The goal of the Neonatal Hemodynamics TnECHO Specialty Interest Group (NHTS) is to cultivate innovation and scientific discovery, foster clinical and academic co-operation, and reshape practice and training guidelines for the management of cardiovascular problems in newborns and young infants. Implementation of Hemodynamics programs across North America has resulted from strong collaboration between neonatologists with formal training in TnECHO and Pediatric Echocardiography Laboratory leaders. These programs have helped promote standardized imaging guidelines and clinical pathways, create hemodynamic fellowship-training programs, and cultivate hemodynamics research. The NHTS’s founding members have played a pivotal role in developing normative echocardiography datasets across gestations, enhanced mechanistic insight into common neonatal cardiovascular problems (e.g., patent ductus arteriosus, pulmonary hypertension) through echocardiography-guided research, and validated the reliability of common echocardiography techniques in newborns. The ASE NTHS will help anchor these efforts within a well-established society of cardiovascular imagers, and support both the mission and strategic goals of ASE through enhanced membership and professional diversity.
NHT SIG Leaders:
Patrick McNamara, MD, Chair
Wyman Lai, MD, MPH, MBA, FASE, Co-Chair
Shazia Bhombal, MD
Willem-Pieter de Boode, MD, PhD
Afif EL-Khuffash
Lindsay Freud, MD, FASE
Regan Giesinger, MD
Amish Jain, MBBS, PhD
Tina Leone, MD
Philip Levy, MD
Bernadette Richards, RDCS, FASE
Dany Weisz, MD, MSc
Marissa Moran, Staff Liaison
Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography
Neonatal Hemodynamic Research Center
NEONATAL HEMODYNAMICS/TNECHO (NHTS) SPECIALTY INTEREST GROUP COMMUNICATION:
Growth of Neonatal Hemodynamics Programs and Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography Performed by Neonatologists
If you have questions, please contact us at SIGS@ASEcho.org.