Unless you live under a rock, your life and routine has been affected someway due to COVID-19. Around the nation, we see closed schools, heart-breaking job loss, social distancing, and empty grocery shelves (what’s up with the toilet paper run!!).
This week’s guest writer is Patrice McKay. Check out her article on Gerbode’s Defect in Echocardiography. As always, we would like for you to learn more about our guest writer. The story of her journey into the world of echocardiography is inspiring and full of the kindness of others.
In this week’s sonographer spotlight we will introduce you to Presley Painter. She was one of our 2018 Mentor Award Winners. She was nominated by Shannon Fulerson. Shannon shared with us how Presley takes time to work with countless sonographers to teach and mentor them.
This week, in our spotlight article, we featured one of our 2018 Mentor Award winners, Dr. Ahmed Said Saad. One of the reasons Dr. Said was noiminated is for his educational Facebook Group that includes an echo case study atlas! In addition, interesting case studies are uploaded regularily.
Earlier this year we announced the 2018 Inspiring Excellence in Imaging Mentor Award Winners. As promised, we would like to introduce you to our winners. This week we will feature Ahmed Said Saad, MD from Egypt.
Last year during Ultrasound Awareness Month we announced the Inspiring Excellence Mentor Award. We asked all of you to nominate someone who has made an outstanding commitment to mentoring within the field of ultrasound. We asked and you answered!! Dozens of applications came in from around the globe!
The new year has rang in and we are already quickly approaching the end of the month. I though before another year takes off it would be nice to review some of the highlights from last year. Last year we were celebrating our 10th anniversary which kicked off in October 2017 with a world tour that ran through October 2018.
This month we held an Echo Symposium that was focused on the MitraClip procedure. The conference, What the Clip! was a half day symposium that covered the essentials of understanding degenerative mitral valve regurgitation and how to perform the required echo and TEE views.
Last weekend we held What the Clip! Echo Symposium at Bethesda Hospital East. It reviewed the echo assessment of the mitral valve with both TTE and TEE. At the end of the symposium, George Daniel, MD, FACC reviewed a MitraClip case with us. He presented a case that he had recently performed at Bethesda Hospital.
This past Saturday we held our Echo Symposium on the MitraClip. Jeffrey Perez, from Abbott, gave a great lecture and demonstration of the MitraClip procedure. In past weeks we introduced you to some of the symposium speakers, Dr. Christina Michael and Elyce Kwasman, MSN, ACNP. This week we would like to introduce you to Jeff so you can learn a little more about his background and his role in the MitraClip procedure.
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