Thanks for visiting the Hennepin Ultrasound Blog, where we hope to demonstrate how point-of-care ultrasound can improve patient care in Emergency and Critical Care settings. You’ll find cases where ultrasound is used to make the diagnosis or change management, procedural videos using dynamic ultrasound-guided techniques, as well as tutorial videos on how to perform basic ultrasound exams.
Andie Rowland-Fisher, MD
Faculty EM Physician
Andie graduated from medical school at Indiana University SOM in 2011 and completed her Emergency Medicine residency in 2014. She completed her Ultrasound Fellowship at Hennepin and has started as a Faculty Member in Emergency Medicine at Hennepin. Her professional interests include medical education and emergency ultrasound, particularly as it pertains to critical care.
Andy Laudenbach, MD
Faculty Emergency Physician
Andy completed his Emergency Medicine residency and Ultrasound Fellowship at New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and then joined the faculty at Hennepin in 2012. He oversees resident ultrasound education and is a chapter author in Ma and Mateer’s Emergency Ultrasound 3rd Edition.
Rob Reardon, MD
Faculty Emergency Physician
Dr. Reardon completed his Emergency Medicine residency at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1997 and then rejoined the faculty at Hennepin in 1998. His areas of research interest include emergency airway management and emergency and critical care ultrasound. He is the Program Director for the Emergency Ultrasound fellowship at HCMC and is the course director for Ultrasound for Clinicians and a course instructor for The Difficult Airway Course.
Dr. Reardon is an accomplished author and editor having contributed to such medical textbooks as Roberts and Hedges’ Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine 6th Edition, Walls and Murphy’s Manual of Emergency Airway Management 4th Edition, Ma and Mateer’s Pocket Atlas of Emergency Ultrasound and Emergency Ultrasound 3rd Edition.
Katie and Amy
Ultrasound Education Technologists
Katie and Amy are the Ultrasound Education Technologists in our ED. They help the residents perfect their ultrasound skills in the clinical setting and help to provide classroom ultrasound education. Both are RDMS, RVT certified.
Dave Plummer, MD
Faculty Emergency Physician
Dave Plummer completed his Emergency Medicine residency at Hennepin and then joined on as faculty. He has been instrumental in developing the field of emergency and point-of-care ultrasound, first describing its role in the emergency department for the diagnosis of pericardial effusions in 1988. In addition, he is also a chapter author in Ma and Mateer’s Emergency Ultrasound 3rd Edition.
Scott Joing, MD
Faculty Emergency Physician
Scott Joing completed his Emergency Medicine residency in 2005 and then joined on as faculty at Hennepin in 2006. His professional interests include emergency ultrasound, medical education, and integrating medical technologies with clinical medicine. Scott is an editor for Ma and Mateer’s Emergency Ultrasound 3rd Edition as well as the developer and editor for Hennepin’s primary medical education website, HQMedEd.com.