Who we are

Joshua Guttman MD is founder of Peachtree POCUS.  Dr. Guttman is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine.  Dr. Guttman completed medical school and residency at McGill University and an emergency medicine ultrasound fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He recently completed a 5-year tenure as the advanced emergency medicine ultrasound fellowship director. Under his leadership, the Emory University program was among the first programs to receive formal accreditation.  

Dr. Guttman is a nationally recognized expert in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) education. He has given over 85 lectures and workshops on the national and international stage, both at CME courses and national conferences. These include the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), Coastal Emergency Medicine Conference, and the Rocky Mountain Winter Conference, among others. During the COVID pandemic, he founded the ongoing "Unmute Your Probe" virtual ultrasound course series, a highly popular monthly series of lectures on POCUS, hosted by AAEM.  Dr. Guttman serves as a council member for the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Accreditation Council (EUFAC) and as chair of the AAEM emergency ultrasound section. Dr. Guttman has run CME POCUS courses for a variety of specialties, including emergency medicine, hospital medicine, general and trauma surgery, anesthesia, family medicine, pathology and neurology. 

Dr. Guttman is a nationally recognized expert in POCUS reimbursement. He is the chair of American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Emergency Ultrasound Section coding and reimbursement committee. Through his committee work, he responds reimbursement-related questions from POCUS directors from around the country. In addition, he publishes an annual reimbursement update on the ACEP website and has hosted a webinar on the 2023 updated AMA reimbursement policies. His insights on POCUS operations have been featured in numerous publications, including MedPage Today, Emergency Medicine News, Emergency Physicians Monthly, and AAEM's Common Sense.