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Program At-A-Glance

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

Program At-A-Glance

  • 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