Council Objectives include:
- Support circulation and vascular ultrasound interest areas by communicating issues of importance to the membership;
- Provide guidance to the ASE Board of Directors regarding circulation and vascular ultrasound;
- Provide a forum for members with similar interests to network;
- Provide a representative (council chairman) to ASE Board of Directors;
- To provide educational offerings for those practicing cardiovascular ultrasound for circulation and vascular patients, including guidance to Scientific Sessions Program Committee
- To provide guidance on standards of care related to circulation and vascular ultrasound to the Board and Guidelines and Standards Committee
Circulation and Vascular Council Steering Committee Activities
- Quarterly article in the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (JASE)
- Targeted track at ASE Scientific Sessions instructing how to perform vascular ultrasound, review clinical cases, and understand risk assessment in the practice of primary prevention
- Advocacy efforts related to circulation and vascular ultrasound practice
- Circulation and Vascular community on Connect@ASE
- Bi-monthly message from chair
- Resource library
- Allows members to discuss issues and network
- Forum for news and announcements about ASE and circulation and vascular ultrasound
2020 Scientific Sessions Travel Grants
The ASE Education and Research Foundation plans to sponsor two vascular ultrasound trainees (physician student or sonographer) to attend the 31st ASE Annual Scientific Sessions in Denver, CO, June 19-22, 2020. These travel grants are part of an effort by the ASE’s Council on Circulation and Vascular Ultrasound Steering Committee to encourage physician trainees in cardiovascular specialties to focus on the field of circulation and vascular ultrasound, to encourage sonographers with an interest in vascular imaging, and to recruit enthusiastic new members to the Circulation and Vascular Ultrasound Council. Students in an ultrasound training program, residents and fellows in vascular surgery, cardiovascular medicine, and vascular medicine may apply. All sonographers with strong interest in vascular ultrasound are also invited to apply. To apply for the $1000 travel grant, please submit your CV, a cover letter describing why you desire to attend the ASE Scientific Sessions, plus a letter from either your training program director or vascular lab director in support of your application. Applicants must be a member of ASE. Previous recipients of an ASE Travel Grant are not eligible to apply. Application window will open in early Winter 2019.
- 2019 Travel Grant Recipients: Salwa Nihal, MBBS, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada; Nidhal Patel, MD, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Participating in the Council on Circulation and Vascular Ultrasound:
Membership in ASE’s councils is a complimentary member benefit. You can join one or more subspecialty councils of interest to you by checking the relevant boxes on your membership application or by selecting them in your online membership profile.
Most of the information about council activities, announcements, discussion boards and volunteer opportunities are available in the council’s community on Connect@ASE, ASE’s online networking site. This site is an ASE member benefit, and allows council members the opportunity to network, discuss issues, be aware of deadlines for travel grants and volunteer opportunities, and be in the know about council initiatives, concerns and news. Members can opt for daily or weekly digests of news related to the council communities in which they chose to participate. Simply opt to join the communities of interest
Council on Circulation and Vascular Ultrasound Steering Committee:
Chair: Amer Johri, MD, FASE
Chair Elect: Bryan Wells, MD, FASE
Immediate Past Chair: Esther Kim, MD, MPH, RPVI, FASE
Council Representative on ASE Executive Board: Wyman Lai, MD, MPH, FASE
Education Committee Representative: Vijay Nambi, MD, FASE
Guidelines & Standards Committee Representative: TBD
Scientific Sessions Track Chair: Bryan Wells, MD, FASE
Scientific Sessions Track Co-Chair: Fadi Shamoun, MD, FASE
Members at Large: Christina Fanola, MD; Rebecca LeLeiko, MD and Matthew Vorsanger, MD
Guideline and Standard Rep.: Rebecca LeLeiko, MD.
