Dr Lee Pursglove is the specialist private GP and founder at GP2Health. a comprehensive, family orientated private GP practice based in Morpeth, Northumberland. GP2Health’s founding principles are to offer patients, timely access to evidenced based care, in a relaxed environment with the same GP.
Dr Pursglove areas of ultrasound interest include testes, soft tissue lesions, MSK and general abdominal scanning. His passion in this area has allowed him to travel, teach and highlight the benefit of POCUS to other GPs in the UK and Europe. He currently holds the role of co-chair of the new Special Interest Group (SIG) within the RCGP and medical director of the community PoCUS course in collaboration with ORCA Medical accredited by the Royal College of Physicians.
BSc (Hons), MBChB, MRCGP, DRCOG and PgCert (Medical Ultrasound),
Dr Andrew Walden is a Consultant in Acute and Intensive Care Medicine and has been interested in the role of POCUS since 2008. He helped develop Focused Ultrasound in Intensive Care (FUSIC) competencies and chaired the Focused Acute Medicine Ultrasound (FAMUS) committee from 2016 to 2018. He has published widely on the use of lung ultrasound in a range of settings including resource poor countries. He believes strongly that POCUS greatly improves the care and flow of patients and is a champion of a multidisciplinary approach.
Dr Ibrahim ElNaggar is a GP working both in primary care as out of hours GP and secondary care as virtual care GP at the Royal Berkshire hospital. He is quite passionate about the role of POCUS in Primary care and he is a founding member of the POCUS SIG as well. Dr ElNaggar holds accreditation in Lung, Abdomen and Heart scanning and has taught in multiple POCUS courses.
Dr Ahmed Mostafa is a General Practitioner with a Special Interest (GPwSI) in Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine, working within the Shropshire Community Musculoskeletal Service. He also holds Membership of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (MRCEM), bringing a strong background in emergency medicine, musculoskeletal trauma and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to his clinical practice.
Ahmed is an experienced medical educator and POCUS instructor, and the founder and course developer of the POCUS MSK Trauma Course. He regularly teaches musculoskeletal ultrasound and ultrasound-guided interventions to multidisciplinary healthcare professionals through national courses and conferences. His interests focus on advancing the use of POCUS in General Practice, improving musculoskeletal ultrasound education, and supporting clinicians to safely integrate ultrasound into everyday clinical practice.
Parmy Deol is a dual qualified Emergency Physician and General Practitioner working in Chelsea and Westminster hospital. He has led on ultrasound training at Northwest London level for GPs and Emergency Medicine trainees. He has a keen interest in Ultrasound education and Musculoskeletal ultrasound, directing Emergency Ultrasound courses locally. He holds a PgCert in Medical and Musculoskeletal ultrasound.
Dr Maroof is a General Practitioner with an interest in urgent care. He has developed a particular focus in POCUS and Respiratory Medicine in Primary Care since 2020. He has taught on numerous POCUS courses. He is passionate about expanding POCUS into the community.
Antonio Stavrou is a GP trained in the Thames Valley region and has an Epidemiology degree. He has been using POCUS, particularly thoracic and abdominal, since 2020 during training in Acute Medicine at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. He has been practising and teaching it in primary and secondary care since.
Dr Sarb Clare MBE is the Deputy Medical Director and an Acute Medical Consultant at SWBH NHS Trust and the NHSEI Midlands Regional Advisor for AIM. She was the first appointed Acute Physician at City Hospital in 2008.
She is a national pioneer in POCUS which she lectures and teaches on nationally. She runs a yearly course “Ultrasound at the Front Door” and has created many free online learning tools. Her book “Ultrasound For the Generalist – A Guide to Point of Care Imaging” with Cambridge University Press is a culmination of 18 years of POCUS experience.
She is passionate about leadership, gender and diversity workplace balance as well as widening participation. She leads a Women Empowering Women movement within medicine, hosts a podcast and has delivered a TEDx Talk.
In 2020 she was awarded an MBE Queens Honor for her service to the NHS and her leadership during the pandemic.
Dan Lasserson is Professor of Acute Ambulatory Care at Warwick Medical School, medical lead for the Acute Hospital at Home service at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and President of the UK Hospital at Home Society. He is FAMUS and FUSIC Heart accredited and has brought POCUS into hospital at home, scanning patients in homes and care homes as part of assessment and treatment for acute illness. He teaches POCUS to all members of the multi-disciplinary team and is involved in research to optimise POCUS delivery in hospital at home.
Lorenzo Cristoni is a Consultant in Acute Medicine at Frimley Park Hospital.
He is an enthusiast FICE, CUSIC and FAMUS mentor with a 20 years’ experience in point of care ultrasound and a particular commitment in promoting POCUS as the 5th pillar of the clinical examination in all the courses where he teaches.
He is an expert in abdominal US, with a particular interest in ultrasound of the intestine, and in the integrated heart-lung-IVC sonographic approach to the acutely unwell patient.
Dr Joe Nunan is a specialty doctor at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. He has helped develop POCUS within acute medicine since becoming the Ultrasound Fellow in 2020. Passionate about teaching, Joe has worked for Dr Walden in promoting POCUS since then.
Dr Nunan teaches on all of our courses.