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Program At-A-Glance

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

Program At-A-Glance

  • 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