Dear IAE members,
  A new team of office bearers has been elected for 2021-22. Let me wholeheartedly thank all of you for the confidence you have placed on us.
  The IAE -Kerala Chapter (IAE-KC) 2021 annual conference was conducted on 21st February through online and the conference was excellently organized and well attended. This meeting also witnessed the introduction of a novel Echo Quiz. IAE-KC wishes to place on record its appreciation for their sincere efforts of the organizing team.
  I also wish to thank the outgoing President Dr Johny Joseph and Dr Cibu Mathew, Secretary and other office bearers for their dedication and hard work over the past years for our organization. We promise that we will not let them down and will strive to keep up to the exacting standards set by them.
  I humbly request all our colleagues to continue your support for all the organizational activities
With warm regards

Dr. Sunitha Viswanathan

President

  The IAE aims at increasing the knowledge of echocardiography in all its forms. In this age of Interventional Cardiology echocardiography had fallen on the wayside.
  The IAE intends to restore the magic and the fine art of echocardiography to all practising Cardiologists.
  We the office bearer plan to learn from all our members and invited guests the best echocardiography has to offer in the diagnosis, management and treatment and follow -up of patients.
  We will not limit ourselves to just 2 DE echocardiography and Doppler but plan to improve our knowledge of 3D echo, M Mode, strain rate imaging and transoesophageal echocardiography.
  We hope that this website would enhance our presence as a teaching platform. I hope all the hits on our website would be useful and enlightening to our viewers.
Thank you.

Dr. Zulfikar Ahamed

Vice President

Welcome to the official website of IAE –Kerala Chapter.
  IAE aims to facilitate knowledge sharing among cardiologists, to take the art and science of Echocardiography practice in our state to the next level. We also plan to engage in regular academic dialogues with our technician friends, which will definitely improve the outcome of our patients with heart disease. We hope that this website will be great platform for all of us, who have one thing in common…our passion for Echocardiography.
  We would love to have more of our colleagues to hold hands with us, and strengthen IAE-Kerala in this academic journey.
  Do join us … Let’s “ECHO” together.

Dr. Bino Benjamin

Secretary

Let me congratulate the office bearers of Indian Academy of Echocardiography (Kerala Chapter) [IAE(KC)] for their far sightedness in starting a website for the association.
In today’s technology driven world every professional body needs a website. The website transforms a local organisation into an international one. The IAE(KC) site will be accessible from every nook and corner of the world. This initiative will catapult IAE (KC) to a higher level. It will encourage more to become members of our association.
On my personal behalf I wish the website all success.

Prof Rajan Joseph Manjuran

Permanent Invitee, IAE(KC) Ex Committee Past National President, IAE

Indian Academy of Echocardiography aims to update the present generation of cardiologists and interested physicians about this bedside technique. We set up the first echo lab in India at the Trivandrum Medical College in 1979 to select patients for cardiac surgery at a time when we did not have a cath lab. This was before the days of coronary angio and angioplasty. I am happy to state that we succeeded in popularising this art nationally and we the members of Kerala IAE want to maintain this spirit. Today with advancements in Doppler techniques and strain imaging we can look into the pathophysiology of every heart disease and explain the physical signs with accuracy which was not possible in the cath era. Let every echocardiographer do the procedure in an ideal manner so that the technique remains well refined and accurate. With this aim our academy will popularise the latest techniques in echo Doppler at the same time fine tune the older techniques.
Youngsters should understand we have a bedside machine which can solve so many problems early in their natural history. Welcome everyone interested in Echo to our fold.

Dr G Vijayaraghavan

MD, DM(Card) FRSM, FRCP(Edin and Lond) FACC FAHA