{"id":26,"date":"2021-03-08T16:07:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/owenbrownworkshops.com\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-02-19T11:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:06:39","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/owenbrownworkshops.com\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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About Us \u2014 2025<\/span><\/span><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
A UNIQUE AND PROVEN CONCEPT IN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, ABDOMINAL AORTA, CAROTID AND UPPER EXTREMITY VASCULAR EDUCATION<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>

I began teaching cardiac ultrasound more than 40 years ago while I was an undergraduate at Stanford.\u00a0 The structure and academic content of my courses have been continuously updated to accommodate changes in clinical interest and to reflect the results of ongoing clinical trials designed to test the effectiveness of various interpretative parameters.\u00a0 As the modalities available for ultrasound examination of the heart have expanded, so have the courses. I began in the early 1970\u2019s with M mode.\u00a0 During the early 1980\u2019s, with the proliferation of two dimensional equipment, a completely new series of 2D courses were introduced to our schedule. During the mid 1980\u2019s, in keeping with clinical interest, a new series of Doppler programs were introduced. During the late 1980\u2019s both color Doppler and carotid programs were introduced. In each instance the working philosophy of my courses has been to provide practical information<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0which would prove useful in a general clinical environment.\u00a0I am told by both physicians and technologists that these courses have remained the \u201cgold standard\u201d in their field not only because of the unique approach to education which they represent, but also because the material taught actually helps those who attend to utilize ultrasound diagnostically when they return to their own laboratory environments.<\/strong><\/p>

Despite the intensity and scope of the courses described above, it is physically impossible for any short term program to teach all there is to know about cardiac ultrasound. Likewise, it is also impossible for them to transform novices with a transducer into technical experts. Rather, the purpose of my courses is to provide a foundation for clinical or research work which is complimented by \u201con the job\u201d experience and future courses. I believe you will find the courses above offer more exposure than would seem possible in the time available.\u00a0 The nature of the exposure is balanced between the academic and technical skills necessary for proficiency.\u00a0\u00a0My working philosophy for sonographers centers on the theory that a technical operator, regardless of his or her professional background or position, cannot produce high quality echocardiographic data without knowing the origins of the data and the relationship between its quality and potential for interpretation.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0In this sense, even those who will never sign an echocardiographic interpretation need to know basic interpretative parameters and their fundamental clinical significance if they are to produce optimal studies. Conversely,\u00a0those who are primarily involved with interpretation need to know the rudiments of obtaining the data which they read if they are to fully understand its limitations, supervise its quality and effectively manage the laboratory which generates the data.<\/strong>\u00a0This philosophy has been translated into an effective learning experience for a large number of individuals throughout the western hemisphere.<\/p>

To accomplish the task of instruction, I have been fortunate to gather some of the Industry\u2019s finest educators in the field. All of our instructors are professionals in cardiac ultrasound \u2014 easily the most experienced and well seasoned instructors for short term cardiac ultrasound programs in existence today.\u00a0 The teaching approach has evolved from my 45+ years of working with more than\u00a030,000 participants who have completed more than 47,000 Programs at my Courses<\/strong>\u00a0(7,500 of the participants have been physicians \u2014 including about 2,500 Cardiologists who got some of their first exposure to Cardiac Ultrasound, Cardiac Doppler and\/or Vascular Ultrasound from these classes).<\/p>

The programs we offer are rigorous, the hours are long and the amount of material covered is very extensive. Unfortunately, the degree of preparation, the audio visual labs, the quality of hotel accommodations and the small class size we maintain to facilitate quality education have made these programs costly.\u00a0 Nevertheless, past students continue to tell me of the Courses\u2019 value in their day to day practice of cardiac and carotid ultrasound. If you believe such a program would be of use to you or one of your colleagues, I invite you to what I am sure will be an excellent series of courses. If I can answer any further questions, please contact me as note below.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Owen R. Brown, Program Director<\/strong><\/div>

PO Box 873789<\/strong><\/p>

Vancouver, WA 98684<\/strong><\/div>

USA<\/strong><\/p>

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\u00a9Owen Brown’s Workshops in Cardiac and Vascular Ultrasound\u00ae About Us \u2014 2025 A UNIQUE AND PROVEN CONCEPT IN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, ABDOMINAL AORTA, CAROTID AND UPPER EXTREMITY VASCULAR EDUCATION I began teaching cardiac ultrasound more than 40 years ago while I was an undergraduate at Stanford.\u00a0 The structure and academic content of my courses have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"yoast_head":"\nAbout Us | Owen Brown's Workshops Main Site Menu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Owen Brown's Workshops in Cardiac and Vascular ultrasound.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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