The ASE Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2024 Alan D. Waggoner Sonographer Student Scholarship Awards and the Feigenbaum Cardiovascular Sonographer Student Travel Grant.

The Alan D. Waggoner, MHS, RDCS, FASE Sonographer Student Scholarship program was established in 2001 in recognition of Mr. Waggoner’s professional achievements and service to ASE. The award includes a scholarship of $1,000 USD, complimentary registration for ASE’s Annual Scientific Sessions, and a $1,000 USD travel grant to attend the annual meeting. The Katanick Student Scholarship Award, established in honor of Sandy Katanick, RN, RVT, CAE, for her over 25 years of service as CEO of the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission, will recognize the highest-ranking Waggoner scholarship applicant. Full nomination criteria and the application deadline can be found here.

Supported by a grant from Elsevier, Inc. to honor Dr. Harvey Feigenbaum’s commitment and tenure as the former JASE Executive Editor, the Feigenbaum Cardiovascular Student Travel Grant provides a $1,000 USD travel grant to assist a student enrolled in an accredited CAAHEP cardiovascular ultrasound program to attend ASE’s Annual Scientific Sessions or another ASE-sponsored 2024 educational program. Full nomination criteria and the application deadline can be found here.

The latest issue of CASE is now available with fascinating reports, including “Left Atrial Appendage Tilt-Up-and-Turn-Left Maneuver: A Novel Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography Imaging Maneuver to Characterize the Left Atrial Appendage and to Improve Transcatheter Closure Guidance” by Hayes et al. Author Dena E. Hayes, MD, remarked, “We’re excited to share this report in which we utilize a case to outline our Tilt-Up-and-Turn-Left (TUPLE) Maneuver for imaging the left atrial appendage (LAA). This maneuver leverages newer transesophageal echocardiography post-processing technologies, specifically light-source manipulation and transillumination technologies, to produce a photorealistic rendering of the LAA. This novel LAA imaging method allows quick recognition of the three-dimensional shape and facilitates transcatheter closure guidance.”

In a second Echo Innovation report, authors include intraoperative correlative images to reveal utilization of proximal isovelocity surface area methods in pulmonary vein stenosis measurements. This issue also contains three cases in Multimodality Imaging, including a remarkable look at a large cardiac cyst within the ventricular septum, the use of hybrid imaging techniques to guide a complex transcatheter repair of a degenerated aortic homograft with an anomalous coronary origin, and the application of multimodality imaging to evaluate a rare cardiac intimal sarcoma. Rare but Deadly Findings offers reports on extensive damage from a penetrating stab wound as well as a surprise captured on echo while searching for a patent foramen ovale. Dr. Sorrell’s editorial dissects “omics,” exploring how intersections of various technologies and clinical practices will impact the future of understanding and treating heart disease.

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. Be sure to check out the latest Sonographer Sound-Off and Unlock the CASE features on the CASE Homepage to view more extraordinary work from your colleagues.

In honor of the Founder and first President of ASE, Harvey Feigenbaum, MD, FASE, this lectureship is awarded to a young investigator in recognition of their significant contribution to research in the field and their potential to continue at a high level of achievement.

The deadline to submit nominations for the 2024 Feigenbaum Lecturer is November 30, 2023. The Feigenbaum Lecture is a keynote presentation during ASE’s Annual Scientific Sessions in June. This is a prestigious lectureship with a great lineage. Five of ASE’s presidents are Feigenbaum Lecture award winners!

November 2, 2023, 8:00 – 9:00 PM ET

The ASE Journal Club on X may have a new name, but its purpose is the same—offering a unique way for participants to discuss and review cardiology journal articles, case reports, ASE Guidelines, and more!

The next Journal Club is planned for Thursday, November 2, 2023, from 8:00 – 9:00 PM ET. Join the discussion, which will highlight the winner and finalist of the 2023 ShowCASE session presented at ASE 2023 earlier this year. The two featured cases are titled, “Extrinsic Circumflex Coronary Artery Compression and Occlusion by Mycotic Aneurysm of Left Aortic Sinus,” and “Five-Chambered Heart with Double-Chambered Left Ventricle Diagnosed by Multimodality Imaging.”

Earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for your participation by signing up for ASE Journal Club on X: November 2, 2023, in the ASE Learning Hub (ALH). Anyone can participate in the ASE Journal Club on X, but to earn CME/MOC, you must register in the ALH. ASE members can sign up for FREE. Follow @ASE360 and use hashtag #ASEchoJC for all tweets!

In honor of the founder and first president of ASE, Harvey Feigenbaum, MD, FASE, this lectureship is awarded to a young investigator in recognition of their significant contribution to research in the field and their potential to continue at a high level of achievement.

The deadline to submit nominations for the 2024 Feigenbaum Lecturer is November 30, 2023. The Feigenbaum Lecture is presented in a keynote session room during ASE’s Annual Scientific Sessions in June. This is a prestigious award with a great lineage. Five of ASE’s presidents are Feigenbaum Award winners!

Now is your chance to become a leader in ASE and the ASE Foundation! All available positions are open to any ASE member regardless of their specialty, and we are looking for a diverse pool of nominees. If you are an active member and meet the criteria outlined for the position, ask a friend or colleague who is also an ASE member to submit a nomination on your behalf. The deadline for candidates to submit ALL required materials is November 30, 2023 (no exceptions).

We are accepting nominations for available positions on the:

• ASE Executive Committee
• ASE Board of Directors
• ASE Foundation Board of Directors
• ASE Council Steering Committees

Contact Nominations@ASEcho.org with questions.

October is Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month (MUAM)! During MUAM, ASE will share #ILookLikeASonographer social media posts celebrating our sonographer members and increasing awareness about this important and rewarding profession. Since its inception, ASE has included sonographer members in its leadership and valued the teamwork necessary between physicians and sonographers to provide the best patient care.

The October issue of JASE includes, “Artificial Intelligence–Assisted Left Ventricular Diastolic Function Assessment and Grading: Multiview Versus Single View.” Editor-in-Chief Patricia Pellikka, MD, FASE, remarks, “In this interesting work, Chen et al. applied AI to an important clinical need, namely the assessment of diastolic function. Read about the three approaches that they used which involved single and multiple echocardiographic views, with and without LA and LV strain.”

This issue contains another clinical investigation relating to LV diastolic function assessment with AI as well as a multitude of other reports covering 3D TEE, stress echo, echo in congenital heart disease, and fetal echo. Additionally, this issue offers an in-depth look at myocardial work through a state-of-the-art review and two clinical investigations, including one on its role in apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Readers can look forward to learning if ChatGPT can read an echocardiogram in the 24^th Annual Feigenbaum Lecture. Three brief research communications include reports on the association between blood pressure control and global longitudinal strain in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer on Trastuzumab-based regimens, RV remodeling in elite basketball athletes, and measures of acceleration time and ejection time in bicuspid aortic stenosis.

Dr. Pellikka’s editorial defines this issue’s focus topic, myocardial work, summarizing various research in the current and previous publications of JASE that can impart a greater understanding of this important echocardiographic metric. Dr. Eidem’s exploration of ASE’s core values continues with this month’s President’s Message, featuring an update on the implementation of ASE Cares from former ASE President Madhav Swaminathan, MD, MMCi, FASE. Christopher P. Appleton, MD, FASE, and Jae K. Oh, MD, FASE, have contributed a beautiful In Memoriam to their friend and colleague, Liv K. Hatle, MD, FASE, a widely respected pioneer in Doppler echocardiography and the global cardiology community, who passed away in June. This issue also contains photo highlights from the 34^th Annual ASE Scientific Sessions. Please see the October ASE Education Calendar for a listing of educational opportunities far and wide.

The September 2023 Echo magazine is now online! This issue contains interesting articles written by ASE members, including:

• The DNA of ASE – Our Core Values, page 4
• ASE 2023 Scientific Sessions, Recap for Interventional Echocardiography Track, page 6
• Remembering Regan Giesinger, page 9
• 2nd Annual Echo in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Virtual Experience, page 10
• ASE 2023 Scientific Sessions, Recap for Perioperative Track, page 13
• ASE Working for You, page 17
• Participate in the Process, page 19

Published monthly, Echo magazine offers an outlet for ASE members to contribute articles or images related to cardiovascular ultrasound that are not research related. The article submission deadline for the December 2023 issue is October 15. Review author submission guideline requirements and read past issues at ASEcho.org/EchoMagazine. Email Echo@ASEcho.org with questions.

Goal 4 of ASE’s 2020-2025 Strategic Goals states, “ASE is a growing organization and recognized as the world’s leading voice in cardiovascular ultrasound.” One way we are fulfilling that goal is by making ASE Guidelines available to a larger audience by offering additional language translations.

The Recommended Standards for the Performance of Transesophageal Echocardiographic Screening for Structural Heart Intervention is now also available in Spanish, and the Recommendations for Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging of Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy has been translated to Chinese.

ASE’s Guidelines webpage offers many different filtering capabilities, including by language. There are currently eight language filter options available. Additionally, the language filter can be used individually or in combination with other filters, such as topic, publication year, or author. Contact Guidelines@ASEcho.org with questions.