2024-2025 Interventional Echocardiography (IE) Council Steering Committee
Chair: Nishath Quader, MD, FASE (July 2024 – June 2026)
Chair-Elect: Mary Beth Brady, MD, FASE (July 2024 – June 2026)
Immediate Past Chair: Muhamed Saric, MD, PhD, FASE (July 2024 – June 2026)
ASE Council Representative: Kelly Thorson, DHSc, MSRS, ACS, RDCS, FASE (July 2024 – June 2026)
Education Committee Rep: Renuka Jain, MD, FASE, FACC (July 2024 – June 2026)
Guidelines & Standards Committee Rep: Ruchira Garg, MD, FASE (July 2024 – June 2026)
Scientific Sessions IE Rep: Stephen Little, MD, FASE (July 2024 – June 2025)
Member at Large: David Rubenson, MD, FASE (January 2023 – June 2025)
Member at Large: Amy Dillenbeck, MS, ACS, RDCS, FASE (January 2023 – June 2025)
Member at Large: Enrique Garcia-Sayan, MD, FASE, FACC (July 2024 – June 2026)
Member at Large: Megan Kraushaar, BS, RCS, FASE (July 2024 – June 2026)
Member at Large: David Rubenson, MD, FASE (July 2024 – June 2026)
Staff Liaison: Suzanne Morris
Council Objectives include:
- Support interventional ultrasound interest areas by communicating issues of importance to the membership;
- Provide guidance to the ASE Board of Directors regarding interventional ultrasound;
- Provide a forum for members with similar interests to network;
- To provide educational offerings for those practicing cardiovascular ultrasound for interventional ultrasound patients, including guidance to Scientific Sessions Program Committee
- To provide guidance on standards of care related to interventional ultrasound to the Board and Guidelines and Standards Committee
What’s new with the IE Council?
Guidelines:
Recommendations for Special Competency in Echocardiographic Guidance of Structural Heart Disease Interventions: From the American Society of Echocardiography
Recommended Standards for the Performance of Transesophageal Echocardiographic Screening for Structural Heart Intervention
IE in Echo Magazine
It all started with the babies
The Role of Echocardiographers in TEER Procedures
IE: The Cardiac Anesthesiologist’s Perspective
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