VALUES India 2014

About The Event

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

David Adams, RCS, RDCS, FASE

Srikanth Sola, MD

Ashwin Venkateshvarvan, MSc, RCS

Team Members

Sanjeev Bhavnani, MD

Kathi Browne

Egle Burdulis, RDCS, FASE

Jayne Cleve, BS, RDCS

Melissa Daubert, MD

Natalie Fauss, RCS

Georgeanne Lammertin, RDCS, RCS, FASE

Robin Mathews, MD

Bharatbhushan Patel, RDCS, RDMS, RVS, FASE

Evelina Petrovets, RDCS

Lucy Safi, DO

Dipti Shah, RDCS, RVS

Laurie Smith

Kara Thurmond, BS, RDCS

David Tomberlin, RDCS, RVT

Hemavathi Umamaheswar, RDCS

Partners In Care

The ASE Foundation partnered with GE Healthcare South Asia and Core Sound Imaging.