Presenter: Marla Levine, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine
Director of Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Nashville, Tennessee
Dr. Marla Levine is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the division of Emergency Medicine at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and the director of Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) within their Pediatric Emergency Department. She completed her pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) fellowship at Children’s National Medical Center and Emergency Ultrasound fellowship at Maimonides Medical Center.
She has been recognized as a leader in PEM POCUS, particularly as an educator in emergency ultrasound, regionally, nationally, and internationally. She has authored numerous papers on the utility of POCUS in the care of pediatric patients, as well as helped create educational guidelines for how to incorporate POCUS into educational curricula. Dr. Levine currently serves on the executive committee for the P2 Network, the international PEM POCUS collaborative, as the Chair of Global Health.