Day 1 November 20, 2026
Registration 7.30 Onwards
8.30 Welcome Address
Session - 1 Echo Like an Expert
Foundational Concepts in Transesophageal Echocardiography
9.00 -9.20
Physics of Ultrasound & Imaging Artifacts & Pitfalls
Dr Manish Bansal
9.20 – 9.40
Comprehensive Intraoperative TEE Exam • Based on ASE/SCA guidelines
• Must-know standard views and interpretation
Dr Rajesh Arya
9.40 -10.00
Essentials of LV systolic function assessment
Dr Deepak K Tempe
10.00 -10.20
Essentials of LV diastolic dysfunction
Dr Madhav Swaminathan
10.20 -10.40
Assessing the Right Ventricular Function
Dr Hardeep Garewal
10.40 – 11.00 Q & A
11.00 – 11.30 - COFFEE
Session 2
11.30 – 1.00
Hemodynamic Workshop on GE EchoPAC
Dr Manish Bansal/ Dr Hardeep Garewal
1.00 - 1.30 LUNCH
Session 3
1.30 – 3.30
Hands-on Workshops:
Hands-on Simulator based Workshop
Hydrolic Gel Beating Heart Live 3D
Beating Heart TEE Simulator with Clipping Experience
Regional Anaesthesia: Integrating Regional Anaesthesia into Cardiac Anaesthesiology Practice
Session 4
3.30 -5.30
Wet Lab - Porcine Heart Dissection with 2 D & 3 D Echo-Anatomic Correlation
Dr Manisha Mishra, Dr Harpreet Wasir
DAY 2 November 21, 2026
Session 1 - Decision Making in Aortic Valve Surgery
8.30 – 8.45
Imaging of Aorta for Aortic Aneurysms & Aortic Dissection
Dr Sucharita Das
8.45 – 9.00
Current hemodynamic classification of AS; What we need to know
Dr Anand Kumar
9.00 9.15
Role of Echo in Aortic Valve Repair
Dr Rahu Vijay Kumar Shabadi
9.15– 9.30 Q & A
Session 2 - Mitral Valve Imaging and Surgical Decision-Making
9.30 – 9.45
Echocardiographic assessment of MR severity: Pitfall & Solutions
Dr TA Patil
9.45 -10.00
Decision making in Functional MR: Repair/Replace/Clip
Dr Alexander Gregory
10 00 –10.15
Assessing Mitral Valve for Suitability for Repair
Dr C Kumar
10.15 -10.30
Does TEE Ensure Success of Mitral Valve Repair: A Surgeon's Viewpoint
Dr Amit Chandra
10.30 -10.45
Post Mitral Valve Repair — It’s Not Perfect but is it Good Enough?
Dr Manisha Mishra
10.45 –11.00 Q&A
11.00 – 11.30 COFFEE
Session 3 - The Rapidly Evolving Landscape of Tricuspid Valve Evaluation and Intervention
11.30 – 11.45
Tricuspid Valve: Understanding a Complex and Dynamic Structure
Dr Poonam Malhotra
11.45 –12.00
Tricuspid Regurgitation in the OR: When to Intervene
Dr P Hemamalini Palani
12.00 -12.15
Percutaneous Tricuspid Valve Interventions - Echo Challenges
Dr Nagendra Chauhan
12.15 – 12.30 Q&A
12.30 -12.50 - Keynote Address - AI has the potential to Revolutionize Echocardiography! Dr Madhav Swaminathan
1.00 – 1.30 LUNCH
Session 4 - Navigating the High Risk Structural Heart Interventions
1.30 1.45
Interventional Echocardiography for the Anaesthesiologist: A practical Walkthrough
Dr Rajni Singh
1.45 -2.00
When Things go Wrong: Echocardiographic Recognition and Management of Intraprocedural Complications
Dr Rahul Mehrotra
2.00 -2.15 Q&A
Session 5 - Heart Transplant & MCS Moderated Panel Discussion Dr Madhav Swaminathan
2.15 -2.30
Beyond the Numbers: Assessing the Pulmonary Vasculature Before Heart Transplant
Dr Murali Krishna T
2.30 -2.45
When Is the Time Right? Hemodynamic Triggers for Escalation to Mechanical Circulatory Support
Dr Suresh Rao
2.45 -3.00
Transplant and MCS: Managing the First 72 Hours
Dr Prajeesh Nambiar
3.00 -3.30
Panel discussion: The ECMO Dilemma in Pulmonary Hypertension: VV, VA, or V-AV?
Session 6 -
3.30 – 3.45
Constriction vs Restriction
Dr Dheeraj Arora
3.45 - 4.00
Critical calls: Is there something wrong with the New Valve?
Dr Rachna Wadhwa
4.00 - 4.15
Echocardiography for Congenital Heart Disease: A systematic Approach – TEE & Epicardial Echo
Dr Suresh Nair
4.15 -4.30 Q&A
4.30 - 5.30 ECHO QUIZ
5.30- 6.30 COMPETITIVE SESSION
DAY 3 November 22, 2026
Session 1 - 3D Echo Symposium
8.00 -8.20
How Do I Incorporate 3D in my everyday TEE exam?
Dr Naman Shastri
8.20 – 8.30
3D Assessment of the Mitral Valve
Dr Akhil Diwan
8.30 -8.40
3D Assessment of the Tricuspid Valve
Dr Shradha R Anthappan
8.40 -8.50
3D Assessment of the Aortic Valve
Dr Ravina Mukati
8.50 -9.00
RV and LV Quantification
Dr Prajeesh Nambiar
9.00 -10.00
Hands-on 3 D Echo Session GE EchoPAC
Dr Naman Shastri
Session 2 - ECHO Frontiers & Beyond
10.30 -10.45
Cardiac Masses
Dr Ira Balakrishnan M
10.45 -11.00
HOCM
Dr Indira Malik
11.00 -11.15
TEE in Intraoperative Stroke and Air Embolism
Dr Shweta Suri Kandpal
11.15 -11.30 Q&A
11.30 -12.30 Free Paper Session
LUNCH
