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  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    9:00 AM - 10:45 AM  
    Congenital Preconference Session 1: The New Bread and Butter for PCHD CMR
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Mark A. Fogel, MD – University of Pennsylvania
    Moderator: Rahul H. Rathod, MD, MBA – Boston Children's Hospital
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    9:00 AM - 9:15 AM  
    Efficient and Fast CMR Protocols - Is 30min Achievable?
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Fares Munes, MD – Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital / Wake Forest School of Medicine
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    9:15 AM - 9:30 AM  
    Is AI Really Making Our Congenital Cardiac Post-Processing Faster?
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Tina Yao, PhD – Univ of College London
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    9:30 AM - 9:45 AM  
    Standardizing Reporting Templates - Is it Worth the Effort?
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Mark A. Fogel, MD – University of Pennsylvania
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    9:45 AM - 10:00 AM  
    Quality Assurance - How Do I Keep Up With It
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Nadine Choueiter, MD – Montefiore Medical Center
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    10:00 AM - 10:15 AM  
    Could We Imagine a Life Without IV Contrast?
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Sanja Dzelebdzic, MD – University of Utah/Primary Children's Hospital
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    10:15 AM - 10:30 AM  
    Reference Values in Congenital CMR - What to Use - What Not to Use (Volumes, Vascular Size and T1 Values)
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Michael P. DiLorenzo, MD, MSc – Columbia University/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    11:00 AM - 12:45 PM  
    Congenital Preconference Session 2: Technical Challenges & Advanced Techniques
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Duarte Martins, MD, MSc – Hospital de Sta Cruz - ULSLO
    Moderator: Ronak Naik, MD – Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    11:00 AM - 11:15 AM  
    Life is Better in 3D - Especially When it Moves (3D Cine and 5D Flow)
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Christopher W. Roy, PhD – University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL)
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    11:15 AM - 11:30 AM  
    Interventional CMR - How to Start a New Program
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Jason N. Johnson, MD – Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    11:30 AM - 11:45 AM  
    When the Patient Battles With Us - Building an MR"I" Can Do it Service
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Malenka M. Bissell, MD, PhD, FSCMR – University of Leeds
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    11:45 AM - 12:00 PM  
    Congenital low field CMR: Challenges and benefits
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Juliet Varghese, PhD – The Ohio State University
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    12:00 PM - 12:15 PM  
    Fetal CMR for Newcomers
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Thomas M. Vollbrecht, MD – University Hospital Bonn
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    12:15 PM - 12:30 PM  
    4D Flow MRI Transformed My Life - I Can't Remember the Last Time I Did a 2D Flow
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Shiraz A. Maskatia, MD – Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  
    Congenital Preconference Session 3: Multi-centre Projects
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Heynric B. Grotenhuis, MD, PhD – University Hospital of Groningen
    Moderator: Kimberley Miles, MD, MSc – Cincinnati Children's Hospital
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    1:30 PM - 1:45 PM  
    Ingredients of a Successful Multicenter CMR Project
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Rebecca S. Beroukhim, MD – Boston Children's Hospital
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    1:45 PM - 2:00 PM  
    Nuts and Bolts of Multicenter Research: Data Use Agreements and Other Contracts
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Jonathan H. Soslow, MD, MSc – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    2:00 PM - 2:15 PM  
    How to Build a Modern Imaging Core Lab/Registry
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Rahul H. Rathod, MD, MBA – Boston Children's Hospital
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM  
    Congenital Preconference Session 4: Precess with Caution
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Kan N. Hor, MD – Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Eleanor L. Schuchardt, MD – University of California San Diego
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    2:30 PM - 2:45 PM  
    CMR Alerts for Complications in Cardiac Transplant
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Andrew A. Lawson, MD – Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    2:45 PM - 3:00 PM  
    CMR Alerts to High Risk Single Ventricle Palliation
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Tarek Alsaied, MD – Dallas Children's Medical Center
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    3:00 PM - 3:15 PM  
    This Tumor is Malignant - Or is it?
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Prachi Agarwal, MD – University of Michigan
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  
    Congenital Preconference Session 5: Cross-Sectional Imaging Throughout the Ages - Coping with an Aging ACHD Population
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Arvind Hoskoppal, MD – Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
    Moderator: Nicola Galea, MD, PhD – Sapienza University of Rome
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    4:00 PM - 4:15 PM  
    Acquired Disease in Our ACHD Population - How Does it Differ to the General Population?
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Kavita Karunasaagarar, MB – Sheffield teaching hospitals
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    4:15 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Imaging Heart Failure in ACHD - Beyond EF
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Giulia Pasqualin, MD, PhD, MSc – IRCCS Policlinico San Donato
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    4:30 PM - 4:45 PM  
    Right Patient, Right Place, Right Scan: Imaging Strategies for ACHD (Who Should Read These Scans/Where Should We Image/Does that Change in an Emergency?)
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Clayton "Tony" A. Smith, MD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  
    Congenital Preconference Session 6: Behind the Curtain
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Barbara E. U Burkhardt, MD – University Children's Hospital Zurich
    Moderator: Lars Grosse-Wortmann, MD – Oregon Health & Science University
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    5:00 PM - 5:15 PM  
    Images I Wish I Had Taken... Hindsight is a Beautiful Thing
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Laura Olivieri, MD – Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    5:15 PM - 5:30 PM  
    The Ugly Truth - Which Image Quality is Good Enough for Diagnosis
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Andrew Powell, MD – Boston Children's Hospital
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    5:30 PM - 5:45 PM  
    When the Requested Information Does Not Correlate with the CMR Findings...Every Day is a School Day
    Location: Americas II & III and Hall 4 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Kuberan Pushparajah, MD – Evelina London Children’s Hospital/ King's College London