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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Support our Society: Support the Foundation! James D. Thomas, MD, FASE, FACC, FAHA, FESC Did you attend the gala in Montreal? No, not the Formula One Ball, which I hear was a real snooze. I’m talking about the 2nd Annual ASE Foundation Awards Gala at our Annual Scientific Sessions, where attendees learned many things, including the following: the ASE needs a budget for singing lessons, and I can’t dance. But we were really there to celebrate the lives and achievements of our awardees: Feigenbaum Lecturer, Judy Hung; Pediatric Founder’s Award, James Huhta; Meritorious Service Award to our dedicated attorney, Diane Millman; Sonographer Lifetime Achievement Award, David Adams; and the Popp Excellence in Teaching Award, Jonathan Lindner who then proceeded to run up the score by mentoring the winner of the young investigator competition, Scott Chadderdon, whose fascinating basic research showed that being a couch potato is as bad for monkeys as it is for people. A surprise award went to Mary Alice Dilday, ASE’s Vice President of Internal Relations, for 25 years of her tireless service to our society. Finally it was time for the main event: the presentation of the Physician Lifetime Achievement Award to Pravin Shah, our venerable ‘‘Sultan of SAM’’, who led us through a memorable tour of the early days of echo. It was a great evening of fun and celebration for the 270 of us who gathered in the historical ballrooms of Le Windsor, but the best part was the fact that we raised over $30,000 for the ASE Foundation! This is even more than was raised last year, from which ASE was able to fund an additional Career Development Grant, supporting Ben A. Lin, MD, PhD of Yale University for his project, "Analysis of Regional Myocardial Strain and Vortical Flow Dynamics as Predictors of Left Ventricular Remodeling after Infarction." Through last year’s funding, Dr. Lin has already completed research resulting in a featured oral abstract presentation at this year’s meeting describing techniques for extracting regional strain from radio frequency ultrasound signals. Pretty impressive return on investment from a night of celebration! The funding from this year’s gala is especially important now as we are in the midst of a historic annual appeal for the Foundation,
with an ambitious goal to raise $500,000 before the end of 2011. That’s a lot of money and we all will need to contribute to make this possible. I suspect many of you have questions as to just what the Foundation is and what it does beyond the Society, which you support with your member dues. The Foundation was established some years ago to support and augment ASE’s educational, training, and outreach missions. As a charitable organization (all contributions are tax-deductible), the Foundation cannot conduct lobbying or other advocacy work, but just about everything else is fair game. We have targeted three broad areas as top priorities for the current annual appeal: career development and scholarship grants, collaborative forums, and development and dissemination of our guidelines and standards. Career development support would include research grants such as Dr. Lin’s and also the sonographer student scholarships, those fresh, eager students you saw on-stage at the business meeting in Montreal. Giving these students the chance to come to the ASE meeting is the surest way to set them on a long path of career growth and service to the field. In the realm of collaborative forums, a key example is the research and technology retreat held last November, which brought clinical and basic researchers together with scientists from ultrasound and contrast companies to plot a path for the next decade. This forum resulted in the publication of a research roadmap in JASE this April.1 ASE is already involved with another collaborative forum with the European Association of Echocardiography and many companies to improve standardization and interoperability in strain measurements (more on this in next month’s column). Your contributions to the Foundation help assure that this important work will continue. Finally, I’m sure you are all aware of the important guidelines that the Society issues, but did you know that some are now available as iPhone and iPad apps? We’ve also begun translating them into Spanish and Chinese, so we can achieve world-wide standardization in echocardiography. It’s all part of Foundation strategy to make our guidelines available wherever and however people may need them.
President James Thomas, MD, FASE and Immediate Past President Sanjiv Kaul, MD, FASE congratulate winners of the Alan D. Waggoner Sonographer Student Scholarship. From left to right, they are: Jennifer Durst, Tania Robb, Stacey Smith, and Stephanie Kolstad.
Dr. Thomas congratulates Nicole Chaney, Kalyn Yeager and Jeanne Juneau on receiving 2011 Alan D. Waggoner, MHS, RDCS Sonographer Student Scholarships.
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So, please, please consider the ASE Foundation annual appeal, which is being spearheaded by Past-president Tom Ryan. You can learn more about this by clicking the Foundation link on asecho. org. While we need leadership level grants (and you will find most of our past-presidents and board members giving generously), the most important need is broad participation from our membership. As we look to even more ambitious goals to support the Foundation’s mission, we know that corporate and foundation granting agencies look to the degree of member participation in making their funding decisions. Please give generously: you’ll feel better for it, knowing there will be more of those smiling student faces at next year’s meeting. As for next year’s gala, it promises to be bigger and better than ever as we gather to celebrate the past, present, and future. I hope even more of you will be able to join us there. And if you’re wondering what the singing was all about, it was an ASE gala song, sung to Pomp and Circumstance (the standard graduation tune). The final verse is at the end of this column. My wife Yngvil and I wrote the words, with the assistance of others, based on a Norwegian tradition of ending gala dinners with a celebratory song (hence, the skol at the end). Will we do it again next year? Not sure; you’ll just have to come to find out!
ASE 2011 SUNG TO THE TUNE OF POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE BY EDWARD ELGAR Friends, let’s look to the future: Good things surely will come. We all will strain to do torsion; 3D for sure will help some. Echo has long been our passion Bringing joy and friendship for all. Together we will secure our future Lift your glass and be tall Stand straight and smile at the future, And then we will say, ’’SKOLLLLL.’’ REFERENCE 1. Kaul S, Miller, JA, cochairs, et al. A Suggested Roadmap for Cardiovascular Ultrasound Research for the Future. J Am Soc Echocardiograph 2011;24: 455-64.
Continuing Education and Meeting Calendar The American Society of Echocardiography is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. ASE recognizes courses as supplements to formal training in an established echocardiographic laboratory. For more information about a course, please call the number listed. To list a course in the Continuing Education and Meeting Calendar, send the date(s), title, location, sponsor, course director(s), and contact information to ASE, Attn: Cheryl Williams, 2100 Gateway Centre Boulevard, Suite 310, Morrisville, NC 27560; Tel: 919-861-5574 x7160; E-mail: [email protected]. Ongoing courses, preceptorships, accredited programs and schools will be listed only once a year. Please refer to the ASE Web site, www.asecho.org, for a complete listing of course offerings. August 19–21, 2011. Echo Nagpur 2011. Nagpur, India. Organized by Nagpur Echo Summit and Cardilogical Society of India Vidharbha Chapter. Endorsed by ASE. Course Director: Shantanu Sengupta, MD, FASE. Contact: Echo Nagpur. Tel: +91-9823570925; Web site: http://www.echonagpur.com. August 27–28, 2011. Sonographer Registry Review. Hilton Portland and Executive Towers, Portland, OR. Sponsored by ASE. Course Chair: Michelle Bierig, MPH, RDCS, FASE. Contact: Deidre Lewis. Tel: 919-297-7171; Fax: 919-882-9900; E-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.asecho.org/education. September 11, 2011. Multi-Modality Imaging Symposium. Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO. Co-sponsored by ASE, SCMR, ASNC, and SCCT. Course Chairs: Roberto Lang, MD, FASE; Stephan Achenbach, MD; James Arrighi; and Victor Ferrari, MD, FASE. Contact: Kaitlin Prosser; E-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.asnc.org. September 17, 2011. ASE 2011 Vascular Imaging Symposium. The Hub Cira Centre, Philadelphia, PA. Sponsored by ASE through an educational partnership with the Society for Vascular Medicine. Course Chairs: Emile R. Mohler, III, MD, FASE and Jeffrey Olin, DO. Contact: Lindsay Mooring. Tel: 919-297-7158; Fax: 919-882-9900; E-mail: lmooring@asecho. org; Web site: www.asecho.org/education.
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September 22-25, 2011. 6th Annual The Beat Goes On. JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes, Orlando, FL. Co-sponsored by ASE and Wake Forest School of Medicine in collaboration with Aurora Health Care. Course Directors: Pamela R. Burgess, RDCS, RDMS, RVT, FASE; Bijoy K. Khandheria, MD, FASE; Frederick W. Kremkau, PhD, FAIUM; Timothy E. Paterick, MD; and Vinay Thohan, MD, FASE. Contact: Program for Medical Ultrasound. Tel: 336-716-4505; Fax: 336-716-2447; E-mail: cmu@ wakehealth.edu; Web site: www.wakehealth.edu/ultrasound. September 30–October 2, 2011. Cardiology Update 2011: A Weekend Review at Lake Geneva. Grand Geneva, Lake Geneva, WI. Co-sponsored by Aurora Health Care and ASE. Course Directors: A Jamil Tajik, MD; Bijoy Khandheria, MD, FASE; Tanvir Bajwa, MD; and Masood Akhtar, MD. Contact: Aurora Health Care. Tel: 414-448-1109; Web site: www.aurora.org/cmeactivities. October 13–15, 2011. Heart Valve Summit 2011: Medical, Surgical and Interventional Decision Making. JW Marriott, Chicago, IL. Co-sponsored by AATS, ACCF and ASE. Course Directors: David Adams, MD; Steven Bolling, MD; Robert Bonow, MD; and Howard Herrmann, MD. Contact: Amy Doucette, CMP. Tel: 978-927-8330; E-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.aats.org/ valve. October 22–23, 2011. Echo Milwaukee: Pyramid of Success – From M-Mode to Myocardial Mechanics. Radisson Hotel Milwaukee West, Milwaukee, WI. Co-sponsored by Aurora Health Care and ASE. Course Directors: Timothy E. Paterick, MD; Bijoy K. Khandheria, MD, FASE; Roberto Lang, MD, FASE; James Seward, MD, FASE; and A. Jamil Tajik, MD. Contact: Laurel Landis. Tel: 414-219-7684; E-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.Aurora.org/echomilwaukee. October 22–24, 2011. Echo Northwestern 2011: Innovations & Applications of Echocardiographic Techniques in Clinical Practice. Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL. Cosponsored by Northwestern University and ASE. Course Directors: Kameswari Maganti, MD, FASE; Issam Mikati, MD, FASE; David Mehlman, MD, FASE; and Vera Rigolin, MD, FASE. Contact:
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with an ambitious goal to raise $500,000 before the end of 2011. That’s a lot of money and we all will need to contribute to make this possible. I suspect many of you have questions as to just what the Foundation is and what it does beyond the Society, which you support with your member dues. The Foundation was established some years ago to support and augment ASE’s educational, training, and outreach missions. As a charitable organization (all contributions are tax-deductible), the Foundation cannot conduct lobbying or other advocacy work, but just about everything else is fair game. We have targeted three broad areas as top priorities for the current annual appeal: career development and scholarship grants, collaborative forums, and development and dissemination of our guidelines and standards. Career development support would include research grants such as Dr. Lin’s and also the sonographer student scholarships, those fresh, eager students you saw on-stage at the business meeting in Montreal. Giving these students the chance to come to the ASE meeting is the surest way to set them on a long path of career growth and service to the field. In the realm of collaborative forums, a key example is the research and technology retreat held last November, which brought clinical and basic researchers together with scientists from ultrasound and contrast companies to plot a path for the next decade. This forum resulted in the publication of a research roadmap in JASE this April.1 ASE is already involved with another collaborative forum with the European Association of Echocardiography and many companies to improve standardization and interoperability in strain measurements (more on this in next month’s column). Your contributions to the Foundation help assure that this important work will continue. Finally, I’m sure you are all aware of the important guidelines that the Society issues, but did you know that some are now available as iPhone and iPad apps? We’ve also begun translating them into Spanish and Chinese, so we can achieve world-wide standardization in echocardiography. It’s all part of Foundation strategy to make our guidelines available wherever and however people may need them.
President James Thomas, MD, FASE and Immediate Past President Sanjiv Kaul, MD, FASE congratulate winners of the Alan D. Waggoner Sonographer Student Scholarship. From left to right, they are: Jennifer Durst, Tania Robb, Stacey Smith, and Stephanie Kolstad.
Dr. Thomas congratulates Nicole Chaney, Kalyn Yeager and Jeanne Juneau on receiving 2011 Alan D. Waggoner, MHS, RDCS Sonographer Student Scholarships.
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So, please, please consider the ASE Foundation annual appeal, which is being spearheaded by Past-president Tom Ryan. You can learn more about this by clicking the Foundation link on asecho. org. While we need leadership level grants (and you will find most of our past-presidents and board members giving generously), the most important need is broad participation from our membership. As we look to even more ambitious goals to support the Foundation’s mission, we know that corporate and foundation granting agencies look to the degree of member participation in making their funding decisions. Please give generously: you’ll feel better for it, knowing there will be more of those smiling student faces at next year’s meeting. As for next year’s gala, it promises to be bigger and better than ever as we gather to celebrate the past, present, and future. I hope even more of you will be able to join us there. And if you’re wondering what the singing was all about, it was an ASE gala song, sung to Pomp and Circumstance (the standard graduation tune). The final verse is at the end of this column. My wife Yngvil and I wrote the words, with the assistance of others, based on a Norwegian tradition of ending gala dinners with a celebratory song (hence, the skol at the end). Will we do it again next year? Not sure; you’ll just have to come to find out!
ASE 2011 SUNG TO THE TUNE OF POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE BY EDWARD ELGAR Friends, let’s look to the future: Good things surely will come. We all will strain to do torsion; 3D for sure will help some. Echo has long been our passion Bringing joy and friendship for all. Together we will secure our future Lift your glass and be tall Stand straight and smile at the future, And then we will say, ’’SKOLLLLL.’’ REFERENCE 1. Kaul S, Miller, JA, cochairs, et al. A Suggested Roadmap for Cardiovascular Ultrasound Research for the Future. J Am Soc Echocardiograph 2011;24: 455-64.
Continuing Education and Meeting Calendar The American Society of Echocardiography is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. ASE recognizes courses as supplements to formal training in an established echocardiographic laboratory. For more information about a course, please call the number listed. To list a course in the Continuing Education and Meeting Calendar, send the date(s), title, location, sponsor, course director(s), and contact information to ASE, Attn: Cheryl Williams, 2100 Gateway Centre Boulevard, Suite 310, Morrisville, NC 27560; Tel: 919-861-5574 x7160; E-mail: [email protected]. Ongoing courses, preceptorships, accredited programs and schools will be listed only once a year. Please refer to the ASE Web site, www.asecho.org, for a complete listing of course offerings. August 19–21, 2011. Echo Nagpur 2011. Nagpur, India. Organized by Nagpur Echo Summit and Cardilogical Society of India Vidharbha Chapter. Endorsed by ASE. Course Director: Shantanu Sengupta, MD, FASE. Contact: Echo Nagpur. Tel: +91-9823570925; Web site: http://www.echonagpur.com. August 27–28, 2011. Sonographer Registry Review. Hilton Portland and Executive Towers, Portland, OR. Sponsored by ASE. Course Chair: Michelle Bierig, MPH, RDCS, FASE. Contact: Deidre Lewis. Tel: 919-297-7171; Fax: 919-882-9900; E-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.asecho.org/education. September 11, 2011. Multi-Modality Imaging Symposium. Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO. Co-sponsored by ASE, SCMR, ASNC, and SCCT. Course Chairs: Roberto Lang, MD, FASE; Stephan Achenbach, MD; James Arrighi; and Victor Ferrari, MD, FASE. Contact: Kaitlin Prosser; E-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.asnc.org. September 17, 2011. ASE 2011 Vascular Imaging Symposium. The Hub Cira Centre, Philadelphia, PA. Sponsored by ASE through an educational partnership with the Society for Vascular Medicine. Course Chairs: Emile R. Mohler, III, MD, FASE and Jeffrey Olin, DO. Contact: Lindsay Mooring. Tel: 919-297-7158; Fax: 919-882-9900; E-mail: lmooring@asecho. org; Web site: www.asecho.org/education.
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September 22-25, 2011. 6th Annual The Beat Goes On. JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes, Orlando, FL. Co-sponsored by ASE and Wake Forest School of Medicine in collaboration with Aurora Health Care. Course Directors: Pamela R. Burgess, RDCS, RDMS, RVT, FASE; Bijoy K. Khandheria, MD, FASE; Frederick W. Kremkau, PhD, FAIUM; Timothy E. Paterick, MD; and Vinay Thohan, MD, FASE. Contact: Program for Medical Ultrasound. Tel: 336-716-4505; Fax: 336-716-2447; E-mail: cmu@ wakehealth.edu; Web site: www.wakehealth.edu/ultrasound. September 30–October 2, 2011. Cardiology Update 2011: A Weekend Review at Lake Geneva. Grand Geneva, Lake Geneva, WI. Co-sponsored by Aurora Health Care and ASE. Course Directors: A Jamil Tajik, MD; Bijoy Khandheria, MD, FASE; Tanvir Bajwa, MD; and Masood Akhtar, MD. Contact: Aurora Health Care. Tel: 414-448-1109; Web site: www.aurora.org/cmeactivities. October 13–15, 2011. Heart Valve Summit 2011: Medical, Surgical and Interventional Decision Making. JW Marriott, Chicago, IL. Co-sponsored by AATS, ACCF and ASE. Course Directors: David Adams, MD; Steven Bolling, MD; Robert Bonow, MD; and Howard Herrmann, MD. Contact: Amy Doucette, CMP. Tel: 978-927-8330; E-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.aats.org/ valve. October 22–23, 2011. Echo Milwaukee: Pyramid of Success – From M-Mode to Myocardial Mechanics. Radisson Hotel Milwaukee West, Milwaukee, WI. Co-sponsored by Aurora Health Care and ASE. Course Directors: Timothy E. Paterick, MD; Bijoy K. Khandheria, MD, FASE; Roberto Lang, MD, FASE; James Seward, MD, FASE; and A. Jamil Tajik, MD. Contact: Laurel Landis. Tel: 414-219-7684; E-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.Aurora.org/echomilwaukee. October 22–24, 2011. Echo Northwestern 2011: Innovations & Applications of Echocardiographic Techniques in Clinical Practice. Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL. Cosponsored by Northwestern University and ASE. Course Directors: Kameswari Maganti, MD, FASE; Issam Mikati, MD, FASE; David Mehlman, MD, FASE; and Vera Rigolin, MD, FASE. Contact:
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