COURSE DIRECTOR

Staff Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Clinician-Investigator, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Moreno completed clinical fellowships in Critical Care Medicine (2008-2009), Cardiovascular Anesthesia (2013) and Thoracic Anesthesia (2014) at Toronto General Hospital. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE), and is certified in Advance Perioperative Echocardiography (Advanced PTEeXAM) from the National Board of Echocardiography. He is an associate investigator at the Lynn & Arnold Irwin Advance Perioperative Imaging Lab (APIL) at Toronto General Hospital and is an active member of The Resuscitative TEE project and Perioperative Echocardiography Group at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He is the Director of the Toronto and Barcelona 3D Perioperative Echocardiography TEE courses and a long-standing member of the planning committee of the Toronto Perioperative Echo Symposium, CVT section of the CAS, SCA Echo and EACTAIC Echo.

COURSE DIRECTOR

Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist, Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona. Certification in adult transoesophageal echocardiography by EACVI/EACTAIC. Member of European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Intensive Care. Special fields of interest: teaching in echocardiography in anesthesia, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, patient blood management in cardiac surgery, right ventricle function.

COURSE DIRECTOR

Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona. Certification in adult transoesophageal echocardiography by EACVI/EACTAIC. Member of Education committee of European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Intensive Care. Special fields of interest: prehabilitation and preoperative optimization, enhanced recovery after surgery, minimally invasive surgery. 

SPEAKER

Staff Cardiologist and Clinician Investigator, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network. Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Tsang is the head of the Complex Valve clinic at Toronto General Hospital. She completed her medical degree at Queen’s University and went on to complete her Adult Cardiology fellowship at the University of Toronto. She then completed a CIHR-funded Multimodality Cardiac Imaging research fellowship at the University of Chicago. During that time, she also obtained a Master’s degree in Health Studies. She was a member of the writing groups for both the 2012 ASE/EACVI 3D Guidelines and the 2015 ASE/EACVI Chamber Quantification Guidelines. She also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography and is a member of the Royal College of Physician and Surgeon’s Area of Focused Competency subcommittee in Adult Echocardiography. She currently holds a Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada National New Investigator Award. Her research focuses on congenital and valvular heart disease, 3D echocardiography, and artificial intelligence.

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Staff Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Kingston Health Sciences Centre Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Queen's University. Dr. Amador completed residency training in anesthesiology and emergency medicine in Costa Rica. Subsequently he completed a research fellowship with Dr. Feroze Mahmood at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School followed by a clinical fellowship in cardiovascular anesthesiology at Toronto General Hospital. He is certified in Advance Perioperative Echocardiography (Advanced PTEeXAM) from the National Board of Echocardiography. He is the organizer of the ulti-disciplinary echo rounds at the Kingston Health Sciences Centre and a member of the organizing committee for the POCUS workshop at the Canadian Anesthesia Society (CAS) meeting.

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Senior consultant in the department of Anesthesia at Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany. Certificatied in adult transesophageal echocardiography by EACVI/EACTAIC and is a member of the LVAD/Transplant Committee and of the Education Committee of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Intensive Care, and co-director of the EACTAIC-Fellowship at the Heart Center, Leipzig. Special fields of interest are 2D and 3D echocardiography of the right heart, echocardiography for assist device implantation, and transcatheter edge-to-edge repair of the tricuspid and mitral valve. Pain therapy in cardiac anesthesia.

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Co-Chair Department of Anesthesia, Herzzentrum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Toronto. Dr. Meineri completed Fellowship training in Cardiac Anesthesia from Toronto General Hospital, where he went on to become the director of perioperative echocardiography and founding director of the Lynn and Arnold Irwin Advanced Perioperative Imaging Lab. His academic focus is perioperative echocardiography. He is Diplomate in advanced Perioperative transesophageal echocardiography. He’s involved in development of on line echocardiography teaching resources for the Perioperative Interactive Education website (pie.med.utoronto.ca). He has organized and lead numerous point of care ultrasound courses around the world. His main research interest is 3D intraoperative echocardiography.

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Dr. Li is a cardiologist specialized in Interventional Imaging. He coordinates the Valvular Heart Disease Unit at the Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona and has a wide experience in the multimodal assessment of valvular heart disease and in the echocardiographic guiding of structural cardiac interventional procedures like TAVI, mitral and tricuspid repair, and appendage and septal defects closure.

COLLABORATOR

Dr. Moustafa is a cardiologist and the Director of the Dimension Lab at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona. He specializes in multimodal cardiac imaging for studying valvular and structural heart diseases. His expertise includes 3D modeling, in-silico simulation, 3D printing, and advanced visualization techniques for planning and guiding complex medical procedures. Additionally, he is experienced in training medical professionals.