About Me.

Jailyn Avila is a board-certified emergency medicine physician, a transgender woman, a wife and mother of three. She spent the first 18 years of her life in California, Virginia and Italy, then subsequently completed medical school in Loma Linda, California, residency in Chattanooga, Tennessee and an ultrasound fellowship in Lexington, Kentucky.  She has been heavily involved in medical education with an emphasis on bedside ultrasound and runs an organization along with Ben Smith called Core Ultrasound, delivering online educational content.  In 2021, Jailyn began her gender transition and “completed” said transition in 2023. Jailyn is currently Core Faculty for the UHS SoCal MEC Emergency Medicine Residency in Temecula, California where she also functions as the Associate Ultrasound Director and the Director of Faculty Development.