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44th Annual Echo Northwestern Conference

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Add to Calendar 44th Annual Echo Northwestern Conference 9/10/2022 8:00:00 AM 9/11/2022 3:15:00 PM America/Chicago Hyatt Centric Chicago Mag Mile false MM/DD/YYYY


Date & Location
Saturday, September 10, 2022, 8:00 AM - Sunday, September 11, 2022, 3:15 PM, Hyatt Centric Chicago Mag Mile, Chicago, IL

Target Audience
Specialties - Multiple Specialties

Overview
Echo Northwestern is in its 44th yearr 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.


Objectives
  1. Explain the role of echo in the treatment of heart failure
  2. Discuss the use of echo in cardio-oncology patients
  3. Discover how to correctly acquire strain images and how to use this data to assess cardiac function in various pathological states
  4. Discover how to correctly acquire and optimize 3D images and how to incorporate into clinical practice
  5. Evaluate the role of echo in the diagnosis and treatment of the clinical entities such a valvular heart disease, heart failure and common miscellaneous topics using a case-based approach
  6. Review the role of echo in surgical and percutaneous treatments of aortic stenosis, mitral regurgitation and tricuspid regurgitation
  7. Assess patients with valvular disorders using the most recent 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
  8. Describe the methodology to assess diastolic function using the ASE diastology guidelines
  9. Assess the uses of echo contrast agents (imaging enhancing agents) and how to incorporate the use of agents into a busy echo lab
  10. Recognize the basics of echocardiographic assessment of patients with common congenital heart lesions
  11. Appreciate the role of echo in the diagnosis and management of pregnant women with cardiovascular disease
  12. Appreciate the use of echo in the COVID era
  13. Assess the use of echo in pericardial diseases
  14. Explore the critical role of echo in the management of patients undergoing cancer therapy

Registration

Early Bird Registration (ends August 10, 2022)

Physician $300

ASE Physician $240

Sonographer $200

ASE Sonographer $160

RN, APN, Fellow, Resident,
Student, and other HCP's and Allied Health $160

Regular Registration (begins August 11, 2022)

Physician $450

ASE Physician $360

Sonographer $300

ASE Sonographer $240

RN, APN, Fellow, Resident,
Student, and other HCP's and Allied Health $240

NM Employees (excluding physicians) are encouraged to use "EdAssist" funds to reimburse their registration fees.  Please contact your Manager for additional information.

Online registration will close on September 8, 2022.

Cancellations and Refunds

Cancellations must be made in writing to [email protected]. The paid registration fee will be refunded if cancellation is received by August 12, 2022. No refunds will be issued after this date.

Please contact Amanda Harrison at [email protected] with any questions.

 


Accreditation

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 12.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (12.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (12.00 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (12.00 hours)

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships


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

Nausheen Akhter, MD
Physician CE
Northwestern Medical Group
Chicago, IL
Keith Collins, RDCS
Cardiac Sonographer
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL
Andrew De Freitas , MD
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Ewa Dembowski, MD
Brian Fey, BA, RDCS, ACS
Resorce Coord/Tech. Director
Northwestern Memorial
Chicago, IL
James Flaherty, MD
Physician CE
Northwestern Medical Group
Chicago, IL
Benjamin Freed, MD
Physician CE
Northwestern Medical Group
WILMETTE, IL
Madeline Jankowski, BS, RDCS
Echocardiography Research Associate
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
Sadiya Khan, MD
Physician
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Oak Park, IL
Alana A Lewis, MD
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL
Alana Lewis, MD
Kameswari Maganti, MD
Physician CE
Northwestern Medical Group
Chicago, IL
Milica Marion, AAS, RDCS
Cardiac Sonographer
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Westchester, IL
David J Mehlman, MD
Physician CE
Northwestern Medical Group
Chicago, IL
Marla A Mendelson, MD
Physician CE
Northwestern Medical Group
Chicago, IL
Issam A Mikati, MD
Physician CE
Northwestern Medical Group
Chicago, IL
Akhil Narang, MD
Lauren Nelson
Surgical Srvs Clinical Nurse
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Lauren Nelson, MS
Clinical Research Associate
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
Ravi Patel, MD
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, IL
Jyothy Puthumana, MD
Physician CE
Northwestern Medical Group
Vera H Rigolin, MD
Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
Juliet Ryan, BS, RDCS, FASE
Cardiology Sonographer
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL
Juliet Ryan, RDCS
Shelley Sarson, BA, RDCS, FASE, ACS
Cardiac Sonographer
NM
Chicago, IL
Robert Schultz, MS
Cardiac Sonographer
Northwestern Medicine
Oak Forest, IL
Sanjiv J Shah, MD
Chicago, IL
Robert A Silverberg, MD
Physician CE
Northwestern Medical Group
CHICAGO, IL
James Thomas, MD
Patricia Vassallo, MD
Physician CE
Northwestern Medical Group
Chicago, IL
Clyde Yancy, MD
Chief of the Division of Cardiology
Northwestern University
CHICAGO, IL
Allison R Zielinski, MD
Health Systems Clinician
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, IL

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