The Schedule

2025 Agenda

Presentations:

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Greater Kansas City Echo Society Annual Symposium

8:00 AM - 8:10 AM

Welcome and Course Overview

• Tayler Dumlao, RCS - The University of Kansas Health System
  
  (see bio)

8:10 AM - 8:35 AM

The Wonders of Mitral TEER

• Andrew S. Waters, MD, FACC, RPVI - AdventHealth Shawnee Mission
  
  (see bio)

8:35 AM - 9:00 AM

The Ten Commandments of TR assessment by TTE

• Kyle Lehenbauer, MD
  
  (see bio)

9:00 AM – 9:25AM

Intraprocedural Utilization of MPR: Tricuspid Valve

• Timothy Beaver, MD, FACC, FASE. - KUMC
  
  (see bio)

• Megan Simmons, RDCS
  
  (see bio)

9:55 AM - 10:25 AM

Basics of Echocardiography in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

• Kyle Lehenbauer, MD
  
  (see bio)

10:25 AM - 10:55 AM

Unmasking the Mimics: A Case-Based Journey Through HCM and Look-Alikes

• John Fritzlen, MD, Cardiovascular Fellow - University of Kansas School of Medicine
  
  (see bio)

• Jared Kvapil, MD, FACC, Associate Professor, Program Director Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship - University of Kansas Health System
  
  (see bio)

10:55 AM - 11:25 AM

Red Flags on Echo: Early Recognition of Cardiac Amyloidosis

• Brett Sperry, MD - Saint Luke's Cardiovascular Consultants
  
  (see bio)

11:25 AM - 11:55 AM

Hemodynamic Collapse Post TAVR Deployment (Suicide Left Ventricle)

• Gloria Lipari, RDCS, RDMS, RVT - University of Kansas Health System
  
  (see bio)

12:50 PM - 1:15 PM

Fetal Evaluation of d-Transposition of the Great Arteries

• Laura Schoeneberg, MD - Children's Mercy Hospital
  
  (see bio)

1:15 PM - 1:40 PM

D-TGA from Neonate to Adulthood: Echocardiographer Perspective

• Amanda McIntosh, MD - Children's Mercy Hospital
  
  (see bio)

1:40 PM - 2:05 PM

Adult Management of Transposition Patients

• Christopher DeZorzi, MD - UMKC
  
  (see bio)

2:05 PM - 2:30 PM

The Role of Echo in Adult Congenital Heart Disease Interventions

• John Serfas, MD - University of Kansas School of Medicine
  
  (see bio)

2:50 PM - 3:15 PM

Teaching in a Clinical Setting

• Turi Wiedner, RDCS, RVT
  
  (see bio)

• Tiffany Smith, RDCS - The University of Kansas
  
  (see bio)

3:15 PM - 3:40 PM

Career Ladders – Growth Within

• Rita France, RDCS - Childrens Mercy Hospital
  
  (see bio)

• Holly Grier, MBA, ACS, RDCS(AE), RVT, and RCCS

3:40 PM - 4:05 PM

Beyond the Fur

• Anita Keck, RDCS, BA: History, MA: Education, RVT
  
  (see bio)

4:05 PM - 4:55 PM

Cases -- Echo Jeopardy

• Jared Kvapil, MD, FACC, Associate Professor, Program Director Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship - University of Kansas Health System