Content Available: Next Monday, May 6

Now is the perfect time to register for ASE’s 25^th Annual ASCeXAM Review Course: Virtual Experience. Starting Monday, May 6, you’ll have online access to more than 40 pre-recorded presentations to help you prepare for the National Board of Echocardiography’s ASCeXAM. Additionally, these varied presentations offer a comprehensive review of cardiovascular ultrasound information.

Topics covered in this virtual course include:

• TTE, TEE, right and left ventricular hemodynamics, endocarditis, chamber quantitation, systolic function, and hand-held echo
• Spectral Doppler, deformation, stress echo, mitral stenosis, mitral valve disease, and mitral regurgitation
• Mitral valve prostheses, aortic stenosis, HCM, systemic disease, and formulas
• Physics, knobology, artifacts, right ventricular function, and tricuspid and pulmonary valve disease
• Aortic regurgitation, aortic prosthesis, cardiac masses, myocardial infarction, and interventional echocardiography
• Contrast, congenital heart disease, diastolic function, pericardial disease, diseases of the aorta, heart failure, and LVADs

Registration also includes a virtual live component on Saturday, June 22. Expert faculty will host two live question and answer sessions online from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET and 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET to answer your specific questions, review course material, and dive deeper into certain subjects. These sessions will be recorded and added to the online content for on-demand viewing through August 12, 2024. Registrants can earn up to 28.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

In April, ASE welcomed 28 distinguished Fellows of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE) recipients! These members exemplify excellence in the field of cardiovascular ultrasound through education, research, leadership, and volunteerism. They are ambassadors for ASE and recognized experts in their field. Join us in congratulating the newest FASE recipients:

• Vinesh Appadurai, MBBS, FRACP, FASE
• Matthew J. Campbell, MD, FASE
• Stephanie R. Catron, ACS, RDCS, RVT, FASE
• Silvia Cortes, RCS, FASE
• Etienne Côté, DVM, FASE
• Shawn Cupp RCS, RCCS, FASE
• Angela Dewar, RDCS, FASE
• Regina Dickey, ACS, RVT, RDCS, FASE
• Marissa Edmiston, MD, FASE
• Lindsay Atherton Edwards, MD, FASE
• Courtney Ryan Ereddia, RDCS, FASE
• Maria Magdalena Hallden, MD, FASE
• Joseph W. Huntsman, RCCS, RCS, RVS, FASE
• Tikeshia Johnson, RDCS, FASE
• Tyler Johnson, RDCS, FASE
• Marius Keller, MD, FASE
• Laura Kuzava, RDCS, RVT, RCCS, ACS, FASE
• Samantha Marinelli, BS, RCS, CTT, FASE
• Ian L. McCullough, MD, FASE
• Purvi Parwani, MD, FASE
• Florian Pracher, MD, FASE
• Donald Shanebrook, RDCS, RCS, FASE
• Ashley M. Warta, RDCS, FASE
• Priscilla Wessly, MD, FASE
• Yaw Amo Wiafe, PhD, FASE
• Naveena V. Yanamala, PhD, FASE
• Nadia Leandra Do Couto Francisco, MSc, ACS, RDCS, RCCS, FASE
• Kerrilynn C. Hennessey, MD, FASE

A complete list of FASE members can be found at SeeMyHeart.org. To apply for FASE, or learn more, visit ASEcho.org/FASE. The next deadline to apply is June 1.

Register by May 8 and save up to $225

ASE’s 35^th Annual Scientific Sessions is the premier cardiovascular ultrasound event of the year for physicians, sonographers, nurses, veterinarians, scientists, and multimodality partners with an interest in echocardiography. Join colleagues and friends June 14-16 in-person in Portland, Oregon—or virtually—for quality education, focused sessions, and networking. Register by May 8 to save up to $225 and attend ASE 2024 for the best price!

Now is also the time to reserve your discounted hotel room at one of the four hotels ASE has secured room blocks in Portland. It is likely that ASE’s block of rooms at discounted rates will sell out before each hotel’s cut-off date in May.

Portland is a great jumping off point for a vacation in the Pacific Northwest! Bring your family and see the Oregon Coast, Mount Hood or the Columbia River gorge—all accessible within easy driving distance from our meeting! Learn more here.

May 2, 8:00 – 9:00 PM ET

The ASE Journal Club on X (formerly known as Twitter Journal Club) offers a unique way for participants to discuss and review cardiology journal articles, case reports, ASE Guidelines, and more! The next Journal Club is Thursday, May 2, from 8:00 – 9:00 PM ET. Join the discussion on a new guideline recently published by ASE, Guidelines for Performing a Comprehensive Pediatric Transthoracic Echocardiogram: Recommendations from ASE.

Earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for your participation by signing up for ASE Journal Club on X: May 2, 2024 in the ASE Learning Hub (ALH). Anyone can participate in the ASE Journal Club on X, but to earn CME/MOC, you must first register in ALH. ASE members can sign up for FREE. Follow @ASE360 and use hashtag #ASEchoJC for all posts!

Content Available: May 6

ASE’s 25^th Annual ASCeXAM Review Course: Virtual Experience offers comprehensive cardiovascular ultrasound information and is specifically designed to help you prepare for the ASCeXAM exam, administered by the National Board of Echocardiography, Inc.

Course Highlights

• Receive online access to all pre-recorded presentations of the entire course beginning Monday, May 6. The earlier you register, the more time you’ll have access to course content!
• Registrants receive all PDF slides, along with the voice recordings, to view on-demand in your home or lab.
• This virtual CME course also includes a live component on Saturday, June 22. Expert faculty, led by Muhamed Saric, MD, PhD, FASE, and Akhil Narang, MD, FASE, will host two live question and answer sessions online from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET and 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET to answer your specific questions, review course material, and dive deeper into certain subjects. These sessions will be recorded and added to the online content for on-demand viewing through August 12, 2024.
• Earn up to 28.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Deadline: July 1

As funding opportunities for early-career scientists in cardiovascular imaging continue to decline, ASE and the ASE Foundation are proud to once again offer Early-Career Development Grants for Echo Scientists (EDGES) in 2024. This program awards three grants worth up to $25,000 USD to fund projects that address a clinical gap in cardiovascular ultrasound imaging through research led by an early-career scientist. The principal investigator must be an active ASE member, and physicians, PhDs, veterinarians, sonographers, and other healthcare professionals who are within seven years from having completed training are eligible to apply now through July 1, 2024.

The latest issue of CASE is now available with intriguing reports, including “Transesophageal Echocardiographic Planning and Neo–Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Assessment for Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation Using Novel Software” by Bartkowiak et. al. Author Joanna Bartkowiak, MD, remarked, “Patients with severe, symptomatic degenerative mitral stenosis who may be candidates for transcatheter mitral valve replacement, require pre-procedural imaging to assess appropriate valve size and risk of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO). A novel postprocessing TEE software facilitates assessment of LVOTO risk, which may be particularly helpful in patients with urgent need for transcatheter MV implantation and contraindication for contrast-enhanced computed tomography.”

In addition to that report on the remarkable advances in TEE guidance of transcatheter mitral valve implantation, this issue presents a second case in the Echo Innovation category, serving up a striking GLS bullseye display in a patient with an apical-variant hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Cases in the Congenital Heart Disease account for the valuable role of echo in a patient with partial Shone complex, as well as the various complications that can arise with a cor triatriatum dexter finding. Rare But Deadly Findings presents a case of ventricular septal rupture in a patient who experienced a motor vehicle accident, while this issue concludes with a report in Veterinary Clinical Cardiovascular Medicine demonstrating a Gerbode defect with echo/Doppler in a dog that suffered thoracic trauma. Read up on Dr. Sorrell’s editorial to review spatial, temporal, and contrast resolution as they relate to multimodality cardiovascular (CV) imaging and reasons to perform one test over another.

Looking for a journal to submit your case report to? We want to hear from you! Email us with questions or submit your report today.

ASE’s mission in advocacy is to represent the interests of our members, while advocating to create an environment for excellence in the quality and practice of cardiovascular ultrasound. ASE’s role as the voice of echocardiography on Capitol Hill, to federal agencies, and among private payers, is unquestionably of great, and ever-increasing, importance.

Your ASE membership allows you access to the following Advocacy tools in your ASE Member Portal:

• Ask a Coding Expert – Get help with common coding and reimbursement issues with an easy online submission form and FAQs.
• Coding and Reimbursement Information – Annual coding and reimbursement newsletter and updates, including webinars to make sure you are up-to-date on billing information. 
• Health Policy Briefing Newsletter – Each Monday, ASE provides the Health Policy Briefing Newsletter with the latest information on new developments in Washington D.C. that includes all recently introduced bills, scheduled hearings, and proposed legislation and regulatory actions.
• Advocacy Alerts and Action Center – ASE members are alerted when legislative or regulatory issues threaten their practices, and they are sent information about how to help protect our profession. 

Learn more by logging in to your Member Portal, and clicking the Advocacy tab.

This time of year, taxes and finances are top of mind for many individuals. As a benefit of membership, ASE members at all stages of their career have access to a financial literacy awareness program through the ASE Learning Hub. Now, or anytime, is a great time to plan for your financial future!

ASE partnered with JFS Wealth Advisors to offer the following:

• Financial information for all stages of your career
• Articles, videos, and blogs on a variety of financial topics
• Access to planning experts, and more!