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| REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR: |
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January 21 - 25, 2008
Course dates are subject to change or cancellation. Arrangements can be made for other dates depending on Faculty availability.
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| COURSE FEES: |
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Course fees are $4,800 and refundable up to 30 days before the course. Breakfast, lunch and coffee will be provided by UCLA DCVI.
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| PARTICIPANTS: |
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Radiologists, Cardiologists, and Technologists are welcome.
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| PRE-REGISTRATION: |
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Pre-Registration Form
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| COURSE OBJECTIVES: |
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This five-day course is a part of a cumulative mentored/supervised laboratory experience that offers training, development, and maintenance of competence in
- theoretical principles,
- practical applications, and
- clinical interpretation
of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging as required by the AHA/ACC and ACR towards Levels 1, 2, or 3 Certification. The course is designed for radiologists, cardiologists, and technologists to fulfill the individual needs of the participants and provide ample opportunities for both training with observation and interpretation of real-time cardiovascular MR cases as well as for analysis and review of the large cross-correlated database of teaching cases.
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| LEARNING GOALS: |
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Upon completion of the course attendees will be able to:
- review the indications, contraindications to, and potential side effects of CMR;
- demonstrate practical knowledge in technical aspects of the CMR examination including:
- ECG and peripheral pulse gating and triggering;
- respiratory motion suppression;
- contrast agent properties and administration;
- stress pharmacologic agents and their application to CMR
- tissue characterization;
- clinical aspects of magnetization preparation schemes;
- cardiac functional imaging;
- velocity and flow imaging and processing;
- first-pass perfusion;
- delayed contrast-enhancement imaging;
- image processing for angiographic applications;
- recognize, minimize, or avoid degrading image artifacts;
- apply image post-processing techniques;
- design a comprehensive structured radiological report as an effective clinical communication tool.
- correlate CMR with other imaging modalities (echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, CCT, and interventional angiography) as well as with medical history, physical examination, laboratory, and hemodynamic data.
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The Office of Continuing Medical Education, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Office of Continuing Medical Education, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA designates this educational activity for a maximum of 37.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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| INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURE: |
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The course is presented in the form of a series of topic-centered block-sessions incorporating:
- live scans with comprehensive interactive didactics and presentation of clinical data,
- post-processing tutorial,
- read-outs cases with didactics, and
- intense individualized hands-on training in image post-processing, and analysis.
The topics of block sessions cover all points of clinical applications of CMR and include: normal and variant anatomy of the heart and major blood vessels, coronary atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease, valvular heart disease and cardiomyopathies, adult and pediatric congenital heart disease, post-surgical/post-interventional appearance and complications. In addition, the course will cover some aspects of atherosclerosis of carotid, renal, and peripheral arteries.
The focus of instruction will be on intensive exposure to the methods and the multiple applications of CMR, difficult areas of CMR, and on topics of special interest.
To this extent, the course will include supervised interpretation of live cases as well as self-study from a collection of established teaching files illustrating a wide spectrum of diseases followed by a discussion of cases with attending physician. The course will utilize Siemens 32 channel Trio and Avanto scanners, along with Vital Images Vitrea, GE Advantage, and Siemens Leonardo Workstations.
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| COURSE SCHEDULE: (example of one-day block-sessions) |
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| 08:00 - 08:15 |
Coffee/Breakfast Introductions |
08:15 - 12:15
(with 15' break) |
Live scan with didactics
Post-processing tutorial
Read-outs cases with didactics
Self-study of teaching files
Hands-on training in image post-processing, and analysis.
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| 12:15 - 01:00 |
Catered Lunch |
01:00 - 05:00
(with 15' break) |
Live scan with didactics
Post-processing tutorial
Read-outs cases with didactics
Self-study of teaching files
Hands-on training in image post-processing, and analysis.
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| FACULTY |
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J. Paul Finn, M.D.
Professor of Radiology and Medicine,
Chief, Diagnostic Cardiovascular Imaging,
Director, Magnetic Resonance Research
Stefan Ruehm, M.D., Ph.D
Associate Professor of Radiology,
Diagnostic Cardiovascular Imaging Section
Director, Computerized Tomography Research
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Margaret Hsin-Shung Lee, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Diagnostic Cardiovascular Imaging Section
Chief, Cardiovascular & Interventional
Radiology, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
Mayil Krishnam, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Radiology,
Diagnostic Cardiovascular Imaging Section
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