| Program
Director:
James D. Thomas, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Director of Cardiovascular Imaging, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland
Faculty:
George A. Beller, M.D., M.A.C.C.
Ruth C. Heede Professor of Cardiology and Professor
of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville, Va.
Daniel S. Berman, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Director, Cardiac Imaging, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Professor
of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine Los Angeles
Matt Budoff, M.D., F.A.C.C, F.A.H.A.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Program Director, Division
of Cardiology; Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, University of California
Los Angeles
Manuel D. Cerqueira, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Chairman, Department of Molecular & Functional Imaging,
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland
Zahi Fayad, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology and Medicine, Mt. Sinai School
of Medicine New York
Mario J. Garcia, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Section of Cardiovascular Imaging, Department of Cardiovascular
Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland
John McB. Hodgson, M.D., F.A.C.C.,
F.S.C.A.I.
Professor of Medicine; Chief, Academic Cardiology; St. Joseph's
Hospital & Medical Center Phoenix
Christopher M. Kramer, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine & Radiology, University
of Virginia Health System Charlottesville, Va.
Nassir F. Marrouche, M.D.
Director Atrial Fibrillation Program, Department of Cardiology
University of Utah Salt Lake City
Edward T. Martin, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Director, Cardiovascular MRI Center, Oklahoma Heart Institute;
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Oklahoma
School of Medicine Tulsa, Okla.
Michael Mirro, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Senior Partner, Fort Wayne Cardiology, Fort Wayne,
Ind.
Patrick T. O’Gara, M.D.,
F.A.C.C.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director,
Clinical Cardiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital Boston
Thomas Ryan, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Professor of Medicine; Director, Duke Heart Center; Duke University
Medical Center Durham, N.C.
Nicholas G. Smedira, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Surgical Director, Cardiac Transplantation, Cleveland Clinic
Foundation Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery
Cleveland
Reed Tuckson, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Senior V.P., Consumer Health & Medical Care Advancement;
UnitedHealth Group, E. Minnetonka, Minn. |
 Integrated
Cardiovascular Imaging Conference
CT  MR
NUCLEAR
ECHO
Matching Modalities with Patient Care
Directed
by James D. Thomas, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Aug.
11-13, 2005
Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA
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video: "Use
Imaging Effectively and Cost-Effectively"
Schedule
| THURSDAY
| FRIDAY | SATURDAY
| Thursday,
Aug. 11
6:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
Echocardiography
8:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction — Dr. Thomas
8:10 a.m. Current Clinical Application — Dr. Ryan
8:30 a.m. Future Directions — Dr. Thomas
Magnetic Resonance
8:50 a.m. Current Clinical Application — Dr. Martin
9:10 a.m. Future Directions — Dr. Kramer
9:30 am Panel Discussion
9:45 a.m. Break
Nuclear Cardiology
10:15 a.m. Current Clinical Application — Dr. Berman
10:35 a.m. Future Directions — Dr. Cerqueira
CT
10:55 a.m. Current Clinical Application — Dr. Budoff
11:15 a.m. Future Directions — Dr. Garcia
11:35 am Panel Discussion
12:00 p.m. Lunch
Advocacy Panel - Imaging Responsibly
Led by Dr. Cerqueira
Parallel sessions in CT, MR, Nuclear and Echo
Each session will last 60 minutes. Sessions are at 1:30 p.m., 2:30
p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Echo — Drs. Thomas and Ryan
CT — Drs. Garcia, Hodgson and Budoff
MR — Drs. Martin, Kramer and Fayad
Nuclear Cardiology — Drs. Cerqueira and Berman
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. — Reception & Exhibits
Friday, Aug. 12, 2005
7:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Coronary Artery Disease
8:00 a.m. Detection - Changing Paradigms in CAD: New Opportunities
and Demands for Imaging — Dr. Berman
8:15 a.m. Case Presentation: 43-year-old man without
CAD risk factors seeking reassurance
8:20 a.m. Best Practice CV Assessment of the Asymptomatic
Patient: Reality or Myth? — Dr. Cerqueira
8:35 a.m. Potentials and Limitations of CT Coronary
Calcium Scoring and Angiography — Dr. Budoff
8:50 a.m. Imaging of Atherosclerosis by MRI: Subclinical
Disease Detection and Monitoring Regression with Therapy —
Dr. Fayad
9:05 a.m. Panel Discussion
Coronary Artery Disease - Acute Coronary Syndromes
9:15 a.m. Case Presentation: 58-year-old woman presenting to the
emergency room with chest pain and an intraventricular conduction
delay
9:20 a.m. Acute Assessment of Chest Pain in the Emergency
Room — Dr. Berman
9:35 a.m. Beyond Angiography: Moving Beyond the Luminogram
— Dr. Hodgson
9:50 a.m. Post-infarct Risk Stratification —
Dr. Ryan
10:05 a.m. Panel Discussion
10:15 a.m. Break
Coronary Artery Disease - Chronic Coronary Disease
10:45 a.m. Case Presentation: 52-year-old man s/p MI x 3 with Class
III heart failure
10:50 a.m. What the Surgeon Needs to Know —
Dr. Smedira
11:05 a.m. SPECT or PET: Nuclear Assessment of Viability
— Dr. Berman
11:20 a.m. Integrating Anatomy, Perfusion and Viability
— Dr. Martin
11:35 a.m. Panel Discussion
11:45 a.m. How Do I Get These Modalities to Speak
to Each Other: DICOM, Networking and Integrating the Health Care
Enterprise — Dr. Thomas
12:00 p.m. The Need for Standardization to Facilitate
Multimodality Comparisons in Research and Practice — Dr. Cerqueira
12:15 p.m. Lunch
Industry Panel
Heart Failure
1:30 p.m. How I Use Imaging to Help My Patients — Dr. O'Gara
1:45 p.m. Case Presentation: 28-year-old woman with
post-partum cardiomyopathy
1:50 p.m. Integrated Assessment of Systolic and Diastolic
Function — Dr. Thomas
2:05 p.m. Ventricular Function: When Do I Use Echo?
When Do I Use MRI? — Dr. Kramer
2:20 p.m. Molecular Nuclear Imaging in Coronary Atherosclerosis
and Heart Failure — Dr. Cerqueira
2:35 p.m. Panel Discussion
2:45 p.m. Case Presentation: 67-year-old man with
post-infarct heart failure without ishemia or viability
2:50 p.m. Resynchronization Therapy: Successes and
Failures — Dr. O’Gara
3:05 p.m. How to Assess Ventricular Synchrony —
Dr. Thomas
3:20 p.m. Guidance of Lead Placement in CRT —
Dr. Garcia
3:35 p.m. Panel Discussion
3:45 p.m. Break
4:15 p.m. Establishing Cardiac MR in Clinical Practice
— Dr. Martin
Aortic Disease
4:30 p.m. Case Presentation: 53-year-old man presenting to the emergency
room with chest and back pain
4:35 p.m. The "Triple Rule-Out:" MI, PE
and Aortic Dissection — Dr. Budoff
4:50 p.m. Role of Echocardiography in Aortic Disease
— Dr. Ryan
5:05 p.m. Panel Discussion
5:15 p.m. Adjournment
Saturday, Aug. 13,
2005
7:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Valvular Heart Disease
8:00 a.m. Evolving Strategies in Valve Disease Therapy: What Imaging
Will We Need in the Future? — Dr. Smedira
8:15 a.m. Case Presentation: 73-year-old man with
severe but asymptomatic aortic stenosis
8:20 a.m. Medical Strategies for Preventing and Retarding
Aortic Stenosis — Dr. Garcia
8:35 a.m. What Parameters Do I Use to Determine Timing
of Surgery? — Dr. O’Gara
8:50 a.m. CMR in Valuvlar Heart Disease — Dr.
Martin
9:05 a.m. Panel Discussion
9:15 a.m. Case Presentation: 43-year-old woman with
severe but asymptomatic mitral regurgitation from prolapse
9:20 a.m. Quantification of Valvular Regurgitation:
What Parameter is Best? — Dr. Thomas
9:35 a.m. What Does 3D Imaging Add? — Dr. Ryan
9:50 a.m. Pericardial Disease and Restriction —
Dr. Kramer
10:05 a.m. Panel Discussion
10:15 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Case Presentation: 83-year-old man with
flail mitral valve and high operative risk
10:50 a.m. Echo Guidance of Intraoperative and Percutaneous
Valve Procedures — Dr. Thomas
11:05 a.m. "Interventional" MR: Challenges
and Potential — Dr. Kramer
11:20 a.m. 3D CT to Plan Intervention — Dr.
Budoff
11:35 a.m. Panel Discussion
11:45 a.m. Cases in CT Angiography — Drs. Budoff
and Garcia
12:15 p.m. Lunch
New Training Paradigms in Cardiovascular Imaging — Dr. Beller
Arrhythmia Management
1:45 p.m. Case Presentation: 47-year-old woman with recurrent paroxysmal
AF scheduled for PVI
1:50 p.m. Imaging to Guide Cardioversion: Is It Necessary?
— Dr. Ryan
2:05 p.m. 3D CT to Plan Intervention — Dr.
Garcia
2:20 p.m. Here's How I Want Imaging to Make Me a
Better Electrophysiologist/ICE and Beyond— Dr. Marrouche
2:50 p.m. Panel Discussion
3:00 p.m. Cases, cases, cases!! — Dr. Thomas
4:00 p.m. Adjournment. Program Evaluation and
CME credit statements will be collected at this time. |
