ASE 2016–2017 Board of Directors and Society leaders gathered for their annual meeting in Seattle.

2016–2017 ASE Council Chairs shown left to right: Esther Kim, MD, MPH, RPVI, FASE , Council on Vascular Ultrasound Steering Committee; Roman Sniecinski, MD, FASE , Council on Perioperative Echocardiography Steering Committee; and Carol Mitchell, PhD, RDMS, RDCS, RVT, RT(R), FASE, Council on Cardiovascular Sonography Steering Committee. Not pictured : Meryl Cohen, MD, FASE, Council on Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Steering Committee.

2015–2016 ASE President, Susan E. Wiegers, MD, FASE presented 2016 ASE Scientific Sessions program chair Richard Grimm, DO, FASE (right) with his commemorative plaque.

ASE’s Immediate Past President, Neil Weissman, MD, FASE , Director of Cardiac Ultrasound and Ultrasound Core Laboratories at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Washington Hospital Center, President of Medstar Health Research Institute, and Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, delivered the 27 ^th Annual Edler Lecture “The Future of Echocardiography: Disrupter or Disrupted?”

Pediatric Echo Jeopardy is always a huge hit at the Scientific Sessions. This year four teams represented different regions that included: Team Midwest: Christopher Statile, MD and Thor Thorsson, MD ; Team Pacific: Grace Kung, MD, FASE and Manatomo Toyono, MD ; Team Texas: Shaine Morris, MD and Robert Tunks, MD ; and Team Southeast: William Border, MB, ChB, MPH, FASE and Carolyn Taylor, MD, FASE .

Live Case Demonstrations on Monday were a highlight of ASE 2016. Two cases were satellite streamed, from the cath lab at the University of Washington, for participants to watch and learn about the role of echocardiography in interventional procedures.

Past President James Thomas, MD, FASE, answered questions about Hemodynamics during “Chalk Talks” on Sunday morning. Four different sessions took place during ASE 2016 that provided an opportunity for participants to get answers from luminaries in the field of echo.

Larry Sobal, MBA , Executive Vice President of Business Development for MedAxiom, presented the preliminary results of the Society’s first comprehensive study of Echo Labs. This joint study gathered information from across the U.S., encompassing both large and small private practices and hospital systems. This view of the organizational and transformational practices in labs is a captivating view of the patient care system. The survey provided much-needed baseline metrics for the field.

New in 2016, Echovation Challenge was a competition where three teams presented process and workflow innovations that have either been adopted or are in development in echo labs throughout the U.S. and across the world. Here, the winning team, EchoPlan, is presented with the ceremonial check by Echovation Challenge Chair, Steven J. Lester, MD, FASE (right). Mario Garcia, MD , from Montefiore Medical Center (left) was a participant for the winning team, led by Mike Singer, PhD (center).

More than 40 Leaders from echocardiography societies around the world joined in the International Round Table discussion at ASE 2016.

2016 Arthur E. Weyman Young Investigator’s Award Competition finalists are shown here with the 2016 Abstract Chair, Geoffrey Rose, MD, FASE (far left), and judge Arthur E. Weyman MD, FASE (far right). Finalists beginning second from the left are: Ines Sherifi, MD, MSc ; Hiroto Utsunomiya, MD, PhD ; Shahryar M. Chowdhury, MD ; and YIA winner Adam Castano, MD . ASE thanks the National Board of Echocardiography for their support of this competition.

Adam Castano, MD , from Columbia University, Division of Cardiology, New York, NY, making his presentation to the judges before being named the winner of the 2016 Arthur E. Weyman Young Investigator’s Award Competition.

2016 Recipients of the Alan D. Waggoner Student Scholarship Awards are shown here left to right: Ellen Garcia, Community Regional Medical Center, DMS Program, Fresno, CA; Lindsay Provenzano, Johns Hopkins Hospital, DMS Program, Baltimore, MD; Jason Pereira, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, CVT Sonography Program, Hartford, CT; Melissa McKnight, El Centro College, CVT Sonography Program, Dallas, TX; Ashley M. Maes, Bellevue College, DMS Program, Bellevue, WA; Deanna Knox, Bellevue College, DMS Program, Bellevue, WA; Edward Pierson, Lackawanna College, DMS Program, Scranton, PA; Pamela Keebler, South Hills School of Business and Technology, State College, PA; Erin Monroe, Mayo School of Health Sciences Echocardiography Program, Rochester, MN; Michael Silverman, Johns Hopkins Hospital, DMS Program, Baltimore, MD; Gina Lamonaca, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, CVT Sonography Program, Hartford, CT; Abigail Kaminski, Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, School of DMS, Milwaukee, WI. Not pictured : Beth Anderson, UAMS College of Health Professionals, Little Rock, AR; Ha Ni Nguyen, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, CVT Sonography Program, New Orleans, LA; Alexis Pentheros, Sanford Brown College, CVT Sonography Program, Dallas, TX; and Bobbi Jo Schlick, Mayo School of Health Sciences Echocardiography Program, Rochester, MN.