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2018 NASCI Program

Bootcamp Session 1 – CT/MR Basics 
9:00 am – 10:40 am
Anil Attili, MD 
Martin Willemink, MD, PhD
9:00 – 9:15 am
Credentialing – What Do I Need for CT and MR? Jadranka Stojanovska, MD
9:15 – 9:30 am
Patient Preparation and Safety Julian Wichmann, MD
9:30 – 9:45 am
Common CT Protocols and Dose Optimization Martin Willemink, MD, PhD
9:45 – 10:00 am
Cardiac MRI: Basic Protocols Gautham Reddy, MD, MPH, FNASCI
10:00 – 10:15 am
Standardized Reporting of CT and MR Anil Attili, MD
10:30 – 10:40 am
Question & Answer
 
10:40 – 10:50 am        Break
Bootcamp Session 2 – Case Based – Common Indications CT/MR 
10:50 am – 12:15 pm
Nagina Malguria, MD 
Jill Jacobs, MD, FNASCI
10:50 – 11:05 am
Have You Met My Aunt Minnie? Cardiac Findings You Should Know Jill Jacobs, MD, FNASCI
11:05 – 11:20 am
Coronary Artery Variants in Origin and Termination Amar Shah, MD
11:20 – 11:35 am
Coronary Artery Disease – Native Vessels Cheng Ting Lin, MD
11:35 – 11:50 am
Evaluation of Coronary Bypass Grafts and Stents Tami Bang, MD
11:50 – 12:05 pm
Cardiac CT: Beyond the Coronaries Joao Inacio, MD
12:05 – 12:15 pm
Question & Answer
12:15 – 1:15 pm        Lunch on Own
Bootcamp Session 3 – Case Based – Common Indications CT/MR 
1:15 pm – 2:40 pm
Satinder Singh, MD, FNASCI 
Elizabeth Lee, MD
1:15 – 1:30 pm
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Satinder Singh, MD, FNASCI
1:30 – 1:45 pm
MR of Ischemic Heart Disease Daniel Groves, MD
1:45 – 2:00 pm
MR of Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Elizabeth Lee, MD
2:00 – 2:15 pm
Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Carole Dennie, MD, FRCPC, FNASCI
2:15 – 2:30 pm
Right Ventricular Dilatation Elena Pena Fernandes, MD
2:30 – 2:40 pm
Question & Answer
2:40 – 3:00 pm        Break
Bootcamp Session 4 – Artificial Intelligence Symposium 
3:00 pm – 4:10 pm
Albert Hsiao, MD, PhD 
Carlo De Cecco, MD, PhD, FNASCI
3:00 – 3:15 pm
Principles of Deep Learning in Radiology Benoit Desjardins, MD, PhD
3:15 – 3:30 pm
Beyond the Buzzwords: Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Applications
3:30 – 3:45 pm
 Carlo De Cecco, MD, PhD, FNASCI
Augmented Imaging (AI) Enhanced Workflows for Cardiac Imaging Albert Hsiao, MD, PhD
3:45 – 4:00 pm
On-Site CT-FFR Applications – Feasibility and Practical Insights Moritz Albrecht, MD
4:00 – 4:10 pm
Question & Answer
4:10 – 4:30 pm        Break
Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Imaging: Friend or Foe – Panel Discussion
4:30 pm – 5:25 pm
U. Joseph Schoepf, MD, FNASCI, FACR
Raym Geis, MD, FACR
Bibb Allen Jr, MD, FACR
Dorin Comaniciu, PhD
Felix Lau
Albert Hsiao, MD, PhD
Welcome Reception – Exhibit Hall 
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Roundtables
7:00 am – 8:00 am
Pediatric Round Table – Standardized Reporting in Congenital Cardiac Imaging Cristina Fuss, MD
W. James Parks, MD, MSc, FNASCI
Breakfast Industry Symposium
7:00 am – 8:00 am
Scientific Session
7:00 am – 8:00 am
Interobserver agreement of virtual transcatheter heart valve to coronary distance in aortic valve­-in-­valve implantation  Laura Jimenez Juan
Dynamic Computed Tomography Perfusion with a Semi-Quantitative Evaluation of Blood Flow for the Detection of Endoleaks: A Feasibility Study  Maximilian J. Bauer
Diagnostic Performance of Cardiac CT, Cardiac MR, and Transthoracic Echocardiography for Cardioembolic Stroke Recurrence  Simon Martin
Safety, Efficacy and Prognostic Value of Accelerated Dobutamine Infusion For Stress Echocardiography  Mahmoud Ali
Endovascular versus surgical treatment of subclavian artery stenosis: a meta-analysis of the literature.   Jeremy Jose
Ischemic Heart Disease – New Frontiers
8:00 am – 10:10 am
Charlie White, MD, FNASCI
Carole Dennie, MD, FRCPC, FNASCI
8:00 – 8:10 am
Presidential Address Charlie White, MD, FNASCI
8:10 – 8:40 am
Keynote Lecture “Randomized Trials in Cardiovascular Imaging: A Focus on Quality in Imaging” Leslee J Shaw, PhD, FACC, FASNC, FAHA
8:40 – 9:00 am
The Value of FFR-CT in Clinical Practice Geoffrey Rubin, MD, FNASCI
9:00 – 9:20 am
Photon Counting CT – – Potential Impact on Diagnosis of Ischemic Cardiomyopathy David Bluemke, MD, PhD, MsB, FNASCI
9:20 – 9:40 am
Spectral CT – Current and Future Cardiovascular Applications Sunhy Abbara, MD
9:40 – 10:00 am
Automated Quantitative Stress CMR in Routine Clinical Environment Juliano Fernandes
10:00 – 10:10 am
Question & Answer
10:10 – 10:30 pm        Break
International Session – Update on Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
10:30 am – 12:10 pm
Jacobo Kirsch, MD, FNASCI
Daniel Vargas, MD, FNASCI
10:30 – 10:45 am
Updates in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Tae Hoon Kim, MD, PhD
10:45 – 11:00 am
Updates in Amyloid Yeon Hyeon Choe
11:00 – 11:15 am
Updates in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Luigi Natale (ESCR)
11:15 – 11:30 am
Updates in Cardio-Oncology Tae Hoon Kim, MD, PhD
11:30 – 11:45 am
Updates on Chagas Disease Monica Ocampo, MD
11:45 – 12:00 pm
Is There a Role for CT in the Evaluation of Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure? Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, MD, PhD, EBCR, FNASCI
12:00 – 12:10 pm
Question & Answer
12:10 – 1:15 pm       Bayer-sponsored non-CME Lunch Symposium – “Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) and the essential role of imaging specialists.”
12:10 – 1:15 pm        Lunch
Cutting Edge Technology and AHA Session
1:15 pm – 3:14 pm
Phillip Young, MD,
Julian Wichmann, MD
1:15 – 1:30 pm
Cinematic Rendering in the Heart Elliott Fishman, MD
1:30 – 1:40 pm
CT-based Dynamic Assessment of 3D Mitral Annular Anatomy and Geometry in Primary Mitral Regurgitation Patients – Significance of Multiphase Cardiac CT Asim Rizvi, MD
Mayo Clinic – Rochester
1:40 – 1:50 pm
Predicting MACE in patients with coronary artery disease using a combination of CT Myocardial Perfusion and CT-FFR Marly Van Assen, MSc
Medical College of South Carolina / Univ of Groningen
1:50 – 2:00 pm
Utility of Dual Energy CT for Assessment of Myocardial Fibrosis: Calculation of Extracellular Volume Fraction (ECV) using Measured Hematocrit vs. Virtual Hematocrit

James Schroeder, MD
Johns Hopkins Medical Institute

2:00 – 2:10 pm
Relationship between changes in pericoronary adipose tissue attenuation & coronary plaque burden quantified from coronary CT angiography
Markus Goeller, MD
Friedrich-Alexander- Univ Erlangen-Nurnberg
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
2:10 – 2:22 pm
Magnetic Resonance Elastography of the Heart Elsie Nguyen, MD, FRCPC
2:22 – 2:32 pm
Myocardial Tissue Phase Mapping Detects Early Cardiac Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiotoxicity 

Bradley Allen, MD
Northwestern University

2:32 – 2:42 pm
Abstract 6
2:42 – 2:52 pm
Automated Selection of Myocardial Inversion Time using Convolutional Neural Network and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) 

Naeim Bahrami, MD
University of California, San Diego

2:52 – 3:02 pm
Ventricular-Arterial Coupling and Aerobic Capacity in Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot
Jyothsna Akam Venkata, MD
Children’s Hosp of Michigan / Wayne State Univ
3:02 – 3:14 pm
No It’s Not Strain. Myocardial Velocity Assessment Using Tissue Phase Mapping Bradley Allen, MD
University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:14 – 3:20 pm        Break
Current Controversies – Rapid Fire Debates
3:20 pm – 4:20 pm
Diana Litmanovich, MD, FNASCI 
Gautham Reddy, MD, MPH, FNASCI
3:20 – 3:50 pm
FFRct vs CT Myocardial Perfusion – Which Should be Incorporated into Routine Clinical Practice? U. Joseph Schoepf, MD, FNASCI 
Carlo De Cecco, MD, PhD, FNASCI
3:20 – 3:30 pm
Pro CT Myocardial Perfusion
Carlo De Cecco, MD, PhD, FNASCI
3:30 – 3:40 pm
Pro FFRct
U. Joseph Schoepf, MD, FNASCI 
3:40 – 3:44 pm
Rebuttal 
 Carlo De Cecco, MD, PhD, FNASCI
3:44 – 3:48 pm
Rebuttal 
 U. Joseph Schoepf, MD, FNASCI 
3:48 – 3:50 pm
Audience Votes
3:50 – 4:20 pm
T1 Mapping Should Be Incorporated into Routine Clinical Practice Kate Hanneman, MD 
Stefan Zimmerman, MD, FNASCI
3:50 – 4:00 pm
Pro Kate Hanneman, MD
4:00 – 4:10 pm
Con Stefan Zimmerman, MD, FNASCI
4:10 – 4:14 pm
Rebuttal (Pro) Kate Hanneman, MD
4:14 – 4:18 pm
Rebuttal (Con) Stefan Zimmerman, MD, FNASCI
4:18 – 4:20 pm
Audience Votes
4:20 – 4:30 pm        Break
4:30 – 6:00 pm        Poster Session
6:00 – 7:00 pm        Wine and Cheese Reception
7:00 – 10:00 pm      Gala Dinner
Adult Congenital 
10:15 am – 11:55 am
Taylor Chung, MD 
Sadaf Bhutta, MD, MBBS
10:15 – 10:30 am
Imaging of Unrepaired CHD Presenting in Adults Siddharth Jadhav, MD
10:30 – 10:45 am
CMR Predictors of Outcomes in Tetralogy of Fallot Sowmya Balasubramanian, MD, MSc
10:45 – 11:00 am
Post-Operative Imaging of TGA Karen Lyons, MB, BCh, BAO, MRCPI, FFRSCI
11:00 – 11:15 am
CT for Problem Solving in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease S. Bruce Greenberg, MD, FNASCI
11:15 – 11:30 am
Computational Flow Dynamics in Congenital Heart Disease Dianna Bardo, MD, FNASCI
11:30 – 11:45 am
Virtual Reality for Therapeutic Planning in CHD Animesh Tandon, MD, MS
11:45 – 11:55 am
Question & Answer

 

Adult Session 
1:15 pm – 3:05 pm
Gregory Kicska, MD, PhD, FNASCI 
Benoit Desjardins, MD, PhD
1:15 – 1:30 pm
Historical Session – How the Diagnosis Was Made Robert M. Steiner, MD, FACC, FACR, FNASCI
1:30 – 1:40 pm
Feasibility of Dual-Energy CT to derive Extracellular Volume using a delayed acquisition only

 Marly van Assen, MSc

1:40 – 1:50 pm
Dual energy cardiac CT for the detection of resting myocardial perfusion defects in patients with chronic myocardial infarction on cardiac MRI: A comparison of iodine maps and virtual monochromatic images using various post processing methods. 

Prashanth Reddy, MD

1:50 – 2:00 pm
Detection of Occult Myocardial Scars with Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance imaging in Patients with asymptomatic type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: the ACCREDIT study

 Sung Min Ko, MD

2:00 – 2:15 pm
Tumors and Tumor-Like Conditions of the Heart: Radiology/Pathology Correlation Prachi Agarwal, MD, MS, FNASCI
2:15 – 2:25 pm

Utility of myocardial T1 mapping in evaluation of cardiomyopathies

 Bhavana Nagabhushana Reddy, MD

2:25 – 2:35 pm

Transient Ischemic Dilation and Coronary Artery Disease Burden in Cardiac MRI

 Jerry Yan, MD

2:35 – 2:45 pm
 
2:45 – 3:00 pm
Tumors and Tumor-Like Conditions of the Pericardium: Radiology/Pathology Correlation Katherine Kaproth-Joslin, PhD, MD
3:00 – 3:05 pm
Question & Answer
Structural Heart 
3:15 pm – 4:35 pm
Daniel Ocazionez, MD 
Jadranka Stojanovska, MD
3:15 – 3:30 pm
Pre TAVR Planning Gregory Kicska, MD, PhD, FNASCI
3:30 – 3:45 pm
Imaging of TAVR Complications Jacobo Kirsch, MD, FNASCI
3:45 – 4:00 pm
CT Planning for Mitral Interventions Eric Williamson, MD, FNASCI
4:00 – 4:15 pm
Imaging in the Evaluation of Left Atrial Appendage Devices Prabhakar Rajiah, MBBS, MD
4:15 – 4:30 pm
Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement Daniel Ocazionez, MD
4:30 – 4:35 pm
Question & Answer
4:35 – 4:45 pm        Break

Craziest Cases 
4:45 pm – 5:40 pm
Jacobo Kirsch, MD, FNASCI
Case Review Sandeep Hedgire, MD
4:45 – 4:57 pm
Case Review Jason Au, MD
4:57 – 5:21 pm
Case Review Jeremy Collins, MD
5:21 – 5:33 pm
Case Review David Dombroski, MD
5:25 – 5:35 pm
Vote
Pediatric – Congenital Cardiac Imaging 
8:00 am – 9:55 am
Prachi Agarwal, MD, MS, FNASCI 
S. Bruce Greenberg, MD, FNASCI
8:00 – 8:15 am
Imaging the Lymphatic System Prakash Masand, MD
8:15 – 8:30 am
CT and MRI Coronary Imaging in Pediatric Age Group: How I Do It Lorna Browne, MD, FRCR
8:30 – 8:45 am
Pulmonary and Systemic Venous Imaging: Pre and Post Intervention Christina Fuss, MD
8:45 – 9:00 am
Congenital Aortopathies: An Update Denver Sallee, MD
9:00 – 9:15 am
Complex Arch Anomalies Randolph Otto, MD
9:15 – 9:30 am
Challenging Flow Quantification Cases: How I Do It Taylor Chung, MD
9:30 – 9:45 am
3D Printing in Surgical Planning for Congenital Heart Disease Markus Renno, MD
9:45 – 9:55 am
Question & Answer
9:55 – 10:15 am        Break
11:55 – 1:15 pm        Business Lunch
Pediatric Vertical Session 
1:15 pm – 3:05 pm
Randolph Otto, MD 
Cristina Fuss, MD
1:15 – 1:30 pm
Pediatric Cardiomyopathies Sean Lang, MD
1:30 – 1:40 pm
Abstract 1
1:40 – 1:50 pm
Abstract 2
1:50 – 2:00 pm
Abstract 3
2:00 – 2:15 pm
CMR Predictors of Outcomes in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Sanjeev Aggarwal, MD

2:15 – 2:25 pm
Abstract 4
2:25 – 2:35 pm
Abstract 5
2:35 – 2:45 pm
Abstract 6
2:45 – 3:00 pm
Update on Ebstein Anomaly Rebecca Beroukhim, MD
3:00 – 3:05 pm
Question & Answer
3:05 – 3:15 pm        Break
Pediatric: Single Ventricle 
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm
Ahmed Gharib, MD 
Sadaf Bhutta, MD, MBBS
3:15 – 3:30 pm
Introduction to Single Ventricle Gautam Singh, MD
3:30 – 3:45 pm
MR in Interstage Single Ventricle: Pros and Cons Rahul Rathod, MD
3:45 – 4:00 pm
Catheter Angiography in Interstage Single Ventricle: Pros and Cons Srikant Das, MD
4:00 – 4:15 pm
MR Predictors of Outcomes in Single Ventricle Mark Fogel, MD, FNASCI
4:15 – 4:25 pm
Fontan: Beyond the Heart Christopher Francois, MD
4:25 – 4:35 pm
Question & Answer
4:35 – 4:45 pm        Break
Case-Based Sessions 
4:45 pm – 5:30 pm
W. James Park, MD, MSc, FNASCI 
Mark Ferguson, MD
4:45 – 4:55 pm
Case-Based Lecture 1 Mark Ferguson, MD
4:55 – 5:05 pm
Case-Based Lecture 2 Sadaf Bhutta, MD, MBBS
5:05 – 5:15 pm
Case-Based Lecture 3 Juan Carlos Muniz, MD
5:15 – 5:25 pm
Case-Based Lecture 4 Monesha Gupta, MD
5:25 – 5:35 pm
5:35 – 5:40 pm
Vote
Roundtable 
4D Flow in Clinical Practice
 
7:00 am – 8:00 am
Christopher François, MD 
Nagina Malguria, MD
Scientific Session 
7:00 am – 8:00 am
Challenging Patients, Challenging Conditions 
8:00 am – 10:10 am
Harold Litt, MD, PhD, FNASCI 
Christian Tesche, MD
8:00 – 8:15 am
Imaging the Electrophysiology Patient: Arrhythmia and Implanted Devices Harold Litt, MD, PhD, FNASCI
8:15 – 8:30 am
3D LGE for Planning Ventricular Ablations Alejandro Zuluaga
8:30 – 8:45 am
T2 Weighted Imaging of the Heart – Tips and Tricks Philip Young, MD, FNASCI
8:45 – 9:00 am
CMR Diastology and Strain Imaging in Cardiomyopathies Tarun Pandey, MD
9:00 – 9:15 am
Imaging of LVAD Complications Sasan Partovi, MD
9:15 – 9:30 am
RVAD/ECMO; Types, Indications and Imaging for Complications Rachael Edwards, MD
9:30 – 9:45 am
CTA for TAVR with <30 ml Contrast Tariq Hameed, MD
9:45 – 10:00 am
Ferumoxytol for Vascular Imaging in Renal Failure Kimberly Kallianos, MD
10:00 – 10:10 am
Question & Answer
10:10 – 10:30 am        Break
STR/NASCI Traumatic and Non-Traumatic Acute Chest Pain 
10:30 am – 12:10 pm
Carlos Restrepo, MD 
Dharshan Vummidi, MRCP
10:30 – 10:45 am
Penetrating Cardiovascular Injury Carlos Restrepo, MD
10:45 – 11:00 am
Cardiovascular Causes of Acute Traumatic Chest Pain Dharshan Vummidi, MD, MRCP
11:00 – 11:15 am
Post Cardiac Surgery Complications Dominique DaBreo, MD
11:15 – 11:30 am
Myocardial Infarction with Normal Coronary Arteries Daniel Vargas, MD, FNASCI
11:30 – 11:45 am
Acute Aortic Syndrome or Something Else? Diana Litmanovich, MD, FNASCI
11:45 – 12:00 pm
CT for Evaluation of Acute Pericardial Emergencies Abhishek Chaturvedi, MD
12:00 – 12:10 pm
Question & Answer
12:00 – 1:00 pm        Lunch
Peripheral Vascular 
1:00 pm – 2:25 pm
Christopher Francois, MD 
Nikhil Goyal, MD
1:00 – 1:15 pm
TEVAR: What Every Radiologist Needs to Know Nikhil Goyal, MD
1:15 – 1:30 pm
Imaging of the Postoperative Aorta Nagina Malguria, MD
1:30 – 1:45 pm
4D Flow MR Outside the Heart Christopher Francois, MD
1:45 – 2:00 pm
Dual Energy CT of the Periphery Simon Martin, MD
2:00 – 2:15 pm
Vascular MRA Tips and Tricks Mayil Krishnam, MD
2:15 – 2:25 pm
Question & Answer
2:35 – 2:45 pm        Break
Infection and Inflammation 
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Karen Ordovas, MD, MS, FNASCI 
Quynh A. Truong, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FSCCT
2:45 – 3:00 pm
Myocardial and Pericardial Infections Karen Ordovas, MD, MS, FNASCI
3:00 – 3:15 pm
Emerging Role of PET/MR in Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy Jeremy Collins, MD
3:15 – 3:30 pm
DWI Application in Acute Myocarditis Bijan Bijan, MD
3:30 – 3:45 pm
NASCI 2018 Highlights Karen Ordovas, MD, MS, FNASCI