Soni honored for Outstanding Service in Medicine
Nilam Soni, MD, MSc, the recipient of the Outstanding Service in Medicine award, is a professor of medicine and academic hospitalist at the University of Texas Health San Antonio and the South Texas Veterans Health Care System. He is trained in internal medicine and is a leader in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS).
Dr. Soni proposed the first POCUS workshop at the 2010 SHM annual meeting. The workshop was designed for 24 learners, but sold out with more than 90 learners! This led to establishment of the POCUS pre-course, which has been extremely popular since its inception.
Through his leadership, the POCUS community has expanded greatly in SHM. Now, there is an SHM POCUS Special Interest Group, POCUS Certificate of Completion Program, and several unique educational offerings, including an escape room at Converge 2025.
Dr. Soni has chaired the POCUS Task Force that published several SHM position statements. These statements are highly cited in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. He is the visionary chief editor of the book, Point-of-Care Ultrasound, that was awarded the 2015 British Medical Association’s President’s Choice Award. More than 30,000 copies of the book have been distributed worldwide in eight different languages.
In his day-to-day job, Dr. Soni leads POCUS implementation for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He has directed the VA's POCUS Patient Safety Center and was awarded a VA quality improvement grant to evaluate implementation of POCUS use in the VA health care system.
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