These award recipients will be honored at the ASE Foundation’s 10th Annual Research Awards Gala, Sunday, June 23, 2019, at the Hilton Downtown Portland Hotel, during this year’s Scientific Sessions. Want to show your support for these worthy individuals? Purchase a Gala ticket or buy a table to honor them! Don’t delay, get your Gala tickets online today. Tickets will not be for sale on-site and have sold out every year. Questions about the Gala? Please email Gala@ASEcho.org.

Physician Lifetime Achievement Award
Jae K. Oh, MD, FASE, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Sonographer Lifetime Achievement Award
Jane E. Marshall, RDCS, FASE, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Richard Popp Excellence in Teaching Award
Steven J. Lester, MD, FASE, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ

Council on Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Founders Award
Lindsey D. Allan, MD, FRCP, Kings College Hospital, London, UK

Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Echocardiography Award
Solomon Aronson, MD, MBA, FASE,  Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

Meritorious Service Award
Mary Alice Dilday, American Society of Echocardiography, Durham, NC

NOW AVAILABLE! The Echocardiography Formula Review Guide: Native Valves and Intracardiac Pressures pocket guide is now for sale!

What is it?
This unique, spiral-bound, 6″ x 8″ formula pocket guide is a must-have reference for every practicing echocardiographer, imaging trainee, and sonographer. The illustrative cards detail the echocardiographic quantitative evaluation of native valve regurgitation and stenosis, as well as how to determine intracardiac pressures. If you are looking to become more quantitative in your reports, need a refresher on quantifying native valve disease, or studying for boards, this formula handbook will be useful on a daily basis.

What is the price?
Only $20 for members!

Where can you find it?

• See it on the ASEMarketPlace Store Front under New 2019 Products Now Available.
• Find it under the Pocket Guidelines in ASEMarketPlace.
• In the Member Portal, you can find it under 2019 New Products, Exam Prep, and Pocket Guides.

Many other new educational resources have been developed to help you enhance your practice. These low-cost primers are developed with the help of our volunteer content advisors such as the expert clinician Roberto Lang, MD, FASE, from the University of Chicago. There is something for every level of training. Make sure you log into your member portal to receive your discount.

Mark your calendar! Interact with your colleagues in our next Twitter Journal Club on Tuesday, April 16, from 8:00 – 9:00 PM US EST as we review Does Presence of Discrete Subaortic Stenosis Alter Diagnosis and Management of Concomitant Valvular Aortic Stenosis?, from ASE’s case reports journal, CASE.

Follow @ASE360, and please plan to join ASE’s journal club. Be sure to use the hashtag, #ASEchoJC, for all tweets. Click here to find out when the Twitter Journal Club is taking place in your timezone. If you have any questions on this event, please contact Arissa Cooper at acooper@ASEcho.org.

All members are invited to vote for the 2019 Slate of Officers and Directors using this ballot. You may only vote for one person for each position. If you prefer to vote for someone other than the person nominated, you may write in additional nominees in the blank spaces provided. All write-in nominees must be active ASE members. The new officers and directors will be inducted at the ASE 2019 Annual Awards Presentation and Edler Lecture session in Portland, OR, on Saturday morning, June 22, 2019. This session is open to all Scientific Sessions registrants. Your ballot must be received by May 17, 2019. Learn more about each nominee here, and vote today.

Are you planning on sitting for the NBE exam this year, recertifying, or just want to learn more about advanced echocardiography? Please plan to join ASE and the expert faculty for ASE’s Review Course scheduled for May 4-7, 2019, at the Marriott Copley Place, in Boston. The online library of talks is included in the registration fee, so your continued learning is limitless.

This course has been specifically designed as a preparatory course for the NBE ASCeXAM® and ReASCE® examinations. But, even if you aren’t taking the exam this year, you will not want to miss this comprehensive advanced echocardiography training that covers clinical topics like physics, strain, 3D, contrast, ischemic and valvular heart disease, CHD, and more. The Advance Program has all the details. Register before April 5th to save $100. On-site registration is available, however beginning May 4, 2019, all fees will increase an additional $100.

Now available on DVD or as an online course, Assessing Left Ventricular Diastolic Function is the latest product developed by ASE experts. It is comprised of case-based lectures followed by case studies. The dedicated lectures include questions on the echo parameters used to asses diastolic function and the physiology of diastology. This educational tool also describes how to best utilize the ASE and EACVI 2016 guideline on diastology. This course offers 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Learn more at ASEMarketPlace.com.

Many new educational resources are being developed by ASE experts to help you enhance your practice. There is something for every level of training. Make sure you log into your member portal to receive your discount.

All members are invited to vote for the 2019 Slate of Officers and Directors using this ballot. You may only vote for one person for each position. If you prefer to vote for someone other than the person nominated, you may write in additional nominees in the blank spaces provided. All write-in nominees must be active ASE members. The new officers and directors will be inducted at the ASE 2019 Annual Awards Presentation and Edler Lecture session in Portland, OR, on Saturday morning, June 22, 2019. This session is open to all Scientific Sessions registrants. Your ballot must be received by May 17, 2019. Learn more about each nominee here, and vote today.