Who We Are
SOPE Committees
SOPE Pediatric Echocardiography Advocacy and Sonographer Education Committee
(PEASE)
Mission
Utilize the diverse talents and experiences of pediatric echo faculty and sonographers to advocate for solutions to issues unique to pediatric sonography.
Recruit, Train, Improve, Retain
Committee Co-Chairs
Lisa Elliot, Nemours
Bruce Landeck, All Childrens Heart Institute
Immediate Past Chair
Bernadette Richards, Nationwide Children's
Committee Members
Riley Bigelow, Michigan
Curt DeGroff, University of Florida
Pierre Wong, CHLA
Joey Goulding, Seattle Children's
Shuo Wang, CHLA
Elena Kwon, Montefiore
ALiyah Jordan, UK- Great Ormand St
SOPE Education Committee
In 2019 SOPE provided its first webinar in conjunction with the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC). This inaugural webinar by Bernadette Richards, FASE, RDCS, Technical Director, Echo Lab at Nationwide Children’s Hospital was titled “Shoptalk: Imaging the ACHD patient’. There were over 1000 attendees with very positive feedback including a request for more congenital webinars!
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Our second very successful live webinar took place on May 29, 2020. Mishella Perez BS, RDMS, RDCS, sonographer educator, Scripps Health San Diego presented “Fetal Echocardiography: Protocol and Technique.” This webinar followed by a Q&A session included AIUM practice parameters for the performance of fetal echocardiography and discussed how to optimize techniques to improve screening for congenital heart disease.
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The society plans to continue these CME opportunities in coordination with IAC going forward. Please let us know which topics you would enjoy most!
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Committee Co-Chairs
Carolyn Wilhelm, Rainbow Baby's
Dawn Park, Nationwide Chrildrens
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Immediate Past-Chair
Jennifer Co-Vu, University of Florida
Committee Members
Ray Lorenzoni, Connecticut Childrens
Shannon Nees, Nemours Childrens
Jenna Keelan, UT Southwestern
Nitin Madan, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Shivani Patel, Lurie Children's
Ruchika Karnik, Yale University
Samantha Kops, Colorado Children's
Emily Ribiero, University of Florida
Charles Simpkin, Colorado Children's
Lauren Huff, Cincinnati Children's
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SOPE Career and Development Committee
The Early Career Development subcommittee seeks to provide a range of resources for junior physicians and sonographers to help launch their careers in echocardiography. Our initial venture will pair mentors and mentees with similar interests/goals together to allow individualized guidance.
Interested individuals can sign up on our website. Future plans include webinars with expert panels on a range of topics, including job search, CV composition, and building a research career in imaging.
Please contact Andrew Rodenbarger, MD with any ideas you have for the Early Career Development subcommittee.
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Board Liaison
Sarah Hayson, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
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Committee Co-Chairs
Sarah Hayson, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Ruchira Garg, Cedars Sinai
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Immediate Past-Chair
Katie Jo Stauffer, Stanford
Committee Members
Julie Glickstein, Columbia
Mike DiLorenzo, Columbia
Tyler Fick, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Anitha Parthiban, Texas Children's Hospital
Nadine Choueiter, Mount Sinai
Simon Lee, Lurie Childrens
Nicole Cresalia, UCSF​
Piers Barker, Duke
Alisa Arunamata, Stanford
Melissa Wasserman, CHOP
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SOPE Echo Lab Collaborative Committee
The Pediatric Echo Lab Collaborative launched and was announced at the annual SOPE meeting in 2019. The goal is to be a learning collaborative using echocardiography to improve the quality and value of echocardiography and the outcome of children with congenital and acquired heart disease. As such, we have launched our first project entitled “Reducing Discrepancies between Preoperative Echo and Intraoperative findings”. This quality improvement project will determine the type of discrepancies made on preoperative echocardiography compared to intraoperative findings.
Ultimately, the goal is to minimize these discrepancies. This effort has been led by Shobha Natarajan and Meryl Cohen. A pilot group of institutions will start collecting prospective data this summer and then it will be opened to the entire SOPE community at large to participate.
For more information on how your center can participate in the Pediatric Echo Lab Collaborative, please email: natarajans@email.chop.edu or cohenm@email.chop.edu. We encourage submissions of ideas for projects. Pediatric sonographers are encouraged to submit ideas directly related to their work environment.
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Project Lead
Shobha Natarajan (CHOP)
Committee Members
Aarti Bhat, Pei-Ne Jone, Meryl Cohen
SOPE Communications
Committee
The Communications Committee distributes newsletters quarterly. We will also work to increase SOPE’s social media presence, as well as helping our management to revise our website. Please reach out to Janet Barnes or Jason Williams with any suggestions or questions.
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Committee Co-Chairs
Jason Williams, Duke University
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Immediate Past-Chair
Janet Barnes, Seattle Children's
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Committee Members
Jennifer Acevedo, Lurie Children's
Simone Jhaveri, Columbia
Jennifer Co-Vu, University of Florida
Ben Goot, Children's Wisconsin
Ketaki Mukhopadhyay
Aliyah Jordan, UK-Great Ormand St