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David OuyangX

MD FACC FASE 

Dr. David Ouyang is a Los Angeles based cardiologist affiliated with the internationally recognised Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He obtained his medical degree from the University of California (San Francisco) School of Medicine, residency and fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University, and is Board Certified in Cardiovascular Disease and Internal Medicine. Dr. Ouyang has also completed post-doctoral studies in Computer Science and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. 

Having majored in Statistics (Rice University), Dr. Ouyang has always been fascinated by how to visualise and interpret data. He believes strongly in the opportunity to apply increases in data being collected to personalise care and improve diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. 

Dr. Ouyang was a competition finalist in the American Society of Echocardiography Arthur Weyman Young Investigator’s Award Competition and was awarded the 2018 Merck Research Fellowship at the American College of Cardiology Foundation. He received the Edwin Alderman Award for Excellence in Clinical Research in 2020. Expert in the statistical analysis of large datasets within cardiovascular medicine, he has produced a significant number of research publications that address deep learning and computer vision of cardiovascular imaging. 

Partho P. SenguptaX

MD MBBS FACC FASE 

Dr Partho P. Sengupta is the Henry Rutgers Professor and the Chief of Division of Cardiology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School & University Hospital. Dr Sengupta completed his clinical residency and cardiology fellowship at Mayo Clinic Rochester and Arizona respectively. He has over 250 peer-reviewed publications. 

Prior to joining Rutgers, he served as Abnash C. Jain Chair and Professor of Cardiology and the Chief of Division of Cardiology and Director of Cardiac Imaging at West Virginia University, Morgantown. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of American College of Cardiology: Imaging and has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the American Society of Echocardiography and as the Chair of the ASE Telehealth and New Technology Taskforce. 

He has won several excellence awards including ASE’s Young Investigator’s Award in 2004, Mayo Clinic Research Award in 2007, Mayo Brothers Distinguished Fellowship Award in 2009, AACIO Young Investigator Award in 2010 and ASE’s Rich Popp Award for excellence in Teaching in 2020. He also received ASE’s 14th Feigenbaum Lectureship for recognizing his significant contributions to research in the field of echocardiography. He delivered ASE’s first-ever presentation using hologram technology at ASE’s 24th Annual Scientific Sessions. 

His futuristic ideas, investigative skills and international work have been widely acclaimed by major media outlets and he was an invited stage speaker for TEDMED 2016. He has been nominated by the American Medical Association for “Inspiration in Medicine” talk for the year 2017. 

Jordan B. StromX

MD MSc FACC FASE 

Dr. Jordan Strom is Associate Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory and Director of Echocardiographic Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Section Head of Cardiovascular Imaging Research at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. 

He received his B.S. in Biology from Yale University and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, before subsequently training in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and in Cardiovascular Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where he was Chief Fellow for the 2017-2018 year. He received additional post-graduate training in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, receiving an M.Sc. in Epidemiology in May 2018. Dr. Strom was the inaugural fellow and is currently a faculty investigator at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology. 

His research involves evaluation of the relationship of cardiac structure and function to health outcomes, particularly for valvular heart disease. Additionally, his research focuses on the optimal use and timing of cardiac imaging in practice. He specializes in the analysis of large administrative, registry, and clinical trial data, in particular imaging registries. He has received grant funding for this work from the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health and he has published more than 60 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as Circulation, European Heart Journal, and the Annals of Internal Medicine. He serves as a guest editor and Editorial Board member for the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography and is a member of the ACC Imaging Council Leadership committee. Dr. Strom was a member of the inaugural class of the American Society of Echocardiography’s Leadership Academy and is the inaugural member elected to the ASE Board of Directors in this capacity. In addition to his role as Co-Chair of the Image Guide Echo Registry committee, he serves as the ACC representative to the board of directors of the Joint Review Committee on Education in Diagnostic Medical Sonography (JRC-DMS) which oversees training in diagnostic medical sonography in the US, the ACC Commissioner to Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), the largest programmatic accreditor of the health sciences professions, accrediting over 2,100 education programs in 32 health sciences occupations, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Contrast Ultrasound Society (ICUS). 

James D. ThomasX

MD FACC FASE FESC 

Dr. James D. Thomas is a cardiologist at Northwestern Medicine with a clinical focus in valvular heart disease and echocardiography and extensive research into applying physical principles and advanced technology in cardiovascular imaging. He now serves as Director for the Center for Heart Valve Disease and Academic Affairs in the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute and co-directs the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Disease while serving as Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. 

Born and raised in Oklahoma City, Dr. Thomas attended Harvard College (graduating summa cum laude in Applied Mathematics) and Harvard Medical School before clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Vermont. Dr. Thomas has over 650 peer reviewed publications with an h-index of 149. He is past president of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and co-chairs a committee to standardize the measurement of myocardial strain by echocardiography. He previously served on the Cardiovascular Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and as co-chairman for the 2007 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Scientific Sessions. 

Dr. Thomas also serves as lead scientist for ultrasound with NASA, focusing on the effects of space on cardiovascular function. Other research interests include cardiac mechanics, application of new echocardiography technology, artificial intelligence and integration of engineering principles into clinical decision-making.