These award recipients will be honored at the ASE Foundation’s 9th Annual Research Awards Gala, Sunday, June 24, 2018, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, TN, during this year’s Scientific Sessions. Click here for the Gala online registration. Gala tickets will not be available for sale on-site.  Questions about the Gala? Please email gala@asecho.org.

Excellence in Teaching in Pediatrics
Meryl S. Cohen, MD, FASE, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Meritorious Service Award
Sherif F. Nagueh, MD, FASE, Houston Methodist DeBakey Cardiology Associates, Houston, TX

Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Echocardiography Award
Jonathan B. Mark, MD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

Physician Lifetime Achievement Award
Navin C. Nanda, MD, FASE, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL

Richard Popp Excellence in Teaching Award
Theodore Abraham, MD, FASE, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Cardiovascular Sonographer Distinguished Teacher Award
Priscilla Peters, BA, RDCS, FASE, Cooper University Hospital, Camden,  NJ

CASE, ASE’s bimonthly, online case reports journal, has just entered its second year of publication with the February issue that is now online. This journal has gotten strong support from the community and is attracting a growing readership.

As the Editors-in-Chief share in their editorial, “A team is made up of many individuals all looking at the same scenario from different vantage points, and this is best accomplished with many eyes. Together we are stronger.” This issue of CASE is focused on the importance of a team when addressing the mitral valve including, “Percutaneous Repair of Severe Eccentric Mitral Regurgitation Due to Medial Commissural Flail: Challenges for Imaging and Intervention,” from Drs. Eleonora Avenatti, Marija Vukicevic, Kinan C. El-Tallawi, Colin M. Marker, and Stephen H. Little.  Mitral Mysteries, Cath Lab Conundrums, One Trunk or Two? Unusual Anatomy, and Spontaneous Echo Contrast round out the Table of Contents. Read the latest issue here.

Congratulations to Myo Lwin, MBBS, and Christian Hamilton-Craig, MBBS, PhD, BMedSci(Hons), FRACP, FCSANZ, FSCCT, and FACC, from the Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, for supplying the What is This Image? quiz on the CASE homepage.

This educational opportunity should not be missed! Plan now to attend the 3rd Annual Echo ASE ASEAN at the Conrad Hotel in Manila, Philippines, March 22-24, 2018. Register before tomorrow, February 22 and save $100 on registration fees. If you are relatively early in your echo education or want to focus on acquisition techniques, Echo ASE ASEAN will have dedicated sessions in the afternoons on the basics of echocardiography. Paralleling these sessions will be more advanced topics, including 3D and strain, which are growing rapidly in our practice. In the mornings, the expert faculty group will convene, covering a host of clinical echo topics with a strong case-based emphasis. Download the Advance Program here. You will also be able to learn from original research. The course co-chairs selected great abstracts and unique case reports that will be on display throughout the meeting.

Visit ASEcho.org/ASEAN and register today. Reserving a hotel room at the beautiful course location is also a must. ASE has secured a special discounted rate at the hotel for meeting attendees. The hotel is selling out quickly, so don’t delay making your reservation! Please contact the hotel directly at +63-2-8339999 and specify that you are with “American Society of Echocardiography ASEAN Meeting.” Or, you may make your reservations online.

All four ASE Council Steering Committees (Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease, Perioperative Echocardiography, Vascular Ultrasound, and Cardiovascular Sonography) are now accepting applications/nominations for open positions through March 16, 2018. Please contact Natalya Read at nread@asecho.org for additional information.

ASE Headquarters will be closed Monday, February 19 in observance of President’s Day. Normal business hours will resume on Tuesday, February 20.

ASE was one of 11 organizations that collaborated to develop and evaluate the ACC/AATS/AHA/ASE/EACTS/HVS/SCA/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR/STS 2017 Appropriate Use Criteria for the Treatment of Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis that appears in the February JASE, now online. This is the first AUC to address the topic of aortic stenosis and its treatment options, including surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Clinical investigation topics in this issue include 3D echocardiography, coronary artery disease, left atrial size and function in children, congenital heart disease, pulmonary artery hypertension, and left ventricular dyssynchrony and function. A state-of-the-art review article, “Atrial Enlargement in the Athlete’s Heart: Assessment of Atrial Function May Help Distinguish Adaptive

from Pathologic Remodeling,” rounds out the issue. Don’t miss the new podcast feature on the JASE home page. JASE Editor-in-Chief, Michael H. Picard, MD, FASE, will be creating these podcasts as a regular addition to OnlineJASE.com, which will often take the place of an Editor’s Page.  The podcasts will be available on iTunes and Google play soon.  We would love to hear what you think of this new feature.

If you have an idea to improve cardiovascular ultrasound, it’s not too late to join the Echovation movement! Many of you have expressed interest in the Echovation Challenge but needed a bit more time to polish your proposals, so we have decided to extend the submission deadline until February 23. The top three finalists will present at the ASE Scientific Sessions in Nashville on June 24, 2018. Even if you have already submitted, you can edit your proposal up until the deadline if you like. We want to make sure everyone has a chance to participate. Go to https://www.herox.com/echovation-challenge-2018 today to register, read the competition guidelines, and begin submitting your proposal!

Valentine’s Day is one week away but there is still time to Spread the Love! Join the members who have already begun celebrating American Heart Month and make a donation in honor of someone who has supported you in your career. Think back on the path that has lead you to today. Whose guidance has brought you to where you are now? Who has left a lasting impact? Who played an important role in influencing and improving your career?

Make a donation between now and February 12th and include the name and email address of the person you would like to honor. On Wednesday, February 14th, the Foundation will send a special electronic Valentine’s Day card to that person thanking them for the role they have played in your career. You may also leave a personal message if you’d like!

Give a gift that supports the future of our field while honoring those who have supported you throughout your career!

The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) is pleased to announce that ImageGuideEcho^TM, a module under the ImageGuide Registry^® platform, is now open to enrollment for U.S.-based physicians. ImageGuideEcho is the first registry exclusively devoted to measuring quality in cardiovascular ultrasound. Its mission is to provide the framework necessary to support a community of cardiology labs committed to patient-centered imaging, patient safety, outcome improvement, practice transformation, and innovation through ongoing data collection and quality improvement. Read more here.