The ASE Foundation’s annual Sonographer Investigator’s Award Competition was renamed as the Brian Haluska Sonographer Research Award Competition to honor the late Brian Haluska, PhD, MSC (HONS), MSC, RDCS, AMS, FASE and his incredible contributions to sonographer-led research over the course of his career. Designed to highlight and support sonographer-led research, this annual competition recognizes non-physicians who served as the primary investigator on their project of original research. Four finalists are selected to present their work to a panel of judges during the ASE Annual Scientific Sessions.
2024
Babitha Thampinathan, CRCS, RDCS, FASE – Mohawk-McMaster Institute for Applied Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2023
Nicole Guerrera, RDCS, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT – “Early Assessment of Global Circumferential Strain from Three-Dimensional Echocardiography Predicts Late Left Ventricle Remodeling in a Chronic Porcine Model of Reperfused Myocardial Infarction”
2022
Cassandra Polsen, BS, RDCS, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO – “Right Heart Function and Recovery in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children”
2021
Merri Bremer, EdD, RN, ACS, RDCS, FASE, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN – “Pump versus Push: Implementation of Ultrasound Enhancement Agent Administered by Infusion Pump during Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography”
2020
Courtney Cassidy, RDCS, FASE, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO – “Cardiac Function Improves in Growth Restricted Fetuses: A Longitudinal Study from in Utero to Three Years after Birth”
2019
Natalie Edwards, ACS, AMS, FASE, Prince Charles Hospital, Queensland, Australia – “Resting Global Myocardial Work Derived from Non-Invasive Left Ventricular Pressure-Strain Loops Discriminates Between True Positive and False Positive Exercise Stress Echocardiography”
2018
Jason B. Pereira, RCS, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT – “Feasibility of Contrast Echocardiography to Assess Right Ventricular Size and Function”
2017
Leah M. Wright, BsC, DMU-Cardiac, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia – “Progression of Pulmonary Artery Pressure and RV Function as Predictors of Outcome in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension”
2016
Weimin (Allen) He, RDCS, Mazankowski Heart Institute in University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada – “Variability of Left Ventricle Volume and Ejection Fraction Measurements Using Contrast Echocardiography: The Influence of the LV Length Measurements in a Large Cohort of Patients During Monitoring Cardiotoxic Effects of Chemotherapy”
2015
Lanqi Hua, RDCS, FASE, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA – “Tissue Motion Annular Displacement for Assessment of Global Right Ventricular Performance”
2014
Angela M. Morgan, PGDCU, MHSc, Capital & Coast District Health Board, Wellington, New Zealand – “Global Longitudinal Strain Differentiates Right Ventricular Pacing Lead Positions”
2013
Claudia E. Korcarz, DVM, RDCS, FASE, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI – “Effects of Sleep Apnea on Cardiac Remodeling in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study”
2024 - Babitha Thampinathan, CRCS, RDCS, FASE – Mohawk-McMaster Institute for Applied Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada