Session 1: Keynote Address
Staying Together… Apart: Touching, Compassionate, Person-Centered Care In A Remote, No Touch, Impersonal World
Steve Talbot, RVT FSVU
Session 2: Lower Extremity Evaluation
Importance of and How to Perform the History and Physical Examination in the Patient With Varicose Veins
John Carson, MD RPVI FACS
Optimizing the Patient and the Equipment to Maximize the Experience for the Sonographer
Rick Dubin, AS RVT RDMS
Reflux Evaluation of Lower Extremity Veins
Donna Kelly, RVT RPhS RDMS
Interesting and Unusual Lower Extremity Venous Case Review
Sara Skjonsberg, RVT RPhS
Panel Discussion
Session 3: Joint AVLS/SVU Session
Clinical Examination For the Venous Sonographer
Donna Kelly, RVT RPhS RDMS
Lymphedema, Lipedema, What is the Cause of This Swollen Limb?
Jessy Farris, MHS RVT RPhS
Non-Saphenous Sources of Reflux
Marresa Houle, BS RVT RPhS RDMS
Complicated Lower Extremity Venous Case Review
Sara Skjonsberg, RVT RPhS
Pelvic/Abdominal Venous Case Study
Mariah Elliott, BS RVT RPhS
Panel Discussion
Session 4: Pelvic Venous Disorders
How and When I Use Duplex Ultrasound: Clinical Signs and Symptoms and Diagnostic Findings That Should Prompt An Evaluation For Pelvic Venous Disorders
Mark Meissner, MD
Venous Duplex Ultrasound Protocols, Techniques and Tips for Evaluation for Pelvic Venous Disorders Part 1
Sara Skjonsberg, RVT RPhS
Venous Duplex Ultrasound Protocols, Techniques and Tips for Evaluation for Pelvic Venous Disorders Part 2
Mariah Elliott, BS RVT RPhS
Interesting and Unusual Venous Case Review for Pelvic Venous Disorders
Nicos Labropoulos, PhD MS BS RVT
Panel Discussion
Session 5: Clash of the Titans Debates
Reflux Testing Should Be Performed In The Standing Position Only Unless There is Some Strong Reason Not to
Nicos Labropoulos, PhD MS BS RVT
This is Overkill, Reversed Trendelenburg is Enough For Most Patients
Brian Sapp, RVT, RPhS
Reflux Testing Rebuttal and Discussion
Post Ablation Evaluation Is A Must Have In Every Patient
John Carson, MD RPVI FACS
Rubbish, The Complications Are Low And The Cost Is High: Selective Evaluation is Better
Nicos Labropoulos, PhD MS BS RVT
Post Ablation Evaluation Rebuttal and Discussion
Combined Panel Discussion
Session 6: Cerebrovascular– Carotid Disease I
An Incomplete History of ICA Stenosis Criteria
Laurence Needleman, MD
A Numerical Criterion Must Consider Measurement Error And Physiologic Variability
Sergio X Salles Cunha, PhD RVT FSVU
The Clinical Spectrum Of Carotid Artery Disease: What The Vascular Sonographer Should Know: History, Indications, Symptoms and Risk Factors and Why It Matters
Ann Marie Kupinski, PhD RVT FSVU
The Vertebral Artery Evaluation: More Than Just Flow Direction
Leslie Scoutt, MD FACR FAIUM
Current Therapies For Carotid Artery Disease
R. Eugene Zierler, MD RPVI
Session 7: Cerebrovascular– Carotid Disease II Case Based Learning
The Effects Of The Cardiac Dysfunction on the Carotid Evaluation
Carol Miranda, RVT RDMS RDCS FSVU
Value Added Role of Transcranial Doppler in Patient with Carotid Artery Symptoms
Leni Karr, BA RVT
Ultrasound Findings Post TCAR And Other Carotid Interventions
Melissa Warren, RVT
Non-Atherosclerotic Carotid Pathology
Sandra Yesenko, DHSc MHS RVT RDMS
Carotid Ultrasound: Deconstructing Diagnostic Dilemmas
Leslie Scoutt, MD FACR FAIUM
Session 8: COVID Topics
The Seattle and UW Vascular Laboratory Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic
R. Eugene Zierler, MD RPVI
DVT Protocol Optimization to Minimize Healthcare Worker Exposure to COVID-19
Anahita Dua, MD MS MBA RPVI CWSP
Primary Language Associated With Intubation and Death in COVID-19 Patients
Charles DeCarlo, MD
The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Vascular Technologists and Vascular Lab Testing
Anita Harrington, MS RDMS RVT FSVU
Antigens and Antibodies: COVID Testing Lessons Learned
Ann Marie Kupinski, PhD RVT FSVU
Panel Discussion
Session 9: Arterial I – Lower Extremity Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease
History And Physical Assessment: A “Novel” Technique?
Ann Marie Kupinski, PhD RVT FSVU
Ankle Brachial Index and Other Physiologic Testing
Sergio X Salles Cunha, PhD RVT FSVU
Answering the Clinical Question
Leslie Wormely, AS AA RVT
Clinical Decision Making Based On Result Of Non-Invasive Testing
Riyad Karmy-Jones, MD
Post-Operative Surveillance: Who, How and When is Appropriate?
R. Eugene Zierler, MD RPVI
Panel Discussion
Session 10: Arterial II – Wounds & Advanced Arterial Evaluation Related to CLTI
The ABCs of Wound Characterization and Why It’s Important
John Carson, MD RPVI FACS
The Role of Physiologic Testing in the Setting of CLTI
Peta Tehan, MD
Novel Uses Of Arterial Duplex Ultrasound in Patients With CLTI and How the Physician Utilizes the Ultrasound Results in Operative Planning
Desarom Teso & Jill Sommerset
Arterial: The Human Angle
Jill Sommerset, BS RVT
Real Time Imaging With the Experts: Pedal Arch and Plantar Acceleration Time
Jill Sommerset, BS RVT
Panel Discussion
Session 11: Abdominal Imaging Optimization, Screening and Surveillance
AAA Screening: Who, Why and When
Laurence Needleman, MD
Ultrasound Imaging Protocol For AAA Surveillance
Melissa Warren, RVT
Case Based Learning: Complications and Interesting Ultrasound Findings Post EVAR Repair
Joseph Polak, MD MPH
Renal Artery Imaging
M. Robert DeJong, RVT RDCS RDMS FAIUM FSDMS
Abdominal Imaging -The Human Angle
Sara Skjonsberg, RVT RPhS
Panel Discussion
Session 12: Hemodialysis Access: Pre-Op Planning to Post-Op Surveillance
Preoperative Mapping For Dialysis Access
Patricia (Tish) Poe, BA RVT FSVU
How I Use Ultrasound Findings To Determine My Operative Plan
Beejay Feliciano, MD RPVI
When Access Compromise is Suspected – From the Dialysis Unit to the Vascular Lab: What Elevated Venous Pressures, Recirculation Times, Difficult Access Portends for the Vascular Sonographer
Patricia (Tish) Poe, BA RVT FSVU
Hemodialysis Access Interventions
Desarom Teso, MD RPVI FACS
Post-Operative Surveillance Duplex Ultrasound Protocols
Christina Fields, BS RVT RDMS RDCS FASE
Real Time Imaging With the Experts- Dialysis Access Surveillance
Christina Fields, BS RVT RDMS RDCS FASE
Panel Discussion
Session 13: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Addressing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
David L. Dawson, MD RVT RPVI
A Personal Experience and Reflection
George Berdejo, BA RVT FSVU
Panel Discussion
Session 14: Issues Related To Flow, Flow Dynamics, And Flow Waveform Analysis
Waveform Analysis Taskforce Update
Esther S. H. Kim, MD RPVI
Dissecting The Arterial Waveform (Reversed Flow Component, Resistance, Upstroke)
Laurence Needleman, MD
Indirect Waveform Analysis: When NOT Seeing is Believing!
Sandra Yesenko, DHSc MHS RVT RDMS
Unusual Carotid Waveform Analysis
Sandra Yesenko, DHSc MHS RVT RDMS
Hemodialysis Access Flow Waveform Changes In Normal and Abnormal Conditions
Matthew Allen, MHA RVS
Audible Waveform Analysis
Natalia Fendrikova Mahlay, MD
Human Angle: Chronic Limb Threatening Ischemia
Leni Karr, BA RVT
Panel Discussion
Session 15: Practice Enhancement- Creativity Is the New Productivity
What Is Productive Capacity? How To Manage It and Why It Matters
Mason Ashcraft, AS RVT RDMS RDCS
Importance of the Physician-Sonographer Relationship
Dejah R. Judelson, MD RPVI
On Call in the Vascular Lab: A Necessary Evil or a Poor Use of Limited Resources
Laurence Needleman, MD
Artificial Intelligence in Vascular Sonography
Stanley Ort, BS RVT RDCS
Panel Discussion
Session 16: Bonus Ergonomics Session
Industry Standards for the Prevention of Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Sonography
Matthew P. Hernandez, BS DPT CSCS
Ultrasound Ergonomics: How to Save Your Neck and Back and Prolong Your Career
Matthew P. Hernandez, BS DPT CSCS
Ergonomics Workshop
Matthew P. Hernandez, BS DPT CSCS
Release date: February 15, 2021
Expiration date: February 14, 2024
