The 3rd Annual Echo Florida course will take place October 12 – 14 at Disney’s Grand Floridian at Walt Disney World, FL.  This comprehensive echo course features expert faculty who will discuss strengths and limitations of established and emerging technologies and illustrate how these technologies can be used to improve and streamline patient care in a cost conscious manner. Echo Florida also hosts two special preconferences which will be held on Saturday, October 11 (separate registration required):

• Point of Care Symposium:  Brief lectures with case illustrations will discuss protocols for use of small echocardiographic devices in various settings such as emergency room, intensive care unit, and community screening programs. There will be ample time for hands-on training with multiple types of these devices. A copy of ASE’s Focused Cardiac Ultrasound: Fundamentals of Acquisition and Interpretation DVD is included with registration for this session.
• Learning Lab:  The Learning Lab is an opportunity for participants to get individualized instruction at computer workstations. Participants will be given hands-on instruction on quantitative echocardiography using real cases. These small group sessions allow ample time to interact with the experts.

Learn more and register today by visiting www.asecho.org/echoflorida or downloading the Preliminary Program.

ASE’s Silver Anniversary Scientific Sessions welcomed investigators from 24 countries around the world who presented their original science during the meeting. Two investigator award competitions recognized the best science presented, and ASE congratulates them on their excellent achievements!

• 2014 Arthur E. Weyman Young Investigator’s Award Competition Winner
  Chi Young Shim, MD, PhD, from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon for her work entitled “Platelet Attachment to Vascular Endothelium Occurs in Both Early and Late-Stage Atherosclerosis Secondary to Dysregulation of Von Willebrand Factor: Evaluation by Contrast Ultrasound Molecular Imaging”
• 2014 Sonographer Investigator’s Award Competition Winner
  Angela M. Morgan, PGDCU, MHSc, from Capital & Coast District Health Board in Wellington, New Zealand for her work entitled “Global Longitudinal Strain Differentiates Right Ventricular Pacing Lead Positions”

Thank you to all of the investigators who contributed to this year’s scientific program! We hope to see your future science at next year’s Scientific Sessions in Boston, Massachusetts, June 13-16, 2015. Abstract submission will open in October 2014.

Congratulations to ASE member, Anne Bello, RDCS, RDMS, AS, who won the Echo Bingo drawing which took place at ASE’s Silver Anniversary Scientific Sessions on Monday, June 23.  See you in Boston Anne!

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