Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Echocardiography Award

The criteria for the award include:

• Physicians at the academic level of Associate Professor or Professor
• Achievement of significant clinical, research and/or education in the field of perioperative echocardiography
• Recognition at the regional, national and international levels
• Fellow of the ASE and/or NBE Diplomate of the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE) preferred

This awardee is selected by the Perioperative Echocardiography Council.

Congratulations 2026 Awardee, G. Burkhard Mackensen, MD, PhD, FASE

Dr. G. Burkhard Mackensen is the Allan J. Treuer Endowed Professor of Anesthesiology and Chair of the University of Washington (UW) Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine in Seattle, WA. He also serves as the Director of Interventional Echocardiography at the UW Medicine Heart Institute.

Dr. Mackensen is a practicing cardiothoracic anesthesiologist and a key member of the UW structural heart valve team. He is an internationally recognized expert in perioperative and interventional echocardiography and is intimately involved in multidisciplinary efforts that aim to advance minimally invasive transcatheter cardiovascular care. He has given numerous national and international lectures on the role of 2D and 3D TEE in interventional/structural heart disease and surgical decision making, has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, and has authored more than 20 book chapters. As an interventional echocardiographer, Dr. Mackensen has actively provided procedural image guidance in more than 50 LIVE cases transmitted to national and international audiences.

Dr. Mackensen is a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE), the current Director of ASE’s State-of-the-Art (SOTA) Echocardiography conference, past Chair of the Industry Relations Committee, past Chair of ASE’s Council on Perioperative Echocardiography, and a former board member of the ASE’s Board of Directors. He also represents the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists at the echocardiography board of the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC), and as part of that board, he not only helped to create the opportunity for perioperative echocardiography services to be accredited by the IAC but also led the UW perioperative echocardiography service to became one of the first four centers in the nation to be awarded accreditation in perioperative transesophageal echocardiography by the IAC.