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Education Resources

Excellent website containing cases, articles, lectures, image and video galleries, quizzes and more.

Brilliant site with lots of resources, including a weekly ultrasound podcast, lectures, tutorials, articles etc. All free.

Ultrasound Podcast for Core Ultrasound

Fantastic site with a wealth of resourses designed to support every aspect of POCUS skill development. The site is very well organised and easy to navigate. All resources are free.

UCSD UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO

An excellent website full of carefully crafted video lectures covering topics ranging from critical care transesophageal echocardiography to ultrasound-guided procedures. FREE.

Westernsono

Diploma Courses covering many specialties with some excellent free content available.

123 SONOGRAPHY

A vast amount of ultrasound lectures on every specialty. The website looks a bit dated but it is updated often and the content is excellent.

SONOWORLD

Venous Access courses online, each at a reasonable price.

American Vein and Lymphatic Society

Reasonably priced, high quality educational opportunities designed to improve practice-based skills in different health care settings.

(IAME) INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED MEDICAL EDUCATION

A wide range of free resouncess on all specialties.

Sonosite

This is a free website with a lot of information, especially for those in the early stages of ultrasound training.

Ultrasound Guide

Jakub Hovorka

IT Project Manager & Developer

Jakub was in at the start, lending his slick IT expertise to BM to help the company evolve and navigate what is an exciting online landscape. Jakub is an invaluable member of the team bringing fresh ideas and energy to BM’s digital presence.

Karen Finn

At Ballater Medical we believe that our work serves a greater purpose than simply delivering products. Karen works with our team through regular group coaching sessions using an Appreciative Inquiry process to recognise what we’re doing well and to achieve more for our customers, our company and ourselves as individuals. With a prize-winning background in healthcare Karen has more recently studied an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology. She has a particular interest in multi-dimensional well-being and has volunteered with Fashion Revolution, a charity committed to sustainable clothing practices, for the past 5 years.

Alejandra Moore

Research Executive

With 6 years experience in logistics and research for Edinburgh Convention Bureau, Alejandra has particular insight into forming networks and drawing international groups together to work, learn and share expertise in Edinburgh. Prior to that she had extensive experience in marketing in a global setting based in Mexico. Over the last 12 months Alejandra has been bringing these skills to BM, identifying key players in the world of ultrasound to become part of the POCUS revolution.

Daniela Romer

Education Engagement Director

Daniela is an energetic and positive force within the Ballater Medical team. With a successful career over 23 years as a course director at the University of Edinburgh she offers expert insight into education development. Over the last 2 years she has been building networks and preparing the medical education market for Ballater Medical throughout the UK.

Colin Finlayson

co-founder Ballater Medical

Colin brings an honest, straight-forward, customer focused approach to the commercial side of the business at Ballater Medical. This has been developed over 30 years working in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Colin believes that it is vital to understand the specific needs of individual customers before considering how Ballater Medical products can be tailored to those individual requirements. This approach has created strong alliances with medical practitioners all over the world and has been recognized by peers within the pharmaceutical sales sector where Colin has won multiple awards. Prior to developing his skills within the commercial sector, Colin led a charity project in Bucharest which worked to promote health within children suffering from HIV and AIDS both in hospital and community homes. Colin took on this work after qualifying as both a Registered Psychiatric Nurse and Registered General Nurse.

Dr John McCafferty,

BEng MBChB MD Phd MRCP

CEO Ballater Medical

With a background in engineering John has always been keen to enhance patient care through the development of new technology. Enabling the health care provider to deliver safe and effective intervention at the point of care is of utmost importance to him. An extensive background in Engineering, Clinical Medicine and teaching allows John to offer a bespoke consultancy in point of care solutions.