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Pre-Course

STEP One: Ultrasound Clinical Applications of the Extremities Course (Day 1)

Tuesday, November 14, 2023
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
Location: CC 206-207
In-Person Ticketed

    Session Director(s)

  • Samuel K. Chu, MD

    Assistant Professor
    Shirley Ryan AbilityLab/Northwestern University
    Chicago, Illinois

    No financial relationships to disclose.

  • Ethan B. Rand, MD, FAAPMR

    Assistant Professor
    Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, California

    No financial relationships to disclose.

    • Faculty(s)

  • Katharine E. Alter, MD

    Senior Research Clinician
    National Institute of Health
    Bethesda, Maryland

    No financial relationships to disclose.

  • Ashwin N. Babu, MD

    Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/Harvard Medical School PM&R Program
    Boston, Massachusetts

    No financial relationships to disclose.

  • Asad R. Siddiqi, DO

    Assistant Professor
    Weill Cornell Medical College
    Brooklyn, New York

    No financial relationships to disclose.

  • Heakyung Kim, MD (she/her/hers)

    Professor and Chair, Dept of PM&R, Kimberly Clark Distinguished Chair in Mobility Research, UTSW
    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
    Dallas, Texas

    Disclosure(s): Abbvie Biotech: Consultant/Advisory Board (Terminated, December 31, 2021); Catalyst medical Education: Honorarium (Ongoing); Cleveland Clinic: Honorarium (Terminated, December 31, 2022); Ipsen: Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing); LIH Health Care: Honorarium (Ongoing); Merz: Consultant/Advisory Board (Terminated, April 30, 2022); Parcira Pharmaceutical Company: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing)

  • Jonathan S. Kirschner, MD

    Fellowship Director, Spine and Sports Medicine
    Hospital for Special Surgery
    Weill Cornell Medicine
    Brooklyn, New York

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Melinda Loveless, MD

    Clinical Associate Professor
    UW Medicine
    Seattle, Washington

    No financial relationships to disclose.

  • Nathan Olafsen, MD (he/him/his)

    Assistant Professor
    Washington University Orthopaedics
    Saint Louis, Missouri

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Christopher J. Visco, MD, FAAPMR

    Program Director
    New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia and Cornell) PM&R Program
    New York, NY

    No financial relationships to disclose.

  • Jennifer A. Soo Hoo, MD, FAAPMR

    Assistant Professor
    Weill Cornell Medicine, New York

    No financial relationships to disclose.

  • John Cianca, MD

    Owner / Clinician
    Human Performance Center
    Baylor College of Medicine
    Houston, Texas

    No financial relationships to disclose.

  • Matthew Sherrier, MD

    Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and Physical Medicine
    Medical University of South Carolina
    Summerville, South Carolina

    No financial relationships to disclose.

Apply ultrasound in your practice with a course designed for every physiatrist. Try ultrasound for the first time to see how it will best fit your area of specialty expertise. This course is designed for “every physiatrist” to get started with applying ultrasound to patients with musculoskeletal and neurologic diagnoses for diagnostic and interventional applications. More interactive hands-on experiences than ever allow clinicians to begin to develop the understanding and manual skills needed to improve their practice with ultrasound. Over 11 hours of hands-on time will allow physiatrists truly experience ultrasound first-hand.

This course is the required first component of AAPM&R's STEP Ultrasound Certificate Program. If you are not interested in participating in the complete STEP Ultrasound Certificate Program, you can attend this course as a one-off, stand-alone course. Please click here to register and for more information.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the indications, advantages, and disadvantages of using ultrasound imaging in musculoskeletal and/or neurologic clinical applications including spasticity and pain.
  • Demonstrate improved visual-spatial and manual skill as it relates to transducer manipulation.
  • Utilize the various components of an ultrasound machine to acquire an optimized image.
  • Utilize optimized ultrasound images to improve diagnostic accuracy and for procedural image guidance. Identify and differentiate structures typically examined in the neurologic and musculoskeletal system.
  • Alter practice efficiency with regards to the clinical application of ultrasound.