The goal of the Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography Specialty Interest Group (TNE) is to cultivate innovation and scientific discovery, foster clinical and academic co-operation, and reshape practice and training guidelines for the management of cardiovascular problems in newborns and young infants. Implementation of Hemodynamics programs across North America has resulted from strong collaboration between neonatologists with formal training in TnECHO and Pediatric Echocardiography Laboratory leaders. These programs have helped promote standardized imaging guidelines and clinical pathways, create hemodynamic fellowship-training programs, and cultivate hemodynamics research.
The TNE’s founding members have played a pivotal role in developing normative echocardiography datasets across gestations, enhanced mechanistic insight into common neonatal cardiovascular problems (e.g., patent ductus arteriosus, pulmonary hypertension) through echocardiography-guided research, and validated the reliability of common echocardiography techniques in newborns. The ASE TNE will help anchor these efforts within a well-established society of cardiovascular imagers, and support both the mission and strategic goals of ASE through enhanced membership and professional diversity.
TNE SIG Leaders:
Patrick McNamara, MD, Chair
Wyman Lai, MD, MPH, MBA, FASE, Co-Chair
Afif El-Khuffash MD, MB, BCh, BAO, DCE
Amish Jain MD, MBBS, PhD, FASE
Bernadette Richards BS, RDCS, FASE
Danielle Rios MD, MS
Dany Weisz MD, MSc
Koert DeWaal
Lindsay Freud MD, FASE
Philip Levy MD
Samir Gupta
Shazia Bhombal MD
Tina Leone MD
Willem-Pieter de Boode MD, PhD
Christine Gil, Staff Liaison
Neonatal Hemodynamic Research Center
TARGETED NEONATAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY SPECIALTY INTEREST GROUP COMMUNICATION:
Growth of Neonatal Hemodynamics Programs and Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography Performed by Neonatologists
If you have questions, please contact us at SIGS@ASEcho.org.