NYAGI PROJECT

NYAGI (acronym for: Now You Are the Group’s Interest) supports pregnant woman living in remote areas without access to prenatal ultrasound services. Every 2 minutes, a mother somewhere dies of pregnancy complications, the daily equivalent of 2 fully occupied 747 jumbo jets crashing with no survivors. Most of these deaths are avoidable and occur in isolated communities.

To help prevent these unnecessary deaths, in 2013, NYAGI Project was established as a non-profit 501(c)(3) public charitable organization focused on ultrasound education. Its founder, award-winning educator and physician Cliff Gronseth, M.D., recognized that the emerging medical technology portable ultrasound could have a profound global impact. He saw a need to create an efficient, scalable, empowering teaching system for basic ultrasound skills. Harnassing the power of technology has unprecedented potential for improving healthcare and saving lives in underserved areas of the world. 

Dr. Gronseth developed NAV™ educational software to support an innovative teaching model based on two fundamental tenets: Collaboration and Empowerment. 

We use an accelerated 3-step Train-The-Trainer program:

1. Remote ultrasound skills training via Zoom taught by ultrasound experts flexible to the unique needs of medical

providers selected by our partner organizations.

2. Supplement education with 7D Imaging, Inc. NAVTM software, online videos and webinars. Modules include:

obstetrics, emergency medicine, orthopedic trauma, lung (COVID), cardiac and breast ultrasound. Mobile phones and/or portable tablet computers combined with the NAVTM software, serve as ‘teachers in a box’ for continued provider and patient education.

3. Follow-up skills assessments via image quality reviews and proficiency examinations.

NYAGI trains participant trainers who, in a similar process, train others, thereby ‘passing the knowledge forward’ and empowering their region to help triage patients for higher level care as needed.