Dr Edgar Argulian, MD, MPH, MPH, FACC, FASE is Associate Professor of Medicine/Cardiology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is the Director of Echocardiography Laboratories at Mount Sinai Morningside in New York, NY. In addition, he is Program Director of Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at Mount Sinai Morningside, New York, NY. He has conducted multiple clinical research studies in cardiology, mostly in the areas of non-invasive imaging, pericardial disease, cardiomyopathy/myocardial disease, hypertension, stress testing, valvular heart disease and echocardiography. He continues active investigations in several areas of non-invasive cardiology such as cardiac ultrasound, stress echocardiography and myocardial disease. He has also maintained an active role in teaching trainees at several levels of training, including medicine residents and cardiology fellows. His educational activities including publishing review articles in high impact journals and editing a book entitled ‘Echocardiography in the CCU’ (2018). Dr. Hatem Soliman Aboumarie, MSc, FEACVI, FASE, FHEA is a consulting cardiothoracic intensivist at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals in London, UK. He focuses on critical care echocardiography, lung ultrasound, mechanical circulatory support, and heart and lung transplantation. An honorary senior lecturer in cardiology and medicine at King's College London, he won a European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) Excellence in Education award. Further, he is a member of the Royal College of Physicians (UK), the American Board of Echocardiography, the European Society of Cardiology, and is a board member and councilor for echocardiography at EACVI. He was elected Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the UK (FHEA), a Fellow of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (FEACVI), and a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE). Additionally, he is on the editorial boards of “JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, “Frontiers in Cardiovascular Imaging and “Transplantation and Critical Ultrasound Journal.
