About The Event
30
Participants Trained
256
Patients Scanned
The ASE Foundation’s Valvular Assessment Leading to Unexplored Echocardiographic Stratagems (VALUES) program was a teaching and research event designed to assess the full spectrum of abnormalities seen in rheumatic valvular heart disease using state of the art echocardiographic modalities.
Highlights
This event featured live broadcasts from India! Click the links below to watch on YouTube.
Day 1: Inauguration – Dr. Thomas Ryan; Rheumatic Heart Disease – Dr. Jagat Narula
Day 2: Didactic Session (Case Reviews) – Dr. James Thomas
Day 3: Didactic Session (Case Reviews) – Dr. Roberto Lang and Dr. Patricia Pellikka
Learning sessions broadcasted live
The team broadcast live learning sessions from India, along with expert faculty commentary from U.S. based physicians.
Didactic sessions and case reviews
In addition to coordinating daily clinics for patients, the team also presented didactic sessions and case reviews for local trainees.
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Participants & Collaborators
The volunteer team consisted of 10 ASE Foundation sonographers and 5 physicians who worked along side 30 Indian trainees and local staff from the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences in Bangalore, India.
Team Leaders
Partho P. Sengupta, MBBS, MD, DM, FASE
Mount Sinai Medical Center New York, NY
David Adams, RCS, RDCS, FASE
Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC
Srikanth Sola, MD
Sir Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences Bangalore, India
Ashwin Venkateshvarvan, MSc, RCS
Karolinska University Hospital Lund, Sweden
Team Members
Sanjeev Bhavnani, MD Scripps Clinic San Diego, CA
Kathi Browne
Egle Burdulis, RDCS, FASE DHMC Cardiac Ultrasound Lab Hanover, NH
Jayne Cleve, BS, RDCS Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC
Melissa Daubert, MD Duke Clinical Research Institute Durham, NC
Natalie Fauss, RCS MVHS St. Elizabeth Hospital Campus Rome, NY
Georgeanne Lammertin, RDCS, RCS, FASE University of Utah Hospital Salt Lake City, UT
Robin Mathews, MD Duke Triangle Heart Associates Durham, NC
Bharatbhushan Patel, RDCS, RDMS, RVS, FASE Hoboken University Medical Center Hoboken, NJ
Evelina Petrovets, RDCS Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH
Lucy Safi, DO Mount Sinai New York, NY
Dipti Shah, RDCS, RVS
Laurie Smith Core Sound Imaging, Inc. Raleigh, NC
Kara Thurmond, BS, RDCS Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
David Tomberlin, RDCS, RVT Philips Healthcare
Hemavathi Umamaheswar, RDCS Lenox Hill Hospital New York, NY
Partner Organizations
The ASE Foundation partnered with GE Healthcare South Asia and Core Sound Imaging.
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