03/19/2026
DCVS Alvin Community College at the Houston Aortic Symposium 2026 🫀
So what’s a symposium… and why does it matter?
It’s where the best in the field come together to work through real cases, evolving techniques, and the future of patient care-not just what’s in a textbook, but what’s happening right now across cardiovascular medicine.
Our students across vascular, adult echo, and pediatric echo programs attended multidisciplinary sessions covering a wide range of aortic and structural heart topics. From aortic aneurysms and dissections to aortic root and bicuspid valve disease, structural heart pathology, and advanced imaging, students were exposed to both traditional surgical approaches and minimally invasive/endovascular strategies.
They also engaged in case-based discussions, interactive panels, and “get with the guidelines” sessions, gaining insight into how teams across specialties collaborate to make complex, real-time clinical decisions.
This kind of experience connects the “why” behind what they’re learning in lab and lecture to the real-world impact they’ll have as sonographers-across all specialties.
All cohorts represented. One program. Learning beyond the classroom. Future sonographers stepping into multidisciplinary care💪🏼
