Mission
Despite growing advances in healthcare, many countries lack basic necessities required to accurately perform and read an echocardiogram.
I aim to ensure that patients, regardless of their locale, have access to standardized high-quality cardiac care.
Service / missions
- Heart to Heart Surgical Mission - St. Petersburg, Russia
- Team Heart Screening Mission for Rheumatic Heart Disease - Kigali, Rwanda
- American Society of Echocardiography Foundation (ASEF) Screening Mission - New Delhi, India
- ASEF Teaching Mission - New Delhi, India
- Team Heart Surgical Mission - Kigali, Rwanda
- ASEF Mission to Bangalore - India
- Team Heart Echo Training of NCD Nurses - Kigali, Rwanda
- Echo Lectures with PURE - Kigali, Rwanda
- WINFOCUS Echo Course - Khartoum, Sudan
- Heart to Heart Surgical Mission - Chelyabinsk, Russia
- ASEF Mission to Hanoi - Vietnam
Medical Background
- Hospital Corpsman, US Navy (1969-1973)
- Non-Invasive Cardiopulmonary Program, Spokane Community College (Class of 1979)
- Cardiac Sonographer Duke University Medical Center (1979-Present)
- Educator/Lecturer, Adult Echo Registry Review (1987-Present)
- Distinguished Sonographer Teacher Award Recipient, ASE (2004)
- Sonographer Lifetime Achievement Award Inaugural Recipient, ASE (2011)
credentials
- Registered Advanced Cardiac Sonographer, Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI)
- Registered in Adult and Pediatric Echocardiography, American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (ARDMS)
- Fellow of the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (SDMS)
- Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)
- National and International Echocardiography Lecturer/Educator
- Author or Co-author of 125 academic publications