ASE’s 9th Annual Echo Florida course is a comprehensive review of cardiovascular ultrasound in clinical practice offering 24 CME credits and MOC points. The course will take place October 30 – November 1, 2021, at Disney’s Yacht & Beach Club Resorts at Walt Disney World® in Orlando, FL. Course Chair, Linda D. Gillam, MD, FASE, and Co-Chair, Matt Umland, ACS, RDCS, FASE, have assembled an outstanding faculty and created a program with a heavy emphasis on case-based learning that includes fun opportunities for the participants to interact with the faculty.

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The Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE) credential recognizes dedicated ASE members who have extraordinary commitment to the field. The next deadline for submission of FASE applications is August 1.

FASE status is required for an ASE Committee Chair or Board position, and gives you a visible designation to the world that depicts your special competency in echocardiography. Due to the nature of the requirements, sonography students, medical students, fellows, and residents are not eligible to apply for FASE.

Please review the “Way to FASE” document, and the appropriate links provided below in each category for more information.

• Physician
• Sonographer/Allied Health Professional
• Researcher/Scientist

To submit your FASE application, log into your ASE member portal and select “FASE Application” from the menu under the “Membership” tab. Applications are reviewed every other month. The deadlines for submission are February 1, April 1, June 1, August 1, October 1, and December 1.

The latest issue of CASE, ASE’s open access case reports journal, is available and includes, “Fetal Diagnosis in a Unique Case of Vascular and Cardiac Interdependence in Omphaloischiopagus Conjoined Twins,” by Mansi Gaitonde, MD, Joseph Kreeger, ACS, RCCS, RDCS, William Border, MBChB, Jessica Roberts, MD, Summer Elshenawy, MD, Franklyn Geary, MD, and Erik Michelfelder, MD. Mr. Kreeger said, “This was truly one of the most rare, complex, and fascinating fetal cases that have ever been reported, and multimodality imaging was key in making the proper diagnosis. I am so very thankful to have been a part of the imaging team for these twins.”

Additional cases in this issue explore COVID-19, papillary muscle predicaments, thrombus, residual ramifications, and acquired consequences, including “Acquired Stenosis of All Four Heart Valves in a Boxer Mixer Dog,” by Matthew Boothe, DVM, and Steven Rosenthal, DVM, DACVIM (Cardiology).

Visit the CASE homepage to take advantage of the CME activities involving structural heart disease and cardiac masses and view the new What is this Image? quiz created by our esteemed co-Editor-in-Chief Karen G. Zimmerman, BS, ACS, RDCS, RVT, FASE, and her colleagues, Margret Onyeaghor, RCS, Guillermo Uriate, MD, RN, ACS, RDCS, Kartik Gupta, MD, Bobak Rabbani, MD, and James Lee, MD, FASE, from the Henry Ford Echocardiography Lab, Detroit, Michigan.

ASE is seeking session proposals for our 33rd Annual Scientific Sessions to be held June 10-13, 2022, in Seattle, Washington. Help us provide cutting-edge content for our attendees.

Sessions should:

• Focus on innovation in the field of cardiovascular ultrasound and its applications
• Meet perceived learning gaps/needs for the cardiovascular community
• Achieve gender, institutional, ethnic, and international faculty diversity
• Provide a balance of physicians, sonographers, cardiac care team members, and emerging/early-career faculty (as applicable)
• Promote educational engagement by including a variety of presentation and learning formats

Deadline for all submissions: June 30, 2021

Notification of selected sessions: September 30, 2021

The ASE Echo Image Calendar has become a very popular member renewal gift over the past seven years. Members are encouraged to upload cardiovascular images for the 2022 Image Calendar Contest by Monday, August 9. Please include a brief description of your image. Voting for the favorite images to be included in the colorful, 12-month calendar will close on Tuesday, September 7. All members who renew by December 31, 2021 will receive the 2022 calendar in the mail*.

To upload your images, head to the ASE 2021 Calendar Contest Library on Connect@ASE:

1. Log in to Connect@ASEusing your ASE username (email address) and password.
2. Using the left navigation, scroll to Libraries.
3. Click on Image Library.
4. Click on the folder called ASE 2022 Calendar Contest.
5. Click “Upload Resource” under Folder Contents and upload your image. Image files need to be no larger than 30 MB.
6. Upload as many images as you would like.
7. Please include a title and brief description of your image.

Please note that this competition is open to members only. If you have any questions, please contact Arissa Cooper at ACooper@ASEcho.org.

*Not including members who live in locations that are not served by the USPS.

Three research studies being presented at the ASE 2021 Scientific Sessions Virtual Experience, June 18-21, 2021, highlight the key role of echocardiography, which is ultrasound of the heart, in the diverse field of women’s health. One study used echocardiography to demonstrate a link between high blood pressure in pregnancy and future microvascular disease, or damage to the heart’s smallest blood vessels. Another investigation evaluates the function of the left atrium in women who take trastuzumab, an antibody used in the treatment of breast cancer. A third research study highlights a heart abnormality seen on routine obstetric ultrasounds that is associated with significant heart defects, and the value of referring these expectant moms to a center with specialized expertise in fetal cardiovascular conditions. Read more here.

COVID-19 changed everything in healthcare, and a benefit from this pandemic was a surge in innovations in the medical field. One of these is the growth in Artificial intelligence (AI) guided medical care. Research is now showing that AI provides the opportunity for frontline providers who do not have specialized training in cardiac ultrasound (novice users) to obtain diagnostic quality point of care cardiac ultrasound (POCUS) images. This facilitates real-time, bedside assessment and diagnosis of structural cardiac disease and expands its use on a larger scale than possible in the past. Two research studies being presented at the ASE 2021 Scientific Sessions Virtual Experience, June 18-21, 2021, highlight the use of AI by novice users including nurses and frontline practitioners. Read more here.

A new original science category being featured at the ASE 2021 Scientific Sessions Virtual Experience, June 18-21, 2021, focuses on the utilization of echocardiography (cardiac ultrasound) and the indication for echocardiography in COVID-19. Three research studies being presented show the broad scope echocardiography plays in diagnosis and ongoing evaluation and treatment of this novel virus. Read more here.

Echocardiography (heart ultrasound) with ultrasound enhancing agents (UEAs) has proven to be a valuable imaging procedure after surgery for children born with single ventricle congenital heart disease (CHD). This heart defect occurs when one of the two pumping chambers in the heart, called ventricles, is not large enough or strong enough to work correctly. Research being presented at the ASE 2021 Scientific Sessions Virtual Experience, June 18-21, 2021, highlights how echocardiography with UEAs (agents that do not involve radiation) in CHD patients postoperatively can improve diagnostic capabilities and decrease the need for additional testing. Read more here.

The virtual exhibit hall at ASE 2021 Scientific Sessions Virtual Experience will feature over 30 companies and organizations highlighting the latest vendor technology and other services. Demonstrations of artificial intelligence software and intracardiac echocardiography technologies, how to incorporate strain and ultrasound enhancing agents (UEAs) into lab procedures, and more will all be available to explore, June 18-21, 2021, during the world’s premier meeting for cardiovascular ultrasound practitioners. Read highlights from the virtual exhibit hall here.