Craig Sable
Ochsner Children's Hospital, USA, United States
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Craig Sable, MD, specializes in pediatric cardiology at Ochsner Health. Dr. Sable is the associate chair of Pediatrics for Academics and will be a co-director of the Ochsner Childrens Heart Center. He received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine in 1989 and completed his residency and fellowship training at Childrens National Hospital in Washington, D.C., from 1989 to 1995. He was an attending cardiologist at Ochsner from 1995 to 1997 and then spent 27 years at Childrens National Hospital serving as Interim and Associate Chief of Cardiology, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Director (mentoring over 100 trainees) as well as director of Echocardiography, Global Health, and Telemedicine. He is an adjunct professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Sable is recognized as an international leader in pediatric echocardiography, telemedicine, rheumatic heart disease, and global cardiovascular disease. He has authored 200 peer-reviewed articles given over 100 invited talks, and coauthored ten book chapters. Dr. Sable has been working in Uganda since 2003, visiting over 50 times to advance echocardiography, catheterization and surgery at Uganda Heart Institute, improve care of children and young adults with heart disease, support research in rheumatic heart disease, and train the next generation of cardiologists. He has been a principal or co-investigator for several NIH, AHA and foundation grants totaling over $10 million, all focused on underserved populations. He has held key leadership roles in the AHA, American Board of Pediatrics, Joint Council of Congenital Heart Disease, World Heart Federation and World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac. Dr. Sable has received numerous awards and honors including AHAs Meritorious Achievement award in 2018 and delivered the 2019 T. Duckett Jones Memorial Lecture on Rheumatic Heart Disease.
Presentations this author is a contributor to:
Cost of school screening for rheumatic heart disease and cost comparison of alternative strategies for confirmatory echocardiography in Uganda (118063)
2:27 PM
Joselyn Rwebembera
Concurrent 1b - Control Begins in the Community
Implementation and Impact of a Novel Rheumatic Heart Disease Screening Program in Uganda: Results from the ADUNU ProgramĀ (118185)
11:20 AM
Scott Wirth
Plenary 6 - Lessons From Niches of Stress, Vulnerability, and Resilience
Diagnostic accuracy of the 2023 world heart federation screening criteria for rheumatic heart disease in a high-risk population (#264)
5:30 PM
Joselyn Rwebembera
Poster Session 2
Rapid AI-assisted hand-held echocardiography detection and analysis of rheumatic heart disease (118456)
11:44 AM
Kelsey Brown
Plenary 2 - New Insights and New Tools
A plasma protein biomarker signature that differentiates acute rheumatic fever from related clinical presentations (#248)
5:30 PM
Tim Barnett
Poster Session 2
Pericardial Effusion in Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease (#296)
5:30 PM
Masood Sadiq
Poster Session 2