The ASE Foundation is excited to share with you the Summer 2015 Newsletter! To learn about your fellow members and donors, click here to read the current issue.

Last fall the ASE Foundation (ASEF) gathered leaders from across the healthcare spectrum in the nation’s capital to offer a variety of unique perspectives on the transition to value-based healthcare, with a focus on the role of cardiovascular ultrasound in the changing environment. The summary report from this first-of-its-kind event has now been published in the July issue of JASE, and will serve as an excellent resource for our members to demonstrate the value of echocardiography to colleagues, administrators, and others in the healthcare community.

In addition, ASEF has added speaker slides and video summaries of two panels to the Summit 2014 website, and will continue to add additional videos and other resources as often as possible.  One of the highlights of the program featured a panel session with three patients whose care was directly impacted by the use of echocardiography. Click here to watch Sarah Woodruff, an adult with congenital heart disease, talk about the value that echo has brought to her life.

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Because of your generosity, the ASE Foundation not only reached its Giving Tuesday goal of $3,000, but exceeded it and ended the day with a total of $5,201 in donations. Did you miss Giving Tuesday? Don’t worry, there’s still time to make a U.S. tax deductible charitable contribution to the Foundation’s 2014 Annual Appeal. Click here to donate to an initiative of your choice.

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The ASE Education and Research Foundation (ASE Foundation) is excited to announce the addition of two, Spanish-language webinars to our collection of translated guideline materials. Both webinars are available at no cost as a way to increase the dissemination of echo education globally. Federico Asch, MD, FASE, recorded ASE’s first webinar in Spanish. Dr. Asch presents “Guidelines for Performing a Comprehensive Transesophageal Echocardiographic Examination” by Hahn, et al. Watch here. Roberto Lang, MD, FASE has also recorded a Webinar on “Three-Dimensional Echocardiography: Recommendations for Image Acquisition and Display,” based on the EAE/ASE Guideline, which can be found here.

We are excited about this opportunity to make ASE guidelines available to colleagues all over the world. Visit our Guidelines translations pageto access the full text to many of ASE’s guideline documents in Mandarin, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.