Benjamin Karfunkle

Benjamin Karfunkle, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at McGovern Medical School, where he completed a Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship. He serves as Associate Fellowship Director for the Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship, develops software tools for quality assurance in point-of-care ultrasound, and instructs first- and second-year students in ultrasound use through McGovern Medical School’s Doctoring course.

His clinical and research interests span

• point-of-care ultrasound
• ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia
• advanced echocardiography
• medical education
• prehospital ultrasound applications
• regional anesthesia for acute injuries
• ultrasound in cardiac arrest.

Recent publications focus on optimizing echocardiography techniques and ultrasound applications in critical care.