This premier educational venue for cardiovascular ultrasound in clinical practice. This superbly rated meeting is filled to capacity year after year. Although the course is refocused yearly to ensure the most up to date information, topics will include quantitative echocardiography, valvular and ischemic heart disease, stress/contrast echocardiography, advances in imaging in coronary disease, state-of-the-art and clinical applications of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), diastology, physiological disease management and myopericardial diseases. Special workshops are available on focused topics of interest to general as well as specialty participants.Participants should have a practical knowledge of echocardiography to benefit most fully from this program. The setting is ideal for participants to bring their families and take advantage of some vacation time.