Lissa Sugeng, MD, MPH

Dr. Lissa Sugeng is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. She is the Co-Director of the Yale Echo Corelab (Yale Cardiovascular Research Group) and Interventional Echocardiographer at the West Haven VA, Connecticut VA Health System. She graduated medical school from Udayana University (Bali, Indonesia), earned her MPH degree at Boston University, trained in Internal Medicine at UMASS Medical Center and Cardiology Fellowship, subsequently an Echocardiography Fellowship in 2002 at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Lissa Sugeng’s interest and research focus has been three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE), the use of 3DE in structural and valvular heart disease, and the integration of 3DE in routine clinical cardiology. Her focus on 3DE stems back to 1993. She has been involved in the development and implementation of new 3D technology since 2001 including the first 3D fully-sampled Matrix TTE, in 2007 3D TEE probe (Philips), and in 2012 the 3D ICE probe (Siemens). She established the Yale Echo Corelab in 2011, became the Yale Echolab Director and started the interventional echo program at Yale New Haven Hospital in 2012. In 2019, she became the Medical Director over all Echolabs in the YNHH System and subsequently in 2021, she took on the role of System Director of Cardiovascular Imaging at Northwell Health which is the largest health system to achieve Systemwide Echo IAC accreditation in 2024.

Dr. Sugeng has been a member of ASE since 2000 and is on the editorial board of the CASE journal. She is currently on the CoA-ACS Board of directors as the ASE representative, and has served on the IRT committee, International Relations committee, Research committee, Award Committee member and ASE Foundation Committee. Locally, she is a founding member of the New England Society of Echocardiography and supports the Connecticut Society of Echocardiography. Currently, she is the Co-Director of the Yale Echo Corelab and is on staff at the West Haven VA Hospital in the Echocardiography Lab.