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    Lissa Sugeng, MD, MPH

    Director Yale Echo Core Lab (YCRG), Cardiovascular Medicine
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    Director Yale Echo Core Lab (YCRG), Cardiovascular Medicine

    Biography

    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.

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    Education & Training

    Echocardiography Fellow
    University of Chicago Medical Center (2002)
    Cardiology Fellow
    University of Chicago Medical Center (2001)
    Resident
    Massachusetts Medical Center (1998)
    Intern
    Massachusetts Medical Center (1996)
    Research Fellow
    Tufts University Medical Center (1995)
    MPH
    Boston University (1993)
    MD
    Udayana University (1991)

    Research

    Overview

    With current three-dimensional echocardiography methods, we have been able to apply this to our daily clinical routine. Nevertheless, the penetration of this technology to general clinical practice is still low. I'm driven to understand how to improve the adoption of this amazing technology, apply automative software to our clinical workflow to improve accuracy and efficiency. With new software in 3D echo, evaluation of valve disease is enhanced, estimating valve size is accurate and 3D printing using echo is our future. In addition to my clinical research that is highly focused on 3DE, I've expanded my interest to the use of echocardiography in general to hence our clinical cardiology practice. Focused echo using portable ultrasound or hand-held ultrasound units is another field that I've expanded my research interests particularly in the ICU setting and screening for rheumatic heart disease in developing countries.

    The Yale Echo Corelab under YCRG is a very active Echo core lab that partners with industry sponsors to aid in developing research protocols and data analysis of echo studies in a rigorous method with high integrity. I've been involved in multiple structural heart disease devices as well as stem cell therapy or device therapy for heart failure.

    Medical Research Interests

    Echocardiography; Heart Valve Diseases

    Public Health Interests

    Cardiovascular Diseases

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Lissa Sugeng's published research.

    Publications

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    2025

    2024

    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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      Siemens Cardiac Ultrasound

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      American Society of Echocardiography

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      American Society of Echocardiography

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      American Society of Echocardiography

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      American Society of Echocardiography

    Clinical Care

    Overview

    Lissa Sugeng, MD, MPH, has been treating patients with valvular heart disease and hypertension at Yale since 2010. An associate professor of medicine (cardiology), Dr. Sugeng specializes in using echocardiography, a type of ultrasound, in valvular heart disease.

    Clinical Specialties

    Cardiovascular Medicine

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    Contacts

    Academic Office Number
    Lab Number
    Mailing Address

    Yale Cardiovascular Research Group

    135 College St.

    New Haven, CT 06520-8017

    United States

    Locations

    • Cardiology (Echo Laboratory)

      Lab

      VA Connecticut Healthcare

      950 Campbell Avenue

      West Haven, CT 06516