Echo Orlando: The Sound Under the Sun
September 27-30, 2026
Walt Disney World Swan , Orlando, FL
Registration Opening Soon
Price: To Be Determined
Program
12:00 a.m.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2026
4:30 p.m.
Early Registration with Light Refreshments (Presidential Ballroom Foyer)
5:30 p.m.
Multidisciplinary Heart Team Case Discussion: The Fireworks Start Early!
7:00 p.m.
Adjourn
12:00 a.m.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2026
6:30 a.m.
Registration - Continental Breakfast (Presidential Ballroom Foyer)
7:00 a.m.
Early Bird TEE Simulator
Jared Bird, MD, Rekha Mankad, MD
7:45 a.m.
Welcome and Course Objective Overview
Moderators: Vidhu Anand, MBBS, Sunil Mankad, MD, Patricia Pellikka, MD
8:00 a.m.
Assessment of Cardiac Function
Moderator: Patricia Pellikka, MD
8:00 a.m.
Echocardiography for Assessment of Left Ventricular Systolic Function: 2-D Echo, 3-D Echo, and Doppler
Mays Ali, MD
8:25 a.m.
Echocardiographic Assessment of Diastolic Function: Guideline Update
Katie Young, MD
8:50 a.m.
LV Strain Imaging: Going Beyond LV Ejection Fraction and Use in Cardio-Oncology
Ian Chang, MD
9:15 a.m.
Echocardiographic Assessment of Right Ventricular Function and Pulmonary Hypertension
Reza Arsanjani, MD
9:40 a.m.
Panel Discussion
Mays Ali, MD, Reza Arsanjani, MD, Ian Chang, MD, Katie Young, MD
Moderator: Patricia Pellikka, MD
10:00 a.m.
Imaging in Heart Failure and Myocardial Disease
Moderator: Sunil Mankad, MD
10:15 a.m.
SATELLITE SESSION - Echocardiographic Assessment for Patients with Cardiac Amyloid and Restrictive CM
This CME activity is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from BridgeBio.
11:40 a.m.
Multimodality Imaging for Cardiomyopathies
Amy Pollak, MD
12:05 p.m.
Echo for Impella and LVADs
Yee Weng Wong, MBBS
12:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Ian Chang, MD, Amy Pollak, MD, Yee Weng Wong, MBBS
Moderator: Sunil Mankad, MD
12:45 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 p.m.
Stress Echo and Other Topics
Moderator: Sunil Mankad, MD
1:30 p.m.
Stress Echo Cases: Read With a Master!
Patricia Pellikka, MD
1:55 p.m.
3-D Echocardiography: Practical Applications and Uses
Jared Bird, MD
2:30 p.m.
Echocardiography for Complications of Myocardial Infarction
Sunil Mankad, MD
2:45 p.m.
Echocardiography for Endocarditis: Identifying Complications
Ratnasari Padang, MBBS, PhD
3:10 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Jared Bird, MD, Ratnasari Padang, MBBS, PhD, Patricia Pellikka, MD
Moderator: Sunil Mankad, MD
3:30 p.m.
Adjourn
12:00 a.m.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
7:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
7:15 a.m.
Valvular Heart Disease: Session I
Moderator: Patricia Pellikka, MD
7:30 a.m.
Echocardiography for Aortic Valve Stenosis: Simple and When It Is Not!
Jeremy Thaden, MD
7:55 a.m.
Echocardiography for Mitral Stenosis: Comprehensive 2-D, 3-D, and Doppler Assessment
S. Allen Luis, MBBS, PhD
8:20 a.m.
Echocardiography for Mitral Regurgitation: Mechanisms, 3-D Echo, and Quantification
Rekha Mankad, MD
8:45 a.m.
Echocardiography for Aortic Regurgitation: Identifying the Mechanism and How to Quantify
Vidhu Anand, MBBS
9:10 a.m.
Echocardiography for Tricuspid Regurgitation: Mechanism and Quantification
Ratnasari Padang, MBBS, PhD
9:35 a.m.
Panel Discussion
Vidhu Anand, MBBS, S. Allen Luis, MBBS, PhD, Rekha Mankad, MD, Ratnasari Padang, MBBS, PhD, Jeremy Thaden, MD
Moderator: Patricia Pellikka, MD
10:00 a.m.
Valvular Heart Disease: Session II
Moderator: Sunil Mankad, MD
10:05 a.m.
Congenital Heart Disease Cases I
Patrick O'Leary, MD
10:30 a.m.
Echocardiography for Detection of Prosthetic Valve Dysfunction
Jeffrey Geske, MD
10:55 a.m.
Malignant Mitral Valve Prolapse: It’s A MAD World
Rekha Mankad, MD
11:20 a.m.
Echo for Mitral Valve Interventions
Yee Weng Wong, MBBS
11:45 a.m.
Panel Discussion
Jeffrey Geske, MD, Rekha Mankad, MD, Patrick O'Leary, MD, Yee Weng Wong, MBBS
Moderator: Sunil Mankad, MD
12:00 p.m.
Grab Lunch and Return for a Special Lecture
12:15 p.m.
BMS Product Theater
1:30 p.m.
Concurrent Session Breakouts
Rotate as you wish
1:35 p.m.
Hemodynamics Workshop with Live Scanning (Main Ballroom)
Jeffrey Geske, MD, Praveen Kanaparti, MBBS, MD, Rebecca Klug, RDCS, ACS, Rekha Mankad, MD, Patricia Pellikka, MD
1:40 p.m.
3-D and Strain Workshop with Live Scanning (Macaw Ballroom)
Vidhu Anand, MBBS, Reza Arsanjani, MD, Ratnasari Padang, MBBS, PhD
2:30 p.m.
Adjourn
12:00 a.m.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2026
7:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
7:30 a.m.
Special Topics I
Moderator: Sunil Mankad, MD
7:30 a.m.
Echocardiography in Pericardial Disease and Constriction
S. Allen Luis, MBBS, PhD
7:55 a.m.
Echocardiography for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Jeffrey Geske, MD
8:20 a.m.
Systemic Disease: Echocardiography and Pathology Correlates
Thais Coutinho, MD, Joseph Maleszewski, MD
9:05 a.m.
Echo Assessment for TAVR: Tahe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Jared Bird, MD
9:30 a.m.
Panel Discussion
Jared Bird, MD, Thais Coutinho, MD, Jeffrey Geske, MD, S. Allen Luis, MBBS, PhD, Joseph Maleszewski, MD
Moderator: Sunil Mankad, MD
10:00 a.m.
Special Topics II
Moderator: Patricia Pellikka, MD
10:00 a.m.
Imaging the Aorta and Aorta Complications
Thais Coutinho, MD
10:25 a.m.
Cardiac Masses: Pathology and Echo Correlation
Joseph Maleszewski, MD, Katie Young, MD
11:10 a.m.
Congenital Heart Disease Cases II
Patrick O'Leary, MD
11:35 a.m.
Artificial Intelligence and Echocardiography: "I Think Therefore I Am"
Reza Arsanjani, MD
12:05 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Reza Arsanjani, MD, Thais Coutinho, MD, Joseph Maleszewski, MD, Patrick O'Leary, MD, Katie Young, MD
Moderator: Patricia Pellikka, MD
12:15 p.m.
Adjourn
Credit: To Be Determined
Price: To Be Determined
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