14th Annual UCLA Fetal Echocardiography Symposium

The 14th Annual UCLA Fetal Echocardiography Symposium will take place on Saturday, October 19, 2024 at UCLA—live and in-person at the David Geffen School of Medicine, and live-streamed around the world for those who cannot attend in person, and recorded for subsequent review at times convenient for you. This fourteenth annual symposium remains true to our mission of providing a single day full of clinical tips and pearls for everyone involved with fetal cardiac imaging in low-risk or high-risk pregnancies. This year’s course, entirely revamped with an expanded faculty of expert clinicians and teachers, includes didactic lectures by world-class sonographers, maternal fetal medicine and pediatric cardiology faculty, along with two round-table discussions debating first the role of quantitative assessment in fetal cardiac imaging, and later the distinction between fetal cardiac screening and fetal echocardiography. Other highlights of this year’s symposium will include testimonials from young patients with major forms of congenital heart disease, question/answer sessions with participation from the live and live-streamed audiences, insights and recommendations from an experienced attorney in the field, a live-scanning tutorial by one of our world-class experts, and a hands-on workshop for participants to scan actual patients towards the end of the afternoon.

As in prior years, if you are looking mainly for statistics or reviews of the literature, this course is not for you. But, if you are looking to improve your ability to scan or to interpret scans of the fetal heart, either for fetal cardiac screening or for fetal echocardiography, and to leave with invaluable clinical pearls and insights into the importance and challenges of both fetal cardiac screening and fetal echocardiography, this 14th annual fetal echocardiography symposium has been designed specifically for you. We look forward to welcoming you, or welcoming you back, on Saturday, October 19, 2024!

In-Person and Virtual Fees 

• $200 USA Residents
• $100 International Residents (non-USA)
• (SOLD OUT) *$25 Hands-on Workshop (4:10 pm to 5:15 pm)

*To add the hands-on workshop, registrants need to be enrolled in the in-person symposium

Recharge Payment Information
Registration payment can be submitted via the Interdepartmental recharge system.
For more details, please refer to document here: Recharge Information

Refunds
Cancellations must be received via email to [email protected] by Friday, September 27, 2024 and will be subject to a $75 processing fee. No refunds will be granted after that date. If, for any reason, the course must be cancelled, discontinued, or rescheduled a full refund will be provided.

Course Recording
All registrants (live or virtual) will be provided the opportunity to review recorded sessions up to 3 weeks following the conference.
The recorded sessions are not approved for Continuing Education (CE) credit. 

1. Discuss current guidelines for fetal cardiac screening and fetal echocardiography.
2. Improve the basic approach to screening low risk pregnancies for fetal heart disease.
3. Identify new ways to optimize image quality and angle of acquisition.
4. Understand the optimal use of color flow Doppler in the evaluation of the fetal heart.
5. Acquire high-quality images/clips of the four-chamber view, outflow tracts, and three-vessel views.
6. Evaluate and diagnose fetal arrhythmias, major forms of heart disease, and ventricular dysfunction.

Iris Cantor Auditorium
Geffen Hall, UCLA Campus
885 Tiverton Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Parking and Directions
From the 405 freeway, exit Wilshire Blvd., East toward Westwood. Turn left on Westwood Blvd. and turn right on Le Conte Ave. Then, turn left on Tiverton Ave. Once you turn in on Tiverton, go straight into the Geffen Hall parking structure labeled “Visitor Parking 18 & 27”. Proceed left to “Visitor Parking 18”. Please park in the “Visitor Parking 18” Lot.

Please use the pay-by-plate station to purchase your parking permit. Participants are responsible for their own parking charges at a rate of $15 per vehicle. The Geffen Hall Auditorium is located at the intersection of Le Conte Ave. and Tiverton Ave.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), Standards for Integrity and Independence mandates that the accreditation manages all identified relevant financial relationship(s) before the program and adequately discloses relationships to learners. The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA adheres to the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in accredited continuing education.

The individuals below have been identified as having a position to influence the content of this educational activity. As such, they have disclosed the absence or presence of a relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
All of the relevant financial relationships for these individuals have been mitigated.

Member Information

Role in activity

Nature of Relationship(s) / Name of Ineligible Company(s)

Ericka Cunningham, MBA
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

CCPD Staff

Nothing to disclose

Charles Flippen II, MD, FAAN, FANA
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

CCPD Staff

Nothing to disclose

Kimberly Valencia, CHCP
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

CCPD Staff

Nothing to disclose

Tracy Anton, BS, RDMS, RDCS, FAIUM, Assistant Clinical Professor
University of California, San Diego

Co-Director, Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Mark S Sklansky, MD, DO, Professor and Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Course Director, Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Afshar Yalda, MD
UCLA

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Bio-Rad (Relationship has ended)

Bonnie Brooks, Other

Faculty

Terra Chez, Other
Hopeful Hearts Foundation

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Claudia Cucchetti

Faculty

Greggroy DeVore, MD, Director, Fetal Diagnostic Centers
Pasadena, Tarzana, Lancaster, California

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Nita Doshi, MD, Medical Director, CHOC Specialty Ambulatory Network
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, CHOC Children's Specialists

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Xochil Felix, Other

Faculty

Fraser Golding, MD, FRCPC
Rady Children's Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

JEFFERY W. Grass, JD, Managing Partner
Davis, Grass, Goldstein, & Finlay

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Sara Jerome, Other

Faculty

Julie Ju, Other

Faculty

Grace Lieberson, Other

Faculty

Tiffany Lounderback, RDMS, RDMS OB/Gyn, Abd, FE
Boston Imaging, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Crizel Memije, Other

Faculty

Pina Patel, MD, Pediatric Cardiologist
Assistant Professor, UC Irvine School of Medicine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Mishella Perez, BS, RDMS, RDCS, FAIUM, Clinical Ultrasound Educator
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Scripps Clinic

Faculty

Speakers Bureau-GE Healthcare

Jay D Pruetz, MD, FASE, Associate Director, Guerin Family Congenital Heart Program
Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Prolacta Bioscience, Inc.|Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels, Board Membership, etc.-Vitara Biomedical Inc.

Pamela Rhodes, Other

Faculty

Gary M Satou, MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Nicole Smith, Other

Faculty

Sabrina Speer, Other
Samsung

Faculty

Employment-Samsung

Marybeth Tomory, RDMS, Advanced Practice Sonographer/Perinatal Sonographer
Access Telecare/Fetal Diagnostic Center of Arizona

Faculty

Independent Contractor (included contracted research)-GE Healthcare (Relationship has ended)

Sonia Voleti Chivukula, MD
UCLA

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Selina Wilindra, Other

Faculty

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Acknowledgments
This program is supported in part by educational grants and exhibitors from the following:

Educational Grant

• GE HealthCare

Exhibitors

• Fuji Film
• GE Healthcare
• Philips Healthcare
• Samsung Neurological

In-Kind Donation

• GE HealthCare
• Phillips
• Samsung