About Us
Our Founders and Principal Management Team

Jim Seward, MD
Cardiologist and Founder. Dr. Seward's knowledge and experience is derived from 30+ years of practice at the Mayo Clinic and building a world renowned, high volume Noninvasive Echocardiography Hemodynamic Laboratory which has culminated in the creation of a novel state-of-the-art knowledge base method. Dr. Seward, one of the foremost Echocardiography experts and co-author of The Echo Manual.

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Bill Hansen, MMS, RDCS
Co-Founder and Advanced Cardiac Sonographer. Mr. Hansen has 20 years of experience in Echocardiography in a wide-variety of clinical settings including 10 years of education, training, research, supervisory and clinical work as an Advanced Clinical and Research Sonographer at the Mayo Clinic.

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Wade Boardman BS, RDCS
Advanced Cardiac Sonographer. Mr. Boardman has a broad range of experience in echocardiography spanning more than ten years. His jobs included set-up and directorship of an echocardiography laboratory, training, research and hands-on clinical work.

Grace Casaclang-Verzosa, MD
Cardiologist and ACS. Dr. Casaclang-Verzosa was educated in Internal Medicine and Cardiology in the Philippines. At the Mayo Clinic she pursued a career in clinical Echocardiography research. Dr. Casaclang-Verzosa has more than 10 years experience in the field of Echocardiography.

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Stephen Gabriel MBBS, RDCS, RCT
Advanced Cardiac Sonographer. Mr. Gabriel received his education at The Institute of Medicine in Yangon, Myanmar and trained in Echocardiography at St. Mary’s Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Gabriel has 15 years of experience in teaching and clinical work in Echocardiography and Vascular Ultrasound.

Marian Larson, MBA
Vice President of Sales and Business Development. Ms. Larson received her MBA from the University of San Diego, and her BA from The Pennsylvania State University, B.A., She is an inventor with both US and European Patents (Cardiovascular Medical Device US patents 6,309,380, 7,585,369, 7,781,010 B2 and European Patents 1 847 279 B1, 1 634 547 A1). She was formerly Director of Sales and Marketing at ITW Sonotech, Inc.; and Director of Hospital Strategic Marketing at B. Braun. She attended the Physics and instrumentation of ultrasound course at Thomas Jefferson University.

Elle Seaquist, RDCS
Cardiac Sonographer. Ms. Seaquist has a degree in psychology and is a graduate of the Mayo School of Health Sciences Echocardiography Program.