Dr. Nilam J. Soni is a Professor of Medicine and an Academic Hospitalist at the University of Texas School of Medicine in San Antonio and the South Texas Veterans Health Care System. He is trained in internal medicine and is an international expert in point-of-care ultrasound. Dr. Soni has collaborated with a broad range of healthcare professionals to advance point-of-care ultrasound implementation in multiple specialties, and he is an accomplished educator of point-of-care ultrasound nationally and internationally. He currently leads development of a national point-of-care ultrasound program for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and serves as the Director of the VA Point-of-Care Ultrasound Patient Safety Center. His current scholarly work includes evaluating the impact of incorporating point-of-care ultrasound use into clinical care, and in 2016, he was awarded a VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) grant to evaluate the implementation of point-of-care ultrasound training in the VA healthcare system. He is the visionary and chief editor of the book, Point-of-Care Ultrasound, which was awarded the 2015 British Medical Association’s President’s Choice Award and has been translated into seven different languages. He has led the establishment of a point-of-care ultrasound certificate training program offered by the Society of Hospital Medicine and Chest, and he continues to be actively involved in point-of-care ultrasound through national medical societies.