Gregory Lisciandro DABVP, DACVECC

Dr. Gregory Lisciandro, Dipl. ABVP, Dipl. ACVECC, received his DVM at Cornell, completed an internship at The Animal Medical Center in New York City, and performed his emergency and critical care residency at Emergency Pet Center in San Antonio Texas. He developed and published the clinical utility of AFAST® and its target-organ approach for obvious soft-tissue abnormalities and its fluid scoring system; TFAST® and its use for pleural and pericardial effusion, pneumothorax, its echocardiography views, and its soft tissue assessment of the heart and thorax; and Vet BLUE® and its unique regional, pattern-based approach, its B-line scoring system, and its visual lung language. He advocates their use combined as our 3rd veterinary ultrasound format named Global FAST^® that serves as an extension of the physical exam as everyday ultrasound on nearly every patient. He has authored over 18 peer-reviewed clinical studies that show the clinical utility of the Global FAST^® approach. He has been an ACVECC At-large Regent and member of the Scientific Committee and continues as a member of the ACVECC VetCOT Education Guidelines and Student Certification Committees. He has been practicing for over 28-years with about half in general practice and half in emergency and critical care, most recently as Chief of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, Emergency Pet Center. Currently, he is a consultant for Hill Country Veterinary Specialists, President of the International Veterinary Point-of-care Ultrasound Society (www.IVPOCUS.org); CEO of FASTVet.com, specializing in Global FAST® and point-of-care ultrasound training; editor and chapter author of the textbook Focused Ultrasound Techniques for the Small Animal Practitioner, Wiley ©2014 translated in 6 languages - English, Spanish, Greek, Japanese, Chinese and Polish and its 2nd Edition, Point-of-care Ultrasound Techniques for the Small Animal Practitioner, Wiley ©2020. He has lectured and directed scanning workshops around the world and continues to lead in publishing clinically relevant, point-of-care, and FAST ultrasound research.