SMH Echo Rounds
Core Curriculum Title: The Physics of echocardiography; How I learned to love AS Objectives: 1. Outline how ultrasound waves are created and used for US imaging 2. Discuss the physics and the relationship between pressure and flow 3. Outline the basic..
Core Curriculum Title: Overnight On Call Echo Assessments Date: Thursday, July 21, 2022 Time: 08:00-09:00 ET Speaker: Dr. Carol Graham Cardiology Resident, St. Michael's Hospital Objectives: 1) To recognize clinical situations that require urgent...
peaker: Patrick Prud'homme, Echo Fellow, St. Michael's Hosptial Objectives: 1) Review main physics and pathophysiologic concepts that may contribute to imprecision in measurements during cardiac echocardiography. 2) Discuss common sources of error...
Advanced Curriculum Title: Why transcutaneous mitral valve replacement (TMVR) isn’t transcatheter aortic valve intervention (TAVI) yet ? Date: Thursday, June 23, 2022 Time: 08:00-09:00 ET Speaker: Anas Merdad MBBS FRCPC Interventional Echo Fellow, St....
Speaker: Chi-Ming Chow MD MSc FRCPC FASE FCCS Director of Echo Lab, St. Michael's Hospital Professor in Medicine, University of Toronto Objectives: 1) Describe what is amyloid and the cardiac involvement 2) Describe the classic echo features of cardiac.
Speaker: Vesna Mihajlovic, M.D., FRCPC Cardiology, PGY7 Echocardiography Fellow, St. Michael's Hospital University of Toronto Objectives: 1) Review the indications, contra-indications, safety, and diagnostic accuracy of stress echo 2) Review the...
Date: Thursday, May 5, 2022 Speaker: Abdulrahman Alanazi MBBS Objectives: 1. Discuss historical perspectives of infective endocarditis 2. Review the diagnostic criteria of infective endocarditis 3. Explain echocardiographic findings in infective...
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2022 Speaker: Jeff Henderson MD Objectives: 1) Examine the utility of echo in diagnosing device-related infections 2) Examine the utility of CT in diagnosing device-related infections 3) Examine the utility of PET in diagnosing..
Speaker: Ashwin Padiyath MD, Cardiology Resident (PGY-5) Objectives: 1. Review the mechanisms of cardiac remodeling in response to exercise 2. Understand the pros and cons of various imaging modalities in evaluating cardiac anomalies in athletes 3....
Speaker: Hirmand Nouraei MD, Cardiology Fellow (C1) Objectives: 1. Review of interatrial septum embryology, anatomy and types of defects 2. Echocardiographic techniques for assessment (focus on ASDs) 3. Indications for device closure 4. Post closure...
Speaker: Kim Connelly MBBS PhD FSCMR FCCS (he/him) St Michael’s Hospital Director: Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Unity Health Keenan Chair in Research Leadership Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto Objectives: 1. To..
Speaker: Dr. Bernard Mendis Objectives: 1. Review the hemodynamic and pathophysiologic classifications of PH 2. Review guideline-recommended applications of echocardiography to the assessment of PH 3. Review advantages and limitations to these...
Speaker: Dr. Howard Leong-Poi Objectives: 1. Review the role of echocardiography in complicated acute and chronic pericarditis. 2. Discuss the role of multimodality imaging in complicated acute and chronic pericarditis, including imaging guided...
Core Curriculum Abdulrahman Alanazi MBBS Objectives: 1. Review clinical presentation of systemic diseases involving the heart. 2. Case based discussion of echocardiographic features of systemic illness. 3. Clinical and imaging approach to some systemic.
Advanced Curriculum Speaker: Anas Merdad MBBS FRCPC Objectives: 1. Describe natural history and relevant anatomy of TR 2. Discuss echocardiographic evaluation of TR 3. Review current evidence for transcatheter interventions
Vesna Mihajlovic MD Objectives: 1. Understand the limitations of using LVEF as a marker of systolic function 2. Develop an understanding of how myocardial anatomy correlates to myocardial tissue deformation during contraction 3. Understand that strain..
Speaker: Michael Ruiz MD Objectives: 1.Review the normal physiologic changes associated with pregnancy. 2.Review principles of echocardiography in the pregnant patient, including normal echocardiographic changes. 3.Review select pathology that may be...
Speaker: Ashwin Padiyath MD Objectives: 1. Review the cardiac causes of embolism 2. Develop an echocardiographic approach to assessing patients suspected to have a cardiac cause of embolism 3. Discuss the current guideline recommendations and limitations
Speaker: Nicolas Santi MD Objectives: 1. Review epidemiology and anatomy of Ventricular Septal Defects (VSD) 2. Review echocardiographic assessment of VSD. 3. Review management considerations of VSD. 4. Similar objectives with a focus on Ventricular..
Flora Huang MD Objectives: 1. Review the morphologic and functional changes associated with rheumatic heart disease 2. Discuss the role of echocardiography in the evaluation and management of rheumatic heart disease 3. Briefly discuss the implication of.