2023-2024 Cardiovascular Sonography Council Steering Committee:
Chair: Ken Horton, ACS, RCS, FASE (July 2023 – June 2024)
Chair-Elect: Allyson Boyle, MHA, ACS, RDCS, FASE (July 2022 – June 2024)
Immediate Past Chair: G. Monet Strachan, ACS, RDCS, FASE (July 2023 – June 2024)
ASE Council Representative: Keith Collins, MS, RDCS, FASE (July 2022 – June 2024)
Education Committee Rep: Jennifer Acevedo, ACS, RDCS, FASE (July 2023 – June 2025)
Guidelines & Standards Committee Rep: Kelly Boegel, ACS, RCCS, RCS, FASE (July 2023 – June 2025)
Scientific Sessions Co-Chair: Eric Kruse, BS, ACS, RDCS, RVT, FASE (July 2023 – June 2024)
Member at Large: Patrice McKay, RDCS, FASE (July 2022 – June 2024)
Member at Large: Joshua Pearson, RCS, CCSS, CRAT, FASE (July 2022 – June 2024)
Member at Large: Allyson Doucet, BS, RDCS (AE, PE), FASE (July 20213- June 2025)
Member at Large: Lindsay Thomas, BS, RDCS (AE, PE), RVT, FASE (July 20213- June 2025)
Staff Liaison: Suzanne Morris
The ASE Cardiovascular Sonography Council is dedicated to the following objectives:
- Support cardiovascular ultrasound interest areas by communicating issues of importance to the membership;
- Provide guidance to the ASE Board of Directors regarding sonographer issues;
- Provide a forum for members with similar interests to network;
- Appoint directors to the ASE Board of Directors (as council representatives)
- To provide educational offerings for sonographers, including guidance to Scientific Sessions Program Committee
Awards:
The Council has two awards, which alternate every other year:
- ASE Cardiovascular Sonographer Distinguished Teacher Award was awarded in June 2023 to Richard Palma, ACS, RCCS, FACVP, FASE of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC
- Sonographer Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded in 2022 to Carol Mitchell, PhD, RDMS, RDCS, RVT, RT(R), ACS, FASE of University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
- 2023 Scientific Sessions Travel Grant, in partnership with the ASE Cardiovascular Sonography Council, the ASE Foundation sponsored three sonographers to attend the 34th ASE Annual Scientific Sessions in National Harbor, MD, June 23-26, 2023. Three travel grants of $1,000 each were awarded. Congratulations to our winners!
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- Melissa Bond, BHS, ACS, RDCS
- Lauren Howard, RDCS, FASE
- Lindsey Klein, ACS, BS, RDCS (AE&PE), FASE