Live Webcast Brochure Saturday, April 2, 2016 OAR Spine Imaging: Practical Information for Community Radiologists Course Director: Dr. Carlos Torres This course will be of interest to Neuroradiologists, Radiologists & Radiology Residents and Fellows. Course Objectives: At the end of this event, participants should be able to: 1. Optimise MR and CT protocols in order to mitigate the instrumentation related challenges associated with metal implants in postoperative spine examinations. 2. Review the fundamental technical parameters for obtaining optimized diffusion images in the spine at 1.5 and 3T 3. Discuss the clinical indications for spine diffusion imaging. 4. Review diverse entities that affect the spine including traumatic, degenerative, neoplastic and inflammatory conditions. 5. Develop a practical approach to common and unusual spine pathologies in the pediatric and adult population 6. Update safety issues including NSF risk and the recently discovered concerns over gadolinium deposition in patients with normal renal function. The CanMed roles being addressed in the course are Medical Expert and Scholar
Schedule: OAR Spine Imaging April 2, 2016 Note: Each lecture (except for the 8 Interactive Sessions) contains 5 minutes of interactive Q&A using an ARS (audience response system). 07:00 07:30 Registration & Hot Breakfast 07:30 07:40 Welcome, Opening Remarks & Review of Course Objectives Dr. Giuseppe Tarulli and Dr. Carlos Torres 07:40 08:10 Interactive Workshop 1: It s Not Just Degenerative Disease 08:10 08:40 Diffusion Imaging of the Bone Marrow 08:40 09:10 Interactive Workshop 2: Imaging of Spinal Infection 09:10 09:20 Q & A Session 09:20 09:50 Acquired Pediatric Spine Dr. Manu Shroff 09:50 10:20 MR Imaging of Low Back Pain Dr. Raquel del Carpio-O Donovan 10:20 10:50 Interactive Workshop 3: Practical Brachial Plexus Imaging 10:50 11:00 Q & A Session 11:00 11:15 Morning Break 11:15 11:45 Interactive Workshop 4: Cervical Spine Injury 11:45 12:15 Interactive Workshop 5: Advanced Spinal Trauma 12:15 12:45 Spinal Cord Imaging: Case-Based Approach Dr. Carlos Torres 12:45 12:55 Q & A Session 12:55 13:40 Lunch 13:40 14:10 MRI Safety Update Contrast Agents 14:10 14:40 Interactive Workshop 6: Benign vs. Malignant Fractures and the Bone Marrow Dr. Marcos Sampaio 14:40 15:10 Pediatric Spinal Trauma Dr. Manu Shroff 15:10 15:40 Optimizing MR and CT Imaging of the Instrumented Spine 15:40 15:50 Q & A Session 15:50 16:05 Afternoon Break 16:05 16:35 Intramedullary Tumors Dr. Raquel del Carpio-O Donovan 16:35 17:05 Interactive Workshop 7: Intradural Extramedullary Tumors 17:05 17:35 Interactive Workshop 8: Degenerative changes and Spondyloarthropathy Dr. Marcos Sampaio 17:35 17:45 Q & A Session 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 Spine Imaging programming.
Keynote Speakers Falgun Chokshi, MD, MS, DABR Director, Neuroradiology Services at Emory University Hospital and Assistant Professor of Radiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Chokshi specializes in the interpretation of MRI and CT images of the brain, head, neck and spine in adults and paediatric patients. He is particularly interested and has special expertise in the application of advanced MR imaging techniques in spinal imaging. He has been at Emory Healthcare since March 2012 where he lead the transformation of a previously private neuroradiology practice into a state-of-the-art academic neuroradiology practice at Emory University Hospital Midtown. Dr. Chokshi also lead the implementation of advanced 3D imaging protocols for spine MRI at both major teaching hospitals at Emory. Dr. Chokshi studied medicine at New York Medical College, completed a one year preliminary medicine resident program at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, completed his radiology residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital, University Miami and a one year fellowship in neuroradiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Lubdha M. Shah, MD Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Utah and Director of Advanced Spine Imaging, University Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Shah s clinical and research interests include functional MRI, diffusion tensor imaging, MR perfusion imaging and MR spectroscopy in brain and spinal tumors as well as degenerative diseases. She also performs a variety of neurointerventional spinal procedures such as epidural steroid injections. She has authored 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, four review articles, and more than 100 book chapters. She is also a co-author on several spine textbooks, including a book on interventional pain management procedures, Specialty Imaging: Pain Management Essentials of Image-guided Procedures. She serves as a reviewer for numerous neuroradiology, neurology and neurosurgery journals. She is also a test-question developer for the American Board of Radiology. Dr. Shah is co-director of the Intensive Interactive Brain and Spine CME course in its fourth year. She has also presented numerous abstracts and mentored students to present at national and international conferences. Dr. Shah belongs to several radiological associations and is a particularly active member of the ASSR (American Society of Spine Radiology). Lawrence N. Tanenbaum, MD, FACR Vice President and Medical Director East Region, and Director of CT MR and Advanced Imaging, RadNet Inc Dr. Tanenbaum recently joined Radnet from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York where he attended in Neuroradiology and served as an Associate Professor of Radiology, Director of MRI, CT and Outpatient / Advanced Imaging Development since 2008. Prior to that he spent more than 20 years in the private practice of Radiology at the JFK Medical Center/ New Jersey Neuroscience Institute as Director of MRI, CT and Neuroradiology. He is a senior member of the American Society of Neuroradiology, and long-term member of the Radiological Society of North America. He is the current President of the Eastern Society of Neuroradiology and past President of the national Clinical Magnetic Resonance and former Editor in Chief of their Journal Vision. He has authored approximately 100 scholarly and peer-reviewed articles, continues to chair educational and academic meetings and has delivered over 1500 invited lectures around the world. Dr. Tanenbaum is a long term collaborator with the medical imaging industry (OEM and pharma), with interests in developing applications of contrast agents, MR, CT and advanced rendering in the clinical practice of medicine focusing on efficiency, radiation dose appropriateness and physiologic imaging. He is an active educator with interests in advanced imaging with particular drive for innovative value-adding applications in the spine and brain. Program and speaker contributions from the American Society of Spine Radiology.
Course Director Dr. Carlos Torres, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor of Radiology and Program Director, Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, The University of Ottawa. Dr. Carlos Torres is an Associate Professor of Radiology at The University of Ottawa and has been a staff neuroradiologist at The Ottawa Hospital since 2008. Dr. Torres pursued a two-year Neuroradiology Fellowship at McGill University in Montreal, before joining the Department of Diagnostic Imaging at The Ottawa Hospital. Dr. Torres has served as the Director of the Royal College Accredited Neuroradiology Fellowship Program since 2010. He has been the Director and Co-Director of more than a dozen CME Courses in Europe, North America and Latin America, and he is currently the Chair of the International Scientific Committee for the Ibero Latin American Society of Neuroradiology (SILAN). He has been invited to lecture in multiple national and international meetings and he is an International Visiting Professor for RSNA and for the Inter American College of Radiology (CIR) since 2010. He has been Visiting Professor in different academic centres in Canada and abroad including Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Bhutan and China. Dr. Torres is actively involved in medical education and research; his main areas of interest are demyelinating disease, brachial plexus, spine, cord and tumor imaging. He has multiple peer-reviewed publications and has written 9 book chapters. Course Speakers Raquel del Carpio-O Donovan, MD is Professor of Radiology at McGill University, Site Director (Radiology) at the Montreal General Hospital, Program Director of the McGill Neuroradiology Program and Vice President of The Canadian Radiological Foundation. As an Osler Fellow, she mentors medical students through their four years of schooling, one of her favourite endeavours. Dr. del Carpio-O Donovan is an active international lecturer who has travelled widely in recent years on behalf of The Radiological Society of North America, the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the Colegio Interamericano de Radiologia. She is also an active member of several leading neuroradiology associations Outreach and Teaching Committees.Recently, Dr. del Carpio-O Donovan received an award as one of the Ten Most Influential Hispanics in Canada, primarily for her efforts in helping overseas radiologists acquire skills and work practices similar to those applied in Canada. Marcos Sampaio, MD, FRCPC is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Sampaio is part of the MSK radiology team at the Ottawa Hospital since 2009 and practices both MSK diagnostic imaging and procedures. He is the MSK radiology fellowship director, X-rays modality lead of the department and Radiation Protection Officer of the TOH General Campus. Dr. Sampaio has authored and co-authored articles and book chapters on MSK imaging and he is a reviewer for the journals Radiology and Skeletal Radiology. He has also been awarded as best clinical teacher by undergraduate students, radiology residents and MSK radiology fellows along last years. He is particularly interested in MRI and Ultrasound imaging of the musculoskeletal system, rheumatology, sports medicine and medical education. Manohar Shroff, MD, FRCPC is the Radiologist-in-Chief and staff neuroradiologist in the Department of Diagnostic Imaging at Toronto SickKids, and Associate Professor of Radiology in the Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. He has fellowship training in both adult and paediatric neuroradiology. Dr. Shroff is currently involved in a number of research projects and has a special interest in paediatric multiple sclerosis, paediatric stroke, neonatal imaging and quality assurance in radiology. Course Moderator: Nader Zakhari, MD is a neuroradiology fellow at The Ottawa Hospital.
Ontario TWENTY Bar TORONTO Association STREET Suite 200, 20 Toronto St. Toronto, Ontario M5C 2B8 Parking facilities TTC (King Street) Wheelchair Access - 31 Adelaide Street West Wellesley Street Dundas Street Eaton Centre Shuter Street Bond Street The Bay QueenStreet Richmond Street Sheppard Street Cambridge Suite Hotel Lombard Street Church Street Adelaide Street Location: First Canadian Place Bay Street Scotia Plaza Yonge Street Victoria Street Toronto Street Court Street KingStreet King Edward Hotel Colbourne Street Wellington Street Jarvis Street George Street Twenty Toronto Street Conferences and Events 20 Toronto Street 2nd Floor Downtown Toronto Royal Bank Plaza BCE Place Union Station Novotel Front Street The Esplanade Lower Jarvis Street OAR Spine Imaging April 2, 2016 Registration Includes course materials OAR Member $400 (before March 7, 2016) $450 (after March 7, 2016) Non-OAR Member $650 (before March 7, 2016) $700 (after March 7, 2016) Radiology Residents/Fellows No Charge Live Webcast Brochure Please note that online registration for all OAR CME events is available at: http://oarinfo.ca/cme Access to archived versions of the CME program will be made available to all CME participants. Two archived formats will be available. Participants can choose to access the entire event or access the program on a lecture-by-lecture basis. Instructions on how to access the archived CME program will be e-mailed to all participants (live program and webcast of the live program) as soon as they are available. Archived versions of the CME are usually available within 7 to 14 days of the live event. Cancellation policy: For OAR members, if cancellation to this event is necessary, please contact the OAR office for assistance. For non-members, a refund will be made less a $50 processing fee, if cancellation is received in writing two weeks prior to the CME event date. No refunds will be given within two weeks of the CME event. The OAR reserves the right to cancel or move the conference should it become necessary. In this case, each registrant will be notified by telephone or e-mail and a full refund will be given. Therefore it is important that you provide us with an e-mail address and phone number. The OAR is not responsible for any other costs incurred.