AEUS Sono Innovation Award
Want to disrupt ultrasound? AEUS will help.
Deadline for submissions: November 20, 2026
2025 Winning Projects
Open Access Ultrasound Annotation Platform - Dr. Jamie Pospishil - Denver Health
3D Printed Single-Use Gel Holder for Ultrasound Machines - Dr. Taylor Fernberg - Southwest Healthcare Medical Education Consortium
Finalists
- Courtey Knieriem
- Lauren Sinsioco
2024 Winning Projects
Homemade Meatless Ultrasound-Guided Procedure Simulators - Dr. Peter Alsharif - Denver Health
Development and Validation of an AI Assisted POCUS Lung Score for Bronchiolitis - Dr. Sam Lam - Children's Hospital Colorado
Increasing ED Adoption and Implementation of a Portable Augmented Reality Kit (ARK) - Dr. Andrew Park - Henry Ford Hospital
Implementation of POCUS in Resource Limited Settings Domestically - Dr. Michelle Stofberg - Emory School of Medicine
2023 Winning Projects
Leveraging Community Collaboration and AI for POCUS Image Interpretation - Dr. Gabriel Siegel - PGY4 Denver Health
AI-Enhanced Needle Tip Tracking in Ultrasound-Guided Intravenous Access (ANTT) - Dr. David Chu - Emergency Ultrasound Fellow at Harvard Mass General Brigham
Best Practices for Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Street Medicine - Dr. Jack Spartz - PGY2 - Denver Health
3D Printed Ultrasound Guided Central Line Trainer - Dr. Michael Fareri - Ultrasound Fellow - Thomas Jefferson University
2022 Winning Projects
Augmented Reality Enhanced Ultrasound for Prolonged Space Flight - Dr. Michael Del Valle - Denver Health Emergency Ultrasound Fellow
Crowdsourced Question Bank for POCUS Educators - Dr. Tiffany Fong and Dr. Whitney Brown - John Hopkins School of Medicine
Sonography Education App - Dr. Jonathan Warren - Harbor-UCLA
Yam Cake DIY Ultrasound Phantom - Dr. Makoto Tanigawa - Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
AEUS is committed to promoting POCUS innovation
Pitch your idea
Submit a 3-minute video explaining your innovative idea. Include the amount of funding you need, how you plan to use it, and how you will measure the success of your project.
Ideal pitches will:
- Promote emergency ultrasound education.
- Showcase innovative ideas and approaches.
- Foster collaboration and professional development among ultrasound educators.
- Support research and advancement in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) innovation.
Review the full scoring rubric for additional details on how pitches will be assessed.
Win up to $2,000 to innovate our field
The AEUS Innovation Competition is looking to fund cutting-edge advancements in the field of Emergency Ultrasound. Held annually, this event brings together talented AEUS members from around the world to compete for small grants to get their groundbreaking ideas off the ground.
Awardee(s) will receive a $200-$2000 grant from AEUS depending on demonstrated need. The intention for this funding is to offset implementation costs of POCUS initiatives. Areas of innovation can include POCUS educational resources, teaching materials, assessment tools, etc. Winners will be asked to provide an update to the executive board in the spring of how the dispersed funds were used and encouraged to attend the AEUS annual meeting in San Francisco, CA in May 2027, where they will be highlighted during the academy meeting.