Board of Directors

July 2024 –  June 2025 Board of Directors

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

President (term expires June 2025)
Theodore Abraham, MD, FASE
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Email: President@ASEcho.org

President-Elect (term expires June 2025)
David Wiener, MD, FASE
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA

Vice President (term expires June 2025)
Cynthia Taub, MD, MBA, FASE
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY

Treasurer (term expires June 2027)
Akhil Narang, MD, FASE
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL

Secretary (term expires June 2026)
Melissa Wasserman RDCS, RCCS, FASE
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

Council Representative (term expires June 2026)
Kelly Thorson, DHSc, MSRS, ACS, RDCS, FASE
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Palo Alto, CA

Immediate Past President (term expires June 2025)
Benjamin Eidem, MD, FASE
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Chief Executive Officer
Robin Wiegerink, MNPL
American Society of Echocardiography
Durham, NC

DIRECTORS

Member at Large (term expires June 2026)
Kristen Billick BS, ACS, RCS, RDCS (AE, PE), FASE
Scripps Clinic and La Jolla Hospital
La Jolla, CA

Cardiovascular Sonography Council Chair (term expires June 2026)
Allyson Boyle MHA, ACS, RDCS, FASE
Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute – Atrium Health
Charlotte, NC

Pediatric & Congenital Heart Disease Council Chair (term expires June 2025)
Craig Fleishman, MD, FASE
Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children
Orlando, FL

International Member Representative (term expires June 2026)
Tony Forshaw M Cardiac Ultrasound, B Ex Sci, AMS (Cardiac), FASE
Queensland University of Technology
Queensland, Australia

Member at Large (term expires June 2025)
Enrique Garcia-Sayan, MD, FASE
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Member at Large (term expires June 2025)
Allison Hays, MD, FASE
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Member at Large (term expires June 2025)
Lanqi Hua, ACS, APCA, RDCS(AE, PE, FE), MS, FASE
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Member at Large (term expires June 2026)
Jennifer Liu, MD, FASE 

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Member at Large (term expires June 2026)
Kameswari Maganti MD, FACC, FASE
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ

Perioperative Echocardiography Council Chair (term expires June 2025)
Sheela Pai Cole, MD, FASE
Stanford University Medical Center
Redwood City, CA

Interventional Echocardiography Council Chair (term expires June 2026)
Nishath Quader MD, FASE
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO

Leadership Academy Representative (term expires June 2025)
Lucy Safi, DO, FASE
Mount Sinai
West New York, NJ

Member at Large (term expires June 2025)
Seda Tierney, MD, FASE

Stanford University Medical Center
Palo Alto, CA

Circulation & Vascular Ultrasound Council Chair (term expires June 2026)
Matthew Vorsanger, MD, FACC, RPVI, FASE
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY

Past President Representative (term expires June 2025)
Susan Wiegers, MD, FASE
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Philadelphia, PA