CSE 2023 Hybrid Echo Weekend
04/13/2023 - 04/15/2023
525 Bay St, Toronto ON
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President's Letter
Greetings! I would like to invite you all to attend the 25th Annual Canadian Society of Echocardiography Hybrid Weekend to be held April 13-15, 2023, at the Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Center Hotel.  This a very special year for multiple reasons and I surely hope you can join us!  We will be gathering together in-person for the first time in three years to celebrate our Silver Anniversary, and, for those who cannot come in personwe will also be livestreaming as we hold our first-ever hybrid meeting!  
 
The lessons from our pandemic years have been hard-earned, but we have survived, and even thrived, under the careful and expert leadership of Dr. Davinder Jassal, to whom we are most grateful.  We feel confident that we can provide our educational offerings in a hybrid format, which extends our reach regionally, nationally and internationally.  The general acceptance of virtual learning, catalyzed by the pandemic, is a convenient reality for many of us, yet we hunger for those IRL (In Real Life) connections with our colleagues and the familiarity of learning in an interactive environment. The added valued of in-person interactive and collaborative networking, mentoring and hands-on activities cannot be understated.  That is why we are so excited to be able to hold a hybrid CSE meeting for the first time this year, in order to satisfy the needs of all of our membership. 
 
Throughout the pandemic, we learned that we are resilient, resourceful, and adaptable. Based on your valuable feedback, our 3-day program will focus on the most requested educational topics to be presented by our top-tier Canadian speakers, including both echocardiologists and cardiac sonographers, and international experts representing our sister organizations, EACVI and ASE.   The added value of the in-person meeting format allows us to again offer Learning Labs for 3-D and Strain, and Workshops for Contrast Echo and POCUS (Point of Care Ultrasound) - this is the time to brush up on your 3-D and strain interpretation skills, or learn new techniques, such as lung ultrasound, and myocardial perfusion, through hands-on learning and coaching. The aim of the Learning Labs and Workshops is to enable the participant to get an introduction to 3D dataset manipulation for ventricular and valvular analysis, to learn how to do 2D strain in common clinical applications, to introduce the cardiac ultrasound user to imaging for lung comets, pleural effusion and vascular abnormalities, and to review optimization of contrast use for left ventricular opacification, and learn new approaches with myocardial perfusion. We have recruited Canadian leaders to conduct these sessions using equipment from both GE and Philips. The sessions are ticketed and limited to allow sufficient interaction and support, so be sure to sign up early! 
 
On Thursday evening, we will set the stage for this jam-packed high-level learning experience with our featured symposium, “The Conundrum of the Thick Heart – A Multimodality Imaging approach”.  There will be a welcome buffet dinner, and then we will hear about the latest approaches in the use of noninvasive imaging techniques to establish the diagnosis and enhance management of the challenging conditions of hypertrophic and infiltrative cardiomyopathies.  Saturday and Sunday are full days with scheduled sessions covering a breadth of echocardiographic topics including pericardial disease, adult congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, structural heart disease and interventional echocardiography, right-ventricular assessment, artificial intelligence, diastolic function, multimodality imaging in acute ischemic syndromes, stress echo, and much more! Highlights include this year’s guest speakers: Dr. Steffen Peterson, President of The European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and multimodality imaging expert, who will speak Friday on “Is excessive Trabeculation of the Left Ventricle a Disease Entity?”, and Dr. Stephen Little, President of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), my good friend and another dual Canadian/American, who will speak Saturday on “Echocardiography: at the Crossroads of Imaging and Intervention”.
 
New this year are concurrent focused breakout sessions addressing topics most relevant to sonographers, trainees, critical care intensivists, and those involved in Echo lab accreditation.  In-person and moderated poster presentations of scientific abstracts from our trainees and early career faculty across Canada will occur throughout the program, with judging and awards for the top presenters.
 
As we gather, there will be lots of opportunity for networking, mentoring, reminiscing, and collaborative forward momentum.  We will celebrate on Friday with a special 25thAnniversary reception including premiere viewing of CSE Echolab 25th Silver Anniversary Celebration videos from across the county (please submit your video by April 1st, so your lab is represented in this fun event!) followed by a new edition of our famous CSE Game Show.  On Saturday afternoon, we continue the celebrations with a focused 25th Silver Anniversary Session including recognition of the passing of Dr. Jean Dumesnil, presentation of the CSE Distinguished Sonographer Award, recognition of the CSE 2022 Annual Achievement Awardee, followed by a “Look Back over the Years” by CSE past-president Dr. Chi-Ming Chow, then concluding with the The Dr. Jim Swan Lecture: A Look Forward - Where we are, and where we need to go”, presented by another CSE past-president, Dr. Kwan Chan.  Finally, we will wrap up our program with the iconic national review of “Cases Across Canada” where our colleagues across the country share challenging, intriguing and controversial cases – always a dynamic engaging session, and a great way to conclude our collegial, informative meeting.  
 
As always, we are appreciative of our industry sponsors who generously provide unrestricted educational grants and equipment access to enable delivery of this premiere echocardiographic educational experience in Canada, in order that we may continue our mission to promote excellence in the delivery of quality echocardiographic services across Canada. In addition, we appreciate the Canadian Cardiovascular Society for supporting our meeting logistics with their wonderful team, and the expertise of our AV and platform vendors, SW (very appropriately stands for “SoundWaves”!) and In-Event, in facilitating our hybrid program. 
 
Whether you join in-person or virtually, our CSE family will be thrilled to welcome and greet each other at the 25th Annual Canadian Society of Echocardiography Hybrid Weekend for 2023. Looking forward to seeing you all in April to reunite and reconnect! 
 
Sincerely,

Sharon L. Mulvagh MD, FRCP(C), FASE, FACC, FAHA

President, Canadian Society of Echocardiography
 
Organizing Committe

Organizing Committee

Sharon L. Mulvagh (Chair), Igal Sebag (Co-Chair), Chi-Ming Chow (Webmaster),

Jeremy Adams, Shaheeda Ahmed, Aws Almufleh, Carly Burry, Ian Burwash,

Annabel Chen-Tournoux, Michael Chetrit, Heather Cooley, Robin Ducas, Tyler Lamb, Christina Luong, David Messika-Zeitoun,  Thi Kim Hanh Nguyen, Steven Promislow, Kenneth Szeto, Sara Faubert

Program at a Glance


*Early Registration Deadline is March 23, 2023*

Objectives

Overall Course Objectives:

At the end of this program, participants will be able to: 

-Describe the current role and application of echocardiography in patients with suspected and overt cardiac disease 

- Identify how novel and evolving echocardiography techniques can be applied to the clinical practice of echocardiography 

-Describe how echocardiography integrates with other cardiac imaging modalities to optimally evaluate the patient with suspected or confirmed cardiovascular disease 

Overall and individual session goals will be obtained by offering expert speakers combined with an interactive and usually case-based format to enhance applicability of transmitted information. 

Adequate time will be reserved for audience questions, comprising approximately 25% of each talk/session.

 In addition, faculty will be available for audience questions during breaks. In order to optimize audience concentration, presentations will be available to the registrants in a PDF format prior to the live presentations.



Session Objectives 


The Conundrum of the Thick Heart: A Multimodality Imaging Approach

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

-Review the role of echocardiography and multimodality imaging in diagnosis and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

-Understand the indications for and interpretation of echocardiography and multimodality imaging in diagnosis and management of infiltrative cardiomyopathies. 

-Recognize the continued and evolving utility of echocardiography and complementary imaging modalities in evaluation of the thickened myocardium through case-study analysis. 


Pericardial Disease: Navigating the Spectrum

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

-Discuss the echocardiographic diagnosis of pericardial tamponade. 

-Describe the echocardiographic manifestations of constrictive pericarditis

-Understand the importance of echocardiography as well as multi-modality imaging to guide diagnosis and management of pericarditis. 


Adult Congenital Heart Disease - A Primer

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

-Understand the comprehensive transthoracic echocardiographic approach to the evaluation of patients for adult congenital heart disease, including atrial septal defect (ASD), ventricular septal defect (VSD), patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), tetralogy of fallot (TOF) and transposition of the great arteries (TGA). 

-Describe the role of the echocardiographic evaluation of patients with adult congenital heart disease in considering interventional and surgical interventions.

-Recognize the indications for and significance of ACHD imaging in pregnancy. 


Contemporary Assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension

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

-Understand the differences in the ASE and EACVI guidelines for imaging in pulmonary hypertension patients

-Describe the high-risk echocardiographic findings that suggest a poor prognosis in patients with pulmonary hypertension.

-Describe new echocardiographic indices for the evaluation of pulmonary hypertension



EACVI Lecture: Is excessive trabeculation of the left ventricle a disease entity?

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

-To explain why the term noncompaction should be discouraged and excessive trabeculation be used instead

-To discuss why presence of excessive trabeculation in adults should not affect clinical management

-To be aware that presence in excessive trabeculation in infants and children may still need special considerations regarding clinical management



Valvular Heart Disease and Trans-Catheter Interventions: Is my Patient a Candidate?

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

-Recognize the value of TTE and TEE imaging in TAVI patients. 

-Describe the comprehensive transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiographic imaging approach to the evaluation of patients for mitral and tricuspid clip intervention. 

-Understand how transesophageal echocardiography can be used to guide mitral and tricuspid clip interventions


Conundrums of the Right-Heart - Clearing the Fog

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

-Assess the complex interplay between physiology and morphology in the determination of tricuspid valve function.

-Describe in detail the use of echocardiography in the evaluation of patients who present with tricuspid regurgitation and how to quantitatively assess tricuspid regurgitation

-Recognize the clinical evidence supporting tricuspid clip interventions


Artificial Intelligence: Beyond the Mystique and the Hype

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

-Understand the role of artificial intelligence in medical imaging 

-Describe artificial intelligence solutions that enable automated measurements and reporting.

-Understand the current and future role of machine/deep learning to practice of echocardiography.


Diastology:  Basic to Advanced

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

-Describe the role of echocardiography in the assessment of diastolic function, according to ASE and EACVI guidelines

-Understand how to resolve discrepant or indeterminate values in the echocardiographic assessment of diastolic function


Stress Echo: GWTG and Do It Right!

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

-Describe role of stress echocardiography in the assessment of the dyspneic patient. 

-Understand how to optimally perform a supine exercise bike study.

-Recognize the emerging role of strain assessment in stress echocardiography. 


Multimodality Imaging of Acute Ischemic Syndromes

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

-Describe the role of echocardiography the assessment of post-MI complications. 

-Recognize the value of multimodality imaging in determining the etiology of MINOCA

-Describe the echocardiographic findings in stress cardiomyopathy and myocarditis 

ASE Lecture: Echocardiography: at the crossroads of imaging and intervention. 

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

-Describe the echocardiographic features used in patient selection for transcatheter mitral and tricuspid valve intervention.

-Recognize applications for patient-specific digital and physical modeling.

-Recall the summary points of the new ASE training guidelines for interventional echocardiography.


Trainee How-To: Seeking Opportunities Beyond our Borders

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

-Understand the opportunities for advanced echocardiography and research training 

-Discuss mechanisms and approaches to achieving competence in advanced echocardiographic techniques


Sonographer Forum: Ergonomics, Workflow, and How to make this Image better? 

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

-Recognize echocardiographic findings in endocarditis.

-Describe practical and advanced echocardiographic techniques to optimize imaging

-Understand ergonomic and workflow approaches to facilitating echocardiographic studies.

Multidisciplinary Approach to Critical Care Echo

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

-Review the role of point of care ultrasound in the hemodynamic assessment of the ICU patient.

-Describe role of critical care to assess the acutely dyspneic patient. 

-Understand the role of echocardiography in managing the septic patient.


The Nuts & Bolts of Echo Lab Accreditation 

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

-Discuss how to set up a quality assurance program in your echo lab.

-Understand how to implement improvements for quality assurance 


Special Silver Anniversary Session: "Echo in Canada"

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

-Describe the evolution of echocardiography in Canada over the past several decades to better understand the current utility of echocardiography.

-Understand how to integrate established and emerging echocardiographic techniques (such as 3D echo, contrast and strain as well as multimodality imaging) in evaluating patients with valvular heart diseases (including post-intervention), non-ischemic heart disease and stroke/embolism.

-Review evolving echocardiographic and information technology advances that will drive the future of cardiac imaging for clinical management, including artificial intelligence, fusion and vortex imaging


Cases across Canada:

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

-Learn from interesting echo cases from across Canada as presented by our national and international faculty members.

-Understand the controversies and key learning points from the cases presented. 

-Engage in the discussion around these challenging cases using Twitter audience response and live questioning.


Workshops and Learning Labs – General objectives:

Review four clinically important areas in echocardiography (Strain, 3-D, Contrast Echo, POCUS) in smaller group settings including computer interaction or live scanning to enhance learning and enable interactions among participants.


Strain Learning Lab:

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

-Understand the practical aspects of performing 2D strain imaging

-Review the specific 2D strain online and offline echo analysis packages.

-Demonstrate in a small group setting how to optimally use the 2D strain analysis in clinical applications such as follow-up of cancer chemotherapy patients and cardiomyopathies.


3-D Learning Lab:

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

-Review the specific 3D online and offline echo analysis packages offered on the GE and Philips platforms. 

-Demonstrate in a small group setting how to optimally use the 3D cropping methods. 

-Demonstrate in a small group setting how to optimally use the LV and mitral valve analysis packages.


POCUS workshop:

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

-Understand how POCUS can be used by the cardiologist in day to day practice

-Perform lung ultrasound technique.

-Recognize the training requirements for the optimal use of POCUS. 

-Describe the limitations of hand-help and point-of-care ultrasound to ensure its complementary role with a comprehensive echocardiographic exam.


Contrast workshop:

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

-Demonstrate in a live and interactive setting how to utilize echo contrast and incorporate the echo contrast in the workflow of a busy echo lab.

-Describe the basic concepts, indications and practical considerations in contrast echocardiography

-Recognize the incremental value of contrast echo.

 

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Agenda
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Dinner
Dinner
Start
6:00 PM
End
7:00 PM
Feature symposium Presentation: The Conundrum of the Thick Heart: A Multimodality Imaging Approach
Feature symposium Presentation: The Conundrum of the Thick Heart: A Multimodality Imaging Approach
19:00-19:05 Welcome/Introductions Nowell Fine/Anna Woo
19:05-19:20 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: From Diagnosis to Prognosis to Management Gillian Nesbitt
19:20-19:35 Infiltrative Disorders of the Heart: Amyloidosis, Fabry’s and the Zebras Sarah Blissett
19:35-20:15 Test Your Skills! Case Presentations encompassing the Common and the Uncommon Ken Szeto, Carly Burry, Steve Promislow, Michael Chetrit
20:15-20:30 Discussion All faculty
20:30-20:35 Conclusions/Wrap-Up Nowell/Anna
Start
7:00 PM
End
8:35 PM
Speakers
Anna Woo
Carly Burry
Gillian Nesbitt
Ken Szeto
Michael Chetrit
Nowell Fine
Sarah Blissett
Steve Promislow
14
Registration and Breakfast, & Posters
Registration and Breakfast, & Posters
Start
7:00 AM
End
8:00 AM
Welcome & Introductory Comments
Welcome & Introductory Comments
Start
8:00 AM
End
8:10 AM
Speakers
Igal Sebag
Sharon Mulvagh
Pericardial Disease: Navigating the Spectrum
Pericardial Disease: Navigating the Spectrum
8:10-9:10 Pericardial Disease: Navigating the Spectrum Moderators: Ian Burwash, Rashmi Varshney
8:10-8:25 PE: Tamponade or Not? Refining our Diagnosis with Confidence Tyler Lamb
8:25-8:40 Constrictive Pericarditis: Criteria, Precautions and Pitfalls Aws Almufleh 
8:40-8:55 Recurrent Pericarditis: A New Paradigm Shift in Imaging-Guided Therapy Allan Klein 
8:55-9:10 Discussion
Start
8:10 AM
End
9:10 AM
Speakers
Allan Klein
Aws Almufleh
Ian Burwash
Rashmi Varshney
Tyler Lamb
Adult Congenital Heart Disease - A Primer
Adult Congenital Heart Disease - A Primer
9:10-10:10 Adult Congenital Heart Disease - A Primer Moderators: Robin Ducas, Beata Bruchal-Garbicz
9:10-9:25 Essential Views and Approaches in ACHD: From Simple to Complex Erwin Oechslin
9:25-9:40 Is My Patient with ASD/VSD/PDA/PVR/Coarct a Candidate for Transcatheter Intervention? Doug Hayami -accepted
9:40-9:55 Imaging ACHD in Pregnancy: When, Why and How Jasmine Grewal
9:55-10:10 Discussion
Start
9:10 AM
End
10:10 AM
Speakers
Beata Bruchal-Garbicz
Doug Hayami
Erwin Oechslin
Jasmine Grewal
Robin Ducas
NUTRITION BREAK — POSTER SESSIONS
NUTRITION BREAK — POSTER SESSIONS
Start
10:10 AM
End
10:30 AM
LEARNING LABS Round 1: 3-D
LEARNING LABS Round 1: 3-D
Start
10:15 AM
End
11:30 AM
Speakers
Jean Buithieu
Michael Chetrit
LEARNING LABS Round 1: Strain
LEARNING LABS Round 1: Strain
Start
10:15 AM
End
11:30 AM
Speakers
Maala Sooriyakanthan
Raveen Pal
Wendy Tsang
Contemporary Assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension
Contemporary Assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension
10:30-11:30 Contemporary Assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension Moderators: Sabe De, Heather Cooley
10:30-10:45 ASE vs. ESC Guidelines Lawrence Rudski
10:45-11:00 What is the incremental value of the new indices? Cheryl Saw
11:00-11:15 Building Consensus for the Canadian Approach to Echo Assessment of PH Amer Johri
11:15-11:30 Discussion
Start
10:30 AM
End
11:30 AM
Speakers
Amer Johri
Cheryl Saw
Heather Cooley
Lawrence Lau
Sabe De
EACVI Lecture
EACVI Lecture
Is excessive trabeculation of the left ventricle a disease entity?

11:30-12:15 EACVI Lecture Moderators: Sharon Mulvagh and Igal Sebag
Is excessive trabeculation of the left ventricle a disease entity? Steffen Peterson
Start
11:30 AM
End
12:15 PM
Speakers
Igal Sebag
Sharon Mulvagh
Steffen Petersen
LUNCH BREAK - Poster Sessions
LUNCH BREAK - Poster Sessions
Start
12:15 PM
End
1:00 PM
LEARNING LABS Round 2: 3-D
LEARNING LABS Round 2: 3-D
Start
12:45 PM
End
2:00 PM
Speakers
Jean Buithieu
Michael Chetrit
LEARNING LABS Round 2: Strain
LEARNING LABS Round 2: Strain
Start
12:45 PM
End
2:00 PM
Speakers
Maala Sooriyakanthan
Raveen Pal
Wendy Tsang
Valvular Heart Disease and Trans-Catheter Interventions: Is my Patient a Candidate?
Valvular Heart Disease and Trans-Catheter Interventions: Is my Patient a Candidate?
13:00-14:00 Topic: VHD and Trans-Catheter Interventions: Is my Patient a Candidate? Moderators: Hahn, Shaheeda Ahmed
13:00-13:15 Imaging in TAVI: Echo Saves the Day! Jeremy Adams
13:15-13:30 Mitral Regurgitation: What Features by TTE and TEE predict a successful intervention? Geraldine Ong (accepted by personal communication-I. Sebag)
13:30-13:45 Tricuspid Regurgitation: Should I Replace, Repair or Resist? Neil Fam
13:45-14:00 Discussion
Start
1:00 PM
End
2:00 PM
Speakers
Geraldine Ong
Jeremy Adams
Neil Fam
Shaheeda Ahmed
Thi Kim Hanh Nguyen
NUTRITION BREAK — POSTER SESSIONS
NUTRITION BREAK — POSTER SESSIONS
Start
2:00 PM
End
2:15 PM
Conundrums of the Right-Heart - Clearing the Fog
Conundrums of the Right-Heart - Clearing the Fog
14:15-15:15 Conundrums of the Right-Heart - Clearing the Fog Moderators: Michael Tsang, Marie-Josée Blais (accepted)
14:15-14:30 Why Does My Patient Have TR? Ascertaining the Anatomy and Pathology of the TV by 2D and 3D Imaging Doug Wright
14:30-14:45 Quantification of TR: When and How? Jean Buithieu (accepted)
14:45-15:00 It Takes a Village - the value of the echo-interventionalist team to manage TR Rob Moss (accepted)
15:00-15:15 Discussion
Start
2:15 PM
End
3:15 PM
Speakers
Jean Buithieu
Marie-Josée Blais
Michael Tsang
LEARNING LABS Round 3: 3-D
LEARNING LABS Round 3: 3-D
Start
2:15 PM
End
3:30 PM
Speakers
Geraldine Ong
LEARNING LABS Round 3: Strain
LEARNING LABS Round 3: Strain
Start
2:15 PM
End
3:30 PM
Speakers
Nowell Fine
Artificial Intelligence: Beyond the Mystique and the Hype
Artificial Intelligence: Beyond the Mystique and the Hype
15:30 -16:30 Artificial Intelligence: Beyond the Mystique and the Hype Moderators: Francois Tournoux, Jaclyn Lam
15:30 -15:45 Basic principles of AI and applications in Echo for improvement of workflow, consistency, and quality Wendy Tsang
15:45 -16:00 AI application in assessment of LV systolic and diastolic function Darwin Yeung
16:00 -16:15 AI in echo imaging for disease detection and outcome prediction: where are we in 2023? Teresa Tsang
16:15-16:30 Discussion
Start
3:30 PM
End
4:30 PM
Speakers
Darwin Yeung
Francois Tournoux
Jaclyn Lam
Teresa Tsang
Wendy Tsang
President's Reception- CSE 25th Anniversary Silver Celebration! Announce abstract-poster winners//Visit Exhibits
President's Reception- CSE 25th Anniversary Silver Celebration! Announce abstract-poster winners//Visit Exhibits
17:30-18:30 CSE Gameshow
Start
4:30 PM
End
5:30 PM
Speakers
Igal Sebag
Sharon Mulvagh
CSE Game Show
CSE Game Show
Start
5:30 PM
End
6:30 PM
Speakers
Christine Henri
Francois Tournoux
15
Breakfast and Registration
Breakfast and Registration
Start
7:00 AM
End
7:50 AM
Welcome and Introductory Comments
Welcome and Introductory Comments
Start
7:50 AM
End
8:00 AM
Speakers
Igal Sebag
Sharon Mulvagh
Diastology Basic to Advanced
Diastology Basic to Advanced
8:00-9:00 Topic: Diastology Basic to Advanced Moderators: David Bewick, Ken Szeto
8:00-08:15 Understanding the ASE/EACVI Diastolic Function Guidelines through Case Studies Lawrence Lau (accepted)
8:15-08:30 Does my patient have Diastolic Dysfunction? When the numbers are discrepant Usha Manian
8:30-08:45 Diastology State of the Art 2023: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going? Allan Klein
8:45-9:00 Discussion
Start
8:00 AM
End
9:00 AM
Speakers
Allan Klein
David Bewick
Ken Szeto
Lawrence Lau
Usha Manian
NUTRITION BREAK
NUTRITION BREAK
Start
9:00 AM
End
9:15 AM
WORKSHOPS Round 1: Contrast
WORKSHOPS Round 1: Contrast
Start
9:00 AM
End
10:15 AM
Speakers
Howard Leong-Poi
Marie-Josée Blais
WORKSHOPS Round 1: POCUS
WORKSHOPS Round 1: POCUS
Start
9:00 AM
End
10:15 AM
Speakers
Amer Johri
Stress Echo: GWTG and Do It Right!
Stress Echo: GWTG and Do It Right!
9:15-10:15 Topic: Stress Echo: GWTG and Do It Right! Moderators:Kareem Morant, Diane Tran
9:15-9:30 Dyspnea and Normal EF: can a diastolic stress echo help? Annabel Chen-Tournoux
9:30-9:45 Technical Tips and Tricks when Performing a Supine Bike Study Amelie Paquin (accepted)
9:45-10:00 Strain Imaging in Stress Echo Christine Henri
10:00-10:15 Discussion
Start
9:15 AM
End
10:15 AM
Speakers
Amelie Paquin
Annabel Chen-Tournoux
Christine Henri
Diane Tran
Kareem Morant
NUTRITION BREAK
NUTRITION BREAK
Start
10:15 AM
End
10:30 AM
WORKSHOPS Round 2: Contrast
WORKSHOPS Round 2: Contrast
Start
10:15 AM
End
11:30 AM
Speakers
Howard Leong-Poi
Marie-Josée Blais
WORKSHOPS Round 2: POCUS
WORKSHOPS Round 2: POCUS
Start
10:15 AM
End
11:30 AM
Speakers
Amer Johri
Multimodality Imaging of Ischemic Syndromes
Multimodality Imaging of Ischemic Syndromes
10:30-11:30 Topic: Multimodality Imaging of Ischemic Syndromes Moderators: Davinder Jassal, Carly Burry
10:30-10:45 Mechanical Complications post-MI Omid Kiamanesh
10:45-11:00 MINOCA Michael Chetrit
11:00-11:15 MI Mimickers: Takotsubo, Myocarditis Ian Paterson (accepted)
11:15-11:30 Discussion
Start
10:30 AM
End
11:30 AM
Speakers
Carly Burry
Davinder Jassal
Ian Paterson
Michael Chetrit
Omid Kiamanesh
ASE Lecture
ASE Lecture
Echocardiography: at the crossroads of imaging and intervention

11:30-12:15 ASE Lecture Moderators: Sharon Mulvagh and Igal Sebag
Echocardiography: at the crossroads of imaging and intervention Stephen LIttle
Start
11:30 AM
End
12:15 PM
Speakers
Igal Sebag
Sharon Mulvagh
Stephen Little
LUNCH BREAK
LUNCH BREAK
Start
12:15 PM
End
1:00 PM
Focused Topic: Critical Care Echo
Focused Topic: Critical Care Echo
13:00- 14:00 Focused Topic: Critical Care Echo Moderators: Sabe De, Jordan Hutson
13:00-13:15 The Relevant Study for the Patient in Shock Jeremy Adams
13:15-13:30 Use of CCE to differentiate causes of Acute Respiratory Failure Alberto Goffi
13:30-13:45 How does ultrasound in the ICU change Therapy in the Septic Patient? Ghislaine Doufle
13:45-14:00 Discussion
Start
1:00 PM
End
2:00 PM
Speakers
Alberto Goffi
Ghislaine Doufle
Jeremy Adams
Jordan Hutson
Sabe De
Focused Topic: The Nuts & Bolts of Echo Lab Accreditation
Focused Topic: The Nuts & Bolts of Echo Lab Accreditation
13:00-14:00 Focused Topic: The Nuts & Bolts of Echo Lab Accreditation Moderators: Tony Sanfilippo, Shireen Persaud
Accreditation of Echo Labs: How it works? Tony Sanfilippo
Lessons learned from the accreditation process Shireen Persaud
The challenge of Wall Motion Assessment and Practical Tips to Improve accuracy
Start
1:00 PM
End
2:00 PM
Speakers
Parvathy Nair
Shireen Persaud
Tony Sanfilippo
Sonographer Forum: Ergonomics, Workflow, and How to make this Image better?
Sonographer Forum: Ergonomics, Workflow, and How to make this Image better?
13:00-14:00 Sonographer Forum: Ergonomic Economy, Sonography Training Issues, and More (Breakout room) Moderators: Carly and Ken
CSE SonoCase Carly Burry
SonoTips'nTricks  Marie-Josee Blais
Overcoming Stress 'n Strain   Marcello Na
Start
1:00 PM
End
2:00 PM
Speakers
Carly Burry
Ken Szeto
Marcello Na
Marie-Josée Blais
Trainee How-To: Seeking Opportunities Beyond our Borders
Trainee How-To: Seeking Opportunities Beyond our Borders
informational Panel Discussion
 
13:00-14:00 Trainee How-To: Seeking Opportunities Beyond our Borders (smaller room) Moderators: Hanh, Steve Little
informational Panel Discussion
Start
1:00 PM
End
2:00 PM
Speakers
Stephen Little
Thi Kim Hanh Nguyen
NUTRITION BREAK
NUTRITION BREAK
Start
2:00 PM
End
2:15 PM
Special Silver Anniversary Session: "Echo in Canada"
Special Silver Anniversary Session: "Echo in Canada"
14:15-15:30 Special Silver Anniversary Session: "Echo in Canada" Moderators: Sharon and Igal
14:15-14:25 Recognition of Dr. Dumesnil - Philippe Pibarot Philippe Pibarot
14:25-14:35 CSE Awards -presentations Sharon and Igal
14:35-14:45 Recognition of CSE 25 year Silver Anniversary- A look back over the years
Corrine Slodgett 
14:45- 15:15 The Dr. Jim Swan Lecture: A look Forward - Where we are, and where we need to go Intro: Dr. John Parker; Talk: Kwan Chan
15:15 -15:30 Discussion
Start
2:15 PM
End
3:30 PM
Speakers
Igal Sebag
John Parker
Kwan Chan
Philippe Pibarot
Sharon Mulvagh
Cases across Canada
Cases across Canada
Start
3:30 PM
End
4:30 PM
Speakers
Christine Henri
Michael Tsang
Philippe Pibarot
Shaheeda Ahmed
Stephen Little
Steve Promislow
Concluding Remarks
Concluding Remarks
Start
4:30 PM
End
4:40 PM
Speakers
Igal Sebag
Sharon Mulvagh
Speakers

Alberto Goffi

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto Intensivist, Department of Critical Care, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto

Alberto Goffi, MD, is a Staff Physician at St. Michael’s Hospital – Unity Health Toronto and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Medicine and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine (IDCCM). After graduating from the University of Torino (Italy) and completing his internal medicine training in the same city, he moved to Toronto in 2010 for a fellowship in adult critical care medicine. His clinical and academic interests include neurocritical care and point-of-care ultrasound in acute care medicine, with a focus on lung ultrasound and optimal teaching strategies for its competency achievement. He is the co-lead of the IDCCM Critical Care Ultrasound Curriculum and the co-lead of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC) Adult Critical Care Medicine fellowship.

Alberto loves travelling for teaching; he has already taught ultrasound and neurocritical care in five different continents. In 2015, he won the Young Lecturer Award at the ESICM annual meeting. In 2019, he has been selected as the recipient of the Frank S. Rutledge Award of Excellence in Critical Care Teaching. Outside of work, Alberto has a passion for creating logos and drawings digitally; the IDCCM logo is one of his creations. In the past 4 years, he has learned that nothing is more fulfilling (and tiring!) in life than playing with Sofia and Oliver, his two children.

Allan Klein

Amelie Paquin

Cardiologist and Fellow in Echocardiography, Women's Cardiovascular Health and Clinical Research @ University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Dr. Amélie Paquin is a fellow in Advanced Echocardiography and Women’s Cardiovascular Health at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. She completed her cardiology training and a master’s degree in clinical Epidemiology at Laval University. She is also currently undergoing doctoral studies in collaboration with Laval University, studying the sex-specific impact of cardiometabolic risk factors on myocardial remodeling. She is supported by scholarships from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Fonds de recherche du Québec en santé, Association des cardiologues du Québec, and Laval University McLaughlin Dean’s Scholarship.

 

Amer Johri

Anna Woo

Medical Director, Echocardiography Laboratory, Toronto General and Toronto Western Hospitals

Dr. Anna Woo received her MD degree at McGill University and she trained in Cardiology and Echocardiography at the University of Toronto.  She completed her Master of Science degree in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Woo is a staff cardiologist based at the Toronto General Hospital (TGH), where she attends in the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) Clinic.  In addition, she is the Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory at the University Health Network (Toronto General and Toronto Western Hospitals). 

Dr. Woo’s research and academic interests have mainly focused on HCM and on advanced echo techniques.  She has contributed to a number of national and international guidelines, including the 2011 and 2022 versions of the American Society of Echocardiography Guidelines for multimodality imaging in HCM.  Dr. Woo is on the Board of Directors of the HCM Society (HCMS).

 

Annabel Chen-Tournoux

Aws Almufleh

Dr. Aws Almufleh is a cardiologist specializing in echocardiography and advanced heart failure. He is the Physician Lead of the Heart Function Clinic and holds academic appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University. He received his medical degree with First Class Honors from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2012. He then completed a Master of Public Health (MPH) at the University of Miami focusing on epidemiology and clinical research. He did internal medicine residency at McGill University where he served as the Chief Medical Resident. Following cardiology fellowship training at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (2016-2019), Dr. Almufleh completed an advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School (2019-2020) and earned the Pierce Fellow Award for Scholarship in Cardiomyopathy in recognition of his clinical and research achievements. Dr. Almufleh also completed an advanced echocardiography fellowship at Vancouver General Hospital/University of British Columbia (2020-2021). Concurrently, he pursued research training through the Global Clinical Scholars Research Training (GCSRT) program at Harvard Medical School with emphasis on advanced quantitative research methodology and study design.


Dr. Almufleh has a keen interest in medical education and echocardiography. He is the Echocardiography rotation director for cardiology fellows and non-cardiology learners at Queen’s University. He moderates a weekly echocardiography teaching round where faculty goes over interesting echocardiograms with cardiology fellows and sonographers. He is a faculty member of the Queen’s Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) fellowship training program. Furthermore, he is serving a two-year term as a member-at-large in the Canadian Society of Echocardiography Board of Directors. As for research pursuit, Dr. Almufleh, under the mentorship of Dr. Parvathy Nair from the University of British Columbia, is the lead author of a medical education project aimed at optimizing echocardiography competency training during cardiology fellowship which earned the Canadian Cardiovascular Ultrasound Research Excellence Award for Technology & Education – $50,000 CREATE Grant. He is also a co-investigator in the echocardiography online quality assessment and direct feedback modules project led by Drs. Robin Ducas and Che-Ming Chow. Dr. Almufleh has published over 25 peer-reviewed articles and was a co-investigator of the large-scale randomized controlled trial comparing Milrinone with Dobutamine in the Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock; published in the New England Journal of Medicine in August 2021. 

 

Beata Bruchal-Garbicz

Cardiac Sonographer Educator @ Peter Munk Cardiac Centre Echo Lab

Beata completed her post-graduate echo course in Toronto and started working at the Toronto General Hospital Echo Lab as a cardiac sonographer, where she currently carries out the role of sonographer educator. Her main goal is to support her sonographer peers in the pursuit of professional excellence while performing studies in different types of cardiac problems, including adult congenital heart diseases.

Carly Burry

RDCS BSc

Carly Burry is a cardiac sonographer at the Colchester East Hants Health Authority in Truro, Nova Scotia. After completing her Bachelor of Kinesiology, she completed her Cardiac Sonography program at Mohawk College and began her career as a Sonographer.

Cheryl Saw

Chi-Ming Chow

Christine Henri

Cardiologist and echocardiographer, Montreal Heart Institute Assistant professor of Medicine, Université de Montreal

Darwin Yeung

David Bewick

Davinder Jassal

Diane Tran

Diane Tran is a Cardiac Sonographer with over 7 years of experience and currently works at Vancouver General Hospital. She has a degree in Kinesiology from York University and an advanced graduate certificate in Diagnostic Cardiac Sonography from Mohawk College.

Doug Hayami

Erwin Oechslin

MD, Professor of Medicine, U of T

Francois Tournoux

Geraldine Ong

Ghislaine Doufle

Gillian Nesbitt

Heather Cooley

Howard Leong-Poi

Ian Burwash

Director of Echocardiography Professor of Medicine @ University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Ian Paterson

University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Credentials/Training:

Undergraduate medicine, McGill University, 1998-2001

Internal Medicine, McGill University, 1995-1998

Cardiology, McGill University, 1998-2001

Echocardiography Fellowship, McGill University, 2001-2002

Cardiovascular MRI Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, 2002-2004


Current Positions:

Staff Cardiologist, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, 2022-present

Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa

Co-Director, Cardiac MRI, University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Director, Rare Cardiac Conditions Centre, University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Board member, Canadian Cardiac Oncology Network


Past Positions/Appointments:

Professor and Cardiologist, University of Alberta, 2004-2022

Past Director, Residency Training Adult Cardiology, University of Alberta, 2009-2017

Associate Director and Competence Committee Chair, Residency Training Adult Cardiology, University of Alberta, 2021-2022

Clinical Director, Edmonton Cardio-Oncology program

Past President, Canadian Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance


Clinical and Academic Interests:

Prevention and treatment of chemotherapy related cardiotoxicity

Advanced cardiac imaging (MRI and echo)

Heart Failure/Amyloidosis/Sarcoidosis

Post-COVID syndrome

Medical Education 


Recreational Activities:

Ice Hockey

Cross-country skiing

Cycling

 

Igal Sebag

Jaclyn Lam

Jasmine Grewal

Jean Buithieu

Jeremy Adams

John Parker

Jordan Hutson

Kareem Morant

Dr. Kareem Morant is an Echocardiographer and Assistant Professor at North York General Hospital (NYGH) in Toronto, ON. After completing Cardiology training at University of Toronto, he completed his Advanced Echocardiography Fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN. 

Currently, he is the Director of the Heart Function Clinic at NYGH and is a member of the Transcatheter Heart Valve Team at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto.
Dr. Morant’s areas of interest include Imaging, Valvular Heart Disease, Heart Failure and A-TTR Cardiomyopathy, where he has a particular interest in how it effects the Canadian Black population. Furthermore, he enjoys teaching and mentoring trainees of all levels, and is passionate about advocating for improving diversity and inclusivity in medicine.

 

Ken Szeto

CRCS

Ken Szeto is a cardiac sonographer at Kelowna General Hospital in British Columbia. After completing his Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology, he completed the Diagnostic Cardiac Sonography program at Mohawk College.

Kwan Chan

Lawrence Lau

Lawrence Lau, MD, is a cardiologist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. 
Dr. Lau graduated from the University of Manitoba, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree with distinction in 2011. He earned his medical degree in 2015 followed by a residency in internal medicine in 2018, also at the University of Manitoba. He then completed a residency in cardiology at the UOHI in 2021, followed by a fellowship in echocardiography at the UOHI in 2022.
Dr. Lau’s research interests include infective endocarditis, echocardiography, and valve disease.

 

Lawrence Rudski

Maala Sooriyakanthan

Marcello Na

Marie-Josée Blais

Marie-Josée Blais is Chief Cardiac Sonographer at the Jewish General Hospital, a McGill University affiliated hospital. She graduated as a medical imaging technologist in 1991 and obtained her ARDMS certification in adult and pediatric echocardiography in 1995. She is currently an inspector of the Order of Technologists of Quebec (OTIMRO). She served on the CSE Board of Directors and has lectured at numerous national and international meetings, including the ASE and CSE annual meetings.

Her interests include standardization in echocardiography, quality improvement and contrast imaging

 

 

Michael Chetrit

FRCPC, FACC Assistant Professor of Medicine, McGill University, Cardiologist, McGill University Health Centre Director, McGill Amyloidosis Project Clinical Director, Courtois Cardiac MRI Program Vice President, Canadian Society of Cardiac MRI

Michael Chetrit received his medical doctorate from the University of Montreal in Montreal, Canada. He completed his training as an internist and cardiologist at the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University in Montreal as well. He completed additional training at the Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland Ohio where he gained expertise in advanced cardiac imaging and cardiac amyloidosis. He is currently Assistant Professor with the Department of Medicine at McGill University and a staff cardiologist at the Montreal General Hospital. In addition to directing the McGill Amyloidosis Project, he remains an active researcher with interest in multimodality imaging, cardiac amyloidosis and pericardial diseases. He authored or co-authored 35 peer-reviewed publications and has presented at multiple imaging societies.

Michael Tsang

MD, FRCPC, FASE, Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology, The University of British Columbia.

Dr. Michael Tsang is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. He completed his MD and residency training at the University of British Columbia, and advanced echocardiography and research training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His clinical expertise and research interests include the use of echocardiography for assessing valvular heart disease and the application of artificial intelligence for the analysis of echocardiographic data.

Neil Fam

Nowell Fine

MD SM FRCPC FCCS FACC FASE FHFSA

Dr. Fine is a heart failure cardiologist and echocardiologist in Calgary (Alberta Canada). He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Cardiac Sciences, Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. He is the Clinical Director of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute. He is director of Clinical and Research/Core Echocardiography Laboratories, and co-lead of Heart Failure research program. Dr. Fine has a clinical and research interest in heart failure and infiltrative cardiomyopathies, particularly cardiac amyloidosis and Anderson-Fabry disease, and is Co-Director of the Amyloidosis Program of Calgary and Cardiac Amyloidosis Clinic. He is the co-principal investigator for the Canadian Registry for Amyloidosis Research. 

 

Omid Kiamanesh

Parvathy Nair

Philippe Pibarot

Rashmi Varshney

Technical Director, Echo lab @ Mount Sinai Hospital

Raveen Pal

Robbie Stewart

Robin Ducas

Sabe De

Sarah Blissett

MD, FRCPC MHPE, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Co-Program Director of Adult Cardiology Subspecialty Training Program, and a Centre Researcher at the Centre for Education Research and Innovation (CERI), Western University, London, ON

Dr. Sarah Blissett is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Co-Program Director of Adult Cardiology Subspecialty Training Program, and a Centre Researcher at the Centre for Education Research and Innovation (CERI)

Following completion of medical school at the University of Toronto, Internal Medicine at University of Toronto and Cardiology at Western University, she completed fellowships in Integrated Cardiac Imaging (Echocardiography and Cardiac MRI, McGill University, Montreal) and Adult Congenital Heart Disease (UCSF, San Francisco).  Concurrent to these fellowships, she obtained a Master of Health Professions Education from Maastricht University.

Dr. Blissett's clinical work focuses on cardiac imaging, Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Cardio-Obstetrics.  Her academic interests are focused on improving education in Cardiology, particularly in optimizing learning in workplace learning environments

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Shaheeda Ahmed

Sharon Mulvagh

Shireen Persaud

Steffen Petersen

Steffen Petersen is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London and a Consultant Cardiologist at Barts Heart Centre, Barts Health NHS Trust. He is also the Cardiovascular Programme Director of UCLPartners Academic Medical Centre. He is President of the European Society of Cardiology's (ESC) European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI). He is the academic Training Programme Director for medical specialities in London. He holds an MBCHB and MDRES equivalent (Dr med.) from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, a DPHIL (OXON) from the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health and an MSc from the London School of Economics. He is level 3 certified for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). He has been actively involved in cardiovascular magnetic resonance since 1998 and he reports over 1000 cardiac adult MRI scans each year. His research interests include clinical trials using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), cost-effectiveness analysis related to cardiac imaging and primary prevention, large scale population-based​ studies using CMR including AI approaches (UK Biobank cardiac imaging lead) and electronic health record research that incorporates cardiac imaging data.

Stephen Little

Steve Promislow

MD, FRCPC Assistant Professor, Section of Cardiology

Steven Promislow graduated from medical school at the University of Manitoba in 2010 and completed his residency training in internal medicine at the University of Manitoba in 2013. He went on to complete his cardiology residency in 2016 at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, followed by fellowships in both adult echocardiography and cardiac CT/nuclear cardiology. He subsequently joined the Division of Cardiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute before returning to Winnipeg in 2021 to join WRHA Cardiac Sciences and the Section of Cardiology within the Department of Medicine at the University of Manitoba.
His academic interests lie in multimodality cardiac imaging and their application in clinical practice. He is also actively involved in education at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

 

Teresa Tsang

Thi Kim Hanh Nguyen

Dr. Nguyen is an advanced adult echocardiography fellow at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver. She graduated from the University of Montreal with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2010. She completed her medical degree at the University of Sherbrooke in 2015, followed by residencies in internal medicine and cardiology at McGill University. Dr. Nguyen’s clinical and research interests include hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, echocardiography and cardiovascular health in vulnerable populations.

Tony Sanfilippo

Tyler Lamb

MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACC, DRCPSC Cardiology and Echocardiography

Usha Manian

Wendy Tsang

Assistant Professor, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Peter Munk Cardiac Center, University of Toronto

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