Executive Committee

Hamid Shokoohi, MD, MPH, FAEMUS

Current President

Dr. Shokoohi is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A long-time leader in ultrasound education and innovation, he has directed fellowship programs at GWU, MGH, and Harvard/MGB, training over 40 fellows—many now in leadership roles across the country.
Dr. Shokoohi previously served on the SCUF Board of Directors (2021–2023) and played a key role in creating the first integrated fellowship across Mass General Brigham. He has over 180 peer-reviewed publications and has led multi-institutional research efforts focused on POCUS in critical care, procedural applications, and AI integration.
His leadership also extends beyond his institution. He has served as a board member, scientific advisor, and co-chair for WINFOCUS and the European Society of Translational Medicine (EUSTM), and has helped build ultrasound training programs in underserved regions around the world, driven by a strong commitment to equity in medical education and global health.
With a focus on mentorship, innovation, and collaboration, Dr. Shokoohi brings a vision for growing SCUF’s impact through research, inclusion, and a strong community of educators and fellows.

Di Coneybeare, MD, MHPE, FPD-AEMUS

Immediate Past President

Dr. Coneybeare serves as the emergency ultrasound fellowship director at Columbia University Medical Center. She completed her residency at NYU/Bellevue and stayed for her ultrasound fellowship while completing a master’s of health professions education from Maastricht University. Her ultrasound interests remain eclectic and medical education scholarship focuses on professional identity formation in postgraduate populations.

Sara Damewood, MD

President Elect

Dr. Sara Damewood is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vice Chair of Education and Division Chief of Emergency Ultrasound at the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Dr. Damewood has dedicated much of her career to advancing point-of-care ultrasound education and practice, including helping set national standards for fellowship education. Through her work with SCUF over the last decade, Dr. Damewood has co-chaired the Program Requirement Committee and served on a national workgroup focused on ultrasound competency assessment. She also spent several years helping plan and organize the SCUF annual meeting, including hosting the 2022 conference in Madison.  Dr. Damewood received SCUF’s Hidden Figures Award in 2019 and Shazam Award in 2020 in recognition of her service to SCUF. Her influence on fellowship training extends beyond SCUF to the national oversight of AEMUS programs. Dr. Damewood served as the founding chair of the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Accreditation Council. In that role, she helped build the processes and infrastructure used in assessment of AEMUS fellowship programs nationwide.

Carrie Walsh, MD

Current Secretary

Carrie Walsh was born on the British Island of Jersey in the Channel Islands and trained at the Royal Ballet School (RBS) of London. Following her Graduation from RBS Carrie danced professionally for 12 years with some of the top national ballet companies in Europe, including the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, as a founding member of Corella Ballet in Madrid, Spain, Ballet de L’Opera de Bordeaux, France, and the Norwegian National Ballet in Oslo, Norway. Carrie graduated Magna Cum Laude in Neuroscience from Columbia University in the City of New York and attended medical school at Thomas Jefferson Medical Collage in Philadelphia. Carrie did her residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and The Brigham and Women’s Hospital and completed her Harvard Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and The Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Carrie is now Assistant Professor and Core Emergency Ultrasound Faculty at Jackson Memorial Hospital and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Carrie has a focus on POCUS Education. She received an EMF Grant and published work on establishing objective competency measures in diagnostic and procedural ultrasound. On a National level, Carrie on the Board of Directors for the Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships (SCUF) for her role as Secretary and the SCUF Social Media and Website Committee. She was the winner of the SAEM AEUS Sonogames 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona.

Hani Kuttab, MD

Immediate Past Secretary

Dr. Kuttab is ultrasound faculty at the University of Wisconsin Department of Emergency Medicine. He completed residency with the University of Chicago Medical Center, ultrasound fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Department of Emergency Medicine and currently serves as the medical director for the emergency department at East Madison Hospital, as well as assistant director for both clinical ultrasound at East Madison Hospital and medical student ultrasound education.

Lauren McCafferty, MD

Secretary Elect

Dr. Lauren McCafferty is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and AEMUS Fellowship Director at the University of Cincinnati. She earned her medical degree from the University of Kentucky and completed her emergency medicine residency and ultrasound fellowship at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UHCMC)/Case Western Reserve University. She spent several years as faculty at UHCMC, where she served as Ultrasound Education Director, Assistant Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency, and Ultrasound Fellowship Director before joining the University of Cincinnati. Her academic interests include ultrasound education, quality assurance, curricular innovation, and digital media and scholarship in medical education.

Jason Arthur, MD, MPH

Current Treasurer

Bio coming soon

Mike Gottlieb, MD

Immediate Past Treasurer

Dr. Gottlieb is the Vice Chair of Research and Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Division at Rush University Medical Center. He has served as the founding Program Director for the Rush Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship, as well as Past-Chair of the ACEP Ultrasound Section, AAEM Ultrasound Section, CORD Academy for Scholarship, SAEM Education Summit, CORD Education Committee, and CORD Best Practices Subcommittee. He is a nationally-recognized speaker, educator, and researcher. His academic interests include medical education, ultrasound, infectious diseases, heart failure, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Robert Stenberg, MD, FAEMUS

Treasurer Elect

Dr. Bob Stenberg, MD, FAEMUS, is the Emergency Ultrasound Director and Fellowship Director at Cleveland Clinic Akron General. He completed medical school at University of Wisconsin, residency at University of North Carolina and ultrasound fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a passionate educator and serves as a clinical associate professor for NEOMED and OUHCOM. Currently, he is the SAEM AEUS Education Officer, works with Blockheads and serves as the course director for the Ohio ACEP Nerve Block Course. His special interests are procedures, critical care, regional anesthesia and analgesia.