Brian Buchanan

Director

Dr. Brian Buchanan is a intensivist, internist, and transport/flight physician who is active in wide range of critical care/point-of-care ultrasound applications. He practices primarily at the University of Alberta Hospital in the General Systems Intensive Care Unit. He has completed fellowship training in critical care ultrasound including trans-thoracic/esophageal echocardiography, vascular, lung and trauma ultrasound. Dr. Buchanan is an adult echocardiography diplomate with the National Board of Echocardiography. His clinical and research interests include medical education, curriculum development, critical care ultrasonography and quality assurance. Brian is also the Associate Chair for Critical Care Ultrasound and Simulation.

Aws Alherbish

Co-director

Dr. Aws Alherbish is an intensivist, cardiologist and echocardiographer with an experienced background in resuscitative echocardiography and a wide range of critical care ultrasound applications. He practices at both the University of Alberta hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton. He is currently the Cardiac Care Unit Co-Director at the Royal Alexandra Hospital. His main interests are in cardiac critical care, cardiac and non-cardiac ultrasound applications for the critically ill and advanced echocardiography.

Chris FUng

Dr. Christopher Fung is a subspecialty trained body radiologist with Medical Imaging Consultants and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Alberta.  His clinical practice focuses on diagnostic sonography and interventional ultrasound, as well as body MRI, with specific interest in pancreatic and urologic imaging.  He completed his fellowship training in Cross Sectional Imaging at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Fung is the Assistant Program Director for the Radiology Residency Program at the University of Alberta and is responsible for the medical student clerkship electives in Radiology.  Dr. Fung's research interests include healthcare economics, quality assurance, and clinical guideline assessment.  

Junior members

Jean deschamps

COntent developer, contributor

Dr. Jean Deschamps is a general internist currently completing critical care training at the University of Alberta.  He has completed advanced training in trans-thoracic/ trans-esophageal echocardiography, with a specific focus on right ventricular dysfunction in which he has co-authored various publications. His clinical and research interests include pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular dysfunction, critical care cardiac and non-cardiac ultrasonography, and medical education in those fields. 

Jeremy Katulka

CCUS fellow, intenvist

Dr. Jeremy Katulka is a clinical critical care ultrasound fellow at the University of Alberta. He is also an attending intensivist at the University of Saskatchewan.