-hospital scenarios, consistent with prevention, triage, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of the critical patient.

• To identify the technical, clinical, organizational, and social competencies necessary for effective incorporation and diffusion of “point-of-care” ultrasound into critical scenarios, the methodology, technology, and instrumentation necessary for its implementation, and the feasibility, sustainability, and accuracy of the identified technologies.
• To evaluate and compare the experiences of different investigators through networking actions.
• To develop research projects and conferences;
  To promote quality assured training programs, incorporating them, where appropriate, into school and university curricula.

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Arif Hussain, MD

Winfocus President

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
King Saud University for Health Sciences

• Head of Cardiac Critical Care King Abdulaziz Medical City

Carmela Graci MD, PHD

Winfocus President-elect

Milan, Italy
Winfocus Milan ITC Director

• Ao Niguarda Ca’ Granda Hospital, Milan (Italy)

Richard A. Hoppmann, M.D., F.A.C.P.

Winfocus Past-President

South Carolina, United States of America

University of South Carolina School of Medicine

• Professor of Medicine and Director of the Ultrasound Institute of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine
• Dorothea H. Krebs Endowed Chair of Ultrasound Education

Tomás Villén Villegas, MD

General Secretary

Madrid, Spain
Francisco de Vitoria University

• Associate Professor.
• Director of Point of Care Ultrasound Curriculum.
• Chair of Ultrasound Section of Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine.

Ramón Nogué, MD

Winfocus Treasurer

Lleida, Spain
Professor of Medicine at University of Lleida

• President at WINFOCUS Iberia
• Director of Postgraduate training in Clinical Ultrasound

Miguel Montorfano

Winfocus Past President

Rosario, Argentina
Hospital de Emergencias “Dr. Clemente Alvarez”

• Chair Ultrasound & Vascular Doppler Department.

Giovanni Volpicelli

Winfocus Board Member

Torino, Italy
San Luigi Gonzaga University Hospital
Department of Emergency Medicine

• Emergency Physician

Dr. Adi Osman, MD

Malaysia & Indonesia Coordinator

Ipoh ,Perak , Malaysia
Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun
Department of Trauma & Emergency Medicine

• Senior Consultant Emergency Physician & ED Critical Care

Gabriele Via, MD, EDIC

Winfocus Board Member

Lugano, Switzerland
Cardiac Anesthesia and Intensive Care
Cardiocentro Ticino

• Intensivist, Anesthesiologist
• Director, WINFOCUS Cardiac Ultrasound Training Program

Diego Martin Barca

Winfocus Board Member

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Profesor at Argentine Biology and Medicine Ultrasound Society (SAUMB)

• Director of the Emergency Ultrasound SAUMB Program
• SAUMB Board Member