Dr. Binder is a world-renowned cardiologist at the Vienna Medical Center in Austria. He has lectured throughout the world on echocardiography and provided ultrasound training to thousands of clinicians through live courses and on-line instruction.

Dr. Cook has been the program director for emergency medicine at Palmetto Health / University of South Carolina since 2001. He is the founder of 3rd Rock Ultrasound and has lectured on clinical ultrasound for over twenty years.

Dr. Hunt is the program director for emergency ultrasound fellowship at Palmetto Health / University of South Carolina. He is the co-founder of 3rd Rock Ultrasound and has lectured on clinical ultrasound for over twenty years. He is a past president of the ultrasound section for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine and is the director for the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship website (www.eusfellowships.com).

Dr. Barnes completed his fellowship training at Palmetto Health. He is the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director at the Medical University of South Carolina. His academic interests include Echocardiography, Regional Anesthesia, and Musculoskeletal Sonography.

Dr. Nolting is the associate program director for emergency ultrasound fellowship at Palmetto Health / University of South Carolina. She has published numerous articles, papers, and book chapters on emergency ultrasound.

Dr. Weekes is the director of the emergency ultrasound fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has taught clinical ultrasound for over 15 years. His clinical research focus is on echocardiography and pulmonary embolism.

Dr. Rob Ferre completed his fellowship training at Palmetto Health. He is the Emergency Ultrasound Division Director and Associate Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He has taught ultrasound to clinicians across the globe and loves to tell about it.

Dr. Hwang is the director for emergency ultrasound at Scripts Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, CA. He is the former ultrasound director for Brigham & Womens in Boston, MA. He is one 3rd Rock’s most experienced and talented instructors. His primary area of interest is echocardiography.

Dr. Hayden is the clinical ultrasound director at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). He is an associate professor of emergency medicine and pediatric emergency and splits his clinical duties between adult and pediatric patients. He has previously established ultrasound programs at Vanderbilt University, New York Methodist Hospital, and MUSC. He is the founder of the Pediatric Ultrasound Course and has lectured for 3rd Rock Ultrasound for over 8 years.

Hailing from Vienna, Dr Christian Aiginger studied medicine in his home town and specialised in internal medicine and ultrasound diagnostics. He then lectured at the Medical University of Vienna for nine years, and became the head of the Ultrasound Diagnostics Department at a hospital in vienna. Dr Aiginger is also Course Instructor (level 3) of the Austrian Society for Ultrasound in medicine (ÖGUM) and chairman of the training school ´Collegium acad. for Ultrasound Diagnostics including CEUS´. He loves to teach colleques how to use sonography for their daily use,his enthusiasm for this fascinating medical tool is clearly visible in all his courses and lectures. Christian Aiginger regularly takes part in the european ultrasound congresses, in october 2017 he is chairman at the european meeting dealing with abdominal sonography and CEUS (contrast enhanced ultrasound).

After studying Medicine at the Medical University in Vienna Dr. Ulrike Handler started her medical career at St. Josef´s Hospital in Vienna, where she was trained in internal medicine and diagnostic ultrasound. She soon found her fascination in this diagnostic method and specialized on abdominal ultrasound, including contrast-enhanced ultrasound. After finishing her medical education she certificated as tutor of the Austrian Association for Abdominal Ultrasound (ÖGUM) and started to teach abdominal ultrasound together with her colleague, Dr. Christian Aiginger. Dr. Ulrike Handler is currently senior physician at Herz Jesu Hospital in Vienna, where she is also responsible for ultrasound training of the assistants doctors of the internal department. She met Dr. Thomas Binder during a resident stay in the echocardiography laboratory at the Medical University in Vienna. In 2015 she joined the online teaching platform 123sonography, where she, toghether with Dr. Christian Aiginger, teaches abdominal ultrasound to a worldwide community.

Dr. Röthy received his medical degree from the Medical University of Vienna where he later completed his internship and residency as well as surgery and cardiac surgery fellowship. His research activities led him to Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (NYC), one of the leading centers in the world for physiology of blood flow, ventricular mechanics and hemodynamics. Dr. Röthy has been principal and co-investigator for numerous clinical trials that have helped shape the field including angiogenesis, heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, physiology of blood flow and hemodynamics. He has a strong passion to vascular ultrasound and teaching. His goal is enabling people to experience something surpassing their expectations.

Dr. Anna Maria Pistritto is from Italy. She studied Medicine at the Medical University of Catania and started her medical career at the A. Ferrarotto Hospital in Catania, where she was trained in cardiology and diagnostic ultrasound. She applied cardiac ultrasound in many interesting fields of medicine, such as pulmonary hypertension and interventional cardiology. She spent 2 years of her specialization at the Vienna General Hospital, with Prof. T. Binder and Prof. I. Lang. There she was further trained in advanced echocardiography, especially transesophageal echocardiography, and she improved her knowledge on pulmonary hypertension. In 2015 she joined the online teaching platform 123sonography, where she, toghether with Prof. Binder, teaches cardiac ultrasound to a worldwide community. Dr. Anna Maria Pistritto is now cardiologist and works at the Imperia Hospital in Liguria, Italy.

At the Medical University of Vienna, Prof. Jutta Bergler-Klein heads the cardiac outpatient clinic. She is currently chair of the Echo Working Group of the Austrian Society of Cardiology and involved in the European EACVI, and fellow of the ESC. Special research interests are valve disease and cardio-oncology. As cardiologist she is deeply convinced that echo presents the most important tool for quick and precise diagnosis. We just can´t go without it!