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Mastering Maternal Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Join us for this new half-day CME online course led by POCUS-certified experts along with renowned international faculty who are dedicated and passionate about advancing maternal POCUS in the obstetric population.

Attend Online with Live Audience Q&A

Monday, June 16, 2025 | 8:00 am–1:00 pm

Earn up to 4.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ per course.

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Course Overview

Mastering Maternal Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is an intensive, half-day course that features expert-led lectures and live demonstrations focusing on the practical applications of ultrasound in maternity care. Participants will engage in advanced assessment techniques for evaluating cardiac function, lung pathology, inferior vena cava and lower extremities during pregnancy. The course will also address critical maternal scenarios, including hypertensive emergencies and cardiac arrest. Additionally, attendees will gain valuable insights into education and credentialing pathways for point-of-care ultrasound. By the end of the course, participants will be equipped with actionable expertise, ready to seamlessly integrate POCUS into their clinical practice and enhance maternal care directly at the bedside.

Who Should Attend?

Physicians in OB/GYN, Obstetric Anesthesiology, Critical Care/Intensivists, Emergency Medicine, residents, fellows, sonographers, nurse practitioners, physician associates, and other healthcare professionals involved and/or interested in maternal critical care.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Describe the role and utility of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in obstetric care, including cardiac, pulmonary, and abdominal applications.

Interpret key ultrasound findings relevant to maternal emergencies such as hypertensive disorders, cardiac arrest, and respiratory distress.
Identify educational pathways and best practices for integrating POCUS training and credentialing into obstetric practice.

Course Tuition

PHYSICIAN

$485

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SONOGRAPHER, NONPHYSICIAN, or STUDENT

$425

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PHYSICIAN

$549

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SONOGRAPHER OR NONPHYSICIAN

$485

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Meet the Faculty

Co-Directors

Megha Gupta, MD, MS

Attending, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Amir Shamshirsaz, MD

Maternal Fetal Medicine/Critical Care Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital/Pavilion for Women
Houston, TX

Dr. Amir A. Shamshirsaz is a board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist with specialties in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Surgical Critical Care and certification in Critical Care Echo Examination. He currently serves as the Co-director of Maternal Critical Care and Co-Director of the Placenta Accreta Spectrum Care Team Program at Texas Children’s Hospital/Pavilion for Women.
He completed his medical school at the National University in Tehran, Iran, and then went on to join the obstetrics and gynecology residency program at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Afterward, he attended Baylor College of Medicine, where he finished fellowships in both maternal fetal medicine and surgical critical care. He now serves as an assistant professor specializing in maternal fetal medicine and critical care medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
His main interests are Critical Care, Point of Care ultrasound, Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy, ECMO in Pregnancy and Placenta Accreta Spectrum. He served on the Expert Panel for Obstetric Life Support (OBLS): Development of a Simulation-based Maternal Cardiac Arrest Program for Credentialing Specialists and First Responders.

Faculty

Jérôme Cornette, MD PhD

Senior Consultant
Maternal and Fetal Medicine
Erasmus MC in Rotterdam Netherlands

He followed his medical and specialty training in Obstetrics and Gynecology (1999-2004) at the University of Antwerp. During his specialty training he worked at the University hospital (UZA) and Sint-Augustinus hospital in Antwerp and the Kalafong Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa. In South Africa, he focused on both maternal and fetal ultrasound and compared maternal echocardiography with right heart catheterization in severely pre-eclamptic women. He subspecialized in Maternal and Fetal Medicine (2004-2006) at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) where he defended his PhD thesis on hemodynamic profiling in complicated pregnancies in 2016.

His main areas of expertise and research are fetal and maternal echocardiography, maternal hemodynamics, cardiac disease in pregnancy, obstetric critical care, placenta accreta spectrum and abdominal cerclages. He accounts for numerous international publications in these fields and is a member of the International Working Group on Maternal Hemodynamics, IS-PAS, Dutch maternal mortality commission, Lowland abdominal cerclage working group and MOET instructor. Through his work he aims to promote the role of maternal echocardiography and maternal POCUS into obstetric care and women’s health. By his involvement in fetal and maternal (congenital) heart disease, he forms a link between pediatric and adult congenital cardiologists at the Erasmus MC congenital heart center. He supports a life-cycle approach (from fetus to elderly women) to women’s cardiovascular health and the role of ultrasound as a non-invasive tool for this purpose.
Luna Gargani, MD, PhD

Researcher, Department of Surgical,
Medical and Molecular Pathology and Critical Care Medicine
University of Pisa
Cardiologist, Cardiology Unit,
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana
Co-Chair, Certification and Accreditation Committee of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI)
Marie-Louise Meng, MD

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Women’s Anesthesiology Division
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Program
Duke University School of Medicine

Bio: Dr. Meng is a cardiothoracic and obstetric anesthesiologist at Duke University Medical Center, specialized in the care of cardio-obstetric patients. She completed anesthesiology residency at Columbia University in 2014. She then went on to complete fellowships at Columbia in both Obstetric and Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology. Dr. Meng’s research interests include preeclampsia and cardiac disease in pregnancy, specifically pulmonary hypertension, cardiomyopathy, and heart failure. Her research examines cardiovascular risk prediction among people with preeclampsia.
Hameed Shokoohi, MD, MPH, FAEMUS

Director, MGH Emergency Ultrasound Program
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Research Director, Emergency Ultrasound Research Program
Research Director, Center for Ultrasound Research and Education
Department of Emergency Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Hatem Soliman, MD, MBBS, MSc, EDICM, FRCP, FEACVI, FASE, FHEA

Consultant, Cardiothoracic Intensive Care and ECMO
Harefield Hospital
Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals
Nilam J. Soni, MD, MS

Professor of Medicine
University of Texas Health San Antonio
South Texas Veterans Health Care System
San Antonio, TX

Dr. Soni is a professor of medicine and academic hospitalist at the University of Texas Health San Antonio and the South Texas Veterans Health Care System. He is trained in internal medicine and an internationally recognized leader in point-of-care ultrasound, or POCUS. Dr. Soni has collaborated with a broad range of healthcare professionals to develop training curricula in POCUS and has been teaching POCUS nationally and internationally since 2007. Dr. Soni has led POCUS implementation for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He has directed the VA's POCUS Patient Safety Center and was awarded a VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) grant to evaluate implementation of POCUS use in the VA healthcare system. He is the visionary and chief editor of the book, Point-of-Care Ultrasound, that was awarded the 2015 British Medical Association’s President’s Choice Award, and over 30,000 copies of the book have been distributed worldwide in 8 different languages. He has led POCUS in hospital medicine through the Society of Hospital Medicine, including establishment of a certificate training program since 2016. Through his leadership, the POCUS community has expanded greatly in hospital medicine and other specialties.
Adrian Wong, MD

Consultant Critical Care and Anaesthesia
King's College Hospital, London
United Kingdom

Adrian completed his training in anaesthesia & intensive care in 2014 and is a Consultant and Clinical Lead at King’s College Hospital, London. He is an examiner for the European Diploma of Intensive Care Medicine. He was the ex-chair of the Social Media and Digital Content Committee of the ESICM and the Course Director of the GENIUS Ultrasound course. He is on the executive committee of the International Fluid Academy and sits on the Board of Directors of WINFOCUS.
Within critical care, he has an interest in the use of point-of-care ultrasound to guide fluid management, especially around venous congestion and organ perfusion, and human factors in the time critical environment of the ICU. His other research interest includes clinical governance and safety, medical education and burnout/well-being.
Carolyn Zelop, MD, FAHA

Director, Fetal Echo and Perinatal Research
Clinical Professor OB/Gyn
NYU Medical School at The Valley Hospital

Course Agenda

All times are EST

Time	Presentation Title	Presenter
8:00 am–8:15 am	Overview and Introduction	Megha Gupta, MD
8:15 am–8:30 am	Why POCUS in Obstetrics? It’s About Time	Carolyn Zelop, MD
8:30 am–8:50 am	Basic Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in Pregnancy	Hatem Soliman, MD
8:50 am–9:10 am	Lung Ultrasound: What Every Obstetrician Needs to Know	Luna Gargani, MD
9:10 am–9:30 am	Assessment of IVC in Pregnancy	Adrian Wong, MD
9:30 am–9:50 am	Abdomen and Lower Extremities Doppler	Megha Gupta, MD
9:50 am–10:15 am	Q&A	Carolyn Zelop, MD, Hatem Soliman, MD, Luna Gargani, MD, Adrian Wong, MD, Megha Gupta, MD
10:15 am–10:30 am	Break
10:30 am–10:50 am	Obstetrics POCUS in the Emergency Room	Hameed Shokoohi, MD
10:50 am–11:10 am	The Role of POCUS in Maternal Cardiac Arrest	Marie-Louise Meng, MD
11:10 am–11:30 am	How I Use POCUS for Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy	Jerome Cornette, MD
11:30 am–11:50 am	Education in POCUS and Credentialing Pathway	Nilam Soni, MD
11:50 am–12:15 pm	Q & A	Hameed Shokoohi, MD, Marie-Louise Meng, MD, Jerome Cornette, MD, Nilam Soni, MD
12:15 pm–12:50 pm	Live Demonstration	Megha Gupta, MD, Amir Shamshirsaz, MD
12:50 pm–1:00 pm	Wrap-up/Adjourn

CME Accreditation

The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation

For Physicians

The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine designates this live internet activity for a maximum of 4.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ARRT Category A Credit

The AIUM is a Recognized Continuing Education Evaluation Mechanism (RCEEM) for the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT). The AIUM is the owner and sponsor of this activity. This activity is approved by the AIUM for 4.75 ARRT Category A credits. This CE activity may be available in multiple formats or from different CE sponsors. ARRT does not allow CE activities (e.g., Internet courses, home study programs, directed readings, live lectures) to be repeated for CE credit in the same CE biennium.

Additional Credit Information

American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS). The ARDMS accepts AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credit(s)™.

Disclosure Policy

In accordance with the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all individuals in control of content must disclose any financial relationship(s) or other relationship(s) held within the past 24 months. The AIUM implements a mechanism to identify and mitigate all conflicts of interest prior to delivering the educational activity to learners.

Disclosures for this Activity

All relevant financial relationships for this activity will be disclosed and any conflicts will have been mitigated prior to the start of the activity.

Post Course Recordings

All registered participants will receive access to the course recordings for 90 days, ensuring you can revisit valuable insights at your convenience.

*Recordings do not meet the participation requirements to earn CME credit.

Cancellation Policy

Written cancellation must be received by the AIUM no later than May 16, 2025, to receive a refund of the course registration fee minus a $200 administration fee. Written cancellations received after this date will not be refunded. The AIUM must receive all cancellations via e-mail to learn@aium.org. In the unlikely event that the program is canceled by the AIUM, course registration fees will be fully refunded. For any changes to your registration, please contact the AIUM via phone or email.

About the AIUM

Through rigorous research, high-quality education, accreditation, and evidence-based training and practice resources, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) is the leading global multidisciplinary ultrasound community.

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