The 3rd Annual Echo in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease is a two-day virtual course, presenting the latest information on established and emerging cardiovascular ultrasound technologies, clinical care and practical considerations in children and adults with congenital heart disease. Expert physician and sonographer faculty discuss current technologies with a particular focus on how they can be effectively applied in the clinical setting.  

Topics include: 

• What's New In The Guidelines?
• PCHD From Around the World
• Investigating Echo in CHD
• Is Echo Enough? Multi-Modality Imaging - Debate & Talk
• Fetal Cardiology Cases: Torture the Experts!
• Imaging ACHD from the Sonographer's Perspective
• 3D For Everything
• Career Development Roundtable: How Organizations Can Enhance My Echo Career

All sessions will have dedicated Question and Answer time where faculty will be joining live to answer participant questions. 

Learning Objectives: 

At the end of this course, that participant will be able to: 

• Describe imaging goals and approaches to a variety of challenging forms of congenital heart disease, from infancy to adulthood. 
• Understand and apply current techniques in imaging assessment of cardiac anatomy and function, including contrast imaging in pediatrics, advanced 3D echo, myocardial work and CRT in children. 
• Apply techniques to promote well-being, resiliency, and career advancement of your entire sonographer team. 

Chairs:  Melissa Wasserman, RDCS, RCCS, FASE and Shiraz Maskatia MD, FASE

CME Information

The American Society of Echocardiography is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Society of Echocardiography designates this activity for a maximum of 13.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program, the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) MOC program, and/or the American Board of Anesthesiology’s (ABA) Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program® or MOCA 2.0®. It is ASE’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM and ABP MOC points and/or ABA MOCA 2.0®.   Physicians will earn MOC and/or MOCA 2.0 points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity.

ARDMS and CCI recognize ASE’s certificates and have agreed to honor the CME credit hours toward their registry requirements for sonographers.

Registration includes a maximum of 13.00 CME/MOC credits for attending the live virtual course and the virtual "Happy Hour". Attendees will have access to OnDemand content for 90 days from November 4th, 2024 to February 3rd, 2025.

Disclosures:

ASE is committed to ensuring that its educational mission, and all accredited continuing educational programs provide a protected space to learn, teach, and engage in scientific discourse free from influence from organizations that may have an incentive to insert commercial bias into education.

While a monetary or professional affiliation with an ineligible company does not necessarily influence a speaker’s presentation, the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education and policies of the ACCME require that all financial relationships with ineligible companies* be identified and mitigated prior to engaging in an accredited CE activity. In accordance with these policies, ASE actively identified relevant financial relationships between faculty in control of this accredited CE activity and ineligible companies and implemented mitigation strategies to eliminate any potential influence from persons or organizations that may have an incentive to insert commercial bias in this activity. (*Companies that are ineligible to be accredited in the ACCME System (“ineligible companies”) are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.)

The following faculty members have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies:

• Melissa Wasserman
• Shiraz Maskatia
• Courtney Cassidy
• Daniel L Saurers
• Laura Mercer-Rosa
• Shaine Morris
• Alicia Rangosch
• Lily Berhe
• Shahid Zaman
• Fabiola Perez
• Maria Pernetz
• Shazia Mohsin
• Deborah Ho
• Charitha Reddy
• Kanwal Farooqi
• Jerrid Brabender
• Jason Williams
• Nee Khoo

All relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies listed for the following faculty members have been mitigated:

• Jennifer Acevedo

Members of the ASE CME Committee members (not serving as faculty) do not have any financial relationships with ineligible companies.  Click here for a list of these members.

None of the ASE staff who were involved in the planning and implementation of this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.  Click here for a list of ASE staff members.

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