Core Faculty
- Nova Panebianco, MD
- Wilma Chan, MD
- Christy Moore B.S., RDMS, RVT
- Cameron Baston, MD
- Jeffrey A. Kramer M.D.
- Alexander Bonnel, MD
- Gwen Baraniecki-Zwil
- Melissa Villa, DO
Fellowship Core Faculty
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Read More about Nova Panebianco, MDNova Panebianco, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Educator, Fellowship Director
Nova Panebianco, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Educator, Fellowship Director
Nova Panebianco completed Emergency Medicine residency in 2007 at North Shore University Hospital, and ultrasound fellowship at Penn in 2008. She has served as emergency ultrasound fellowship director at Penn since 2011, and became emergency ultrasound division director in 2019. Nova is published extensively in bedside ultrasound, and is the author of a bedside ultrasound textbook. She is a national leader in bedside ultrasound, currently serving as secretary of the Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships.
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Read More about Wilma Chan, MDWilma Chan, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Director of Ultrasound Education in Undergraduate Medical Education
Wilma Chan, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Director of Ultrasound Education in Undergraduate Medical Education
Dr. Wilma Chan completed her medical school education at Tufts University School of Medicine in 2010. She went on to complete a Masters in Technology, Innovation and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She subsequently completed her residency training at the University of Chicago, where she served as a chief resident. She pursued post-graduate training as an emergency ultrasound fellow at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include point of care education and social media in education.
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Read More about Christy Moore B.S., RDMS, RVTChristy Moore B.S., RDMS, RVT
Sonographer Educator
Christy Moore B.S., RDMS, RVT
Sonographer Educator
Christy is an ultrasound technologist and has been the Sonographer Educator in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Perelman School of Medicine since October 2016. Christy’s main role is providing bedside ultrasound instruction to the emergency residents, however her passion is interacting with the medical students. Christy’s role with the medical students includes hands on class room teaching, to ward based teaching. Christy also provides the ancillary staff in the emergency department with teaching, from USGIV classes to teaching the APP’s how to integrate POCUS into their workflow.
Christy graduated from Thomas Jefferson University with a Bachelor of Science and holds the RDMS and RVT registries. Christy fell in love with teaching very early in her career and her passion is working with medical students, residents, and fellows teaching clinician-performed ultrasound. Prior to working at Penn, Christy worked as a staff ultrasound technologist for close to 20 years. She was a clinical instructor for 10 years at Thomas Jefferson University in the Vascular Sonography program, before becoming a sonographer educator in the department of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University where she worked for 5 years.
Christy has been recognized year after year for her excellence in medical education in point-of-care sonography. Christy is interested in evidence-based medical education and is an active researcher in the field. Christy is a published researcher author of a textbook for medical education on clinician-performed ultrasound.
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Read More about Cameron Baston, MDCameron Baston, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Cameron Baston, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Dr. Cameron Baston is a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician with the research interests in Point of Care Ultrasound and understanding cost effectiveness within the realm of critical care. He also researches methods for bedside clinicians to most effectively use diagnostic ultrasound. These interests are applicable for understanding the most effective use of critical care resources in the resource limited setting. He completed his Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship in 2018, his clinical ultrasound fellowship in 2017, and his Master's degree in Clinical Epidemiology in 2018, all at the University of Pennsylvania.
Cameron did his undergraduate in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then worked as an automotive engineer for Texas Instruments, and as an analyst focusing on global economic and environmental modeling at the Tellus Institute. He also worked in the Plasma Physics division at Los Alamos National Labs as a 2003 US Department of Energy Fusion Fellow. He received his medical degree is from Jefferson Medical College, where he worked with JeffHealth and the Rwanda Village Concept Project on several bilateral projects with the Rwanda National University in Butare. He did his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. He has served as a medical advisor for Shift labs, specifically working on the development of the DripAssist, a low cost intravenous infusion monitor which won the 2015 USAID Grand Ebola Challenge. A Schweitzer Fellow for life, his domestic clinical and volunteer work focused on populations suffering from disparities in urban areas. He has lectured nationally on his current research focuses including clinical applications of bedside ultrasound technology, specifically educational techniques and applications of pulmonary ultrasound for use in the resource limited setting. -
Read More about Jeffrey A. Kramer M.D.Jeffrey A. Kramer M.D.
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship Director
Jeffrey A. Kramer M.D.
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship Director
Jeff is originally from Carmel, NY. He is the current EM Ultrasound Fellowship Director; Director of Emergency Ultrasound at Penn-Presbly ED. Jeff is also the Medical Director for International Needs Ghana Medical Mission—a program that runs medical clinics in remote villages in Ghana annually. In his spare time Jeff enjoys running, road and mountain biking and spending time with the family. Jeff’s Philly Phavorite is the Philadelphia Marathon
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Read More about Alexander Bonnel, MDAlexander Bonnel, MD
Academic Hospitalist
Alexander Bonnel, MD
Academic Hospitalist
Dr. Bonnel is an academic hospitalist at Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH) in Philadelphia, PA. He completed his Internal Medicine (IM) residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 and was the first IM graduate to pursue the Penn Ultrasound Fellowship directly from residency. During his fellowship, his focus was on using handheld ultrasound on home visits and developing the HOUSE protocol published in the American Journal of Geriatrics. During POCUS fellowship, Dr. Bonnel gained experience teaching ultrasound both at home and abroad and continues to do so. He has served as an expert trainer in POCUS courses in the United States, Bangladesh, Uganda, and Yemen through collaborations with the non-governmental organizations MedGlobal and Pious Projects. Dr.Bonnel also volunteers as an attending physician at Puentes de Salud, a charity clinic for undocumented Latinx migrants in Philadelphia. Ultrasound is fundamental to Dr. Bonnel’s daily practice in hospital medicine, and he has been appointed as a core faculty member of the IM resi
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Read More about Gwen Baraniecki-ZwilGwen Baraniecki-Zwil
Research Coordinator
Gwen Baraniecki-Zwil
Research Coordinator
Gwen grew up in Bridgeton, NJ with her parents and older brother. She went to NYU Tisch School of the Arts for college, where she majored in Dance with a double major in Politics. Gwen performed in the US and Canada before moving to London where she obtained a Master of Science degree in Dance Science from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Upon returning to the US, Gwen joined Company E in Washington DC and worked concurrently as a program assistant at George Mason University as a program assistant on government funded research in the field of Arts in Health. In 2020, Gwen began the Pre-Health Post-Baccalaureate program at University of Pennsylvania and in 2021 Gwen joined the division of ultrasound as research coordinator
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Read More about Melissa Villa, DOMelissa Villa, DO
Assistant Professor or Clinical Emergency Medicine, Director of Clerkship Ultrasound Education
Melissa Villa, DO
Assistant Professor or Clinical Emergency Medicine, Director of Clerkship Ultrasound Education
Melissa grew up in Audubon, New Jersey and went to Penn State for her undergraduate degree. She received a Bachelor of Science degree and majored in Bio-Behavioral Health with minors in Biology and Health Policy and Administration. Melissa graduated from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her Emergency Medicine residency training at Inspira Health Network where she served as the clerkship chief. Melissa graduated from the ultrasound fellowship at Penn Medicine in June of 2023 and stayed on as faculty and serves as the Director of Clerkship Ultrasound Education. Melissa values spending time with her family and significant other. Her hobbies include traveling, attending sports and music events, being outdoors and exploring new restaurants in Philadelphia. She has been on multiple medical service trips and has a strong interest in global health. Melissa plans to continue to combine her passions for ultrasound and global health with her emergency medicine career.
