CHCS - Perspectives Winter/Spring 2016

20 • NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY During the Fifth Annual Symposium on Echocardiogra- phy in Congenital Heart Disease, held September 24, 2015, in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Stanislav Timofeev, M.D., RDCS, RVS, assistant professor, presented two papers on congenital heart defects and their detection and diagnosis via advanced echocardiography techniques. Timofeev’s first presentation, “Cardiomegaly: Focus on Pediatric Cardiomyopathies,” described the gross classifications of cardiomegaly malformations based upon characteristics of contraction and contractility and how to detect, classify, and document such malformations using echocardiography for diagnosis and treatment. His second presentation, “Right Ventricular Cardio- megaly: Preload Pathophysiology Associated with Different Types of Circulatory Communications,” described the variety of anatomical malformations leading to extraneous circulatory formations affecting heart circulation and function and how to detect, recognize, and document them for diagnosis and treatment using echocardiography. Cardiovascular Sonography Faculty Member Presents at National Conference BY SAMUEL YODERS, ED.S., RVT, PROGRAM DIRECTOR Above, Stanislav Timofeev, M.D., is shown in the learning lab at the NSU Tampa Campus. Left, the site of the Symposium on Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease in Cedar Falls, Iowa Cardiovascular Sonography TAMPA