Dr Amaali Lokuge

Amaali Lokuge (MBBS, FACEM, DDU) is an emergency physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. 

She studied medicine in Adelaide and moved to Melbourne for her internship at The Alfred. The major traumas and high acuity patients steered her towards emergency medicine. 

She completed an US special skills term in The Alfred Cardiology department during her advanced training. For 6 months, she trained with the echo techs and learnt how to report echo with the cardiologists. She completed CCPU echo and EFAST during this time. 

In 2014, as a specialist emergency physician she took over the emergency ultrasound portfolio at Royal Melbourne Hospital. In 2018, she completed the DDU - emergency training with the sonographers at the Royal Melbourne Hospital radiology department and learning to report ultrasound scans with head of US professor Rob Gibson. 

As clinical lead of EDUS 2014-2023, Amaali trained and supervised the CCPU of several junior doctors who then went on to become part of the EDUS faculty. The EDUS faculty provided POCUS teaching to emergency, surgical and ICU registrars, CCPU-like hospital accreditation in POCUS modules and produced POCUS courses for external doctors. 

During her sabbatical in 2022, she visited emergency departments with prominent POCUS departments such as Cleveland University Hospital (Vicky Noble), Massachusettes General Hospital (Andrew Leiteplo) and Mt Sinai Hospital (Brett Nelson). 

She also created the POCUS website melbourneus.com which is the teaching resource for RMH emergency registrars and several emergency departments in Australia. 

She is now creating POCUS clinical governance role for the RMH, bringing together all units using POCUS at RMH to create uniform guidelines and accreditation and cross pollination in POCUS education.