Jeannie to compete in her first full Ironman competition! Jeannie is an avid triathelte and has competed in numerous competitions over the past several years. She has trained exclusively for the full Ironman for the past 1 1/2 years and is ready. She chose Tempe Arizona as the place to fulfill this lifelong goal. This competition is the ultimate athletic competition that tests the mind as well as the body! It is outlined below. Swim Course (2.4 miles) The race kicks off with a single-loop swim in Tempe Town Lake. The deep-water start is just east of the Mill Ave. bridges and begins by heading east. The rectangular course will go just past Rural Road bridge and first turn north and then west all the way back under the Mill Ave. bridges, where another turn south will put athletes on course to head straight back to shore and transition at Tempe Beach Park. Water temperatures should be in the low to mid-60s F. Bike Course (112 miles) The relatively flat three-loop course heads out of Tempe and zig-zags out to the Beeline Highway, which gradually climbs approximately 10 miles through the Sonoran Desert to the turnaround just before Shea Boulevard. Athletes then return to Tempe Beach Park to start their second and third laps. Run Course (26.2 miles)The run course is flat and spectator-friendly with a few small rollers, as athletes wind their way around Tempe Town Lake and through Papago Park. Athletes should be sure to pack a visor or hat in their T2 bags, as the course offers very little shade.
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QVI personell were invited speakers at Th e 25th Annual Congress of the American College of Phlebology November 3-5, 2011 in Los Angeles, California Jean White, RVT, RPhS - recently presented numerous topics Our colleague John Mauriello, MD, FACPh, presented our scientific paper on "Popliteal Vein Compression" This paper won third place best abstract award! The American College of Phlebology is the largest organization in the country specializing ifn the diagnosis and treatment of venous disease. To learn more about the ACP and venous disease click on the link!
QVI goes INTERNATIONAL ! Ecuadorian Dancers Jeannie recently traveled to Rio Bomba, Ecuador for a mission trip to provide free health care to locals with no access to any substantive health services. Part of a large contingent of health care workers, Jeannie and other phlebology specialists provided diagnostic ultrasound and treatment to hundreds of patients with profoundly symptomatic venous disease. While admitting to a week of "perhaps the hardest work I 've ever done", she also was very highly rewarded with the gratitude and kindness shown by the beneficiaries of this service. Phlebology Group hard at work in Ecuador Jeannie performing ultrasound guidance
Jeannie scanning an Ecuadorian women At 16,000 feet near the summit of Mt Chimborazo
Paris, France
The Loueve The Seine Bill recently took a "quick" trip to Paris France to provide teaching to a number of angiologists participating in a clinical trial. Education about specific exam protocols and some Doppler data acuisition strategies proved challenging due to the need for a translator. While intimidating at first, Doppler ultrasound proved to be somewhat of a universal language and the teaching proved successful based on participants comments and subsequent performance.
Several QVI staff attended the Society for Vascular Ultrasound 2010 Annual Conference in Boston in June. We submitted several papers and one presentation was awarded the prestigious D.E. Strandness Scientific Award for Excellence in Research! This award, established in 1987 as the Award for Excellence in Oral Clincial Presentation and named in 2002 in honor of D.E. Strandness, the acknowledged "father of noninvasive vascular diagnosis", is presented annually to a member who is the primary author and presenter of a scientific paper selected for presentation at the Annual Conference. Its purpose is to recognize outstanding scientific research in vascular technology. To be eligible, the primary author and presenter must be a current technologist member of SVU. The Abstracts Committee judges all eligible abstracts and submits the five receiving the highest number of points to the Awards Committee. Members of the Awards Committee review the manuscripts and score the presentations at the annual conference. The award is given to the presenter receiving the highest number of points. "Does Distal Venous Hypertension Affect Lower Extremity Venous Pulsatility?" To read the abstract, click here
There is a new competency examination for sonographers practicing in the world of Phlebology. Developed over the past 2 years by Cardiovascular Credentialling International ("CCI") this exam tests a very specific knowledge in venous ultrasound and other skills typically utlized by sonographers in vein centers. Jean and Bill recently sat for and passed this rigourous examination and now hold the designation of Registered Phlebology Sonographer ("RPhS")
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