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  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    9:00 AM - 10:45 AM  
    Physician's Preconference Session 1: Physics of MRI and Cardiac Function
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Stefan K. Piechnik, PhD, FSCMR – University of Oxford
    Moderator: Michael Salerno, MD, PhD – UCSF
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    9:00 AM - 9:04 AM  
    Introduction of the Day
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Ellen Ostenfeld, MD, PhD – Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
    Speaker: Amit R. Patel, MD, FSCMR – Division of Cardiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    9:04 AM - 9:19 AM  
    Spins and Hardware/safety
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Michael Salerno, MD, PhD – UCSF
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    9:19 AM - 9:34 AM  
    Acquisition Basic Pulse Sequences for MR Images (Core Sequences)
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: John T. Echols, PhD – University of Virginia
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    9:34 AM - 9:49 AM  
    Reconstruction (Fast Imaging: Parallel Imaging, Acceleration)
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Orlando P. Simonetti, PhD, FSCMR – The Ohio State University
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    9:49 AM - 10:04 AM  
    Cine Imaging Acquisition and Recognizing Artifacts/Sequences
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Juliet Varghese, PhD – The Ohio State University
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    10:04 AM - 10:16 AM  
    Cine MRI: Assessment of LV Function/Strain
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Jonathan A. Pan, MD, MSc, MBA – University of Virginia Health System
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    10:16 AM - 10:28 AM  
    RV Function
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Ellen Ostenfeld, MD, PhD – Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    10:28 AM - 10:40 AM  
    Atrial and Diastolic Function
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Mariana Garcia, MD, MSc – Emory University
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    10:40 AM - 10:45 AM  
    Case Presentation: Amazing Artifacts
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Michael Salerno, MD, PhD – UCSF
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM  
    Physician's Preconference Session 2: LGE and Ischemic Heart Disease (Part 1)
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Ming Yen Ng, MD, FSCMR – The University of Hong Kong
    Moderator: Gabriela Liberato, MD – Heart Institute, University of São Paulo
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    11:00 AM - 11:12 AM  
    Gadolinium and Other Contrast Agents: Principles of Contrast Enhancement and Patient Safety
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Han Kim, MD – Duke University Medical Center
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    11:12 AM - 11:24 AM  
    Late Gadolinium Enhancement Imaging: PSIR, 3D LGE, Dark Blood and Artifacts
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Marco Guglielmo, MD – UMC Utrecht
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    11:24 AM - 11:36 AM  
    Perfusion Techniques: Acquisition, Analysis, and Artifacts
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Jennifer Jordan, PhD, FSCMR – Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    11:36 AM - 11:48 AM  
    Coronary and Plaque Imaging: Acquisition and Clinical Use
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Rene M. Botnar – Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    11:48 AM - 11:53 AM  
    Case Presentation: LGE and Ischemic Heart Disease
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Ming Yen Ng, MD, FSCMR – The University of Hong Kong
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    11:53 AM - 11:58 AM  
    Case Presentation: LGE and Ischemic Heart Disease
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Gabriela Liberato, MD – Heart Institute, University of São Paulo
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    12:00 PM - 12:45 PM  
    Physician's Preconference Session 3: LGE and Ischemic Heart Disease (Part 2)
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Maria de la Paz Ricapito, MD – Anchorena Clinic
    Moderator: Jannike Nickander, MD, PhD – Karolinska Institutet
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    12:00 PM - 12:10 PM  
    Myocardial Infarction: Acute, Chronic, and MINOCA
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Jannike Nickander, MD, PhD – Karolinska Institutet
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    12:10 PM - 12:22 PM  
    Assessment of Myocardial Ischemia and Quantification of Myocardial Perfusion
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Andrew E. Arai, MD – Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Department of Radiology, University of Utah School of Medicine
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    12:22 PM - 12:34 PM  
    Device Imaging and VT ablation
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Davide Vignale, MD, PhD – IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    12:34 PM - 12:39 PM  
    Case Presentation: LGE and Ischemic Heart Disease
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Tevfik Ismail, PhD, FSCMR – King's College London
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    12:39 PM - 12:44 PM  
    Case Presentation: LGE and Ischemic Heart Disease
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Maria de la Paz Ricapito, MD – Anchorena Clinic
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    1:30 PM - 2:40 PM  
    Physician's Preconference Session 4: Mapping and Nonischemic Heart Disease (Part 1)
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Laura C. Dragonetti, MD – Cardiovascular Imaging Coordinator (CMR & CT) – Hospital Alemán | Hospital Militar | Instituto Alexander Fleming | Teleradiology
    Moderator: Marly Uellendahl, MD, PhD – DASA - UNIFESP
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    1:30 PM - 1:42 PM  
    Mapping (T1, T2, T2*) Techniques: Acquisition, Analysis, and Artifacts
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Stefano Sforna, MD – Advanced Cardiovascular Diagnostics Service, Media Valle del Tevere Hospital, Todi, Umbria, Italy.
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    1:42 PM - 1:54 PM  
    Myocarditis
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Kate Hanneman, MD, MPH – Toronto General Hospital
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    1:54 PM - 2:06 PM  
    Infiltrative Heart Diseases (Including iron)
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Amit R. Patel, MD, FSCMR – Division of Cardiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    2:06 PM - 2:18 PM  
    Dilated and non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Otavio Coelho-Filho, MD, PhD, MPH – University of Campinas - UNICAMP
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    2:18 PM - 2:30 AM  
    Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Milind Desai, MD, MBA – Cleveland Clinic
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    2:30 PM - 2:35 PM  
    Case Presentation: Mapping and Nonischemic Heart Disease
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Laura C. Dragonetti, MD – Cardiovascular Imaging Coordinator (CMR & CT) – Hospital Alemán | Hospital Militar | Instituto Alexander Fleming | Teleradiology
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    2:35 PM - 2:40 PM  
    Case Presentation: Mapping and Nonischemic Heart Disease
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Marly Uellendahl, MD, PhD – DASA - UNIFESP
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    2:40 PM - 3:30 PM  
    Physician's Preconference Session 5: Mapping and Nonischemic Heart Disease (Part 2)
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Ibraim Masciarelli Pinto, MD, PhD – Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia
    Moderator: Patricia F. Rodriguez Lozano, MD, MSc – University of Virginia Health System
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    2:40 PM - 2:52 PM  
    Afib, Pulmonary Vein, LAA Imaging
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Dana Peters – Yale
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    2:52 PM - 3:04 PM  
    Assessment of Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy and genetic cardiomyopathies
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Connie Tsao, MD, MPH – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    3:04 PM - 3:16 PM  
    Cardiac Masses: CMR Approach and Pathology Correlations
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Juan Lopez-Mattei, MD, FSCMR – Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    3:16 PM - 3:21 PM  
    Case Presentation: Mapping and Nonischemic Heart Disease
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Patricia F. Rodriguez Lozano, MD, MSc – University of Virginia Health System
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    3:21 PM - 3:26 PM  
    Case Presentation: Mapping and Nonischemic Heart Disease
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Ibraim Masciarelli Pinto, MD, PhD – Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  
    Physician's Preconference Session 6: Flow/Valves/Congenital/Others (Part 1)
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Jeremy D. Collins, MD – Mayo Clinic
    Moderator: Julian Vega Adauy, MD – Chilean Institute of Cardiac Imaging | INCIC
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    4:00 PM - 4:12 PM  
    Phase Contrast Imaging - Acquisition, Analysis, and Artifacts
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Johannes Toger, PhD – Lund University
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    4:12 PM - 4:24 PM  
    4D Flow and Its Clinical Applications (Including Aorta)
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Christopher J. Francois, MD – Mayo Clinic
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    4:24 PM - 4:36 PM  
    Aortic/ Mitral valve disease - Impact of Physiology and Quantification
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Clerio F. Azevedo, MD, PhD – Duke University
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    4:36 PM - 4:48 PM  
    Pulmonic /Tricuspid valve disease - Impact of Physiology and Quantification
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Seth Uretsky, MD – Morristown Medical Center
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    4:48 PM - 4:53 PM  
    Case Presentation: Flow, Valves, or Congenital
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Julian Vega Adauy, MD – Chilean Institute of Cardiac Imaging | INCIC
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    4:53 PM - 4:58 PM  
    Case Presentation: Flow, Valves, or Congenital
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Jeremy D. Collins, MD – Mayo Clinic
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  
    Physician's Preconference Session 7: Flow/Valves/Congenital/Others (Part 2)
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Ntobeko A. Ntusi, MD, PhD – South African Medical Research Council
    Moderator: Luigi Natale, MD – Catholic University - Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome (Italy)
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    5:00 PM - 5:12 PM  
    Technical Aspects of Contrast-Enhanced and Non-Contrast Enhanced MRA
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Paul Finn, MD, MSc – UCLA
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    5:12 PM - 5:24 PM  
    Aorta, Pulmonary Artery, and Vasculitis
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Jeremy D. Collins, MD – Mayo Clinic
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    5:24 PM - 5:36 PM  
    Congenital Heart Disease: What a CMR Physician Should Not Miss
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Elsie T. Nguyen, MD – Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    5:36 PM - 5:48 PM  
    Assessment of the Pericardium
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Speaker: Prabhakar Rajiah – Mayo Clinic
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    5:48 PM - 5:54 PM  
    Case Presentation: Flow, Valves, or Congenital
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Ntobeko A. Ntusi, MD, PhD – South African Medical Research Council
  • Wednesday, Feb 4th
    5:54 PM - 6:00 PM  
    Case Presentation: Flow, Valves, or Congenital
    Location: Asia II & III and Halls 2-5 (3rd Floor)
    Moderator: Luigi Natale, MD – Catholic University - Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome (Italy)