Dr. Soren Boysen

“POCUS to LIVE; LIVE to POCUS!” sums up Dr.  Søren Boysen’s passion for point-of-care ultrasound. Winner of the 2023 Jack Mara Scientific Achievement Award “Advances in Point of Care Ultrasound” (POCUS), co-founder of the veterinary emergency and critical ultrasound (VECCUS) working group, co-lead on the veterinary POCUS consensus statement documents, editor of 2 POCUS textbooks and author of more than 30 POCUS research articles, Søren is considered a leading expert in all things veterinary POCUS. After graduating from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Canada, Søren completed an internship at the Atlantic Veterinary College, and a Residency in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care at Tufts University, becoming an ACVECC diplomate in 2003. Former chief of veterinary emergency and critical care at the University of Montreal he is currently employed as a Full Professor at the University of Calgary. Extensively published and a recipient of numerous teaching and research excellence awards, he has become an internationally recognized speaker, having lectured in > 30 countries. With the help of many like-minded individuals around the globe he continues to actively research and develop ultrasound training techniques, education programs, and workshops for non-specialist practitioners. Along with POCUS, his research interests include all thing emergency and critical care, with a focus on resuscitation, hemorrhage, coagulation, and perfusion.