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Program At-A-Glance

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

Program At-A-Glance

  • 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)