Federico Asch
MD, FACC, FASE
Director, Echocardiography and Cardiac Imaging Core Lab
Director, Cardiac Imaging Research
Federico Asch, MD, FACC, FASE, is the Director of the Echocardiography Core Lab at MedStar Health Research Institute and Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University. Dr. Asch is a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography and the American College of Cardiology. He is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Heart Association, and the Argentinean Society of Cardiology. He has served in multiple leadership roles for the American Society of Echocardiography (including Chair of Guidelines and Standards Committee, Chair Scientific Sessions and Chair, World Summit of Echocardiography, Chair International Affairs) and is a member of the Executive leadership leading to Presidency in 2027. He is past-president of the AHA Board for the Greater Washington region and a member of and the institutional review board of MedStar Health Research Institute.
Dr. Asch is a frequent invited speaker at national meetings and is board certified in cardiology. His areas of interest are implementation of imaging standards in the development of Clinical Trials, novel ultrasound technologies such as AI, Cardiomyopathies, valvular heart disease. Dr. Asch has published several articles in the New England Journal of Medicine and other peer-reviewed journals, including JAQCC, Circulation, Nature, Lancet and the American Heart Journal. He received his MD from the Universidad de Buenos Aires Medical School and completed a Cardiology Fellowship at Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires in Argentina. He then completed an Echocardiography fellowship, followed by a residency and fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at the Georgetown University/MedStar Washington Hospital Center/DC VA Medical Center program.
Research Interests
Dr. Asch's research interests include
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Echo in clinical trials
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AI in cardiac imaging
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3-D echocardiography
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Structural heart disease and valvular heart disease
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Myocardial diseases
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Normal values: Echocardiography of the healthy, according to age, sex and races
Dr. Asch's research is supported through Federal and Industry grants or contracts, and is possible through a wide academic collaborative approach with multiple stakeholders in the field of cardiovascular diseases.
Research Areas
- Cardiovascular