The Heart Program's hosts Pediatric Echocardiography Symposium

Published on: 12/02/2015

On Saturday, November 14th, The Heart Program at Nicklaus Children's Hospital, hosted the "All Florida Pediatric Echo Symposium". In attendance were over 50 physicians and sonographers. Our very own physicians Leo Lopez, MD; Elizabeth Welch, MD; and Juan Carlos Muniz, MD helped facilitate this symposium.

Echo Evaluation of Pulmonary Hypertension were also available in the NICU.

Speakers:

Leo Lopez, MD Echo Evaluation of Conotruncal Malformations
Curt Degroff, MD Value and Limitations of Echocardiography
Lori Lampman, RDCS and Lisa Crawford, RDCS

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