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  • 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