Industry Relations Committee

Charge(s):

  • Provide contacts with industry vendors for recruitment purposes and directly engage in actively recruiting corporate funding.
  • Review IRT recruitment materials and provide advice on appropriate inclusions.
  • Facilitate a forum for exchange of information between corporate entities and the ASE.
  • Support the IRT mechanism to attract funding to underwrite the ASE’s research and public awareness activities, as well as other programs which enhance or promote the field of cardiovascular ultrasound and the ASE.
  • Help ASE leverage relationships with corporate entities, and develop strategies for increasing industry’s perception of value of the ASE as a leader in imaging.
  • Explore creative alternatives for IRT funding.
  • Directly participate in the Industry Think Tank/IRT Retreat
  • Support ASE efforts to serve as innovation incubator and collaborate with technology innovators (goal specific).
  • Support Standardization of 3D, AI and Strain by creating a sub-group to discuss technology standardization

2024 – 2025 Committee Members:
Linda Gillam MD, MPH, FASE – Chair

Brian Davidson MD, FASE – Co-Chair
Brandon Wiley MD, FASE – Critical Care Representative
Omar Khalique MD, FASE, FACC, FSCCT, FSCMR, FSCAI – Interventional Echo Representative
Craig Fleishman MD, FASE – Pediatric Council Steering Committee Chair
Tam Doan MD, RDCS, FASE – Pediatric Representative
Karen Singh MD, FASE – Perioperative Representative
Megan Yamat RDCS, RCS, ACS, FASE – Sonographer Representative
Chadi Ayoub MD, PhD, FASE – Vascular Representative
Ashlee Davis BSMI, ACS, RDCS, FASE – Member at Large
Renuka Jain MD, FASE, FACC – Member at Large
Pei-Ni Jone MD, FASE, FACC, FAHA – Member at Large
Steven Lester MD, FASE – Member at Large
Sujatha Buddhe MD, FASE – Member at Large
Jordan Strom MD, MSc, FASE – Member at Large
Sarah Cuddy MD – Member at Large
Cody Frye BA, ACS, RDCS, FASE – Member at Large
Samuel Bernard MD, FASE – Member at Large
Rebecca Hahn MD, FASE – Member at Large
Stephen Little MD, FASE – Member at Large
Federico Asch MD, FASE – Member at Large
Jyothy Puthumana MD, FASE – Member at Large
Margaret Park BS, ACS, RDCS, RVT, FSDMS, FASE – Member at Large
Samantha King – Staff Liaison