Dr. Nick Villalobos is an Assistant Professor of Medicine for the Uniformed Services University at the San Antonio Military Medical Center in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and ECMO. He completed his training at the University of New Mexico and holds a board certification in Critical Care Echocardiography.

He is part of a small group of physicians for the critical care air transport team in the United States Air Force and has deployed with the military's ECMO transport team. Dr. Villalobos is an ICU medical director and the director of ultrasonography for the fellowship and residency program. 

Assisted with the development and review of the following content: Webinar: TEU in the ICU - A Multi-tool for the Intensivist

Dr. Wright was born and educated in Zimbabwe. She graduated in medicine from the University of London and subsequently gained a fellowship at the Royal College of Anaesthetists in the UK (United Kingdom). She has worked as an anaesthetist in Southern Africa and in the UK and has achieved EACVI TEE accreditation.  

She established and led the peri-operative echocardiography service at the Heart Hospital, London, before moving to her current post as a consultant anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. 

With two colleagues she co-invented the HeartWorks echocardiography simulator in 2008 and has continued to develop this teaching tool since. Dr. Wright has directed theatre- and simulator-based TOE courses regularly, co-authored a TEE e-learning program and participated in TOE educational activities worldwide. 

Assisted with the development and review of the following content: Webinar: The Importance of Simulation Training for Transesophageal Ultrasound

Dr. O’Rourke is an Emergency Medicine (EM) board-certified physician with over 20 years’ experience in academic and community settings. She graduated from Tufts School of Medicine and completed her EM residency and EM Ultrasound Fellowship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC. Dr. O’Rourke works clinically in California in a community-based setting and teaches the hospitalist POCUS.

Dr. O'Rourke was Co- Chair of the ACEP Community US Committee for the last 2 years and created the ACEP Community US Guidelines and is currently participating with a group of experts to update the new EM TEE 2023 guidelines.  

Dr. O’Rourke has been teaching Limited TEE in the Emergency Medicine and Critical Care setting since 2016 and has started multiple EM based TEE programs around the country.  

Assisted with the development and review of the following content: Webinar: The Importance of Simulation Training for Transesophageal Ultrasound