45th Annual Echo Northwestern in Collaboration with Lurie Children’s Hospital: Echo Throughout the Ages

Saturday, November 18, 2023, 6:30 AM - 5:30 PM, Lurie Children's Hospital, 11th Floor Conference Center, Chicago, IL

Echo Northwestern is in its 45th year and is the longest running echo course in the United States! The course faculty consists of renowned physicians and sonographers from Northwestern and from around the United States. This course will provide physicians and sonographers at all levels with the knowledge and insight into the application of basic and advanced echocardiographic techniques. Topics include valvular heart disease, interventional echo, heart failure, contrast echo, 3D echo, diastology, stress echo, cardio-oncology and more. By the end of the course, participants will have improved skills that can be immediately applied to everyday practice as well as an understanding of future applications.

This in-person meeting will take place at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago:

225 East Chicago Ave, 11th Floor Conference Center
Chicago, IL 60611

1. Explain the role of echo in the treatment of heart failure
2. Discover how to correctly acquire strain images and how to use this data to assess cardiac function in various pathological states
3. Discover how to correctly acquire and optimize 3D images and how to incorporate into clinical practice
4. Evaluate the role of echo in the diagnosis and treatment of the clinical entities such as valvular heart disease, heart failure and common miscellaneous topics using a case-based approach
5. Review the role of echo in surgical and percutaneous treatments of aortic stenosis, mitral regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation and pulmonic valve disease
6. Assess patients with valvular disorders using the 2020 ACC/AHA guidelines for valvular heart disease and the ASE guidelines for the assessment of native valve regurgitation, native valve stenosis, prosthetic valve function and percutaneous devices
7. Describe the methodology to assess diastolic function using the ASE diastology guidelines
8. Assess the uses of echo contrast agents (imaging enhancing agents) and how to incorporate the use of agents into a busy echo lab using a case-based approach
9. Recognize the basics of echogradiographic assessment of patients with common congenital heart lesions
10. Explore the role of echo in the management of patients with infiltrative cardiomyopathies
11. Evaluate the impact of echo in diagnosis, management and follow up with patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Registration is now full. There will be no on-site registrations for this meeting. We hope to see you next year!

Physicians $150

Sonographers $75

Fellows and sonographer students $30

Cancellations/Refunds

Cancellations must be made in writing. The paid registration fee, minus $25, will be refunded if cancellation is received by November 4, 2023. No refunds will be issued thereafter. 

For questions, please contact Kathleen Nolan at [email protected].  

The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation Statement

The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC Points
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 7 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

American Board of Surgery Continuous Certification Program
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and Self-Assessment requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (7.00 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (7.00 hours), ABS CC (7.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (7.00 hours)

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Feinberg School of Medicine adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. All individuals in a position to control the content of a Continuing Education activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Saturday, November 18, 2023

If you are interested in exhibiting at this conference, please contact Jennifer Acevedo, ACS, RDCS, FASE for more information. Please note that all exhibitors are required to sign our exhibitor Hold Harmless Agreement prior to the start of the meeting.