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Program At-A-Glance

The Program At-A-Glance is preliminary and subject to change.

Program At-A-Glance

  • 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 - 10:00 AM  
    Leadership Academy Cohort 1
  • 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
  • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM  
    Leadership Academy Cohort 2
  • 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  
    Advocacy Committee Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 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  
    PCHD Liason
  • 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)
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM  
    Exercise CMR Group Meeting
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM  
    Social Media Sub Committee
  • 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
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM  
    International Outreach Committee Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Membership Committee Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire & Rapid Fire Session 1
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire Session 1: Cardiac Masses / Pericardial Disease (Monitor 13)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Ashish Aneja, MD, FSCMR – MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University

    Quick Fire Moderator: Clinton Jokerst, MD – Mayo Clinic Arizona

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire Session 1: Cardiac Masses / Pericardial Disease (Monitor 14)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Robert W. Biederman, MD, FSCMR – West Virginia University, Roper Hospital and Medical University of South Carolina. Morgantown West Virginia; Charleston South Carolina

    Quick Fire Moderator: Esra Gucuk Ipek, MD – Wellspan Health

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire Session 1: Cardiomyopathies (Monitor 11)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Ana G. Almeida, MD, PhD – ULS Santa Maria, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal

    Quick Fire Moderator: Tevfik F. Ismail, MD, PhD, BSc, FSCMR – Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital/King's College London

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire Session 1: Miscellaneous (Monitor 12)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Masaki Ishida, MD, PhD, FSCMR – Mie University Hospital

    Quick Fire Moderator: Nadine Abanador-Kamper, MD – Helios University Hospital Wuppertal

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire Session 1: Pediatric/CHD, Congenital (Monitor 15)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Sujatha Buddhe, MD – Stanford University

    Quick Fire Moderator: Anne Marie Valente, MD – Boston Children's Hospital

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 1: 3D+ Advanced Visualization, Interventional MRI, and Oxygen Sensivity MRI (Monitor 1)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: David Wendell, PhD – Duke University Medical Center

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Huayan Xu, MD, PhD – West China Sencond University Hospital, Sichuan University

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 1: 4D Flow (Monitor 2)
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 1: Cardiac Masses, Pericardial Disease, and Cardiomyopathy (Monitor 4)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Mahi Ashwath, MD, MBA, FSCMR – UT Health Sciences Center, San Antonio

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Luigi Natale, MD – Catholic University, Fondazione Polclinico Gemelli IRCCS - rome

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 1: Oxygen Sensitive MRI (Monitor 5)
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 1: Peds/CHD Flow and Vascular Disease (Monitor 10)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Lasya Gaur

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Rawan Abuzinadah, MSc – University of Leeds, Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine (LICAMM)

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 1: Rapid, Efficient Imaging (Monitor 3)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Anthony G. Christodoulou – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Jeremy Hinojosa – Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 1: Tissue Characterization (Monitor 6)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Michael Chuang, MD – Cardiovascular Research Foundation

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Henrik Engblom, MD, PhD – Clinical Physiology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 1: Tissue Characterization (Monitor 7)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Steve Leung, MD, FSCMR – University of Kentucky

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Robson Macedo

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 1: Valvular Heart Disease (Monitor 8)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Esosa Odigie-Okon, MD, MSc – The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas

    *Moderator: Sabrina Godoy

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 1: Vascular, Coronary, and Cardiomyopathy (Monitor 9)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Andrew W. Hoyer, MD – University of Arizona

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Bharath Ambale-Venkatesh – The John Hopkins Hospital

  • 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

  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM  
    Special Interest Group: Oxygenation-Sensitive CMR (OS-CMR)
  • 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
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM  
    Education Committee Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM  
    Verification Committee Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM  
    Special Interest Group: Pregnancy and Fetal
  • 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
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM  
    Publications Committee Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 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
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM  
    Early Career Steering Committee Section Meeting
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM  
    PCHD Section Subcommittee: Quality Improvement
  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Quick Fire & Rapid Fire Session 2
  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Quick Fire Session 2: Cardiac Masses, Pericardial Disease, Myocardial Disease (Monitor 16)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Patricia F. Rodriguez Lozano, MD, MSc – University of Virginia Health System

    Quick Fire Moderator: Lauren A. Baldassarre, MD, FSCMR – Yale University School of Medicine

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Quick Fire Session 2: Cardiac Masses/Pericardial Disease (Monitor 15)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Esosa Odigie-Okon, MD, MSc – The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas

    Quick Fire Moderator: Shaoxiong Zhang, MD, PhD – Cleveland Clinic

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Quick Fire Session 2: Cardiomyopathy (Monitor 14)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Tadashi L. Allen, MD – University of Minnesota

    Quick Fire Moderator: Faculty TBD

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Quick Fire Session 2: Cardiomyopathy, Adult Congenital (Monitor 13)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Brian D. Soriano, MD – Seattle Children's Hospital

    Quick Fire Moderator: Guruprasad Mahadevaiah, MD – Christus Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Quick Fire Session 2: Pediatric/CHD - Fontan/Right Heart (Monitor 17)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Jennifer Co-Vu, MD – University of Florida

    Quick Fire Moderator: Mark A. Fogel, MD – University of Pennsylvania

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 2: 4D Flow, 3D MRA (Monitor 2)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Nicole Seiberlich – University of Michigan

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Bob S. Hu, MD – Stanford University

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 2: Arrhythmias (Monitor 11)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Harold I. Litt, MD, PhD – Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Abdulbaset Sulaiman, MD – University of Michigan

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 2: Clinical Trials (Monitor 1)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Kenan Stern, MD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Rapid Fire Moderator: David Chen, PhD – Cleveland Clinic

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 2: CMR – Analysis (including machine learning) ( Monitor 5)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Gina LaRocca, MD – National Institues of Health

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Aamuktha R. Karla, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 2: Diffusion Imaging and Cardiomyopathy (Monitor 4)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Mayil Krishnam

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Andrew D. Scott, PhD, FSCMR – Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 2: Multicenter Clinical Trials and Cardiomyopathy (Monitor 10)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Connie Tsao, MD, MPH – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Thomas A. Treibel, MD, PhD – University College London

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 2: Multi-Center Trials and Epidemiological Studies (Monitor 12)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Dipan J. Shah, MD – Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, Texas, USA

    *Moderator: Tiago Senra, MD, PhD – Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 2: Multiparametric Mapping, Cardiomyopathy (Monitor 3)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Akos Varga-Szemes, MD, PhD – Medical University of South Carolina

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Ana G. Almeida, MD, PhD – ULS Santa Maria, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 2: Pediatric/CHD Fontan/Flow (Monitor 9)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Tiffanie R. Johnson, MD – Indiana University/Riley Children’s Health

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Rajesh Krishnamurthy, MD – The Ohio State University

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 2: Rapid, Efficient Imaging (Monitor 6)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Deborah Kwon, MD, FSCMR – Cleveland Clinic

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Gerald McCann

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 2: Tissue Characterization (Monitor 7)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Matthias G. Friedrich, MD, FSCMR – McGill University Health Center, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Michael Salerno, MD, PhD – UCSF

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 2: Tissue Characterization (Monitor 8)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Tobias Schaeffter – Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Luigi Natale, MD – Catholic University - Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome (Italy)

  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  
    PCHD Section Subcommittee: Congenital Heart Disease Education
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  
    PCHD Section Subcommittee: Multicenter Learning Business
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  
    Registry Committee Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 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
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  
    Special Interest Group: Parametric Mapping
  • 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 - 8:00 AM  
    Investigator Meeting: The Multicenter Stress CMR Quantitative Perfusion Imaging in the United States (SPINS2) Study
  • 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  
    US Advocacy Committee Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 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)
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM  
    Clinical Trials Committee Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM  
    EACVI-INFLAME Investigators Meeting
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM  
    PCHD Section: Business Meeting
  • 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
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM  
    PCHD Section Subcommittee: iPRISM
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire & Rapid Fire Session 3
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire Session 3: 4D Flow and Lymphoma (Monitor 13)

    Quick Fire Moderator: J. Paul Finn, MD, MSc – University of California, Los Angeles

    Quick Fire Moderator: Luis Bras Rosario, MD, PhD – Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire Session 3: Arrhythmias (Monitor 15)
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire Session 3: Cardiac Masses / Pericardial Disease/Cardiomyopathy (Monitor 16)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Rajesh Janardhanan, MD – Banner University Medical Center, Tucson

    Quick Fire Moderator: Tevfik Ismail, PhD, FSCMR – King's College London

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire Session 3: Pediatric/CHD - Myocardium (Monitor 17)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Nadine Choueiter, MD – Montefiore Medical Center

    Quick Fire Moderator: Lars Grosse-Wortmann, MD – Oregon Health & Science University

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire Session 3: Tissue Characterization (Monitor 14)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Ian Paterson, MD – University of Ottawa Heart Institute

    Quick Fire Moderator: Yuchi Han, MD, MSc, FSCMR – The Ohio State University

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 3: 3T (Monitor 12)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Kan N. Hor, MD – Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Juliet Varghese, PhD – The Ohio State University

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 3: Arrhythmias (Monitor 8)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Kenneth Bilchick, MD, MSc – University of Virginia Health System

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Stefano Figliozzi, MD – Humanitas Research Institute

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 3: Cardiomyopathy (Monitor 3)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Robin Nijveldt, MD, PhD – Radboud University Medical Center

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Gyanendra Sharma

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 3: Free Breathing 4D Cardiovascular MRI and Accelerated Image Acquisition (Monitor 2)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Anthony Christodoulou

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Zhaoyang Fan, PhD – University of Southern California

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 3: Image Reconstruction (including machine learning) (Monitor 4)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Jesse I. Hamilton, PhD – University of Michigan

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Chengyan Wang, PhD – Fudan University

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 3: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence I (Monitor 9)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Daniel B. Ennis, PhD – Stanford University

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Rhodri H. Davies, MD, PhD – University College London and Barts Heart Centre

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 3: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence II (Monitor 10)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Jeremy D. Collins, MD – Mayo Clinic

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Faculty TBD

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 3: Multi-center Clinical Trials (Monitor 1)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Lilia M. Sierra-Galan, MD, FSCMR – The American British Cowdray Medical Center

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Dina Labib, MD, PhD, FSCMR – University of Calgary

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 3: New Sequences and Promising Prognostic Markers (Monitor 6)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Jennifer H. Jordan, PhD, MSc, FSCMR – Virginia Commonwealth University

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Sassan Hashemi, MD – Cincinnati Children’s

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 3: Pediatric/Non-CHD (Monitor 11)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Sowmya Balasubramanian, MD, MSc – University of Michigan

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Inga Voges, MD, MBA – University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 3: Tissue Characterization (Monitor 7)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Keren Hasbani, MD – Dell Children's Medical Center

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Mahi Ashwath, MD, MBA, FSCMR – UT Health Sciences Center, San Antonio

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 3: Tissue Characterization, Strain, Machine Learning, Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease (Monitor 5)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Manish Motwani, PhD, FSCMR – Manchester Heart Institute

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Faculty TBD

  • 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)
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM  
    Special Interest Group: Cardiac Diffusion
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM  
    Technologists Section Steering Committee
  • 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
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM  
    Cardio Oncology Meeting
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM  
    Clinical Practice Committee Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 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.
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM  
    PCHD Section Subcommittee: Fostering liaisons and interactions with industry for congenital CMR
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM  
    Special Interest Group: Cardio-Rheumatology
  • 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
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  
    PCHD Section Subcommittee: Early Career
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  
    Science Committee Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 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
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM  
    PCHD Section: Steering Committee
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM  
    SMRA Meeting
  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Quick Fire & Rapid Fire Session 4
  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Quick Fire Session 4: Cardiac Masses and Pericardial Disease (Monitor 16)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Monda Shehata, MBBCH – SUNY Upstate Medical University

    Quick Fire Moderator: Giulia Benedetti, MD – Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Quick Fire Session 4: Parametric Mapping and Cardiomyopathy (Monitor 15)
  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Quick Fire Session 4: Pediatric Noncongenital (Monitor 17)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Timothy Slesnick, MD – Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

    Quick Fire Moderator: Sowmya Balasubramanian, MD, MSc – University of Michigan

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 4: <1.5 and Lung Water (Monitor 1)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Claudia Prieto, PhD – School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Behzad Sharif – Purdue University

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 4: Analysis, Machine Learning I (Monitor 5)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Gina E. Lazzara, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Faculty TBD

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 4: Analysis, Machine Learning II (Monitor 6)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Chengyan Wang, PhD – Fudan University

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Faculty TBD

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 4: Cardiomyopathy (Monitor 3)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Richard Mashudu Nethononda, MD, PhD, FSCMR – Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital and the University of Witwatersrand

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Jacopo Giulio Rizzi, MD – Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 4: Clinical Studies (Monitor 8)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Julio Garcia, PhD – University of Calgary

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Giandomenico Bisaccia, MD, PhD, MSc – Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 4: Cost Effectiveness (Monitor 9)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Bradley D. Allen, MD, MSc, FSCMR – Northwestern University

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Faculty TBD

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 4: Diffusion Imaging and Image Reconstruction (including machine learning) (Monitor 4)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Hsin-Jung (Randy) Yang, PhD – Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Paul Finn, MD, MSc – UCLA

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 4: Interventional MRI (Devices & Methods) (Monitor 2)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Amanda Potersnak, RT – IMRICOR

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Kenneth Bilchick, MD, MSc – University of Virginia Health System

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 4: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Water-Fat Imaging (Monitor 10)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Pim Van Ooij, PhD – Amsterdam University Medical Center

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Xiaodong Zhong, PhD – University of California, Los Angeles

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 4: Multiparametric Mapping and Diffusion Imaging (Monitor 13)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Nazia Husain, MD, MPH – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Marcelo Nacif

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 4: New Contrast Techniques (Monitor 14)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Charles Benton, RT(R)(CT)(MR) – NIH: NHLBI

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Gerry P. McCann, MD – University of Leicester

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 4: Peds/CHD Abstracts & Fetal Cases (Monitor 11)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Erik Hedström, MD, PhD – Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, Lund

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Eleanor L. Schuchardt, MD – University of California San Diego

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 4: Peds/Congenital - Protocols (Monitor 12)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Kuberan Pushparajah, MD, BMBS, BMedSc – Evelina London Children’s Hospital/ King's College London

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Alexander Isaak, MD – University Hospital Bonn

  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM  
    Rapid Fire Session 4: Tissue Characterization/Standardization (Monitor 7)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Stefan K. Piechnik, PhD, FSCMR – University of Oxford

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Vanessa M. Ferreira, MD, PhD, FSCMR – University of Oxford

  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  
    FORCE Registry
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  
    PCHD Section Subcommittee: Adult Congenital Heart Disease
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  
    PCHD Section Subcommittee: Multicenter Learning Workshop
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  
    Women in CMR Section: Steering Committee
  • 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
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  
    Special Interest Group: Advanced 3D+ Visualization
  • 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  
    Special Interest Group: JCMR
  • 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
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM  
    PCHD Section Subcommittee: Structured Reporting
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM  
    Special Interest Group: Quantitative Perfusion
  • 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
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM  
    PCHD Section Subcommittee: MACiV
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Public Relations Committee Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire & Rapid Fire Session 5
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire Session 5: Cardiac Masses and Pericardial Disease (Monitor 17)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Anupama Rao, MD – Rush University medical center

    Quick Fire Moderator: Robin Nijveldt, MD, PhD – Radboud University Medical Center

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire Session 5: Cardiomyopathy (Monitor 16)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Tilman Emrich, MD, FSCMR – University Medical Center Mainz

    Quick Fire Moderator: Felipe Soares Torres, MD, PhD – University of Toronto / University Medical Imaging Toronto

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire Session 5: Miscellaneous (Monitor 14)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Mushabbar Syed Mushabbar Syed

    *Moderator: Kari Nelson

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Quick Fire Session 5: Valvular and Subvalvular Disease (Monitor 15)

    Quick Fire Moderator: Zenab Laiq, MD – Cleveland Clinic

    Quick Fire Moderator: Fernanda Erthal, MD – DASA

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 5: <1.5T and >3T and Tissue Characterization (Monitor 1)
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 5: CMR - Analysis (including machine learning) (Monitor 5)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Rob J. van der Geest, PhD – Leiden University Medical Center

    *Moderator: David C. Wendell, PhD – Duke University Medical Center

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 5: CMR - Analysis (including machine learning) (Monitor 6)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Ruud B. van Heeswijk, PhD, FSCMR – Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Jeanette Schulz-Menger, MD – Charité/ University Medicine Berlin and Helios

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 5: Coronary Artery Disease, Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction, and Perfusion (Monitor 13)
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 5: Image Reconstruction (including machine learning) (Monitor 4)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Rizwan Ahmad, PhD – The Ohio State University

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Aurelien Bustin, PhD, 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

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 5: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence & Motion Compensation (Monitor 3)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Faculty TBD

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 5: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (Monitor 9)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Ramesh Valapil, MBA – Kings College London

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Pedro F. Ferreira, PhD – Royal Brompton Hospital

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 5: Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy (including AI) (Monitor 10)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Vanessa M. Ferreira, MD, PhD, FSCMR – University of Oxford

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Jacopo Giulio Rizzi, MD – Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 5: Peds/CHD - Strain, Amyloidosis (Monitor 12)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Barbara E. U Burkhardt, MD – University Children's Hospital Zurich

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Nazia Husain, MD, MPH – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 5: Quantitative MRI and Artificial Intelligence (Monitor 8)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Elizabeth Hillier, MD, PhD – McGill University Health Centre

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Bob S. Hu, MD – Stanford University

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 5: Standardization, Multicenter Clinical Trials (Monitor 2)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Daniel Herzka

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Chris Hart, MD – University Hospital Bonn UKBonn

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 5: Tissue Characterization, Mapping, Standardization (Monitor 7)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Jesse I. Hamilton, PhD – University of Michigan

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Lourens F. Robbers, MD, PhD – Amsterdam Medical Center

  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM  
    Rapid Fire Session 5: Valvular Heart Disease and Myocardial Disease (Monitor 11)

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Jonathan H. Soslow, MD, MSc – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Xiaodong Zhong, PhD – University of California, Los Angeles

  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM  
    PCHD Section Subcommittee: 4D Flow MRI
  • 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  
    CMR Quiz

    Moderator: John Paul Carpenter, MD(Res) FRCP – Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

    Moderator: Mark Westwood, MD – Barts Heart Centre at St Bartholomew's Hospital

    Moderator: Anupama Rao, MD – St. Luke's Hospital

  • 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
  • 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM  
    SCMR 2027 Program Committee Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 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