Dr. Susan Wiegers served as ASE President in 2015-2016 after serving on the Board and a number of committees. More recently she was the Chair of the Writing Committee for the 2019 ACC/AHA/ASE Advanced Training Statement on Echocardiography and the Chair of the ASE Search Committee for the new Editor-in-Chief of JASE.
Dr. Wiegers was the director of Clinical Echocardiography at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania until 2011 and then Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University for 10 years. She finished her career at Temple as the founding CEO and Senior Associate Dean of the Temple Faculty Practice Plan. She now holds an position as Adjunct Professor of Urban Bioethics at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine. She sees patients in a cardiology clinic a few times a month but has largely retired to enjoy her passion for literature, travel and most importantly family and grand-children.