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EKGs and Fireworks
Why every 12-lead interpretation starts in lead II, taught through a fireworks analogy. Step one of the nine-step process, and the reason learners always know where to begin.
Teaching & Training
Come for the EKGs, stay for the cartoons
A teaching style clinicians remember years later
Visual. Interactive. Genuinely funny. My sessions turn the topics clinicians avoid into the ones they want to talk about at lunch.
The Dr. G method
How it worksDraw it, name it, use it
I don't lecture at people. I draw with them. Every concept gets a picture, a name worth remembering, and a clinical situation where it matters. Learners spend the session interpreting, arguing, and calling rhythms out loud instead of watching slides go by.
Humor does a lot of work here. When a room laughs, it relaxes — and a relaxed clinician will finally admit what they don't understand. That admission is where real learning starts, so I build every session to earn it early.
Signature explanations
The analogies attendees quote back to me
The images that outlive the slide deck — the shortcuts clinicians repeat at the bedside months after the session ends.
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Blinkers & Bundle Branch Blocks
Bundle branch blocks explained through driving a car: blinker up or blinker down depending on which way you're turning. Left versus right stops being a coin flip.
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The Christmas Cookie
A pattern-recognition analogy from my foundational interpretation course — the one attendees quote back to me most often.
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The Aflutter Merry-Go-Round
From the advanced course: atrial flutter as a circuit spinning at a fixed speed, with the AV node deciding who gets off the ride. Sawtooth waves finally have a reason to exist.
See her teach
Teaching clips
Real excerpts from Dr. G's EKG material — cartoons, analogies, and the kind of questions that make a room lean in.
Featured clip
Teaching live at the LANP Conference 2025
Left ventricular hypertrophy from long-standing hypertension — cartoons, analogies, and a room that's laughing while it learns. The best single look at what a session with me feels like from a seat in the audience.
See it in action
Teaching clip
EKGs and Fireworks
An introduction to step one of Dr. G's nine-step EKG interpretation process — why you start a 12-lead in lead II — taught through a Fourth of July fireworks analogy.
Teaching clip
LBBB preview
How to identify a left bundle branch block using the driving-a-car analogy — blinker up or blinker down, depending on which way you're turning.
Teaching clip
Old MI preview
Dr. G walks learners through spotting the signs of an old heart attack on the 12-lead, one question at a time.
Teaching clip
Atrial flutter preview
Identifying atrial flutter with the merry-go-round analogy, plus a graphic of what's happening inside the right atrium.
Who you're booking
A cardiology clinician on your stage
A decade in cardiology — outpatient practice, clinical education, and now a non-clinical cardiovascular science role — with plans to return to direct patient care. I still remember what it feels like to be handed a 12-lead and asked what to do. That's what your audience gets: education grounded in real cardiology practice, not theory.
Simple. Visual. Clinical.
Formats
Built to fit your agenda
Keynote, workshop, in-service, or virtual — the content is rebuilt around your timeframe, your audience, and the rhythms they actually see.
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Delivery formats
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Keynote or plenary
45–60 minutes of high-energy cardiac education designed for a large, mixed clinician audience.
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Half- or full-day workshop
Deep-dive EKG interpretation with progressive practice, case work, and hands-on rhythm calls.
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On-site staff development
In-services and orientation content built for your unit's patient population and protocols.
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Virtual & hybrid sessions
Fully interactive online delivery with polling, live annotation, and Q&A for distributed teams.
Learner outcomes
What attendees walk away able to do
- Read a 12-lead EKG with a repeatable, nine-step method
- Recognize the rhythms that require immediate action — and the ones that don't
- Connect each finding to the intervention, escalation, or conversation it demands
- Teach what they learned to the next clinician on their unit
Recent engagements
Recently invited to teach at
National conferences, state NP associations, universities, and health systems keep bringing these sessions back to their clinicians.
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Invited sessions
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Host organizations
2026
ARNPs United of Washington State Conference
Anatomy of an EKG & From Strip to Strategy
2026
University of Massachusetts
Anatomy of an EKG — Intro to EKG Interpretation
2025
Rush University Medical Center
When the Beat Goes Long… QT, Stimulants, and the Heart of Substance Abuse
2025
Illinois Society of Advanced Practice Nursing Conference
Anatomy of an EKG — Intro to EKG Interpretation Overview
2025
ARNPs United of Washington State Conference
Anatomy of an EKG & Sneaky EKG Findings
2025
Louisiana Nurse Practitioner Association Conference
Anatomy of an EKG & Sneaky EKG Findings
2025
Nice Healthcare
Anatomy of an EKG — Intro to EKG Interpretation Overview
2025
Colorado Society of Advanced Practice Nurses Meeting
Anatomy of an EKG — Intro to EKG Interpretation
Ready to build a session around your clinicians?
Tell me the audience, the format, and the outcomes you need — I'll design the rest.
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