Dr. Emanuele Pivetta, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D. is assistant professor in Internal Medicine at the Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, and staff physician at the Division of Emergency Medicine and High Dependency Unit, Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino University Hospital, Turin, Italy. After graduating from the University of Turin, he completed his training in the same city in epidemiology, emergency medicine and point-of-care ultrasound. Then, he moved to Boston in 2012 to pursue a research fellowship in emergency ultrasound at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University. His interests include diagnostic accuracy and clinical impact measurements, possible sources of variability and bias in clinical epidemiology, and point-of-care ultrasound in emergency and acute care medicine.