We are a sonographer-owned company dedicated to addressing the concerns related to work-related injury in the ultrasound community. We provide education, products, and services that support proper ergonomics and injury prevention.
Jennifer is trained and credentialed in General and Vascular specialties. She suffered a debilitating shoulder injury and was forced to pursue other work in healthcare for many years. Jennifer has experience in higher education, regulatory compliance, patient safety, healthcare quality, risk management, and executive administration. She has been a national speaker on safety and reliability and has contributed to multiple publications and books. Jennifer has a passion for safety, high reliability, and human factors and it is her mission to ensure that healthcare workers are also protected from preventable harm and injury.
Carolyn Coffin has worked in the field of ultrasound since 1987. She has been the program coordinator for diagnostic medical sonography programs, as well as a clinical sonographer. She has performed exams in and taught several ultrasound specialty areas. Her professional activities include serving on the board of directors for the SDMS and the SDMS Educational Foundation, serving on several committees of the SDMS, the editorial board for the JDMS, and as a site visitor for the JRCDMS.
Carolyn has lectured on occupational injury at local and national professional society meetings and worked with Joan Baker on hands-on tutorials, an educational video for sonographers, and the development of other ergonomic products for allied health.
Joan, original founder of Sound Ergonomics, was born and educated in England. In 1965 she came to the United States of America, at the invitation of Stanford Medical Center, to open the department of ultrasound. Her start in Ultrasound and Nuclear Medicine was at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square London in 1961. She began teaching ultrasound and Nuclear Medicine in 1974. Joan was the co-founder and first president of Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography {SDMS- 1970-1971} and founder and first chair of the American Registry Diagnostic Medical Sonography. (ARDMS) She was chair of the Joint Review Committee Diagnostic Medical Sonography (JRC DMS). Joan was a National Delegate to Nuclear Medicine.
Joan served as the president of SDMS from 1997-1999. She has specialized in ergonomics since 1995 and the impact of WRMSD on sonographers. Joan testified to OSHA on ergonomic standards in the Clinton and Bush administrations and chaired the SDMS International Consensus Conference on Occupational Injury in Sonography May 2003. She was awarded the SDMS educator’s award and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) sonographer of the year award 2003.
Joan has had expert-witness experience in many legal case involving sonographers. She has also testified at the OSHA hearings. and supported the WSHA ergonomic rule resulting in Sonography being considered a caution zone job in Washington State.