The ASE Foundation sponsors Council Travel Grants to trainees to fund their attendance at the ASE Scientific Sessions. These grants are part of an ongoing effort by the ASE Foundation and the Council Steering Committees to encourage trainees in cardiovascular specialties to focus on the respective echocardiography subspecialty and to recruit enthusiastic new members to the Council membership.
2024
Hannah Davidson, MBBS, University of Alberta, Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton, AB
Mounica Rao, MD, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX
Lesje DeRose, MD, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
2023
Yasaman Farsiani, Univeristy of California, Irvine, CA
Grace Kong, MD, NY; Christiane Mhanna, Nemours Children’s Hospital, DE
2022
David M. Barris, MD, Mount Sinai Hospital, Bronx, NY
Jennifer Klein, MD, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC
2021
J. Kevin Wilkes, MD, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX
Daphney Kernizan, DO, Nemours Children’s Health System, Wilmington, DE
2020
Henar EL Makhzangy, PhD, Alexandria University EL Shatby Children Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt
Kirsten Graff, MD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Igor Averkin, MD, Almazov National Medical Research Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019
Allison Black, MD, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Simone Jhaveri, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
2018
Andrew McCrary, MD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Brian White, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2017
Jamie Harrington, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Adam Christopher, MD, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA
2016
Rachel Torok, MD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Carolyn Wilhelm, MD, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
2015
Sara Swanson, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Sandhya Ramlogan, MD, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO
2014
Heynric Grotenhuis, MD, PhD, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Joy Johnson, MD, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
2013
Daniel Forsha, MD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Thomas Miller, MD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2012
Suma Potiny, MD, The Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Dongngan Truong, MD, Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2011
Jarrad Knudson, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX
2010
Brad Alan Friedman, MD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
2009
Kristopher M. Cumbermack, MD, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egelston, Atlanta, GA
Judith MacCormick, MD, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Shai M.R. Tejman-Yarden, MD, MS, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA
2024
Abhishek Gami, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Sae Jang, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA
Lijun Qian, MD, PhD, The first affiliated hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu
2023
Erin Goerlich,MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Katie Martin, University of Colorado Anchutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
Alexander Sullivan, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
2020
Koya Ozawa, MD, PhD, Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
Alpana Senapati, DO, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston, TX
2019
Salwa Nihal, MBBS, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON Canada
Nidhal Patel, MD, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2018
Bo Xu, MD, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
2017
Zardasht Jaff, MD, MBChB, FRCPC, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON Canada
Xuanyi Jin, MD, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
2016
Olivia Yau, MSc, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON Canada
2015
Mandeep Randhawa, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Amanda Dillon, RDCS, Kingston Heart Clinics, Kingston, ON Canada
2014
Yogendra Kanthi, MD, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI
Hemantha Koduri, MD Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
2013
Katerina D. Exis, RDCS, RVT, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
Brooke Harland, MEd, RDCS, RVT, Baptist Health Lexington, Lexington, KY
Anyi Liu, RDMS, RDCS, RUT, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
2012
Rene Quiroz, MD, MPH, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
Suzanne Poston, RDCS, FASE,University of Texas Physicians, Houston, TX
2011
Atul Singla, MD, Cleveland Clinic Heart & Vascular Institute, Cleveland, OH
Omeed Zardkoohi, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
2010
Veerendra M. Chadachan, MD, MRCP(UK), FAMS (Singapore), Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
Sarwar Hassan Orakzai, MD, Darthmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
2009
Samuel Daneshvar, MD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Chad Kosanovich, UPMC Heart Vascular Institute, Sewickley, PA
John Yin, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Michael Chang, New York-Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center, Fresh Meadows, NY
2023
Beiqi Chen, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, China
Kamran Namjouyan, DO, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA
Alon Shechter, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angelres, CA
2022
Ezeldeen Abuelkasem, MBBCh, MSc, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Antonia van Kampen, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA
2021
Promise Ariyo, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2020
Alexander Woltersom, MD
2019
Yoko Kagemoto, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Richard Thalappillil, MD from Tufts University, Medford, MA
2018
Ali Elsayers, MD, Tufts University Medical Center, Boston, MA
Diana DeAndrade, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2017
Priti Mehla, MD, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
Bo Xu, MD, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
2016
Lucy Safi, DO, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Daniel Walsh, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
2015
Nadira Hamid, MD, National Heart Centre, Singapore
Sharon McCartney, MD, Duke University, Durham, NC
2014
John Anderson Dam, MD, UCLA Health System, Los Angeles, CA
Suzana Zorca, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MD
2013
Halyna Prylutska, MD, Montreal University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Karen Zimmerman, BS, RCDS (AG, PE), RVT, Munson Medical Center, Traverse City, MI
2012
Agnes Kim, MD, PhD, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
Karsten Bartels, MD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
2011 Manjula Burri, MD, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
Shahnaz Punjani, MD, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
2010
Luisa Ciatti, MD, Ospedale del Cuore G. Pasquinucci, Massa, Italy
Frederick C. Cobey, MD, MPH, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Lily Zhang, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
2009
Viachaslau Barodka, MD, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Nicolas Aeschlimann, MD, Duke Medicine, Durham, NC
2024
Gina Quill, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Jacqueline Wheatley, DMS, RDCS, FASE, Mohawk College, Hamilton, ON
Jon Owensby, ACS, RDCS, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
2023
Melissa Bond, BHS,ACS,RDCS, University of Kentucky, KY
Lauren Howard, RDCS, FASE, St. Luke’s Medical Center, WI
Lindsey Kalvin, ACS, BS, RDCS(AE&PE), FASE, Froedtert Medical College of Wisconsin, WI
2022
Elise Hawes, BAS, ACS, RDCS, FASE, Henry Ford Health Jackson Hospital, Albion, MI
Megan Schoessling, BS, RDCS, Children’s Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
2021
Lisa Elliott, BHS, RDCS, Nemours Cardiac Center, Wilmington, DE
Lynsy Friend, BS, RCS, FASE, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Heart & Vascular Center, Lebanon, NH
2020
Saskia Oosthuizen, GenesisCare, Victoria, Australia; Grisel Carvajal, RCS, RVS, RDCS, FASE, Gables Diagnostics, Hialeah, FL;
Allison Sterk, RDCS (AE)(PE)(FE), FASE, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, Hudsonville, MI
Carolyn West, Heart Centre – St John of God, Geelong Hospital, Victoria, Australia
2019
Colin Dunbar II, RDCS, Duke Children’s Hospital, Durham, NC
Bryana Levitan, RDCS, FASE, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2018
Babitha Thampinathan, RDCS, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Jason Pereira, RCS, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
2017
Gilda Kadiu, RDCS, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI
Ian Crandall, BS, MS, RCS, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
2016
Lisa Bienvenu, RDCS, ACS, FASE, Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
Merissa Gatti, BS, RDCS, St. Thomas West Hospital, Nashville, TN
2015
Ashwin Venkateshvaran, MSc, RCS, RDCS, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciencies, Bangalore, India
Keri O’ Farrell, BA, RDCS, Banner University of Arizona Medical Center, Tucson, AZ
2014
Colleen Gorczyca, RDCS, University Hospital Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
Kacy Sisco, RDCS, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA
2013
Hollie Carron, RDCS, FASE, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, TX
Yan Wang, RDCS, Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2012
Mark D. Zemanek, RDCS, RDMS, RVT, Leelanau Diagnostic Ultrasound, LLC, Cedar, MI
Neha A. Soni-Patel, RDCS, The Cleveland Clinic-Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, OH
2011
Kip Sumpter, RDCS, RCS, CCT, Pacific Cardiovascular Associates Medical Group, Laguna Hills, CA
Syndi Henneman, RDCS, Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
2024
Kevin Buda, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
Jerry Fan, Baylor Scott & White Temple, Temple, TX
2023
Anchit Bharta, MD St Luke’s Medical Center, WI
Katerina Leyba, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine, CO
Patrick Monette, Harvard Medical Center, MA
2024
Hanyuan Shi, MD, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, NH
Carlo Mannina, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Maxine Tang, MD, MS, University of Chicago Medicine Chicago, IL
2023
Victor Becerra Gonzalez, MD, Jackson Memorial Hospital – University of Miami, FL
Kifah Hussain, Northshore University Health Systems, IL
Zachary Meili, MD Temple University Hospital, PA