Brian

Bales

MD

Brian Bales, MD, DTMH, is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Assistant Quality Medical Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

He developed a passion for traveling during his undergraduate studies at DePauw University where he was able to assist with service projects in Quito, Ecuador and then later returned to Ecuador to study abroad with an ecology and conservation program. He went on to assist with primary care development with a project in Calnali, Mexico at the Indiana University School of Medicine as well as rotating in Eldoret, Kenya at Moi University in his fourth year of medical school. In residency at the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Bales had the opportunity to serve with Project Medishare at Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti during his third and fourth years of residency. 

He came to Vanderbilt for a global health fellowship during which he completed the Gorgas Course in Tropical Medicine. During his fellowship he worked with the Emergency Medicine Residency in Guyana focusing on resident education, local faculty development and POCUS development. Additionally, he focused his fellowship efforts on sepsis research at University Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia and assisted with trauma education and development in Ukraine. 

Dr. Bales completed an ultrasound fellowship at Vanderbilt and co-founded an ultrasound education and development non-for-profit, Global Sounds Project, with fellow faculty member Dr. Jordan Rupp. His global health research interests are centered around point-of-care ultrasound in resource limited settings.