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  • Tuesday, February 3, 2026
  • 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM  
    Registration & Badge Pick-Up
  • 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM  
    Speaker Ready Room
  • Wednesday, February 4, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM  
    Registration & Badge Pick-Up
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM  
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM  
    First Aid
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM  
    Mothers Room
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM  
    Prayer Room
  • 9:00 AM - 9:55 AM  
    LatAm Preconference Session 1: High Volume CMR Imaging: How to Do It?
    Moderator: Juan Urquiaga, MD – Centro Avanzado de Resonancia Magnetica y Medicina Nuclear
    Moderator: Lucas Gutierrez, MD – Penta Medicina Cardiovascular
  • 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM  
    ISMRM-SCMR Workshop Session 1: Safety, Monitoring, Workflow, Legal
    Moderator: Daniel Kim, PhD, FSCMR – Northwestern University
    Moderator: Charlotte H. Manisty, MD, PhD – Barts Heart Centre at St Bartholomew's Hospital
  • 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM  
    Congenital Preconference Session 1: The New Bread and Butter for PCHD CMR
    Moderator: Mark A. Fogel, MD – University of Pennsylvania
    Moderator: Rahul H. Rathod, MD, MBA – Boston Children's Hospital
  • 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM  
    Physician's Preconference Session 1: Physics of MRI and Cardiac Function
    Moderator: Stefan K. Piechnik, PhD, FSCMR – University of Oxford
    Moderator: Michael Salerno, MD, PhD – UCSF
  • 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM  
    Turning Innovations into Action Preconference Session 1
    Moderator: Animesh Tandon, MD, MSc – Cleveland Clinic Children's
  • 9:55 AM - 10:45 AM  
    LatAm Preconference Session 2: Two Are Better Than One: Radiologists and Cardiologists Joining Forces
    Moderator: Maria de la Paz Ricapito, MD – Anchorena Clinic
    Moderator: Lilia M. Sierra-Galan, MD, FSCMR – The American British Cowdray Medical Center
  • 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM  
    ISMRM-SCMR Workshop Session 2: Technical Challenges with CMR
    Moderator: Steve Leung, MD, FSCMR – University of Kentucky
    Moderator: Stefano Sforna, MD – Advanced Cardiovascular Diagnostics Service, Media Valle del Tevere Hospital, Todi, Umbria, Italy.
  • 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Coffee Break
  • 11:00 AM - 11:40 AM  
    ISMRM-SCMR Workshop Session 3: Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology
    Moderator: Francesca Raimondi, MD – ASST-Papa Giovanni XXIII Bergamo
  • 11:00 AM - 11:55 AM  
    LatAm Preconference Session 3: High Profile Research, Constrained Resources
    Moderator: Sara Elizabeth Ramirez Flores, MD – Hospital Central Fuerza Aérea del Perú / Clínica Internacional
    Moderator: Erasmo de la Pena-Almaguer, MD – Instituto de Cardiologia y Medicina Vascular, TecSalud
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM  
    Physician's Preconference Session 2: LGE and Ischemic Heart Disease (Part 1)
    Moderator: Ming Yen Ng, MD, FSCMR – The University of Hong Kong
    Moderator: Gabriela Liberato, MD – Heart Institute, University of São Paulo
  • 11:00 AM - 12:45 PM  
    Congenital Preconference Session 2: Technical Challenges & Advanced Techniques
    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
  • 11:00 AM - 12:45 PM  
    Turning Innovations into Action Preconference Session 2
    Moderator: Animesh Tandon, MD, MSc – Cleveland Clinic Children's
  • 11:40 AM - 12:45 PM  
    ISMRM-SCMR Workshop Session 4: Plenary
    Moderator: Robert W. Biederman, MD, FSCMR – West Virginia University, Roper Hospital and Medical University of South Carolina. Morgantown West Virginia; Charleston South Carolina
    Moderator: Sebastian Kelle, MD, PhD, FSCMR – Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité
  • 11:55 AM - 12:45 PM  
    LatAm Preconference Session 4: Unique Industry Strategies for CMR in LatAm
    Moderator: Jorgelina Medus, MD – Fundacion Intecnus
    Moderator: Hector Medina, MD – Baylor Scott and White
  • 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM  
    Physician's Preconference Session 3: LGE and Ischemic Heart Disease (Part 2)
    Moderator: Maria de la Paz Ricapito, MD – Anchorena Clinic
    Moderator: Jannike Nickander, MD, PhD – Karolinska Institutet
  • 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM  
    Lunch On Your Own
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  
    Congenital Preconference Session 3: Multi-centre Projects
    Moderator: Heynric B. Grotenhuis, MD, PhD – University Hospital of Groningen
    Moderator: Kimberley Miles, MD, MSc – Cincinnati Children's Hospital
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  
    ISMRM-SCMR Workshop Session 5: Image Artifacts Reduction Techniques
    Moderator: Aurelien Bustin, FSCMR – Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Hôpital Cardiologique du Haut-Lévêque, CHU de Bordeaux, Avenue de Magellan, Pessac, France; IHU LIRYC, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Université de Bordeaux – INSERM U1045, Avenue du Haut Lévêque, Pessac, France; Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Moderator: Chenxi Hu – School of Biomedical Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 1:30 PM - 2:40 PM  
    Physician's Preconference Session 4: Mapping and Nonischemic Heart Disease (Part 1)
    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
  • 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM  
    iCMR Preconference
    Moderator: Simon Reiss, PhD – University Medical Center Freiburg, University of Freiburg
    Moderator: Ruta Virsinskaite, MD – Royal Free Hospital, London
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM  
    Congenital Preconference Session 4: Precess with Caution
    Moderator: Kan N. Hor, MD – Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Eleanor L. Schuchardt, MD – University of California San Diego
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM  
    ISMRM-SCMR Workshop Session 6: ICM and NICM
    Moderator: Marco Guglielmo, MD – UMC Utrecht
    Moderator: Jennifer Co-Vu, MD – University of Florida
  • 2:40 PM - 3:30 PM  
    Physician's Preconference Session 5: Mapping and Nonischemic Heart Disease (Part 2)
    Moderator: Ibraim Masciarelli Pinto, MD, PhD – Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia
    Moderator: Patricia F. Rodriguez Lozano, MD, MSc – University of Virginia Health System
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM  
    Coffee Break
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  
    Congenital Preconference Session 5: Cross-Sectional Imaging Throughout the Ages - Coping with an Aging ACHD Population
    Moderator: Arvind Hoskoppal, MD – Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
    Moderator: Nicola Galea, MD, PhD – Sapienza University of Rome
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  
    ISMRM-SCMR Workshop Session 7: CMR-Guided VT Ablation (Joint w/ HRS)
    Moderator: Declan O’Regan, MD, PhD – Imperial College London
    Moderator: Anita Wokhlu, MD, FSCMR – University of Florida Gainesville and Malcolm Randall VA
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  
    Physician's Preconference Session 6: Flow/Valves/Congenital/Others (Part 1)
    Moderator: Jeremy D. Collins, MD – Mayo Clinic
    Moderator: Julian Vega Adauy, MD – Chilean Institute of Cardiac Imaging | INCIC
  • 5:00 PM - 5:20 PM  
    ISMRM-SCMR Workshop Session 8: Closing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  
    Congenital Preconference Session 6: Behind the Curtain
    Moderator: Barbara E. U Burkhardt, MD – University Children's Hospital Zurich
    Moderator: Lars Grosse-Wortmann, MD – Oregon Health & Science University
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  
    Physician's Preconference Session 7: Flow/Valves/Congenital/Others (Part 2)
    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)
  • Thursday, February 5, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 7:50 AM  
    Vista AI Sponsored Breakfast Symposium
    Breakfast Symposium Moderator: Daniel Hawkins – Vista AI
    Breakfast Symposium Moderator: Mohamad Khattab, DO – Oklahoma State University
  • 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM  
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 7:00 AM - 7:30 PM  
    Registration & Badge Pick-Up
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 1: Lights, Camera, CMR: The Blockbuster Role of Cardiac MRI in Cardio-Oncology (Joint with ICOS)
    Moderator: Juan Lopez-Mattei, MD, FSCMR – Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine
    Moderator: Alexander Isaak, MD – University Hospital Bonn
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Congenital Track Session 1: Tetralogy of Fallot Reimag(in)ed
    Moderator: Julian F. Forero, MD – Fundacion CardioInfantil - Instituto de cardiologia
    Moderator: Rahul H. Rathod, MD, MBA – Boston Children's Hospital
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Oral Abstracts Clinical Session 1
    Moderator: Luigia D'Errico, MD – Royal Papworth Hospital
    Moderator: Vidya Nadig, MD – Hartford Hospital
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Technologist Track Session 1: How I Do It: CMR Fundamentals 1
    Moderator: Rebecca Mills, MSc, BSc – OCMR
    Moderator: Filippo Bosio – King's College London
  • 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM  
    First Aid
  • 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM  
    Mothers Room
  • 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM  
    Prayer Room
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM  
    Pie Medical Imaging B.V. Sponsored Hands-On Advanced Workshop: Introduction to 4D Flow (Pre-registration Required)
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Case Session 1: Ischemic Heart Disease
    Moderator: Marcello Zapparoli, MD, MBA – DAPI Curitiba
    Moderator: Monvadi Barbara Srichai-Parsia, MD, FSCMR – Georgetown University
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 2: Women's Heart Health Through the Lens of CMR
    Moderator: Jadranka Stojanovska, MD, MSc, FSCMR – New York University Langone Medical Center
    Moderator: Anita Wokhlu, MD, FSCMR – University of Florida Gainesville and Malcolm Randall VA
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Congenital Track Session 2: Congenital CMR Across the Globe
    Moderator: Sowmya Balasubramanian, MD, MSc – University of Michigan
    Moderator: Kavita Karunasaagarar, MB – Sheffield teaching hospitals
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Innovations Track Session 1: Unmet Clinical Needs in CMR
    Moderator: Matthew Aitken, MBChB – Gold Coast University Hospital
    Moderator: Amit R. Patel, MD, FSCMR – Division of Cardiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Technologist Track Session 2: How I Do It: CMR Fundamentals 2
    Moderator: Jose Abreu, RT – Atrium Health
    Moderator: Nicola Galea, MD, PhD – Sapienza University of Rome
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire & Rapid Fire Session 1
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM  
    Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Sponsored Hands-On Advanced Workshop: Quantifying Flow: A Hands-On Workshop on 4D Flow Data Analysis (Pre-registration Required)

    Hands-on Instructor: Christopher J. Francois, MD – Mayo Clinic

  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 3: Vascular Imaging of the Chest, Abdomen, and Pelvis: MRI or CT? (Joint with SMRA)
    Moderator: Jeremy D. Collins, MD – Mayo Clinic
    Moderator: Bradley D. Allen, MD, MSc, FSCMR – Northwestern University
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 4: CMR in Neglected Tropical Diseases: Unmasking the Hidden Threats
    Moderator: Henrique Trad, MD, PhD – Colaborator at Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulous Radiologia
    Moderator: Juliano de Lara Fernandes, MD, PhD, MBA – Radiologia Clinica de Campinas
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Congenital Track Session 3: Debate: Tissue Characterization Plays a Part in CHD Beyond Myocarditis/Cardiomyopathy
    Moderator: Nazia Husain, MD, MPH – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    Moderator: Dipan J. Shah, MD – Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, Texas, USA
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Early Career Award - Basic
    Moderator: Roderic Pettigrew, MD, PhD – Texas A&M Univ System
    Moderator: Orlando P. Simonetti, PhD, FSCMR – The Ohio State University
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Innovations Track Session 2: Innovations in Patient Centric CMR
    Moderator: Jamieson M. Bourque, MD – University of Virginia
    Moderator: Sven Plein, MD, PhD – Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    MR Grant Session
    Moderator: Kate Hanneman, MD, MPH – Toronto General Hospital
    Moderator: Daniel Kim, PhD, FSCMR – Northwestern University
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Read with the Experts Session 1: Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
    Moderator: Erasmo de la Pena-Almaguer, MD – Instituto de Cardiologia y Medicina Vascular, TecSalud
    Moderator: Isabella Leo, MD, PhD – Magna Graecia University
  • 12:20 PM - 1:25 PM  
    Bayer AG Sponsored Lunch Symposium
    Lunch Symposium Moderator: Otavio Coelho-Filho, MD, PhD, MPH – University of Campinas - UNICAMP
  • 12:20 PM - 1:25 PM  
    Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Sponsored Lunch Symposium
    Lunch Symposium Moderator: Kevin Steel, DO, FSCMR – Circle Cardiovascular Imaging
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  
    Opening Plenary Session
    Moderator: Carlos Rochitte, MD, PhD, FSCMR – InCor - Univ. of São Paulo / HCOR - Heart Hospital
    Moderator: Vanessa M. Ferreira, MD, PhD, FSCMR – University of Oxford
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM  
    NeoSoft Sponsored Hands-On Advanced Workshop: Systolic and Diastolic Heart Failure (Pre-registration Required)
  • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 5: Cardio-Rheumatology: Modern Approaches to Diagnosis and Management
    Moderator: Sophie Mavrogeni, MD, PhD – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
    Moderator: Julian A. Luetkens, MD – University Hospital Bonn
  • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Congenital Track Session 4: The 3D Reality
    Moderator: Kanwal Farooqi, MD – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    Moderator: Giovanni Biglino, PhD – University of Bristol
  • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Innovations Track Session 3: CMR Open-Source Software Oral Abstracts
    Moderator: Simon Thalén, MD, PhD – Karolinska Institutet
    Moderator: Rajiv Ramasawmy, PhD – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
  • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Oral Abstracts Clinical Session 2
    Moderator: Leonardo Sara, MD – CDI PREMIUM
    Moderator: Isabella Leo, MD, PhD – Magna Graecia University
  • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Oral Abstracts Translation Session 1
    Moderator: Gottlieb Ilan, MD, PhD, MSc – Fonte Imagem Medicina Diagnostica
    Moderator: Joyce Wong, MD, PhD, FSCMR – Harefield Hospital, Guys' and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
  • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Science Session 1: Beyond 1.5 and 3T: Expanding Landscape of CMR Field Strengths
    Moderator: Juliet Varghese, PhD – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Peng Hu, PhD, FSCMR – School of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University
  • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Technologist Track Session 3: How I Do It: CMR Fundamentals 3
    Moderator: Sara Elizabeth Ramirez Flores, MD – Hospital Central Fuerza Aérea del Perú / Clínica Internacional
    Moderator: Robert J. Holtackers, PhD – Maastricht University Medical Centre
  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Quick Fire & Rapid Fire Session 2
  • 4:40 PM - 5:40 PM  
    Best Case SCMR
    Moderator: Jason N. Johnson, MD – Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
  • 4:40 PM - 5:40 PM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 6: CMR in Clinical Trials: Defining Outcomes, Driving Guidelines
    Moderator: Ellen Ostenfeld, MD, PhD – Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
    Moderator: Kenneth Bilchick, MD, MSc – University of Virginia Health System
  • 4:40 PM - 5:40 PM  
    Congenital Track PCHD Early Career Awards Abstracts
    Moderator: Cara E. Morin, MD, PhD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Moderator: Tarique Hussain, MD, PhD – UT Southwestern
  • 4:40 PM - 5:40 PM  
    Early Career Award - Clinical
    Moderator: Tim Leiner, MD, PhD – Mayo Clinic
    Moderator: John Greenwood, MD, PhD, FSCMR – Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
  • 4:40 PM - 5:40 PM  
    Innovations Track Session 4: Innovations in AI to Automate CMR
    Moderator: Frederick H. Epstein, PhD – University of Virginia
    Moderator: Jeanette Schulz-Menger, MD – Charité/ University Medicine Berlin and Helios
  • 4:40 PM - 5:40 PM  
    Oral Abstracts Science Session 1
    Moderator: Rhodri H. Davies, MD, PhD – University College London and Barts Heart Centre
    Moderator: Claudia Prieto, PhD – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / King's College London
  • 5:50 PM - 6:50 PM  
    Cardiovascular Imaging Editors Session
    Moderator: Raymond Y. Kwong, MD, MPH, FSCMR – Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Moderator: Dudley J. Pennell, MD, FSCMR – Royal Brompton Hospital
  • 5:50 PM - 6:50 PM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 7: Unravelling Inflammatory Heart Conditions
    Moderator: Anupama Rao, MD, FSCMR – Rush University Medical Center/St. Luke's Hospital
    Moderator: Andrei Skromov, MD – Fleury Group
  • 5:50 PM - 6:50 PM  
    Congenital Track Session 5: Fetal CMR Debate
    Moderator: Erik Hedström, MD, PhD – Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, Lund
    Moderator: Ronak Naik, MD – Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
  • 5:50 PM - 6:50 PM  
    Early Career Award - Translation
    Moderator: Sven Plein, MD, PhD – Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine
    Moderator: Victor A. Ferrari, MD – University of PA Medical Center
  • 5:50 PM - 6:50 PM  
    Read with the Experts Session 2: Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Inflammatory Diseases
    Moderator: Sabrina Nordin, MD – Cardiac Vascular Sentral Kuala Lumpur
    Moderator: Rebecca Kozor, MD, PhD – Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney
  • 5:50 PM - 6:50 PM  
    Technologist Track Session 4: Clinical Cases: Oral Presentations
    Moderator: Wendy Norman, BSc – Kings College London
    Moderator: Robbie Murphy, MD – King's College London
  • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM  
    SCMR Welcome Reception
  • Friday, February 6, 2026
  • 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM  
    Science by the Shore: A Walking Discussion in Rio with Yoga
  • 7:00 AM - 7:50 AM  
    Philips Healthcare Sponsored Breakfast Symposium
    Breakfast Symposium Moderator: Margriet Nijnens, MSc – Philips
    Breakfast Symposium Moderator: Nadine Reijnders, MSc – Philips
    Breakfast Symposium Moderator: Shuo Zhang, PhD, MBA – Philips Healthcare
  • 7:00 AM - 4:30 PM  
    Registration & Badge Pick-Up
  • 7:00 AM - 4:30 PM  
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Case Session 2: Cardiac Masses
    Moderator: Luigia D'Errico, MD – Royal Papworth Hospital
    Moderator: Nuno Bettencourt, MD, PhD, FSCMR – University of Porto
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 8: Decoding the Substrate: CMR for Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Arrest (Joint with ESCR/NASCI)
    Moderator: Scott Flamm, MD, MBA – SimonMed Imaging
    Moderator: Kate Hanneman, MD, MPH – Toronto General Hospital
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Congenital Track Session 6: Ebstein's Anomaly - In Collaboration With the Local Centres of Excellence
    Moderator: Francesca Raimondi, MD – ASST-Papa Giovanni XXIII Bergamo
    Moderator: Jeremy M. Steele, MD – Yale University school of Medicine
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Oral Abstracts Science Session 2
    Moderator: Robert J. Holtackers, PhD – Maastricht University Medical Centre
    Moderator: Jesse I. Hamilton, PhD – University of Michigan
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Technologist Track Session 5: How I Do It: Imaging Difficult Patients
    Moderator: Patrizia Pedrotti, MD – ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda
    Moderator: Joana Leal Pelado, BSc – OCMR
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Women in CMR - Global Perspectives and Best Practices
  • 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM  
    First Aid
  • 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM  
    Mothers Room
  • 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM  
    Prayer Room
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM  
    NeoSoft Sponsored Hands-On Advanced Workshop: In 2D and 4D Flow We Trust! (Pre-registration Required)
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 9: Multimodality Imaging in CAD: The Synergy Between CMR and CT (Joint with ASCI/SCCT)
    Moderator: Ricardo C. Cury, MD, MBA – Baptist Health of South Florida/ Florida International University
    Moderator: Masaki Ishida, MD, PhD, FSCMR – Mie University Hospital
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Early Career Session 1: Starting Strong - Roadmap for CMR Practice and Research
    Moderator: Mariana Garcia, MD, MSc – Emory University
    Moderator: Alessia Pepe, MD, PhD – University of Padua
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Innovations Track Session 5: Innovations for Community CMR Centres
    Moderator: Christopher J. Francois, MD – Mayo Clinic
    Moderator: Anupama Rao, MD, FSCMR – Rush University Medical Center/St. Luke's Hospital
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Oral Abstracts Clinical Session 3
    Moderator: Bernardo B. da Cunha Lopes, MD – Heart Institute - University of São Paulo Medical School / Minneapolis Heart Institute
    Moderator: Shone Almeida, MD – USF
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Science Session 2: From Mapping to Tissue Characterization
    Moderator: Matthias G. Friedrich, MD, FSCMR – McGill University Health Center, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
    Moderator: Claudia Prieto, PhD – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / King's College London
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Technologist Track Session 6: How I Do It: Valvular and Congenital Heart Diseases
    Moderator: Louise McGrath – One Welbeck
    Moderator: Jeremy Hinojosa – Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire & Rapid Fire Session 3
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM  
    Speed Mentoring (Advance Sign-Up Required)
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM  
    Medis Medical Imaging Sponsored Hands-On Advanced Workshop Show Me the Case: Mastering Real-World CMR with Advanced Post-Processing (Pre-registration Required)
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM  
    Pie Medical Imaging B.V. Sponsored Hands-On Advanced Workshop: Advanced 4D Flow: A Selection of Cases (Pre-registration Required)
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 10: Debate 2: The Role of CMR in HFpEF: Clinical Game-Changer or Overstated Promise?
    Moderator: Attila Feher, MD, PhD – Yale University
    Moderator: Ibraim Masciarelli Pinto, MD, PhD – Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Congenital Track PCHD Oral Session 1: Abstracts
    Moderator: Edythe Tham, MD – Stollery Children's Hospital
    Moderator: Nilanjana Misra, MD, FSCMR – Cohen Children's Medical Center
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Innovations Track Session 6: Beyond Image Analysis: Which Other Software for my CMR Unit
    Moderator: Deborah Kwon, MD, FSCMR – Cleveland Clinic
    Moderator: Venkateshwar Polsani, MD – Piedmont Heart Institute
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Late Breaking Clinical Trials
    Moderator: Pim Van Ooij, PhD – Amsterdam University Medical Center
    Moderator: Bharath Ambale-Venkatesh – The John Hopkins Hospital
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Science Session 3: Embracing Motion: Practical Solutions and Advances in Compensation and Real-Time
    Moderator: Rizwan Ahmad, PhD – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Roderic Pettigrew, MD, PhD – Texas A&M Univ System
  • 12:20 PM - 1:25 PM  
    JenaValve Technology Sponsored Lunch Symposium
  • 12:20 PM - 1:25 PM  
    Siemens Healthineers Sponsored Lunch Symposium
    Lunch Symposium Moderator: Xiaoming Bi, PhD – Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 11: Quantitative CMR Perfusion: Techniques, Applications, and Insights (Joint with ASNC)
    Moderator: Gabriel Blacher Grossman, MD, PhD – Hospital Moinhos de Vento
    Moderator: Manish Motwani, PhD, FSCMR – Manchester Heart Institute
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  
    Congenital Track Session 7: PCHD Jeopardy
    Speaker: Jimmy C. Lu, MD – University of Michigan
    Moderator: Anne Marie Valente, MD – Boston Children's Hospital
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  
    Innovations Track Session 7: Emerging Frontiers in CMR: Current State, Limitations, and Future Perspectives
    Moderator: Paul Finn, MD, MSc – UCLA
    Moderator: Santo Dellegrottaglie, MD, PhD – Villa dei Fiori Hospital Acerra, Naples, Italy
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  
    Oral Abstracts Science Session 3
    Moderator: Ritu Thamman, MD FACC FASE – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
    Moderator: Matthias Stuber, PhD – CIBM/CHUV/UNIL
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  
    Read with the Experts Session 3: Valvular Heart Disease
    Moderator: Raj Janardhanan, MD – University of Arizona
    Moderator: Gina E. Lazzara, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  
    Running a Financially Successful CMR Program in the US - from Coding to Reimbursement
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  
    Technologist Track Session 7: How I Do It: Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathies
    Moderator: Alison Fletcher, MSc, FSCMR – University Hospitals Dorset
    Moderator: Lorenzo Monti, MD – ICS Maugeri Pavia
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM  
    Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Sponsored Hands-On Advanced Workshop:The Future of Stress Testing: Precision Quantitative Perfusion by CMR (Pre-registration Required)

    Hands-on Instructor: Sven Plein, MD, PhD – Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine

  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM  
    Medis Medical Imaging Sponsored Hands-On Advanced Workshop: Show Me the Case: Mastering Real-World CMR with Advanced Post-Processing (Pre-registration Required)
  • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Case Session 3: Systemic and Inflammatory
    Moderator: KEYUR P. VORA, MD, MSc, FSCMR – Indiana University School of Medicine
    Moderator: Shone Almeida, MD – USF
  • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 12: The Valve Whisperers: CMR at the Heart of the Heart Valve Team (Joint with DIC/SPR)
    Moderator: Cesar H. Nomura, MD, PhD – Heart Institute, University of São Paulo
    Moderator: Jorge Andion Torreao, MD, PhD – Heart Institute USP
  • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Congenital Track Session 8: Go with the Flow
    Moderator: David Parra, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Moderator: Yue-Hin Loke, MD – Children's National Hospital
  • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Oral Abstracts Translation Session 2
    Moderator: Chenxi Hu – School of Biomedical Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Moderator: Andrew E. Arai, MD – Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Department of Radiology, University of Utah School of Medicine
  • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Science Session 4: AI Across the CMR Pipeline
    Moderator: Andrew D. Scott, PhD, FSCMR – Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital
    Moderator: Kate Hanneman, MD, MPH – Toronto General Hospital
  • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Technologist Track Session 8: Abstracts: Oral Presentations
    Moderator: Alison Fletcher, MSc, FSCMR – University Hospitals Dorset
    Moderator: Wendy Norman, BSc – Kings College London
  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Quick Fire & Rapid Fire Session 4
  • 4:40 PM - 5:50 PM  
    Gold Medal Talks and SCMR Awards
    Moderator: Carlos Rochitte, MD, PhD, FSCMR – InCor - Univ. of São Paulo / HCOR - Heart Hospital
    Moderator: Vanessa M. Ferreira, MD, PhD, FSCMR – University of Oxford
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM  
    SCMR Members General Assembly
  • Saturday, February 7, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 7:50 AM  
    GE HealthCare Sponsored Breakfast Symposium
    Breakfast Symposium Moderator: Martin A. Janich, PhD – GE HealthCare
  • 7:00 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 7:00 AM - 12:00 PM  
    Registration & Badge Pick-Up
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 13: UK Biobank: Advancing Cardiovascular Discoveries with CMR from Over 100,000 Participants
    Moderator: Vanessa M. Ferreira, MD, PhD, FSCMR – University of Oxford
    Moderator: Joao A. C Lima, MD – The Johns Hopkins University
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Congenital Track PCHD Oral Session 2: Cases
    Moderator: Olga H. Toro-Salazar, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Moderator: Daniel M. Schwartz, MD – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Oral Abstracts Science Session 4
    Moderator: Ritu Thamman, MD FACC FASE – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
    Moderator: Fawaz Alenezi, MD – Duke University Health System
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Oral Abstracts Translation Session 3
    Moderator: Brian Halliday, MD, PhD, MSc, BSc – Imperial College London
    Moderator: Juliana Serafim da Silveira, MD – Hospital Pró-Cardíaco / United Health Group - Brazil
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Read with the Experts Session 4: Cardiac Masses and Pericardial Disease
    Moderator: Bruno B. Lima, MD, PhD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Moderator: Attila Feher, MD, PhD – Yale University
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  
    Technologist Track Session 9: How I Do It: Congenital Heart Diseases
    Moderator: Francesco Secchi, MD, PhD – IRCCS MultiMedica
  • 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Mothers Room
  • 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Prayer Room
  • 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM  
    First Aid
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Case Session 4: Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
    Moderator: JUAN MANUEL M. BONELLI, Sr., MD – Hospital Notti, Mendoza Argentina
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 14: Bridging Genes and Imaging: CMR-Guided Genotype–Phenotype Correlation in Cardiomyopathies (Joint with EACVI)
    Moderator: Robin Nijveldt, MD, PhD – Radboud University Medical Center
    Moderator: Luigia D'Errico, MD – Royal Papworth Hospital
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Congenital Track Session 9: Read with the Expert
    Moderator: Juan Carlos Infante, Jr., MD – Nicklaus Children's Hospital
    Moderator: Gerald Greil, MD, PhD – UT Southwestern Medical Center
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Science Session 5: Biological Insights from Cardiac MRI
    Moderator: Eylem Levelt – Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
    Moderator: Sebastian Weingärtner, PhD – Delft University of Technology
  • 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Technologist Track Session 10: How I Do It: Stress CMR and Ischemia Assessment
    Moderator: Juan Urquiaga, MD – Centro Avanzado de Resonancia Magnetica y Medicina Nuclear
    Moderator: Joana Leal Pelado, BSc – OCMR
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire & Rapid Fire Session 5
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Clinical & Translation Session 15: CMR in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: From Diagnosis to Risk Stratification
    Moderator: Yuchi Han, MD, MSc, FSCMR – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Christopher M. Kramer, MD – University of Virginia Health
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Early Career Session 2: Launching your CMR Career - Navigating Different Career Paths
    Moderator: Ibrahim M. Saeed, MD, FSCMR – Virginia Heart; Inova Schar Heart & Vascular Institute; University of Virginia
    Moderator: Karen Ordovas, MD, FSCMR – University of Washington
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Innovations Track Session 8: Challenge on CMR Reconstruction (Joint w/ MICCAI)
    Moderator: Michael Markl, PhD – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Moderator: Aurelien Bustin, FSCMR – Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Hôpital Cardiologique du Haut-Lévêque, CHU de Bordeaux, Avenue de Magellan, Pessac, France; IHU LIRYC, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Université de Bordeaux – INSERM U1045, Avenue du Haut Lévêque, Pessac, France; Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Oral Abstracts Clinical Session 4
    Moderator: Prachi Agarwal, MD – University of Michigan
    Moderator: Han Kim, MD – Duke University Medical Center
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Oral Abstracts Science Session 5
    Moderator: Alejandro Roldán-Alzate, PhD – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Moderator: Stefano Figliozzi, MD – Humanitas Research Institute
  • 12:20 PM - 1:35 PM  
    Closing Plenary and Awards Session
    Moderator: Carlos Rochitte, MD, PhD, FSCMR – InCor - Univ. of São Paulo / HCOR - Heart Hospital
    Moderator: Vanessa M. Ferreira, MD, PhD, FSCMR – University of Oxford