The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Asia Pacific Association of Echocardiography (AAE 2019), co-locating with Imaging Australis and the 5th Advanced Echo Symposium 2019, welcomed more than 400 participants from 24 to 26 May 2019 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. 

As an annual meeting, AAE 2019 focuses on improving the quality and standards of cardiac imaging amongst cardiology trainees, and provides a broad platform for academic exchange of ideas within Australia and New Zealand, as well as Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, India and other Asia-Pacific countries.

 

Keynote Lectures:

• What is quality and how do you measure it? Tom Marwick (AUS)

• Quality assurance in the echolab - Sonographer's perspective, Bonika Anderson (AUS)

• Quality assurance in the echolab - Physician's perspective, Jae Oh (KOR)

• Credentialing in echocardiography - Need of the hour, Sudhir Wahi (AUS)

 

Topics:

· Novel Imaging in 2019 · Congenital Heart Disease for the General Cardiologist · Echo in Critical Care / POCUS Update · Myocardial structure and function · From Right-to-Left · Sonographers Update

· Back to Basics (Echo 101) · Stress Echocardiography Refresher                                    · Beyond 2D Echo in 2019 · Contrast Echo update · Valvular Heart Disease · Structural Heart Disease

(Left: Prof. Jae Oh, President AAE, Right: Alex Lee, MD, FACC, FESC, FRCP, Chair of Local Organizing Committee ECHO ASIA 2020)
 

In 2020, the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Asia Pacific Association of Echocardiography (ECHO ASIA) will be held in Hong Kong from 22 to 24 May 2020.