Board of Directors

June 2022- June 2023 Board of Directors

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

President (term expires June 2023)
Stephen Little, MD, FASE
Houston Methodist
Houston, TX
Email: President@ASEcho.org

President-Elect (term expires June 2023)
Benjamin Eidem, MD, FASE
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Vice President (term expires June 2023)
Theodore Abraham, MD, FASE
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Treasurer (term expires June 2024)
Cynthia Taub, MD, FASE
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH

Secretary (term expires June 2024)
Kelly Thorson, DHSc, MSRS, ACS, RDCS, RCCS, CIIP, FASE
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Palo Alto, CA

Council Representative (term expires June 2024)
Keith Collins, MS, RDCS, FASE
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL

Immediate Past President (term expires June 2023)
Raymond Stainback, MD, FASE
Texas Heart Institute, Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, TX

Chief Executive Officer
Robin Wiegerink, MNPL
American Society of Echocardiography
Durham, NC

DIRECTORS

Critical Care Echocardiography Council Chair (term expires June 2023)
Arthur Labovitz, MD, FASE
Naples Cardiac & Endovascular Center
Naples, FL

Council on Pediatric & Congenital Heart Disease Chair (term expires June 2023)
Carolyn Altman, MD, FASE
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Council on Perioperative Echocardiography Chair (term expires June 2023)
G. Burkhard Mackensen, MD, PhD, FASE
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Council on Cardiovascular Sonography Chair (term expires June 2024)
G. Monet Strachan, ACS, RDCS, FASE

UCSF Health
San Francisco, CA

Council on Circulation & Vascular Ultrasound (term expires June 2024)
Fadi Shamoun, MD, FASE
Emory Healthcare
Atlanta, GA

Member at Large (term expires June 2023)
Vandana Sachdev, MD, FASE 
National Institute of Health
Bethesda, MD

Member at Large (term expires June 2023)
Anthony Gallagher, MHA, FASE
Baptist Health Lexington
Lexington, KY

Member at Large (term expires June 2023)
Leo Lopez, MD, FASE 
Stanford Children’s Hospital
Palo Alto, CA

Member at Large (term expires June 2023)
Susan Mayer, MD, FASE 
Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
Prairie Village, KS

Member at Large (term expires June 2024)
Jose Banchs, MD, FACC, FASE
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, CO

Member at Large (term expires June 2024)
Akhil Narang, MD, FASE
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL

Member at Large(term expires June 2024)
Neha Soni-Patel, MEd, BSME, RCCS, RDCS (AE/PE), FASE
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Cleveland, OH

International Member (term expires June 2023)
Kian-Keong (KK) Poh, MBBChir, FASE
National University Heart Centre
Singapore

Leadership Academy Representative(term expires June 2023)
Sujatha Buddhe, MD, FASE
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle, WA

Past President Member (term expires June 2023)
Thomas Ryan, MD, FASE
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH