Radiologist Brochure Saturday, September 6th, 2014 Case-based Approach to Cardiac CT and MRI COURSE DIRECTOR: Dr. Gorka Bastarrika This course will be of interest to Cardiac Radiologists, Cardiac Radiology Residents & Fellows, General Radiologists with an interest in Cardiac Imaging and Radiology Residents & Fellows with an interest in Cardiac Imaging. Course Objectives: Through a series of interactive case study workshops using an audience response system (ARS), at the end of this event, participants should be able to: Assess the value of multi-modality imaging and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of cardiovascular CT and MRI in most common clinical scenarios Review and discuss characteristic imaging features and recognize pitfalls that frequently mimic various cardiac conditions Evaluate the potential of CT and MRI to provide a comprehensive assessment of an increasing number of cardiovascular diseases, including ischemic heart disease, acute aortic syndrome, pulmonary hypertension, cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease, cardiac masses and pericardial disease
Schedule: Note: This program includes 12 30-minute interactive workshops and one 60-minute interactive workshop using Audience Response System (ARS). 07:00 07:35 07:35 07:40 07:40 07:50 07:50 08:20 08:20 08:50 08:50 09:20 09:20 09:30 09:30 09:45 09:45 10:15 10:15 10:45 10:45 11:15 11:15 11:25 11:25 12:25 12:25 12:35 12:35 13:20 13:20 13:50 13:50 14:20 Registration and Hot Breakfast Welcome, Opening Remarks Dr. Giuseppe Tarulli Review of Course Objectives Dr. Gorka Bastarrika Interactive Workshop 1: CT of Coronary Artery Disease Dr. U. Joseph Schoepf Interactive Workshop 2: CT After Coronary Revascularization Dr. Anna Zavodni Interactive Workshop 3: CT Beyond Coronary Artery Imaging: CORE320 Experience Dr. Narinder Paul Morning Break Interactive Workshop 4: Acute Aortic Syndrome Dr. Anna Zavodni Interactive Workshop 5: Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Pearls and Pitfalls Dr. Laura Jimenez-Juan Interactive Workshop 6: Chronic Pulmonary Embolism and Pulmonary Hypertension - Case Studies Dr. Elena Peña Interactive Workshop 7: Cardiac CT Case Review Dr. U. Joseph Schoepf Lunch Interactive Workshop 8: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Dr. Bernd Wintersperger Interactive Workshop 9: Dilated and Restrictive Cardiomyopathy Dr. Gorka Bastarrika 14:20 14:50 14:50 15:00 15:00 15:15 15:15 15:45 15:45 16:15 16:15 16:45 16:45 16:55 Interactive Workshop 10: The Many Faces of Right Ventricular Dysfunction Dr. Elena Peña Afternoon Break Interactive Workshop 11: Valvular Heart Disease Dr. Bernd Wintersperger Interactive Workshop 12: Cardiac Masses Dr. Laura Jimenez-Juan Interactive Workshop 13: Pericardial Disease Dr. Tarang Sheth 16:55 17:00 Closing Remarks Dr. Gorka Bastarrika This program was developed in response to past OAR CME Evaluation Form Summaries, a membership CME survey, and specific requests to the OAR office requesting additional cardiac case study programming.
Keynote Speaker: U. Joseph Schoepf, MD, Prof. (h.c.), FAHA, FSCBT- MR, FNASCI, FSCCT Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Imaging, of CT Research and Development, and Cardiovascular Imaging Director of the University Designated Centre for Biomedical Imaging. Professor with appointments in Radiology, Medicine and Paediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, South Carolina Dr. Schoepf, a native of Austria, graduated from the medical school of Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, in 1996. After his residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany, he assumed a position at Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, MA, which he held from 2001-2004. Dr. Schoepf holds a current medical license in the State of South Carolina and is certified in Diagnostic Radiology by the American and Austrian Specialty Boards as well as in cardiac CT by the American College of Radiology and the Certification Board of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. His main clinical and scientific interest is non-invasive cardiovascular and thoracic imaging, especially the use of advanced CT and MRI techniques for diagnosing disorders of the heart and lung. Dr. Schoepf has been serving on the editorial boards of several scientific journals including Radiology, the Journal of the American Heart Association, the American Journal of Roentgenology, Academic Radiology, and European Radiology and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Thoracic Imaging. He has given more than 400 invited lectures internationally, has authored more than 300 articles in peer reviewed scientific journals, more than 20 book chapters, and five books. Dr. Schoepf is a member of numerous scientific societies and has been serving as chairman of several committees of the American College of Radiology, the Radiological Society of North America, American Heart Association, North American Society of Cardiovascular Imaging, Society of Computed Body Tomography and MR, and the Society of Thoracic Radiology. He is an honorary member of the Hungarian Radiology Society and of the Société Canadienne- Française de Radiologie and received Honorary Professorship from Nanjing University, China. Dr. Schoepf was elected Fellow of the American Heart Association, of the Society of Computed Body Tomography and MR, of the North American Society of Cardiovascular Imaging, and of the Society for Cardiovascular CT. Dr. Schoepf has been named among the top 10 cardiovascular imagers worldwide by Medical Imaging Magazine two years in a row. He has been continuously listed among the Best Doctors in America since 2007 and was ranked as Most Influential in Radiology by RT Image Magazine in 2008. In 2013 he was selected as the Most Influential Radiology Researcher by AuntMinnie.com. Faculty Speakers: COURSE DIRECTOR Gorka Bastarrika, MD, PhD, EBCR Dr. Gorka Bastarrika is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Toronto and Section Head of Cardiac MRI Division at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He completed his medical studies, as well as his radiology residency at Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. He progressively held roles, which eventually led him to Head of the Cardiac Imaging Unit at this hospital. Dr. Bastarrika serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals including European Radiology and is a reviewer of numerous scientific journals. He has given more than 60 invited lectures nationally and internationally related to cardiothoracic imaging, has more than 200 scientific abstracts, has authored more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 10 book chapters, and co-edited three books. He is also involved in many professional and radiological societies. His areas of research include non-invasive cardiac imaging with CT and MRI and lung cancer.
Faculty Speakers continued: Laura Jimenez-Juan, MD Dr. Laura Jimenez-Juan completed her residency in the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Before her current appointment, she did a clinical fellowship in Cardiac Imaging at the Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto and she was a research fellow at the Time Resolved Imaging & Imaging Optimization (TRIIO) core lab of the same institution. Dr. Jimenez-Juan is a cardiothoracic radiologist at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC), an Affiliate Scientist of the Schulich Heart Research Program at the Sunnybrook Research Institute and an Assistant Professor with the Department of Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto. She supervises the Cardiac Imaging fellowship program at SHSC. Her main research interests include the use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging for risk stratification and outcome assessment of cardiac diseases and the development of ultra-low dose CT protocols for lung and cardiac perfusion imaging. Narinder S. Paul, MRCP (UK), FRCR (UK), FRCPC Dr. Paul is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Section Chief of the Cardiothoracic Division at the University of Toronto, and Site Chief for Medical Imaging at Toronto General Hospital. He is also an Executive Member of the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. He is a Board Certified Internist from Southampton University Medical School (UK) and completed his radiology training at Newcastle- Upon-Tyne and Leeds University Hospitals (UK). He completed fellowships in Body Imaging and Cardiothoracic Imaging at the University of Toronto. Dr. Paul has established research interests in image optimization and radiation dose reduction for cardiothoracic imaging. He also has a significant interest in education and has established the Annual Peter Munk Cardiac Centre Symposium, and the University of Toronto Advanced Imaging and Education Centre (AIEC). The AIEC is a state-of-the-art education environment in which the student achieves hands on competency in Cardiac CT achieving Level I and II standards of accreditation during a 5-day on-site intensive workshop. Elena Peña, MD Dr. Peña is a cardiothoracic radiologist in the Department of Medical Imaging, Cardiothoracic and Emergency Radiology sections at the Ottawa Hospital and an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa. A graduate of Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, she trained in Radiology in Madrid, Spain, followed by a fellowship in cardiac and chest radiology at the University of Ottawa. She is involved in medical student, resident and fellow training, as well as post-fellowship teaching. She is the resident supervisor for the cardiac imaging rotation and has been a lecturer at Resident Review Course held in Ottawa in March every year since 2010. She was the co-director for the past CME course entitled Cardiopulmonary Imaging Update held in June 2013 in Quebec City. Dr. Peña has published several peer-reviewed articles and a book chapter and presented more than 30 oral presentations and posters at national and international meetings. Her primary clinical interest is in cardiopulmonary imaging. Her major research interests are in pulmonary hypertension, heart failure, use of cardiac CT in acute chest pain in the Emergency Department, and interstitial and vascular pulmonary diseases.
Faculty Speakers continued: Tarang N. Sheth, MD, FRCPC Dr. Tarang Sheth is a Cardiac Radiologist. He had developed and directed the cardiac CT and MR imaging at Trillium Health Partners Mississauga Hospital since starting the program in 2004. He has performed and interpreted thousands of cardiac CT and MR examinations. The program receives referrals from cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, and other physicians from across the region. Dr. Sheth obtained his medical degree and his Radiology residency training from the University of Toronto. He completed a clinical and research fellowship in cardiovascular imaging at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital. Dr. Sheth s has conducted grant funded research on CT and MR assessment of bioprosthetic aortic valves and on coronary CT angiography. He was also Co- Principal Investigator of the Beating Heart Graft Patency Study, a randomized controlled trial conducted at Trillium comparing off-pump to conventional bypass surgery using graft patency defined by cardiac CT as the primary endpoint. He lectures frequently on topics related to cardiac CT and MR imaging and has coauthored a chapter about cardiac surgical imaging in Cohn s Textbook of Cardiac Surgery in the Adult. Bernd J. Wintersperger, MD, EBCR, FAHA Dr. Wintersperger is the Section Head of Cardiac Imaging at the Joint Department of Medical Imaging (JDMI) at University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospital and Women s College Hospital Toronto, an Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Toronto, and an adjunct Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Munich. He received his medical education in Germany including his specialty training in Diagnostic Radiology at the Department of Clinical Radiology at the University of Munich where he also was appointed as Section Chief General Radiology & Cardiac MRI as well as the Head of Quality Management until May 2010 prior to accepting the position in Toronto. Dr. Wintersperger has published more than 140 times and delivered more than 250 lectures with an emphasis on Cardiac MR. He is an educational program speaker for the European Society of Radiology, the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the Radiological Society of North America and the Society of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance. He holds administrative and committee positions at ISMRM and American Heart Association and is the responsible Associate Editor for all Cardiac Radiology Submissions of Investigative Radiology. Anna E. H. Zavodni, MD, MHSc, FRCPC After finishing medical school and a diagnostic imaging residency at the University of Alberta, Dr. Anna Zavodni completed a cardiovascular imaging fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in the United States. While at the NIH, she earned a Master s of Health Sciences in Clinical Research through Duke University. Dr. Zavodni joined the University of Toronto in 2012 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Imaging. Dr. Zavodni is the Divisional Head of Cardiothoracic Imaging at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and is crossappointed to the Schulich Heart Program and the Sunnybrook Research Institute. Her research interests are focused on the non-invasive assessment of atherosclerotic disease using state-of-the-art MRI, CT, ultrasound and molecular imaging techniques in order to better understand vascular remodeling in response to aging, lifestyle, risk factor modification, medical therapy and surgical management.
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