2024 Research Awards Gala

2024 Award Recipients

PHYSICIAN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Nancy Ayres, MD, FASE

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

SONOGRAPHER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Bonita Anderson, M.APPL.S, DMU(Cardiac), AMS, ACS, FASE

The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

FOUNDERS’ AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY FOR PCHD

Tal Geva, MD, FASE

Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN PERIOPERATIVE ECHOARDIOGRAPHY AWARD

Feroze Mahmood, MD, FASE

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

CIRCULATION & VASCULAR ULTRASOUND COUNCIL LUMINARY AWARD

Robert Eberhardt, MD, FASE

Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

MENTORSHIP AWARD

Roberto Lang, MD, FASE

University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

Leo Lopez, MD, FASE

Stanford Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, California

Advocate Level Table Supporters
Carolyn Altman, MD, FASE on behalf of Texas Children’s Hospital
Federico Asch, MD, FASE on behalf of MedStar Health Research Institute
Benjamin Eidem, MD, FASE on behalf of Mayo Clinic
Richard Grimm, DO, FASE on behalf of Cleveland Clinic
Judy Hung, MD, FASE on behalf of MGH Echo Section
G. Burkhard Mackensen, MD, PhD, FASE, on behalf of ASE Perioperative Echocardiography Council
National Board of Echocardiography
Vera Rigolin, MD, FASE and Akhil Narang, MD, FASE on behalf of Northwestern University
Geoffrey Rose, MD, FASE on behalf of Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute
Siemens Healthineers

Benefactor Level Table Supporters

Theodore Abraham, MD, FASE on behalf of University of California San Francisco
Dali Fan, MD, PhD, FASE
Craig Fleishman, MD, FASE on behalf of ASE Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Council (1)
Enrique Garcia-Sayan, MD, FASE on behalf of Greater Houston Society of Echo-Vascular / Texas Heart Institute
Reunka Jain, MD, FASE & Matt Umland, ACS, RDCS, FASE on behalf of Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center
Stephen Little, MD, FASE on behalf of Houston Methodist Echo Lab
Jae K. Oh, MD, FASE on behalf of Mayo Clinic
Andrew Powell, MD, FASE on behalf of ASE Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Council (2)
Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie, MD, PhD, FASE
Partho Sengupta, MBBS, MD, DM, FASE on behalf of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers Health
Fadi Shamoun, MD on behalf of ASE Circulation & Vascular Ultrasound Council

Patron Level Table Supporters

Piers Barker, MD, FASE on behalf of ASE Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Council (3)
Bracco
Merri Bremer, EdD, RN, ACS, RDCS, FASE on behalf of Mayo Clinic
Cody Frye, BA, ACS, RDCS, FASE on behalf of the Leadership Academy
Kenneth Horton, ACS, RCS, FASE on behalf of ASE Cardiovascular Sonography Council (1)
Pei-Ni Jone, MD, FASE on behalf of ASE Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Council (4)
James Kirkpatrick, MD, FASE on behalf of University of Washington
Peg Knoll, RDCS, RCS, FASE on behalf of ASE Cardiovascular Sonography Council (2)
Shaine Morris, MD, MPH, FASE on behalf of Texas Children’s Hospital
Matthew W. Parker, MD, FASE, and Gerard P. Aurigemma, MD, FASE on behalf of UMass Memorial Medical Center
Seda Tierney, MD, FASE on behalf of ASE Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Council (5)