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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.

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Staff Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist & Critical Care Physician, Department of Anesthesia & Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network. Assistant Professor, Dept of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Neethling graduated from Stellenbosch University and completed residency training at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She subsequently completed both Cardiac Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine Fellowships at the Toronto General Hospital in Canada and is certified in Advance Perioperative Echocardiography (Advanced PTEeXAM) from the National Board of Echocardiography. Her clinical and research interests in trans esophageal echocardiography, critical care medicine, perioperative outcome and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS).

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Staff Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Lecturer, Dept of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Perex D'Empaire completed his undergraduate medical educaition at the University of Zulia, Venezuela. He completed his residency in anesthesiology and clinical fellowships in Critical Care Medicine and Cardiovascular Anesthesiology at the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) and the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE). He is certified in Advance Perioperative Echocardiography (Advanced PTEeXAM) and Critical Care Echocardiography (CCEeXAM) by the National Board of Echocardiography.

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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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Staff Cardiologist, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network. Dr. Omran completed his fellowship in echocardiography at Toronto General Hospital in 1996 and subsequently collaborated with Tirone David in developing intraopertive imaging techniques to support the development of novel techniquest for aortic and mitral valve repair. He is the author of landmark papers on TEE assessment of mitral valve anatomy and suitability for mitral valve repair and created the first map of TEE classification of the mitral valve segments and scallops which is still in use in many centers. Dr. Omran has published more than 35 papers in role of TEE in valves repair and contributed chapters in 5 textbooks of echocardiography including chapter of role of 3D TEE in cardiac operating room in the “Nanda’s Comprehensive Textbook of Echocardiography”. He is certified by National Board of Echocardiography and European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and is an active member of American and European societies of echocardiography. He is currently working as staff cardiologist supporting the perioperative echocardiography program at Toronto General Hospital. He is a highly regarded teacher in echocardiography and runs the quality assurance program for intraoperative TEE at Toronto General Hospital.

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Since completing his residency in Anesthesiology at London Health Sciences Centre and completing a cardiac anesthesiology fellowship at St. Michael’s Hospital, Daniel Kim has been working as a cardiac anesthesiologist and cardiovascular ICU intensivist. He has been at Southlake Regional Hospital since it started its Cardiac Surgical Program in 2003. He has previously worked as the CVICU Director, was part of the Southlake’s MiniMitral program, and is currently part of the MitraClip team as an imager.  The imaging platform he  currently works with is the GE VividE95.

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Cardiac Sonographer at University Health Network | UHN, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital

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Staff Anesthesiologist, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto. Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Papa graduate from University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine where he also finished his anesthesia residency. He completed his clinical fellowship in Cardiovascular Anesthesiology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Papa is Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE), Associated Editor of the Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (BJAN) and completed a Master in Health Practitioner in Clinical Education at Dala Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He is certified in Advance Perioperative Echocardiography (Advanced PTEeXAM) and Critical Care Echocardiography (CCEeXAM) by the National Board of Echocardiography.

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Clinical Assistant Professor at Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Martinez did her medical degree from University Central of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela. Subsequently, she did her Anesthesiology Residency in Barcelona, Spain. Following, Dr. Martinez completed cardiovascular and thoracic fellowships in Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto. She Currently works as Anesthesiologist in Toronto General Hospital, main interest is cardiovascular, perioperative transesophageal echocardiography thoracic and transplant anesthesia including liver, lung and heart transplant. Staff Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital. University Health Network Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto European Diploma of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care.

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Dr. Salvatori obtained a Master of Science from the University of Toronto Department of Physiology (2005) and a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Newcastle University School of Medicine, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (2013). Dr. Salvatori completed his anesthesia residency at the University of Toronto and obtained his Fellowship, Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC) in Anesthesiology in 2019. He completed a cardiovascular anesthesia and critical care medicine fellowship at the Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network. His areas of interest include adult congenital heart disease, aortic surgery, solid organ transplantation and transesophageal echocardiography. He currently serves as the Director of Perioperative Echocardiography at Toronto General Hospital and is co-director of both the Multicentre Echo Teaching Series and the Toronto Perioperative Echo Symposium.

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Dr. Kendra Derry is an attending anesthesiologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada, and an assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto. She specializes in cardiac anesthesiology and is an echocardiographer for the structural heart team at St. Michael's Hospital. Dr. Derry earned her medical degree from the Schulich School of Medicine in London, Ontario, followed by a residency in anesthesiology through the University of Ottawa. She completed her fellowship in cardiac anesthesiology at the Ottawa Heart Institute and further specialized with an advanced structural heart imaging fellowship at Harvard University in Boston, MA. Her research interests include imaging techniques for structural heart disease interventions and advances in medical education.

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Dr. Ashton Chang is a currently completing his fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesia and Critical Care at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto. He earned his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Barts and the London Medical School in London, UK. After completing Acute Care Common Stem (Anaesthestics Branch) in the UK, he completed his Anaesthesiology Residency at the University of Toronto. Dr. Chang has an interest in education in echocardiography and has successfully completed his examination in Special Competence in Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (Advanced PTEeXAM).

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Staff Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist  and Anesthesia Education Coordinator with Southlake Health, Newmarket, Ontario. Dr. Larkin completed medical school and Anesthesia Residency with University of Western Ontario, then went on to complete a fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesia at University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Dr. Larkin has a special interest in echocardiography, and is a member of the the structural heart imaging team at Southlake Health, currently opening on the GE platform.