Intraprocedural Imaging of Cardiovascular Interventions (PDF)

Michael H.
Picard, MD, FACC, FASE, FAHA is the Director of the Echocardiography at
Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical
School. He is a Past-President of the American Society of Echocardiography. His
recent volunteer service includes membership on the committees that developed
the ACC Appropriateness Criteria for Transthoracic and Transesophageal
Echocardiography, the ACC Appropriateness Criteria for Multimodality Cardiac
Imaging in Heart Failure, the revised WHO diagnostic criteria for
Arrhythmogenic RV Dysplasia and the ASE Quality Standards for Laboratory
Operations. His awards include the Young Investigator Award from the American
College of Cardiology, the Richard Popp Award for Excellence in Teaching from
the American Society of Echocardiography, the Inge Edler Lectureship from the
American Society of Echocardiography and the Greene Lectureship from Vanderbilt
University School of Medicine. His research interests include the applications
of echocardiography in coronary artery disease, translational cardiology and
valvular heart disease. As the director of echocardiography of the MGH he
developed the interventional echocardiography service that integrated the use
of echocardiography in the catheterization and electrophysiology laboratories
to assist in many catheter based treatments. This service was among the first
of its kind. Jonathan Passeri, MD is the Director of Interventional
Echocardiography at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His early work helped
demonstrate the value of 3D transesophageal echocardiography in the catheter
based closure of atrial septal defects.

Jacob P. Dal-Bianco, MD, FACC, FASE is
a cardiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital with a clinical expertise
in heart valve disease and special interest in mitral valve disease. His
research is focused on the mitral valve and his work has been recognized by a
Career Development Award from the American Society