Chanel Fischetti, MD

Sponsorship and Grants Committee Chair

Dr. Fischetti is an attending physician in Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Ultrasound Faculty for the Harvard Ultrasound Fellowship and a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is board certified in Emergency Medicine and completed a fellowship and certification in Point-of-Care Ultrasound. She received her undergraduate degrees in Neuroscience and Sociology from the University of Southern California and her medical degree from UC Irvine School of Medicine. She is an avid runner and ran Division 1 track and cross country for USC. She then completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Duke and subsequently her ultrasound fellowship at UC Irvine. During the pandemic, Dr. Fischetti worked in several regions of the country staffing hospitals all around the United States. She was formerly the Chief Medical Officer of artificial intelligence company, Centaur Labs, based in Boston before joining the Brigham.

Her research is focused on ultrasound imaging for low-resource environments, including rural locations and applications for space medicine. She has taught point-of-care ultrasound domestically and internationally, in locations as wide ranging as the Navajo Reservation to Martha’s Vineyard to Saudi Arabia. Dr. Fischetti recently completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Maseru, Lesotho working at Partners in Health Lesotho training up clinicians in remote parts of the country how to perform hands-on ultrasound for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis assessments and obstetric needs.

When she’s not working clinically or researching, you’ll probably find her doing some activity: running, surfing or tennis.