A WORLD VIEW OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
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Our volunteers have returned from the December 2012 humanitarian/training mission in rural India. Read their blog.
Watch our video of the January 2012 ASE Global: Focus on India.
Medical volunteers are increasingly needed for medical missions and medical camps throughout the world. To receive information on upcoming volunteer opportunities, please complete and submit this form.
Asia
China
ASE was honored to be a part of the recent Great Wall International Congress on Cardiology. During the ASE session of the GW-ICC meeting, Dr. Patricia Pellikka, ASE President, and Dr. Rebecca Hahn presented to the overflow crowd. In addition the ASE delegation was treated to a tour of the Third Hospital of Peking University.
Four translated guideline posters are being distributed throughout China. Translations and artwork were prepared for ASE’s guideline posters on prosthetic valves, valve stenosis, LV diastolic function, and pediatric quantification. Volunteers for this effort included Dr. Feng Xie, Dr. Jiefei Wu, Dr. Jiawei Tian, Dr. Leng Jiang, and Dr. Mei Zhang. Philips Hong Kong provided generous support for the printing and dissemination of these posters.
Photo: Echocardiographers from the US and China shared an enjoyable meal during the Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology, October 2012 in Beijing.
Visit our Guidelines translations page to access the full text of nine Mandarin-translated ASE guideline documents.
India
Our volunteers have returned from the successful December 2012 humanitarian/training mission to rural India. Read their blog.
EchoNagpur Director Dr. Shantanu Sengupta reports that EchoNagpur 2012 was a huge success, with 312 delegates. The first day was e-Pathshala, a live hands-on interactive workshop on laptop with pre-recorded cases, attended by 140 delegates. The meeting focused on case-based discussion with all practical points discussed. There was a full house all three days with delegates sitting till late evening. ASE was represented at this ASE-endorsed conference in Nagpur, India by Dr. Patricia Pellikka, ASE President; Past President Dr. Bijoy Khandheria; and current ASE Board Member Dr. Partho Sengupta, as well as long-time ASE members Dr. Natesha Pandian, Dr. J.C. Mohan, Dr. Manish Bansal, and Dr. Nitin Burkule. Local media covered the meeting all three days: read about the meeting in The Hitavada on August 10, August 11, and August 12.
Read Dr. Pellikka’s blog about her trip to India and this article from The Times of India.
January 2012 – The onsite team members (see photo left) for ASE Global: Focus on India returned home from a memorable journey. For more information on this humanitarian effort, visit here.
Watch our video of the January 2012 ASE Global: Focus on India.
Photo: Dr. Ravi Kasliwal and Medanta Medicity served as hosts for the training portion of the January event. Shown behind Dr. Kasliwal is Medanta Medicity’s Wall of Faith.
Recent press on ASE Global: Focus on India:
From heart.org (February 10, 2012) - The doctor will see you now (from the other side of the world)
From Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (February 16, 2012) - Medical Outreach Brings Innovative Ultrasound Technology to Underserved in India
YouTube: LeaAnne Dantin, Global Product Manager for Vscan, GE Healthcare, talks about ASE Global: Focus on India
From Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (April 2012) - President’s Message: Echo Around the World
From Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (May 2012) - Sonographers’ Communication: Observations of Sonographer Participants on the ASE Global: Focus on India Outreach Trip
From Diagnostic & Interventional Cardiology (July 2012) – Leveraging Telemedicine in the Developing World
Medical volunteers are increasingly needed for medical missions and medical camps throughout the world. To receive information on upcoming volunteer opportunities, please complete and submit this form.
Left: Leaders from ASE and the Indian Academy of Echocardiography discussed collaborations during the ASE Scientific Sessions in National Harbor, MD.
Upcoming ASE-endorsed meetings in India:
Second World Summit on Echocardiography
October 25-27, 2013
New Delhi, India
Dr. Partho P. Sengupta – 2013 World Summit International Chair
Dr. J.C. Mohan – 2013 World Summit Scientific and Organization Chair
www.wsecho.org
To learn more about echocardiography activities in India, visit the Indian Academy of Echocardiography website.
Japan
To learn more about echocardiography activities in Japan, visit the Japanese Society of Echocardiography website.
Korea
Left: Leaders from the Korean Society of Echocardiography and the American Society of Echocardiography shared ideas during ASE2012 in National Harbor. Left to right: Drs. Ha, Kwan, Thomas, Weissman, Pellikka and Kim.
To learn more about echocardiography activities in Korea, visit the Korean Society of Echocardiography website.
The Philippines
To learn more about echocardiography activities in the Philippines, visit the Philippine Society of Echocardiography website.
Australia and New Zealand
To learn more about echocardiography activities in Autralia and New Zealand, please visit the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand website.
Europe
To learn more about echocardiography activities in Europe, please visit the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging website
North America
Canada
Left: Canada was well represented at the ASE Scientific Sessions. Left to right: Drs. Tam, Pellikka, Rudski, Woo, Thomas, Weissman, and Leong-Poi.
To learn more about echocardiography activities in Canada, please visit the Canadian Society of Echocardiography website
Middle East
Stay tuned for more information on cardiovascular ultrasound activities in the Middle East.
South and Central America
Visit our Guidelines translations page to access the full text of two Spanish-translated ASE guideline documents.
To learn more about echocardiography activities in South and Central America, visit the ECOSIAC website.
Medical volunteers are increasingly needed for medical missions and medical camps throughout the world. To receive information on upcoming volunteer opportunities, please complete and submit this form.
Honors and Awards
In 2012 the ASE International Relations Task Force and the ASE Executive Committee selected three outstanding individuals to receive the designation of Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography. This honor is given to individuals outside the US who have made significant contributions to the field of cardiovascular ultrasound and have played a strong role in building relationships with the Society. We have benefited from their science and their friendship. This honor has been previously awarded to only eleven other recipients.
Prof. Otto Smiseth is head of the Division of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Diseases at Oslo University Hospital in Oslo, Norway. He is recognized for his wonderful investigations in diastolic function and myocardial imaging. Recently he pioneered noninvasive methods to measure segmental LV work. Prof. Smiseth organized the first two European Diastology meetings, and he has contributed to numerous ASE guideline documents.
Prof. Jose Luis Zamorano is Head of Cardiology at University Hospital in Madrid. He is a popular speaker, has served on 19 editorial boards of international journals, been the recipient of 16 research awards, edited 16 books, written 345 publications in peer reviewed journals. Mostly, we know him for his role as President of the European Association of Echocardiography in 2008-2010, when he and Roberto Lang brought our organizations together to work for the good of echocardiography, including the recent World Summit on Echocardiography, a collaboration of echo societies worldwide held in 2011 in Buenos Aires.
Dr. Xinfang Wang is Professor of Medicine at Tongji Medical University, an institution he has served since he graduated from there in 1958. A pioneer of Echocardiography who has been called the Father of Echo in China, he has been a leading scientist in this field for decades. His book “Echocardiography” is in its fourth edition and has influenced two generations of echocardiographers in China. Last year, he took the time to translate, review and proof the first ASE guideline document for use by the Chinese medical community.
In his presentation to these three individuals during the ASE Scientific Sessions in National Harbor, Dr. James Thomas said, “These individuals are our friends, our colleagues, and our inspiration. Because they will now include FASE behind their names, they will serve as ambassadors for ASE throughout the world.”
Previous recipients of this honor were Jean Dumesnil, MD, FASE (Canada); Raimund Erbel, MD, FASE (Germany); Jorge A. Lowenstein, MD, FASE (Argentina); Chuwa Tei, MD, FASE (Japan); Alessandro Distante, MD, FASE (Italy); Namsik Chung, MD, FASE (Korea); Shintaro Beppu, MD, FASE (Japan); Jos Roelandt, MD, PhD, FASE (Netherlands); Liv Hatle, MD, FASE (Norway); Junichi Yoshikawa, MD, FASE (Japan); and Fausto J. Pinto, MD, PhD, FASE (Portugal).
Another “ambassador” for ASE in 2012-2013 is Paul Lee, winner of the 2012 Arthur E. Weyman Young Investigator’s Award. Lee, from St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, won for his research on Ultrasound-Mediated Anti-Apoptotic Gene Therapy for Doxorubicin Cardiomyopathy. He will next present his research at the December 5-8, 2012 European Association of Echocardiography meeting in Athens, Greece and the May 13-15, 2013 Japanese Society of Echocardiography meeting in Tokyo, Japan.
ASE International Relations Task Force (2012-2013)
James Thomas, MD, FASE – Chair
Sanjiv Kaul, MD, FASE – Past Chair
Roberto Lang, MD, FASE – Past Chair
Naser Ammash, MD – Middle East
Jose Banchs, MD, FASE – Member at Large
Ravin Davidoff, MBBCh, FASE – Member
Steven Heitner, MD – Africa
Kenneth Horton, RCS, RDCS, FASE – Member
Wael Jaber, MD – Middle East
Kofo O. Ogunyankin, MD, FASE – Africa
Jae K. Oh, MD, FASE – Korea
Juan Carlos Plana, MD – Spanish-Speaking Countries
David L. Prior, MD – Australia/New Zealand/Fiji
Partho P. Sengupta, MBBS, MD, DM, FASE – India/World Summit Chair 2013
Takahiro Shiota, MD, FASE – Japan
Samuel Siu, MD, FASE – Canada
Lissa Sugeng, MD – Southeast Asia
Feng Xie, MD – China
Rhonda Price – Staff Liaison rprice@asecho.org
The International Relations Task Force has been charged with the following tasks:
- Enhance the global perception of Cardiovascular Ultrasound and the ASE
- Provide a forum for international members with similar interests to network
- Explore strategic alliances and collaboration with other international organizations to create more resources for ASE members (education, guidelines, etc.)
- Create a forum of exchange on co-sponsored meeting sessions, YIA awards and guidelines
- Recommend Honorary FASE candidates to the Executive Committee
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