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Mena Ramos, MD (she/her/they)

Co-Founder, Co-CEO
Global Ultrasound Institute
Oakland, United States

Dr. Mena Ramos is co-founder and co-CEO of Global Ultrasound Institute (GUSI). As a physician, entrepreneur, health & medtech consultant, she specializes in healthcare innovation that bridges silos through workflow re-engineering with high tech/high touch digital tools that save time, lives and cost. Dr. Ramos is a strong advocate for POCUS adoption across the continuum of care with a particular emphasis in primary care and global health. She co-wrote the original POCUS guidelines for the American Association of Family Practice (AAFP), published on POCUS in the Journal of Family Practice, the textbook Ultrasound for Primary Care, the CAFP journal, and was founding secretary of the AAFP POCUS Member Interest Group. She has taught POCUS workshops at national conferences including STFM, AAFP, ACP, FMEC and WCUME.

She has served on the boards of several nonprofit organizations including Cuba Caribe (a performing arts, music and dance company), Women in Medicine (an advocacy group for sexual minority identifying women and gender expansive physicians) and chairs the POCUS Certification Academy Engagement Committee. Dr. Ramos graduated from medical school at the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, Cuba, family medicine residency at the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency, and global health fellowship at UCSF - Contra Costa.

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