5th Annual New Approaches
and Procedures in Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT: State-of-the-Art
Update for Office-Based Practice
Co-sponsored
by:
 
In
Cooperation with:
Program Directors: Timothy M. Bateman,
MD, FACC; Gary V. Heller, MD, PhD, FACC
October
23 - 25, 2008
The Rosen Centre
Orlando, Florida
Thursday, October 23
8:00 a.m. SPECT
Tracers, Equipment, Acquisition Protocols
Dr. Ficaro
8:30 a.m. SPECT
Image Interpretation
Dr. Heller
9:00 a.m. SPECT
Attenuation Correction: Line Sources
Dr. E. Garcia
9:15 a.m. SPECT
Attenuation Correction: CT
Dr. Ficaro
9:30 a.m. SPECT
Attenuation Correction: Clinical Perspectives
Dr. Bateman
10:30 a.m. Core
SPECT Applications: Diagnosis, CAD Severity, Risk Stratification,
Cost-effectiveness
Dr. Hendel
11:00 a.m.
Stress Protocols: What to Do About Meds?
Dr. Heller
11:15 a.m. Stress
Protocols: Adenosine, Dipyridamole, Dobutamine
Dr. Hendel
11:30 a.m. Accreditation
and Certification Mandates
Dr. Heller
12:00 p.m. Lunchtime
Presentations (Select 1)
Session
101: SPECT Quantitation, Session
101: SPECT Quantitation
Drs. Ficaro and E. Garcia
Session 102: Purchasing a New SPECT (or PET) Camera Today:
What I Would
Recommend and Why
Dr. Case
Session
103: Reading Through Common SPECT Artifacts
Drs. Hendel and Soman
1:15 p.m. Regadenoson
Stress
Dr. Hendel
1:30 p.m. Fast
SPECT: New Camera Options
Dr. E. Garcia
1:50 p.m. Fast
SPECT Software Options: Technical Perspective
Dr. Case
2:05 p.m. Fast
SPECT: Software Options: Clinical Perspective
Dr. Heller
2:20 p.m. Quantitating
Myocardial Blood Flow: Technical Perspective
Dr. Case
2:35 p.m. Quantitating
Myocardial Blood Flow: Clinical Perspective
Dr. Bateman
3:15 p.m. Coronary
Artery Calcium Scoring: Who, When, Why?
Dr. Shaw
3:40 p.m. Integrating
CACS and Myocardial Perfusion
Dr. Soman
4:00 p.m. Introduction
to PET Perfusion Imaging: Core Concepts
Dr. Bateman
4:30 p.m. Interesting
Cases from Daily Practice
Drs. Hendel and Soman
Friday, October 24
7:00 a.m. Continental
Breakfast and Focus Discussions (Select 1)
Session 201: Office-based Imaging Politics:
Who Are the Players? What Are They Thinking? What Are They Doing?
Dr. Hendel and Ms. Flood
Session 203: The Future of SPECT: Bright or Dismal?
Drs. Soman and Udelson
Session
204: Office-based Cardiac CT: Get It Now or Get It Later?
Drs. Callister and M. Garcia
8:15 a.m. Appropriateness
Criteria and Test Preauthorization: Implications for Office-based
Imaging
Dr. Hendel
8:40 a.m. When
Should I Order a PET Scan?
Dr. Heller
9:00 a.m. When
Should I Order a MR Scan?
Dr. M. Garcia
9:20 a.m. When
Should I Order a Coronary CTA Scan?
Dr. Callister
9:40 a.m.
Perspectives on Radiation Dosimetry
Dr. Ficaro
10:30 a.m. Chest
Pain Imaging: Present and Future
Dr. Udelson
10:55 a.m. The
COURAGE Trial: Implications for Office-based MPI
Dr. Shaw
11:15 a.m.
Heart Failure Imaging: Present and Future
Dr. Udelson
11:35 a.m. Women
and CAD: Gender-specific Imaging?
Dr. Shaw
12:15 p.m.. Lunchtime Presentations:
(Select 1)
Session
205: Reimbursement Climate for 2009
Ms. Biga and Ms. Flood
Session
207: Image Fusion from the Practitioner’s Perspective: Practicality,
Ease
of Use, Necessity
Dr. E. Garcia
Session
208: Reading Through Common SPECT Artifacts
Drs. Soman and Williams
1:30 p.m..
Coronary CTA: Doing It Right
Dr. Ziffer
2:00 p.m..
Coronary CTA: Real or Artifact?
Dr. Williams
2:30 p.m.. A
Primer on Cardiac CT Measurements
Dr. M. Garcia
3:30 p.m..
CTA Cases from Daily Practice: ED Experiences
Dr. Callister
4:00 p.m.. CTA
Cases from Daily Practice: EP Applications
Dr. M. Garcia
4:30 p.m..
CTA Cases from Daily Practice: Chronic CAD
Dr. Ziffer
5:00 p.m.. The
Future of PET: Why Should I be Considering PET for My Practice Now?
Dr. Bateman
Saturday, October 25
7:00 a.m.. Continental
Breakfast and Focus Discussions (Select 1)
Session
302: Office-based Imaging Economics: SPECT, PET and CT
Ms. Biga
Session 303: Purchasing a CT Camera for the Cardiology
Office: What I Would
Recommend and Why
Drs. Min and Ziffer
8:15 a.m.. Business
Overview: SPECT, PET and CT/CTA
Dr. Bateman
8:45 a.m. Making
Ends Meet in Today’s Hostile Environment: CT/CTA
Ms. Biga
9:15 a.m.
Positioning SPECT for the Future
Dr. Bateman
9:45 a.m..
CLA, CSCA and MedAxiom – Who? What? Why?
Ms. Biga
10:45 a.m. Risk-informed
Patient Management Using CTA
Dr. Min
11:00 a.m. Risk-informed
Patient Management Using SPECT/PET
Dr. Heller
11:15 a.m. Cardiac
MR Cases from Daily Practice
Dr. Ziffer
12:15 p.m. Lunchtime
Presentations: (Select 1)
Session
306: Imaging in America: Where is the Growth? Who is Driving It?
Predictions for the Future
Ms. Flood
Session
307: SPECT Quality Control: Recognizing and Addressing Quality
Issues
Dr. Williams
Session
308: Approach to Recognizing Important Non-cardiac Incidentalomas
during Cardiac CT
Dr. Ziffer
1:15 p.m. Potpourri
of SPECT Cases
Dr. Williams
1:45 p.m. Potpourri
of SPECT Cases
Dr. Heller
2:15 p.m. Potpourri
of PET Cases
Dr. Bateman
3:00 p.m. Overview
of 64-slice CT, Including Current MCTs
Dr. Min
3:30 p.m. Evaluation
of Coronary Plaques
Dr. Williams
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