Tony Forshaw is an echo educator and clinical cardiac sonographer at Hearts 1st, in Brisbane Australia. Tony has a master’s degree in cardiac ultrasound and continues to have a strong ongoing interest in research. His main areas of interest are contrast echocardiography, remote and indigenous health, quality improvement in echo and the development of machine learning models in echocardiography. Tony passionately enjoys the art of performing echocardiography and is obsessed with improving quality.
Tony has worked as a sonographer for over 20 years, and was course coordinator for the post graduate cardiac ultrasound program at Queensland University of Technology. He is a vocal campaigner for improving standards of sonographer training and an enthusiastic speaker at national and international conferences on a variety of echo topics. Mr Forshaw served as a past president of the Australasian Sonographers Association (ASA). Tony has been a long-standing member and Fellow of the ASE and has contributed to the ASE as a volunteer serving on the PR committee and as course director of the Advanced Echo Techniques Virtual course. Tony has co-authored textbook chapters and contributed video resources to exam preparation courses in advanced echo. Tony is the director of Echo Guru, providing online echo education to a global audience.
Through his online education platforms, Tony has built a solid reputation in the international echo community and is enthusiastic about working to represent and further strengthen this community within the ASE membership.