Kingston Regional Echo Teaching & Quality
Imaging rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Imaging rounds occur Thursdays at Noon, by invitation.
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Imaging Rounds 2023-24:
December 14th – Dr. Amer Johri presents “An Update on the CIRCE Trial and Introduction to AI”
December 7th – Dr. Yannis Amador Godoy presents “Echocardiographic Assessment and Surgical Management of Functional Mitral Regurgitation”
November 30th – Dr. Mohammed Rashid presents “HOCM: An Overview”
November 23rd – Dr. Annie Hung presents “Infective Endocarditis – Interesting Cases”
November 16th – Dr. Raveen Pal presents “Tricuspid Regurgitation – The Dark Side of the Heart”
November 9th – Dr. Karolina Juszczynski presents “Basic Echocardiographic Assessment of Normal Valves”
November 2nd – Dr. Joshua Durbin presents “Echocardiographic Assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension”
Imaging Rounds 2022-23:
June 8th – Dr. Hoshiar Abdollah presents “Cardiac Sarcoidosis”
June 1st – Dr. Peggy DeJong presents “Excitement in the Stress Echo Lab: A Series of Interesting Cases”
May 25th – Dr. Prasham Dave presents “EXPLORING Diastolic Dysfunction: An EXERCISE in Assessment”
May 18th – Dr. Murray Matangi presents “Atherosclerosis: It’s Time to Stop Guessing and Image”
May 11th – Dr. Josh Durbin presents “Mitral Valve Prolapse”
May 4th – Dr. Zardasht Jaff presents “A Tale of Two Diseases”
Apr 27th – Dr. Matt Hanson presents “Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy”
Apr 20th – Dr. Benjamin Hibbert presents “Evidence-based Management of Cardiogenic Shock – Mind the Gap”
Apr 13th – Dr. Adrian Baranchuk presents “Bayes Syndrome”
Apr 6th – Dr. Josh Durbin presents “Cardiac Masses”
Mar 30th – Dr. Annie Hung presents “Cases of Infective Endocarditis: Part 2”
Mar 23rd – Dr. Samir Hazra presents “Cases of Infective Endocarditis”
Mar 9th – Dr. Amar Thakrar presents “Pericardial Disease in a Case-based Format”
Mar 2nd – Dr. Henry Kafka presents “Congenital Imaging Cases”
Feb 23rd – Dr. Rachel Wamboldt presents “Cardiology Considerations for the Pregnant Patient: A Focus on Maternal Cardiomyopathy”
Feb 16th – Dr. Carolyn Teng presents “Mitral Valve Disease: The fun stuff I get to do as a surgeon”
Feb 9th – Dr. Wael Abuzeid presents “Percutaneous Mitral Valve Interventions at KHSC: Update, Challenges, and Future Directions”
Feb 2nd – Dr. Aws Almufleh and Justin Laing present “Echocardiographic Assessment Pre and Post Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Repair“
Jan 26th – Dr. Kendra Derry presents “Percutaneous Structural Heart Disease Interventions: current and future directions”
Jan 19th – Dr. Mo Rashid presents “Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy: An Overview”
Jan 12th – Dr. Andres Enriquez presents “A Song of ICE and Catheters: Role of Intracardiac Echocardiography in Cardiac Interventions”
Dec 8th – Dr. Francois Tournoux & Dr. Wendy Tsang present “Unsupervised Machine Learning for Assessment of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function and Risk Stratification”
Dec 1st – Dr. Raveen Pal presents “Mitral Annular Calcification: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”
Nov 24th – Dr. Joshua Durbin presents “Echocardiographic assessment in pulmonary hypertension”
Nov 17th – Dr. Sanoj Chacko presents “Management of anticoagulation around cardiac implantable electronic device implantation”
Nov 10th – Dr. Melissa Tso presents “Interesting Cases of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy”
Nov 3rd – Dr. Geraldine Ong presents “Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Devices: Ready for Prime Time?”
Oct 20th – Dr. Joe Abunassar presents “Clinical Applications of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in the Cardiac Cath Lab“
Oct 13th – Dr. Bryce Alexander presents “Cardiac POCUS: Friend or Foe?“
Sept 29th – Dr. Aziz Alemi presents “Echo Assessment of Atrial Septal Defects”
Sept 22nd – Dr. Gianluigi Bisleri presents “Echo-Surgical Correlations”
Sept 15th – Dr. Natasha Aleksova & Dr. Philippe Pibarot present “Performance of Echocardiographic Algorithms for Assessment of High Aortic Bioprosthetic Valve Gradients“
Imaging Rounds 2021-22:
June 30th – Dr. Bryce Alexander presents “Echocardiographic Identification of LV Thrombus and Clinical Outcomes”
June 23rd – Dr. Wess Osman presents “Diastolic Dysfunction in Atrial Fibrillation”
June 16th – Dr. Aws Almufleh & special guests Drs. Bethany Monteith, Harriet Feilotter, & Frank Cheeseman present “Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis; It Takes a Village! Multidisciplinary Assessment, Investigation and Management”
June 2nd – Dr. Zardasht Jaff presents “A Mish Mash of Interesting Echocardiographic Cases (Part 2)”
May 26th – Dr. Shoshana Grossman presents “Echo for Pulmonary Hypertension”
May 19th – Dr. Shireen Mohammad presents “Ventricular Tachycardia in Structural Heart Disease”
May 12th – CSE Journal Club x JASE Podcast special collaboration. Dr. Usha Manian and Siew-Li Leaman RDCS present “Normal Values of Aortic Root Size According to Age, Sex, and Race: Results of the World Alliance of Societies of Echocardiography (WASE) Study.”
May 5th – Dr. Ian Britton presents “Intracoronary Imaging – Current Concepts and Case Based Discussion”
April 28th – Dr. Prasham Dave presents “EXPLORING Mitral Stenosis: ASE Guidelines for Valve Stenosis and Case Discussion”
April 21st – Dr. Mohammad El Diasty presents “Complications in the Postoperative Cardiac Surgery Patient Soon After Discharge, Recognition and Management”
April 14th – Dr. Aws Almufleh presents “Rethinking Volume and Numbers-based Echocardiography Training during Cardiology Fellowships”
April 7th – Dr. Raveen Pal presents “HOCM: Imaging Highlights”
March 31st – Dr. Mo Rashid presents “Cardiac Masses 2.0: Interesting Cases and Lessons Learned”
March 24th – Dr. Wael Abuzeid presents “Mitraclip program at Queen’s: Successes and Challenges”
March 3rd – Dr. Anthony Sanfilippo presents “Aortic stenosis: What to do when the numbers don’t make sense”
February 24th – Dr. Matthew Hanson presents “Two cases of cardiac involvement with hematologic malignancies”
February 17th – Dr. Peggy DeJong presents “Interventional Echo” with guest lecture from Dr. Neil Fam “Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Replacement: Emerging Options”
February 10th – Dr. Zardasht Jaff presents “A Mish Mash of Interesting Echocardiographic Cases“
February 3rd – Dr. Hoshiar Abdollah presents “Tachycardia (Electrically)-Induced Cardiomyopathy“
January 27th – Dr. Robyn Jackson presents “The utility of point of care ultrasound in heart failure management and quality improvement”
January 20th – Cardiology Grand Rounds. Dr. Joe Abunassar presents “KHSC PFO Closure Program”
January 13th – Dr. Samir Hazra presents “Echocardiographic Assessment of Infective and Non-Infective Endocarditis”
December 16th – CSE Journal Club x JASE Podcast special collaboration. Dr. Shaheeda Ahmed and Dr. Michael Hammer present “Routine Use of Contrast on Admission Transthoracic Echo for Heart Failure Reduces the Rate of Repeat Echo during Index Admission“
December 9th – Dr. Michael O’Reilly presents “Evaluation of Heart Failure by Echo”
December 2nd – Dr. Henry Kafka presents “Recognizing Congenital Heart Disease”
November 25th – Dr. Joshua Durbin presents “COVID-19 Vaccine Associated Myocarditis”
November 18th – Dr. Stephanie Poon presents “Heart Failure Management in 2021; New Guidelines and Role of Standardized Heart Failure Order Set in Improving Medical Optimization and Patients Outcomes“
November 11th – Dr. Raveen Pal presents on mitral annular calcification
November 4th – Dr. Amar Thakrar presents on pericardial disease
October 28th – Dr. Tamanna Chibber presents on the ASE guideline for multimodality imaging for patients with repaired Tetrology of Fallot
October 14th – Cardiology Grand Rounds. Dr. Adrian Baranchuk presents on Lyme Carditis: All you need to know…and more.