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Accreditation & Designation

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American College of Radiology and Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance. The American College of Radiology is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Radiology designates this activity for a maximum of 35.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The American College of Radiology is approved by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) as a Recognized Continuing Education Evaluation Mechanism (RCEEM) to sponsor and/or review Continuing Medical Educational programs for Radiologic Technologists and Radiation Therapists.

The American College of Radiology designates this educational activity as meeting the criteria for up to 35.75 Category A credit hours of the ARRT.

 

2019 PROGRAM

2019 Brochure

Body MRI Value Workshop

Workshops
 
 
Saturday, October 19, 2019
7:00 - Noon
 
 
Welcome / Introduction

 		 Andrew Rosenkrantz, MD, FSCBTMR
 
Featured Speaker: Defining Value in Radiology: Perspectives from Outside the Reading Room
 		 James Borgstede, MD

 
Economics and the Changing Landscape for MRI Reimbursement
 		 Richard Ehman, MD, FSCBTMR
 
Cost-Effectiveness – Proving the Value of MRI
 		 Geoff Rubin, MD, MBA, FSCBTMR
 
Measuring MR Utilization and Access

 		 Scott Reeder, MD, PhD, FSCBTMR
 
Approaches to Payment for Focused MRI Exams
 		 Andrew Degnan, MD, MPhil
 
9:00 - 10:30 am
 		  
Advances in MRI that Shorten Scan Time
 		 Hersh Chandarana, MD
 
Advances in MRI that Improve Image Quality and Reliability
 		 Martin Prince, MD, PhD, FSCBTMR
 
Quantitative MRI Biomarkers – What’s the Value in a Number?
 		 Ihab Kamel, MD, PhD, FSCBTMR
 
Strategies to Translate New MRI Methods into Clinical Care
 		 Ivan Pedrosa, MD, FSCBTMR

 
Beyond the Scanner: Innovative Practice Strategies that Increase the Value of MRI
 		 Jeffrey Weinreb, MD, FSCBTMR
 
Question & Answer
 
 
10:40 am - 12:00 pm
 
 
Focused MRI Exams: Doing More with Our Toolbox
 		 Mustafa Bashir, MD
 
Prostate MRI
 		 Sadhna Verma, MD
 
Breast MRI
 		 Dlucy Wolverton, MD
 
Liver MRI for HCC
 		 Claude Sirlin, MD, FSCBTMR
 
Pulmonary MRA for PE
 		 Christopher Francois, MD
 
Pelvic MRI for Your Referrers
 		 Alison Sheridan, MD
 
Fast Knee MRI
 		 Garry Gold, MD, FSCBTMR
 
Question & Answer
 
 

 

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Cardiothoracic & Vascular Imaging

1:15 – 3:00 pm

Structural Heart Disease 
(Part 1: Cardiologist's Perspective)
 		 Robert Quaife, MD
 
Structural Heart Disease 
(Part 2: Pre-Operative Imaging)
 		 Scott Nagle, MD
 
4D Flow MRI of the Aorta
 		 Nicholas Burris, MD
 
New Innovations in Contrast-Enhanced MRA
 		 Jeff Maki, MD, PhD
 
Update on Interstitial Lung Disease Imaging
 		 Tami Bang, MD
 
Update on Lung Cancer Imaging
 		 Brett Carter, MD
 
Q & A
 
 
Break 
3:00 – 3:15 pm
 
Innovation Beyond CT & MR
3:15 - 4:45 pm
 
Artificial Intelligence Applications in Medical Imaging
 		 Bhavik Patel, MD, MBA, FSCBTMR
 
Patient-Centered Innovations
 		 Matt Davenport, MD, FSCBTMR
 
MICCAI Society: Medical Image Computing and Research
 		 Stephen Humphries, PhD
 
Informatics Solutions
 		 Thomas Loehfelm, MD, PhD
 
DEBATE:  Artificial Intelligence Applications: 
Not Until the Distant Future
 		 Thomas Loehfelm, MD, PhD
 
DEBATE: Artificial Intelligence Applications: 
Ready Today
 		 Bhavik Patel, MD, MBA, FSCBTMR
 
DEBATE: Panel Discussion

 

Welcome Reception

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm

 

Ted-Like Talks

6:30 - 7.30 pm

Sunday, October 20, 2019

Roundtables 
7:00 am – 7:45 am		 Speaker
 

Sponsorship vs. Mentorship: is there a gender divide?
 		 Tara Catanzano, MD, MB, Bch, BAO, FSCBTMR, Barak Friedman, MD
 
Lung Cancer Screening- Clinical Practice Tips and Challenges
 		 Subba Digumarthy, MD, Ella Kazerooni, MD, MS, FSCBTMR
 
Getting Published Reed Dunnick, MD, FSCBTMR, Allen Elster, MD
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Work Life Balance and 
Professional Fulfillment                   		 Leslie Quint, MD, FSCBTMR, Elizabeth 
Edney, MD

Break 

7:45 – 8:00 am
 
Innovations in CT
8:00 – 9.45 am
 
 
Designing CT Practice of the Future
 		 Dushyant Sahani, MD, FSCBTMR
 
Low Dose CT: Technological Advances &
 Implementation Challenges for the 21st Century
 		 Timothy Szczykutowicz, PhD

 
Innovations in CT Image Reconstruction
 		 Andrew Smith, MD
 
Photon Counting CT: Technique and Applications Martin Willemink, MD
 
Functional CT Imaging: Myocardial Dual 
Energy CT Perfusion: What is the Future?
 		 Carlo DeCecco, MD, FSCBTMR
 
Innovations in CT and Imaging Biomarkers
 		 Meghan Lubner, MD
 
Question & Answer 
 
Break 
9:45 – 10:00 am
 
More Science! (Cancer Screening)
Moderators: Mishal Mendiratta-Lala, MD and Danielle Marin, MD, FSCBTMR
10:00 – 11:00 am
  Principles of Screening                                                                         Dr. Ella Kazerooni
Safety of Shortened Observation Time Without Radiographic
Follow-up for Patients After CT-guided Lung Biopsy
 		 Dr. Masoud Nakhaei
  Accuracy of an abbreviated screening MRI protocol
without contrast media for patients at risk for
hepatocellular carcinoma.
 		 Dr. Julia Noschang
  Diagnostic performance of LI-RADS v2018 compared with
OPTN/UNOS criteria for hepatocellular carcinoma
diagnosis on MRI
 		 Dr. Andrea Kierans
  Trimetazidine in the prevention of contrast-induced
nephropathy in patients with renal insufficiency:
A systematic review and meta-analysis.
 
Dr. Ashkan Heshmatzadeh Behzadi  
  How frequently does HCC develop in at-risk patients with
a negative liver MRI examination? 
 		 Dr. Islam Zaki
  Publicly Transparent Outcome Data for CT Guided
 Lung Biopsies; a Patient Centered Approach		 Dr. Geoffrey Miller

 

Workshops 

10:00 – 10:30 am

  
MR Radiogenomics: Predicting aggressive
biology in RCC and prostate
 		 Steve Raman, MD, Paul Boutros, MD
  
   

Update on Pancreatic Cancer: From Imaging to Reporting

 

 Eric Tamm, MD, FSCBTMR, Sanaz Javadi, MD
 

FFR-CT vs Myocardial CT Perfusion: 

What should be incorporated in clinical practice?

 

 Carlo De Cecco, MD, FSCBTMR, Marly Van Assen, MD
 
10:35 - 11:05 am  
Cancer Immunotherapy:
New challenges in imaging
 		 Marilyn Siegel, MD, FSCBTMR, Ali Pirasteh, MD
 
Don’t Panic: Simple guides on managing contrast reactions
 		 Carolyn Wang, MD, Ben Mervak, MD

 
Applications of multi-energy CT in cardiothoracic imaging

 		 Prabhakar Rajiah, MD, Fernando Kay, MD

 
11:10 - 11:40 am  
DEteCTed: Dual Energy CT in the Emergency 
Department
                 		 Desiree Morgan, MD, FSCBTMR, 
Lakshmi Ananthakrishnan, MD
 
CT Deep Learning Image Reconstruction: Image 
Quality, Radiation Dose and Clinical Utility
 		 Dennis Foley, MD, FSCBTMR,           Naveen Kulkarni, MD
 
Pulmonary Complications of Novel Cancer 
Agents
 		 Richard Gore, MD, Brett Carter, MD

 
Bile duct injuries: a case-based diagnostic approach with gadoxetic acid-enhanced MR Motoyo Yano, MD, Jay Heiken, MD, FSCBTMR
 
 
 

































 

Lunch
11:45 - 1:00 pm

Jeopardy
1:00 - 2:00 pm
 
Innovations in GU Imaging
2:00 - 3:00 pm
 
 
PSMA PET / MRI for Prostate Cancer: 
Should We Be Doing This?
 		 Nelly Tan, MD

 
Revising the Bosniak Classification
 		 Nicole Hindman, MD
 
Virtual Renal Mass Biopsy with MRI
 		 Ivan Pedrosa, MD, PhD, FSCBTMR
 
Question & Answer 

Break 
3:00 – 3:15 pm

Beyond Interpretation: Taking Your Practice Higher
3:15 - 5:00 pm
 
Optimizing Strategic Planning
 		 Neil Rofsky, MD, MHA, FSCBTMR
 
Motivation, or "Let's Listen to Science
for a Change"
 		 Fred Lee, MD, FSCBTMR

 
Formal Versus Informal Mentoring: How I Do it
 		 Claude Sirlin, MD
 
What and How to Ask Your Chair? 
A Primer on Negotiation
 		 Judy Yee, MD, FSCBTMR
 
Incentivizing Volunteerism in Radiology Hersh Chandarana, MD
Julia Fielding, MD, FSCBTMR
Ella Kazerooni, MD, MS, FSCBTMR
Erik Paulson, MD, FSCBTMR
Andrew Rosenkrantz, MD, FSCBTMR
Aarti Sekhar, MD
Question & Answer   

Monday, October 21, 2019

Leadership/MIT Breakfast
7:00 am - 8:00 am

Main Scientific Session
Moderators:  Priya Bhosale, MD, FSCBTMR & Achille Mileto, MD

7:45 am - 9:05 am

Risk of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis from group II
gadolinium-based contrast agents in stage IV-V chronic
kidney disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis
of 2,700 studies.
 		 Dr. Prasad Shankar
Vascular Deformation Mapping: A New Technique for
Three-dimensional Growth Mapping in Thoracic Aortic
Aneurysm
 		 Dr. Nicholas Burris
Comparative performance of SECT, DECT and MRI in Renal
mass characterization. 
 		 Dr. Ali Pourvaziri
Multi-vendor performance for determination of renal
stone composition: Comparison with six dual-energy
CT scanners
 		 Dr. Ali Pourvaziri
Machine learning analysis of radiomic features for the
preoperative assessment of vascular involvement in
patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
 		 Dr. Francesca Rigiroli
Reproducibility of Radiomics Features Using
Single-Energy Dual-Source CT: Influence of
Radiation Dose and CT Reconstruction Settings
Within the Same Patient
 		 Dr. Mathias Meyer
Body composition change measured by CT imaging and
survival in patients with pancreatic cancer
 		 Dr. Lei Yu
Multi-institutional study using Radiomics and machine
learning model to differentiate benign and malignant
focal hepatic lesions on Dual Energy CT   		 Dr. Ramandeep Singh

 

Break 

9:05 am – 9:20 am

 

Scientific Session 2 
Moderators:  Elizabeth Hecht, MD & Ghaneh Fananapazir, MD

9:20 am - 10:40am

Prediction of overall survival in patients with Hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC): Radiomics vs conventional multiparametric MRI
 		 Dr. Mounes Aliyari
Abbreviated-Protocol Screening MRI versus Complete-Protocol Diagnostic MRI for Detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients with Cirrhosis - An Equivalence Study using LI-RADS v2018 
 		 Dr. Takeshi Yokoo
Direct Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation of Liver Lesions with an MR-Compatible Localization Device
 		 Dr. Victoria Rendell
Detection of liver metastases in uveal melanoma:
a comparison of MRI and CT
 		 Dr. Brian Blumhof
Incremental value of volumetric functional MRI over Fudan clinical prognostic scoring system for unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma treated with systemic chemotherapy
 		 Dr. Ankur Pandey
Imaging of Knee Articular Cartilage at 3T: A Prospective Study of Osteoarthritic Subjects with a Novel Rapid Volumetric gagCEST Sequence
 		 Dr. Elka Rubin
Fully Automated Quantification Of Muscle Mass And Quality Using Convolutional Neural Networks
 		 Dr. Dustin Brown
AI-assisted vs. current-practice response evaluation of advanced cancer using clinical trial methods Dr. Asser Abou Elkassem

 

Break 

10:40 am – 11:00 am

 

 
Workshops
11:00 am -11:30 am		  
Assessing MRI Response Post
Locoregional Therapy
 		 Ihab Kamel, MD, Joseph Yacoub, MD

 
Challenging Abdominal Cases: More than
meet the Eyes (Lee's 6 basic principles of image interpretation)
 		 Joe Lee, MD


 
MRI Assessment of Metabolic Liver Disease
 		 Michael Gee, MD, Amirkasra Mojtahed, MD
 
Realizing Strategy for Improved Results
 		 Neil Rofsky, MD, MHA, FSCBTMR, Carolyn Wang, MD
 
11:35 am -12:05 pm  
Dual Energy CT in Therapeutic Response Assessment
 		 Avinash Kambadakone, MD, DNB, FSCBTMR, Achille Mileto, MD
 
Oncologic body PET/MR applications

 		 Onofrio Catalano, MD, Hersh Chandarana, MD
 
Atypical HCCs and Other Unusual Hepatic Masses
 		 Sadhna Nandwana, MD, Amir Davarpanah, MD
 
Evolving throughout your career: Tips for wellness, productivity, and growth mindset Nelly Tan, MD, Stefanie Weinstein, MD
 
Lunch
12:05 pm - 1:15 pm
 
Fostering a Culture of Innovation
1:15 pm - 3:00 pm
 
Session Introduction

 		 Scott Reeder, MD, PhD, FSCBTMR
Susan Ascher, MD, FSCBTMR
 
Presidential Lecture
 		 John Bennett, PhD
 
Creating a Culture of Innovation in the 
Field of Radiology
 		 Mitch Schnall, MD, PhD

 
Human Friction
 		 Thomas Grist, MD, FSCBTMR
 
Pasteur's Quadrant: Innovation in 
Medical Imaging
 		 Richard Ehman, MD, FSCBTMR

 
Bench to Bedside
 		 Jane Matsumoto, MD
 
Question & Answer 
Break
3:00 – 3:15 pm
 
Hepatobiliary & Pancreas
3:15 pm - 5:00 pm
 

 
Innovations in Pancreatic Surgery/Therapy
 		 Marco Del Chiaro, MD
 
Updates on Imaging and Management of 
Neuroendocrine Tumors
 		 Jane Wang, MD

 
Guidelines on Management of Incidental Pancreatic 
Cysts: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
 		 Ihab Kamel, MD

 
Abbreviated MRI for HCC Screening: Hepatobiliary or 
Extracellular Agents?
 		 Takshi Yokoo, MD, PhD

 
What's New in LIRADS?
 		 Kathryn Fowler, MD
 
Question & Answer 
 
Annual Business Meeting
5:00 - 6:00 pm

 

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Round Tables
7:00 – 7:45 am		 Speaker
How to Implement a DECT Program Achille Mileto, Daniele Marin
LI-RADS in Clinical Practice Jay Heiken, MD, FSCBTMR, Cynthia Santillan, MD
CT Colonography - How To Set Up a Clinical Practice Beth McFarland, MD, FSCBTMR, Abhijit Roychowdhury, MD
   

 

Break 

7:45 - 8:00 am

 

Large and Small Bowel: Imaging of the Hollow Viscera: Advances and Updates
8:00 - 9:00 am

CT/MR Enterography: Updates on Monitoring Response and Structured Reporting Cynthia Santillan, MD
CT Colonography: Updates and Early Onset Screening Jessica Robbins, MD
MR Imaging of Rectal Cancer Gaurev Khatri, MD
Question & Answer 

Three Pearls  
Gaiane Rauch MD, PhD,FSCBTMR and Prasad Shankar, MD
9:00 - 9:45 am

PI-RADS v2.1 - An Image-Based Update
 		 Dr. Alberto Diaz de Leon
Clinical Utility of Virtual Non-Calcium Dual-Energy CT in
Imaging of the Pelvis and Hip
 		 Dr. Garrett Powel
Intraductal Papillary Neoplasm of the Bile Duct:
Radiology-Pathology correlation
 		 Dr. Jack  Conner 
Zoom in the breast cancer: the cellular, molecular and genetic level
 		 Dr. Roxana Partisan
Systematic evaluation of the portomesenteric venous system and
portosystemic shunts: a structured review for the radiologist
 		 Dr. Robert Robinson
MSK for the Body Imager
 		 Dr. Soumya Vig
Let's Get to the Bottom of This: A review of MRI defecography in
both males and females
 		 Dr. Soumya Vig
 Imaging and management of trauma in pregnancy:
what radiologists should know
 		 Dr. Nitin Venugopal
Congenital Cardiovascular Anomalies: A Pictorial Review
 		 Dr. Tushar Garg
Quality Control Process for TRUS/MRI Fusion Guided Biopsy:
What Steps a Radiologist Needs to Cover?
 		 Dr. Mojdeh Mirmomen
Updates in PI-RADS version 2.1: on our way to avoiding
(more) unnecessary biopsies
 		 Dr. Vlad Bura
Accurate diagnosis in prostate mp-MRI: Know your pitfalls
and avoid unnecessary biopsies!
 		 Dr. Vlad Bura
Delayed Gadolinium Enhancement in Cardiac MR:
An Algorithmic Approach forResidents in Training
 		 Dr. Surbhi Raichandani
Reference Atlas of Power Injectable Medical Access
Ports on Chest X-Ray:A Supplemental Guide to Successful
Identification at Referral Centers
 		 Dr. Huy Do
Know your post-operative thoracic aorta Dr. Padma Manapragada

Break  

9:45 – 10:00 am

 

Educational Poster Viewing | Scientific Poster Viewing  

10:00 – 10:45 am

 

Break  

10:45 – 11:00 am

 

Even More Science! (Response to Therapy)  
Nicole M Hindman, MD & Bhavik Patel, MD
11:00 -12:00 pm

Using Biomarkers to Assess Response to Treatment

Pulmonary Surface Irregularity: A New Quantitative
CT Biomarker for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
 		 Joseph Ippolito, MD


Dr. Asser Abou Elkassem
Diagnostic Accuracy of the Clear Cell Likelihood Score in Clinical Practice
 		 Dr. Robert Rasmussen
Dual-energy CT Vital Iodine Tumor Burden as a Quantitative
Response Parameter in Patients with GIST Undergoing
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor Therapy - A Comparison to Standard
CT and FDG-PET Criteria
 		 Dr. Mathias Meyer
Assessment of response and survival to targeted radiotherapy
in hepatocellular carcinoma: CT-based radiomics as a
predictive biomarker 
 		 Dr. Jinjin Cao
Repeatability and Reproducibility of Confounder-Corrected R2*
as a Biomarker of Liver Iron Concentration: Interim Results
from a Multi-Center, Multi-Vendor Study at 1.5T and 3T
 		 Dr. Diego Hernando
Inter-reader Reproducibility and Overall Survival Predictability
of LI-RADS Tumor Response Algorithm after Drug-Eluting-Beads
Transarterial Chemoembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma		 Dr. Ali Pirasteh

 

 

 


Workshops

11:00 – 11:30 am
HCC - measuring the response to therapy with MRI Bachir Taouli, MD, Mishal Mendiratta-Lala, MD
Benign mimics of cancer of prostate MRI Pranay Krishnan, MD, Joseph Yacoub, MD
A Radiologist's Guide to Rectal Cancer MRI: Post Treatment Evaluation Gaurav Khatri, MD, Katrina McGinty, MD

11:35 – 12:05 am
Staging of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma Priya Bhosale, MD, FSCBTMR, Sanaz Javadi, MD
Anal Cancer: What radiologists need to know Gaiane Rauch, MD, PhD, FSCBTMR, Shannon Sheedy, MD
In Bore MRI Guided Prostate Biopsy Daniel Costa, MD, FSCBTMR, Robert McFarland, MD
Lunch
12:00 - 1: 00 pm Lunch and Learn, sponsored by GE: Integration of Novel MR Techniques into Routine Clinical Practice
Open to the first 75 attendees - join us in Mt. Columbia.

 

Don't Let This Happen To You

1:00 – 2:00 pm

 

CT & MRI for Imaging of Body Composition 
2:00-3:00 pm
 

 
Opportunistic CT Screening for Osteoporosis
 		 Perry Pickhardt, MD
 
Quantifying Body Fat: Best Imaging Methods
 		 Joe Ippolito, MD, PhD
 
Imaging of Fat: Can We Predict Patient Outcomes?
 		 Miriam Bredella, MD
 
Question & Answer 

 

Break

3:00 – 3:15 pm

 

Innovations in MR
3:15 – 5:00 pm
 		  
High-Resolution Water Proton MRI of Cellular Metabolic Activity Charles Springer, PhD
Low Field vs. Conventional Field Adrianne Campbell-Washburn, PhD
Advances in MR Elastography: Beyond Stiffness (NIH) Meng Yin, PhD
Elastography: Not Just for the Liver Nayana Patel, MD
Vascular and non-Vascular Applications of Ferumoxytol Paul Finn, MD
4D Flow in the Abdomen Kristin Porter, MD
Question & Answer   

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Round Tables
7:00 am – 8:00 am
 		 Speaker
Supporting a Uterine Artery Embolization Program

 		 Jessica Robbins, MD,
Olga Brook, MD, FSCBTMR
 
Sour M&M's: Lessons Learned from Peer Review

 		 Neil Hansen, MD
Elizabeth Edney, MD
 
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Clinical Trials


 		 Katrina McGinty, MD
Les Folio, DO, MPH, FAOCR

 

Pelvic MRI: Prostate, Gynecology and Beyond
8:00 am – 9:45 am

Biparametric Prostate MRI: The Time Has Come Maarten de Rooij, MD, PhD
Prostate Cancer Recurrence: Imaging Pearls Jeff Weinreb, MD
Prostate Cancer Hide and Seek Pranay Krishnan, MD
Adnexal Incidentalomas 2019 Susan Ascher, MD, FSCBTMR
Journey to the Other Side: Imaging the Transgender Patient Priyanka Jha, MBBS
Leiomyoma vs Leiomyosarcoma: Added Value of Multi-Parametric MR Imaging Yuliya Lakhman, MD
Question & Answer  
Break

9:45  – 10:00 am

 

Innovations in Quality and Safety
10:00 am – 11:45 am

Rethinking RADPEER: Are Patient Outcomes the Answer? Ethan Smith
Rethinking Novelty: Does Optimization Trump Innovation? Prasad Shankar, MD
Rethinking Steroid Preps: Still Necessary? Benjamin Mervak, MD
Rethinking MR Device Safety: Who Can We Scan Safely? Alison Sheridan, MD
Question & Answer  
DEBATE:  Measuring Quality in Radiology: Almost There Matthew Davenport, MD, FSCBTMR
DEBATE:  Measuring Quality in Radiology: Miles Away 

DEBATE: Panel Discussion		 Katrina McGinty, MD


 
 
Closing Remarks

11:45 -12:00 pm

Meeting Highlights


MEETING HIGHLIGHTS
    • Over 25 hours of meeting time
      Debates with Top Specialists
      Round Tables - Small Group Discussion with the Experts
      Image Interpretation Panel Team Competition
      Don't Let This Happen To you
      Scientific Research
      Network with Experts and Peers