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The ASE 2023 Final Program is now available! Already Registered? Download the Final Program to begin planning your schedule. Not yet registered? Download the Final Program to see the many education and networking opportunities offered at ASE 2023, and register today!

The 34^th Annual Scientific Sessions in National Harbor, Maryland, June 23-26, will focus on cardiovascular ultrasound as foundational to cardiovascular practice, while also examining the exciting future of the field. Education, science, innovation, public service, global outreach, and clinical care will be on display throughout the conference. Both in-person and virtual registration options are available.

NEW THIS YEAR

• The Arena: An all-new construction hosting “can’t miss” sessions including debates, “TED” style talks, The Heart Team in Action, Echo in the Wild, Echo Heard Round the World, Best of Imaging Research, and AI and the Workflow in the Echo Lab, to name a few!
• Cardio-Oncology Building Blocks Bootcamp: All you need to know about this growing field built into an extended session.
• Echogenomics: Interaction and innovation in pediatric cardiology.
• The Cutting Edge of POCUS Training and Advantages and Limitations of Cardiac POCUS: A Case Series: Focus on critical care echo and cardiac POCUS.
• Engineering in the Echo Lab: Building the Future: Session on academic and industry collaboration.
• Echo Lab Medical and Technical Directors Forum: Lab management in challenging times.

ASE is committed to providing our members with the tools and resources they need to ensure coding accuracy and compliancy, and to maximize appropriate revenue. Log in to the ASE Member Portal and access the 2023 Coding Connection document under the “Advocacy” tab.

This free resource provides answers to echocardiography specific billing and assists you in coding accurately for the services you provide, especially in today’s environment of declining reimbursement and increased scrutiny. This newsletter includes information on recent coding updates for echocardiography services, evaluation and management services, Medicare split/shared visit changes, and ASE’s top 10 coding questions and answers.

ASE provides member-only access to coding information and a coding expert who is available to answer individual coding questions free of charge.

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

• The House of Cardiology, page 4
• Your Sonographer Scientific Sessions Questions Answered, What Sessions to Attend!, page 6
• Sonographer Volunteer of the Month-May, Congratulations Courtney Cassidy, RDCS, FASE, page 9
• Excitement at the ASE 2023 Scientific Sessions: The Interventional Echocardiography Track, page 11
• Perioperative Echocardiography Council Track Highlights of the ASE 2023 Scientific Sessions, page 13
• A Short History of ASE’s Scientific Sessions, page 15
• Recognizing ASE’s 2023 Award Winners, page 19
• Recap of the ASE Foundation’s March Games Fundraising Competition, page 27

ASE members can write and submit articles to Echo magazine for publication. The article submission deadline for the August 2023 issue is June 15. Visit ASE’s website to review the author submission guideline requirements on formatting, word length, etc. Contact Echo@ASEcho.org with questions and view past issues at ASEcho.org/EchoMagazine.

Free for ASE Members

Register now for ASE’s next live webinar on June 6, 2023, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET, Entering the ICE Arena: Steps for the Imager to Learn Intracardiac Echocardiography. This webinar will offer an introduction to the use of 2D and 3D ICE for structural heart procedures. This webinar is free for ASE members and $40 for nonmembers.

Speakers: Muhamed Saric, MD, FASE, and Markus Scherer, MD, FASE

Learning Objectives:

• Understand orientation of ICE views and comparison with other imaging modalities
• How to acquire ICE views with catheter manipulation
• How to interact with 3D ICE data sets on the echo cart

Did you miss Echo Hawaii or State-of-the-Art Echocardiography (SOTA) earlier this year? Or maybe you are looking for unlimited on-demand access to the latest education on established and emerging cardiovascular ultrasound technologies? Good news! Register for ASE’s Advanced Echo Online Course and access 49 presentations compiled from the 2023 Echo Hawaii and SOTA courses. Expert faculty discuss state-of-the-art technologies with a particular focus on how they can be effectively applied in a clinical setting.

Registration includes access to course materials until March 27, 2024, CME credits, and MOC points, and ASE members receive reduced registration fees as a benefit of membership. Just log in to your ASE Member Portal before registering.

June 15, 2023, 12:00-1:00 PM ET

The Canadian Society of Echocardiography (CSE) is working with the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (JASE) Editorial Team to present a live podcast discussing the May 2023 JASE Article The Impact of Sonothrombolysis on Left Ventricular Diastolic Function and Left Atrial Mechanics Preventing Left Atrial Remodeling in Patients With ST Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction.

Attendees can watch and listen to the live, collaborative podcast on Thursday, June 15, from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET on Zoom. Speakers representing CSE and JASE will join in the online discussion. Attendees are eligible to receive Royal College MOC credits and no registration is required to attend.

ASE’s ImageGuideEcho™ Registry is the nation’s first echo-specific clinical data registry. Within the Registry, your institution will have the analytical tools to: track quality improvement, conduct detailed analysis into your own data, leverage continued alignment in quality with IAC, link to outcomes data, and examine data to conduct innovative research.

Join us at ASE 2023 in National Harbor, Maryland, and stop by the ASE ImageGuideEcho Registry Booth #531 in the Echo Expo. ASE member physicians will be presenting these five information sessions:

SATURDAY, JUNE 24

Growth of the ImageGuideEcho Registry
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Jordan Strom, MD, MSc, FASE

Cedaron: Improving Quality of Care
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Malcolm Bond, PhD

The Pediatric Echo Module
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM
Dan Forsha, MD, MCS, FASE & Charitha Reddy, MD

SUNDAY, JUNE 25

The Perioperative Echo Module
10:05 AM – 10:35 AM
Alina Nicoara, MD, FASE

ASE & IAC – A Continued Alignment in Quality
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
David H. Wiener, MD, FASE

Register today to join us at the ASE 2023 Scientific Sessions in National Harbor, Maryland, June 23-26, 2023. This premier cardiovascular ultrasound conference will address foundational concepts, evolving practice, and research in these areas and more:

• Imaging Fundamentals
• Perioperative
• Critical Care
• Circulation and Vascular
• Interventional Echocardiography
• POCUS
• Multimodality
• Innovation & Technology
• Pediatric & Congenital Heart Disease
• Myocardium
• Ischemia

Misinformation at Play? May CASE Saves the Day

The latest issue of CASE, ASE’s open access case reports journal, is now available with some captivating reports, including “Degenerative Mitral Stenosis: A Case-Based Review” by Morgan Lamberg, DO, MHSA et al. CASE Editor-in-Chief, Vincent L. Sorrell, MD, FASE, remarked, “Lamberg et al. have prepared an excellent case-based review on the ever-increasing prevalence of degenerative mitral stenosis (DMS). Although rheumatic mitral stenosis (RMS) has become less common, mitral annular calcification progressing to DMS continues to increase and unlike RMS, carries a poor prognosis with limited treatment options. The authors do an outstanding job of demonstrating the value of a multimodality imaging approach that complements 2D, 3D, and Doppler echocardiography. They also include accompanying tables and flow-diagrams to assist us in how we approach these patients and highlight the approach when DMS is combined with aortic stenosis (~25%). Using a combination of echo and computed tomographic imaging parameters, the authors provide a proposal to help standardize our grading of the severity of DMS. Although treatment options are limited, the authors leave us with some hope that newer transcatheter interventions continue to evolve and are specifically addressing this disease state.”