Education Committee

Charge(s):

  • Execute plans for educational initiatives as elucidated in the ASE’s strategic goals:
    • Assure implementation of LMS/Mobile app for all educational content.
    • Assure development of curriculum packages for CVUS.
    • Assure development of virtual conferencing for access to ASE content
    • Assure development of micro-learning modules.
    • Assure development of formal commercialization strategy of ASE’s educational content and products
  • Oversee the development and implementation of live courses.
    • Oversee the educational content for ASE live courses.
    • Review live course evaluations and make recommendations to the Course Chairs for improvements.
    • Review course financials and evaluations to provide recommendations to the Board of Directors and Treasurer on changes to existing courses especially regarding any impact to the finances.
    • Conduct review of Co-Director applications and make recommendations to the Executive committee.
  • Identify the critical content that will be the focus of all activity proposals, annually.
    • Identify content from membership, trend, market research, and council surveys.
  • Review and prioritize all activity proposals, annually.
    • Consider the feasibility and appropriateness of new educational activities.
  • Recommend new educational strategies and methods that will help establish ASE as the resource for cardiovascular ultrasound education.
  • Review applications for “co-sponsorship without CME” activities.
  • 2024/2025: Develop a curriculum for AI and implementation strategy for ASE membership.

The Chair of the Education Committee may not have any paid relationships with industry or others during their term of service.

2024 – 2025 Committee Members:
Merri Bremer EdD, RN, ACS, RDCS, FASE – Chair
Leo Lopez MD, FASE – Co-Chair

Sam Orde, MBBS, FASE – Critical Care Representative
Renuka Jain, MD, FASE, FACC – Interventional Echo Representative
Shubhika Srivastava, MD, FASE – Pediatric Representative
Andrew Notarianni, MD, FASE, FASA – Perioperative Representative
Jennifer Acevedo, ACS, RDCS, FASE – Sonographer Representative
Stanislav Henkin, MD, MPH, FASE – Vascular Representative
Ahmed Sami Abuzaid, MD, FACP, RPVI, FESC, FACC, FASE – Rising Star Representative
Karima Addetia, MD, FASE – Member at Large
Jonathan Vafai, MD, FASE – Member at Large
Pamela Burgess, ACS, BS, RDCS, RDMS, RVT, FASE – Member at Large
Lisa Bienvenu, ACS, RDCS, FASE – Member at Large
Nadine Choueiter, MD, FASE – Member at Large
Chadi Ayoub, MD, PhD, FASE – Member at Large
Fawaz Alenezi, MD, MSc, FASE – Member at Large
Doaa Aly, MD, FASE – Member at Large
Karl Richardson, MD, FASE – Member at Large
Neeta Sethi, MD, FASE – Member at Large
Raymond Musarra, MBA, ACS, RDCS, RCS, FASE – Member at Large
Thriveni Sanagala, MD, FASE – Member at Large
Roslyn Brosier Goodman, RDCS, RCS, RVS,RCVT, FASE – Member at Large
Christina Caruso-LaFuria – Staff Liaison