Bernard E. Bulwer

Bernard E. Bulwer, MD., MSc, RCS, FASE

Founder and Project Director, Echo Stethoscope Academy Project

Longwood Medical and Academic Area

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Contact: Author@Echoscope.org

... Considered an "outside the box", “visionary and strategic thinker”, and a physician “ahead of his time”, by leading experts at Harvard, Colombia, and the Cleveland Clinic, and beyond.

... Also called the "Leonardo da Vinci" and the "Frank Netter" of Echocardiography.

Dr. Bulwer's focus is to "educate and equip" today's students and practitioners with the foundation tools for responsible use cardiac ultrasound “echo” stethoscopes - within their scope of training. Such tools are designed to complement medical education, diagnostic medical sonography programs, clinical practice, and global health.

Dr. Bulwer, a native of Belize, was recognized (by the U.S. government) as a "person of extraordinary ability" based on his contribution in the field of echocardiography education.

He has served as author, co-author, editor, and medical illustrator of a number of textbooks and didactic works in echocardiography. These include:

1. Essential Echocardiography: A Practical Handbook with DVD (2007, Publisher-Humana Press/Springer Science) - with Editor, Scott D. Solomon, MD and Foreword by Peter Libby, MD - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

2. Echocardiography Pocket Guide: The Transthoracic Examination (2011, 2013, Publisher-Jones and Bartlett Learning - with Jose M. Rivero, MD and Foreword by Scott D. Solomon, MD - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

3. Atlas of Echocardiography - Apps for the iPhone/iPad by Modality Learning and Epocrates (2010, 2012)

4. Atlas of Echocardiography (Solomon SD and E. Braunwald; Current Science/Springer Science, 2008).

5. Comprehensive Textbook of Perioperative Transesophageal Echcardiography (Savage RM, Aronson S, Shernan SK; Lippincott, Williams, Wilkins/Wolters Kluwer, 2010).

6. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine (Bonow R, Mann R, Zipes D, Libby P; Elsevier, 2015).

7. Essential Echocardiography: A Companion to Braunwald Heart Disease (Solomon SD, Gillam LD, Wu JC, Bulwer BE; Elsevier 2018).

8. Transthoracic Echocardiography: Foundation of Image Acquisition and Interpretation. 1st Edition, 2015; 2nd Edition, 2018

Books 9-20: Echocardiography Illustrated Series (Volumes 1-11). Second Editions in Progress.