Weekly Echo Conference

Wednesdays 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

The Weekly ECHO Conference provides echo-related didactic lectures and current comprehensive case presentations to serve as a format to incorporate recent research data, controversies in care, and practical application for clinicians and researchers. Participants will gain a variety of knowledge of cardiovascular topics including emerging diagnostic, therapeutic and interventional techniques for cardiovascular care; cardiovascular complications from primary treatments and newly identified disease entities and their impact on the cardiovascular system.

This activity is intended for physicians, interventionists, surgeons, mid-level practitioners (nurse practitioners/ physicians assistants), nurses, research scientists/coordinators, echocardiogram technicians and general practitioners who have an interest in cardiovascular disease.

Learning Objectives - At the end of each lecture, participants should be able to:

• Employ a multidisciplinary, cooperative, and interactive approach to the exchange of medical education across the breadth of Baylor Scott &White cardiology and affiliate practitioners and educators.
• Improve the safety and quality of patient care by analyzing systems-based and practice-based processes.
• Translate recent research, new techniques, guidelines, etc. to clinical practice, based on the methodological quality of their design, validity, and applicability to patient care.
• Foster communication among healthcare stakeholders by exploring and integrating patient-centered, team-based strategies, when appropriate.
• Compare and contrast patient outcomes of past cases with current one to inform treatment strategies.