Richie is currently the program director and clinical coordinator at the Hoffman Heart Institute, School of Cardiovascular Technology and the School of Cardiac Ultrasound in Hartford, CT. He has also been an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut Cardiology fellowship program for over 25 years.
He was the first in the country to become a fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography. He is one of the first in the country to earn the credential of Advanced Cardiac Sonographer. In 2011 he received the Distinguished Educator award from the SDMS. In 2017 he was inducted as a fellow of the SDMS. He is currently the only working person in the world to have earned fellowship in both the SDMS and ASE.
He has served a 3-year commitment on the ASE's Board of Directors & the chair of the International Task Force for Sonography Education.
Richie is well published, has co-authored numerous papers, and he lectures extensively national and internationally on the subject of adult echocardiography.