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Based on your valuable feedback, our 3-day program will focus on the most requested educational topics to be presented by our top-tier Canadian speakers, including both echocardiographers and cardiac sonographers, as well as international experts from our sister organizations, EACVI and ASE.
We are excited to head to the West Coast in the Spring for the first time at the resort-style Westin Bayshore hotel located near Stanley Park in the heart of Vancouver. For those who cannot travel, the hybrid plenary sessions will be simultaneously broadcast live.
We are also very happy to host our sister organizations’ annual conferences during the CSE Weekend, a second time for the Canadian Society of Cardiovascular MRI (CSCMRI) who joined us last year in Toronto, and a first time for the Canadian Society of Cardiovascular Nuclear and CT Imaging (CNCT).
Please take note that we will be starting our activities earlier than usual on Thursday and thus finishing at an earlier time on Saturday to allow for more convenient travel schedules for our delegates traveling from central or eastern Canada.
Therefore, Thursday will be a very interesting first day starting with our Featured Symposium entitled “Between Strength and Strain: Septal Hypertrophy, Athlete’s Heart and HCM”, to be followed by our first plenary, the President’s Reception and Welcome Dinner, featuring delicious cuisine and entertainment.
Other scheduled sessions throughout Friday and Saturday will focus on case-based, multimodality, and multidisciplinary learning and cover a breadth of echocardiographic topics including diastolic function, AI, new guidelines for right heart assessment and pulmonary hypertension, tricuspid trans-catheter repair, valvular disease, cutting-edge technology, cardiomyopathy, pericardial disease, and more.
Highlights include this year’s guest speakers: Dr. Johathan Lindner, University of Virginia, will be giving the Jim Swan Lecture entitled: Ultrasound in Space and the Austere Environment, and Dr. Denisa Muraru, President-elect of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. We expect to confirm the leading speaker from the American Society of Echocardiography very soon.
Due to popular demand, we will again be hosting the Sonographer Forum, along with a concurrent Accreditation Update Session. In-person moderated poster presentations of scientific abstracts from our trainees and early career faculty across Canada will occur throughout the program, with judging and awards for the top presenters. We will also be show-casing the work by our CSE CREATE grant researchers. Each day will conclude with our iconic interactive educational and entertaining sessions: on Friday, The CSE Game Show (rebranded as “Echo Case Challenge Cup” ), and on Saturday, the national review of “Classic Cases Across Canada” where our colleagues across the country share challenging, intriguing, and controversial cases.
Of course, there will be plenty of opportunities for networking with colleagues, and engagement with our expert faculty, including an early morning Saturday FUN RUN in Stanley Park hosted by your chairs!
Stay tuned for additional information on the program, including the plenary sessions, learning labs and workshops.
We are looking forward to reconnecting with you and sharing dynamic, engaging, and informative sessions.