2025 Annual Conference

The 2025 NWVT Annual Conference was held October 4th and 5th, 2025 at the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver, WA. 12 CMEs were awarded to Attendees.  

Saturday October 4th 

7:00-7:30: Registration & Breakfast 

7:30-7:45 Welcome - Christine Bergan BS, RVT 

7:45-8:00 Opening talk - Jake Hemingway MD 

8:00-9:00 Jill Sommerset BS, RVT, FSVU - Pedal Acceleration Time and Deep Venous Arterialization 

9:00-9:15 Bonnie Brown BS, RVT, NVS – Deep Venous Arterialization 

9:15-9:30 Matthew Wise BS, RVT – The Impact of Incidental Findings, Are you a Sonographer or a 'tech'? 

9:30-10:00 Break    

10:00-10:30 Krislynn Barnhart BS, RVT, NVS & Leni Karr CPC, ELI-MP, RVT, NVS - TCD speed dating    

10:30-11:00 Emily Ho. MD, PhD, RPNI - What Was That Bloop? 

11:00-11:130 Dr. Hemingway - TBD 

11:30-12:00 Live Scanning PAT – Jill Sommerset & Leni Karr, TCD – Krislynn Barnhart 

12:00-1:00 Lunch 

 1:00-1:30 Sara Skjonsberg BS, RVT, RPhS – Vein Valves 

1:30-1:45 Calli Nyholm, RVT ARDMS- Baroreflex Activation Therapy: Mechanisms, Evidence, and Clinical Application 

1:45-2:00 Bonnie Brown BS, RVT, NVS - Takayasu's 

2:00-2:30 Dr. Aaron Stayman – TCD 

2:30-3:00 Break 

3:00-4:00 Carolyn Coffin MPH, RDMS, RVT, RDCS - Ergonomics    

4:00-4:30 Todd Hall, RVT - From Thrones to Thrombi: The Chair’s Dark Legacy 

4:30-4:45 Christine Bergan, RVT - Carotid Webs 

4:45-5:00 AME award  

5:00-7:00 Wine Social  

Sunday October 5th 

7:00-7:30 Breakfast  

7:30-8:00 Molly Baxter BS, RVT – Vascular Malformations 

8:00-8:15 Kaylen Montes BS, RVT– From Scan to Plan: Pre-Op Dialysis Mapping and Cases of Anatomy That Didn't Read the Textbook 

8:15-8:30 Sarah Brisson BS, RVT – Temporal Artery Pseudoaneurysm 

8:30-9:00 Todd Hall, RVT - The Cotton Gin and its Application in the Modern Vascular Lab  

9:00-9:30 Becky Holesapple BS, RVT - Just another lower extremity vein, right? 

9:30-10:00 Break    

10:00-10:30 Cortney Lansdon BS, RVT - MALS 

10:30-11:00 Mimi Crafton, BA, RVT – Persistent Sciatic Artery  

11:00-11:30 Dr. Cindy Ha-Nguyen MD – Popliteal artery entrapment 

11:30-11:45 April Vann RVT RDCS – Right Heart Strain with Pulmonary Embolism & Heart Failure and Vascular Imaging Findings  

11:45-12:00 – Calli Nyholm, RVT ARDMS - Bright spots to big impacts: The ripple effect of a full cup 

12:00 Raffle and Adjourn