A lecturer is named in honor of the founder and first president of ASE, Harvey Feigenbaum, MD, FASE. This lectureship is awarded to an investigator in recognition of their significant contribution to research in the field and their potential to continue at a high level of achievement. The Feigenbaum Lecture is presented during ASE’s Annual Scientific Sessions.
2025
Prof. Kazuaki Negishi MD, PhD, FASE – “Sono-reperfusion: The True Interventional Echocardiography”
2024
Shaine Morris, MD, MPH, FASE – “Echocardiography and Deep Phenotyping: Imaging as the Key to Congenital Cardiac Outcomes Research with Little and Big Data”
2023
Rima Arnaout, MD, FASE – “ChatGPT Helped Me Write This Talk Title, But Can It Read an Echocardiogram?”
2022
Harvey Feigenbaum, MD, FASE and Alan Pearlman, MD, FASE* – “History of Echocardiography: A Personal Perspective”
2021
Denisa Muraru, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC, FASE – “Right Heart, Right Now: The Role of Three-Dimensional Echocardiography”
2020
Shelby Kutty, MD, PhD, MHCM, FASE – “Beyond Artificial: Echocardiography from Elegant Images to Analytic Intelligence”
2019
Sanjiv J. Shah, MD, FASE – “Echocardiography for Precision Medicine: Digital Biopsy to Deconstruct Biology”
2018
Mark K. Friedberg, MD, FASE – “Echocardiographic Insights into the Stressed Right Ventricle: A Whole Hearted Story”
2017
Howard Leong-Poi, MD, FASE – “The Evolution of Contrast Echocardiography: A Journey from Diagnostic to Therapeutic Applications”
2016
Theodore P. Abraham, MD, FASE – “Echo Muscles into the Mechanics Era – Strain Transforms Morphologists into Physiologists”
2015
Madhav Swaminathan, MD, FASE – “Echo Research in the Perioperative Space: As easy as A B C…”
2014
Luc L. Mertens, MD, PhD, FASE – “We are our History: Cardiac Adaptations to Childhood Disease and Implications for Adult Life”
2013
Partho P. Sengupta, MBBS, MD, DM, FASE – “Intelligent Platforms for Disease Assessment: Novel Approaches in Functional Echocardiography”
2012
Philippe Pibarot, DVM, PhD, FASE – “Doppler Echocardiography is the Cornerstone of the Management of Aortic Stenosis”
2011
Judy W. Hung, MD, FASE – “A Tale of Two Leaflets: Innovation in Echocardiography”
2010
Victor Mor-Avi, PhD, FASE – “Three Dimensional Echocardiography: The Benefits of the Additional Dimension”
2009
Jack Rychik, MD, FASE – “Born with Half a Heart: An Echocardiographic Journey of Single Ventricle Type of Congenital Heart Disease from the Fetus to the Adult”
2008
Teresa S.M. Tsang, MD, FRCPC, FASE – “Echocardiography in Cardiovascular Public Health: Redefining Prevention”
2007
Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie, MD, PhD, FASE – “Echocardiography in Translational Research: Of Mice and Men”
2006
Jonathan Lindner, MD, FASE – “Thinking Big, Looking Small: Diagnostic Opportunities by Echo Imaging of the Molecular Basis of Disease”
2005
Kevin Wei, MD, FASE – “Microbubbles and the Microcirculation”
2004
Mario J. Garcia, MD, FASE – “Echocardiography is the Keystone to the Evaluation of Cardiac Function”
2003
Thomas H. Marwick, MBBS, PhD, FASE – “Should We Examine the Heart or the Myocardium: Recent Advances in Tissue Characterization”
2002
Flordeliza S. Villanueva, MD, FASE – “Beyond Perfusion Imaging: New Horizons in Contrast Echo”
2001
Sherif F. Nagueh, MD, FASE – “Insights into the Evolution of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function”
2000
Thomas R. Porter, MD, FASE – “Therapeutic Applications of Microbubbles: A New Echocardiography Frontier”
*Note: The 2022 Feigenbaum Lecture was prepared by Dr. Harvey Feignbaum and delivered by Dr. Alan Pearlman.
2026 Lecturer: Jordan Strom MD, MSc, FASE – "Boosting the IQ of Artificial Intelligence: Echocardiographic Big Data and Overcoming the Generalizability Gap "