BenjaminClevelandSmithIIIMDFACEP

Core Ultrasound LLC, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of Emergency Ultrasound, The University of Tennessee, Department of Emergency Medicine

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Office
975 E 3rd St
Department Of Emergency Medicine
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone+1 423-778-1000

I am the Co-Owner of one of the largest online platforms for teaching point-of-care ultrasound to medical professionals, Core Ultrasound LLC. My roles with this platform include coding, development and content creation. Over 100 residencies and groups and 5000 users now use our platform for education.

I have been involved in medical education since I completed residency in 2008. I now run an ultrasound fellowship for physicians who have completed emergency medicine residency training. My clinical work is as an emergency physician at the academic emergency department at Erlanger Baroness Chattanooga, affiliated with the University of Tennessee where I hold the title of Professor.

I have has received several national awards for my contributions to emergency ultrasound, including the ACEP Innovation in Clinical Ultrasound in 2017 and the iAward for Innovations and Impact from the Society for Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships in 2020. I was selected as ACEP’s 2020-2021 Outstanding Speaker of the Year.

University of Alabama Medical CenterResidency, Emergency Medicine, 2005 - 2008
University of Tennessee College of Medicine at ChattanoogaInternship, Transitional Year, 2004 - 2005
University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of MedicineClass of 2004

Outstanding Speaker of the Year Award American College of Emergency Physicians, 2021
iAward - Innovations and Impact Society for Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships, 2020
Innovation in Clinical Ultrasound American College of Emergency Physicians, 2017
Fellow (FACEP) American College of Emergency Physicians
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PubMed

1 citations
Boy With Muscle Spasms
Matt Neal, M.C. Culbertson, Sudave Mendiratta, Benjamin C. Smith, Jessica S. Whittle
Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2017-09-01
2 citations
Use of echocardiography to identify appropriate placement of a central venous catheter wire in the vena cava prior to cannulation.
Jacob O. Avila, Benjamin C. Smith, David C. Seaberg
Academic Emergency Medicine. 2014-08-01
4 citations
M.mode.ify: A Free Online Tool to Generate Post Hoc M‐Mode Images From Any Ultrasound Clip
Benjamin C. Smith, Jacob O. Avila
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. 2016-02-01