6th ANNUAL GARDIN LECTURE
Friday, June 14
2:15 – 3:15 PM
Oregon 201
ASE is proud to have Jagat Narula, MD, PhD, President-Elect of the World Heart Federation and Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer at UTHealth Houston, deliver the 6th Annual Gardin Lecture, “A Quest for Eliminating Heart Disease Globally: Lessons Learned from Noninvasive Imaging” on Friday, June 14. This lectureship was established in honor of ASE Past President and 1st Scientific Sessions Chair, Julius Gardin, MD, FASE. Dr. Gardin mentored numerous physicians and sonographers and this lecture series supports his passion for education by providing funding to bring a luminary speaker to the Scientific Sessions every year.
35th ANNUAL EDLER LECTURE
Saturday, June 15
8:00 – 10:00 AM
Portland 251-252
Stephen Little, MD, PhD, ASE’s Immediate Past President, will present “Interventional Echocardiography: A New Subspecialty Unfolds” as the 35th Annual Edler Lecture. Dr. Little is John S. Dunn Chair in Clinical Cardiovascular Research and Education, DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Program Director, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship, Houston Methodist Weill Cornell Medical College; Director of Structural Heart for the Houston Methodist Hospital System; Medical Director of the Valve Clinic; and Director of the Cardiovascular Hemodynamics Imaging Laboratory, Houston, Texas. His recent research activities and peer-reviewed publications have focused on novel use of 3D echocardiography for the quantification of native and prosthetic valve dysfunction, as well as imaging guidance for percutaneous structural heart interventions. Created in 1990, the annual Edler Lecture honors the founder of echocardiography, Dr. Inge Edler.
25th ANNUAL FEIGENBAUM LECTURE
Saturday, June 15
2:00 – 4:00 PM
Portland 251-252
Shaine Morris, MD, MPH, FASE, will present the 25th Annual Feigenbaum Lecture titled “Echocardiography and Deep Phenotyping: Imaging as the Key to Congenital Cardiac Outcomes Research with Little and Big Data.” Dr. Morris is a Pediatric Cardiologist and Medical Director of Cardiovascular Genetics and the Fetal Cardiology program at Texas Children’s, in Houston, Texas. She is also Associate Professor in Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Morris’ research focuses primarily on improving outcomes for children with Marfan syndrome and related disorders. This lecture was named in honor of the founder and first president of ASE, Harvey Feigenbaum, MD, FASE. This lectureship is awarded to a young investigator in recognition of their significant contributions to research in the field of echocardiography and their potential to continue at a high level of achievement.
2024 KERBER LECTURE
Sunday, June 16
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Oregon 201
The ASE Foundation is proud to recognize Linda Gillam, MD, MPH, FASE, as the 2024 Richard E. Kerber Ethics/Humanitarian Lecturer. She is the Dorothy and Lloyd Huck Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine, Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Service Line for Atlantic Health System, and Professor of Medicine at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Gillam will present “Echocardiography and the Path to Health Equity” during the Limited Resources, Unlimited Wants session. This annual lectureship was established in memory of ASE Past President Richard E. Kerber, MD, FASE. Dr. Richard Kerber championed issues of morality and ethics and how medicine fits into the broader world. To honor his legacy, this annual lectureship will feature an ethical dilemma or humanitarian patient care activity.