Program Highlights
Session Formats
- Case Reviews
- Invited Lectures
- Oral Abstracts - (10 sessions available) - The traditional oral abstract presentation session.
- Posters - (3 sessions available) - The traditional poster presentation session.
- Power Pitch Sessions (new) - (2 sessions available) - The Power Pitch Sessions are designed to allow attendees to rapidly overview a significant number of abstracts in a concentrated fashion. Authors will present their abstracts in 3-minute talks, highlighting only the more objective details. Immediately after the session, questions and more in-depth discussions will take place directly with the presenters during traditional poster presentations.
- Focus Sessions (new) - (10 sessions available) - The Focus Sessions will combine new scientific developments from abstract presentations with educational lectures tied by a central theme. Attendees will enjoy introductory lectures providing a technical and clinical background for the subject of the Session, followed by state-of-the-art developments presented by abstract authors. The addition of novelty abstract blocks to solid baseline talks should help build a rich teaching environment for the audience.
- Technologist Track
- Walking Posters - (8 sessions available) - The walking poster sessions are moderated poster presentations in a dedicated meeting room. Presenting authors will be expected to be present at their poster and give a short (5 min) oral overview on their work to moderators with a focus on results, followed by questions from the moderators.
- Mentor's Corner (new)
SCMR/ISMRM CO-PROVIDED WORKSHOP CMR FOR PROBING MECHANISMS OF HEART DISEASE: MICRO TO MACRO TO MODEL
Wedsday, 8:30 AM - 6:30 pM
Educational Preconference courses*
thursday, 8:00 AM - 12:30 pM
Engineer's Course (new)
The Engineer’s Pre-Conference is directed at engineers, physicists, and other basic researchers involved in cardiovascular imaging. The aim is to give an introduction on “Cardiovascular medicine for non-medics”. Three sessions will address “Normal anatomy and physiology”, “Heart failure pathophysiology”, and “Therapeutic concepts in heart failure”, reflecting this year’s outreach topic of the scientific sessions: heart failure. In each of the sessions, experienced clinicians will give introductory lectures on the basics of cardiovascular medicine, explaining the questions that physicians would like CMR to answer for them. Besides the lectures, each of the sessions will include round table discussions in order to allow for discussing questions from the attendees.
Interventional Course
There will be an excellent group of speakers with an emphasis on open forum for community discussion. The format will be focused on casepresentations/discussion, updates on progress in the field, and future directions. View full agenda for topics and speakers.
Congenital Course
The Congenital Pre-Conference will address specific problems regarding CMR in both pediatric and adult patients with congenital heart disease. Presented by experienced clinicians in the field of pediatric and congenital cardiology, topics of the three sessions will range from “Normative values for the ventricle and aorta in children” over “How to do complex flow calculations” to “Assessing for chemotherapy-related disease”. This Pre-Conference will be of interest to anyone involved in CMR of congenital heart disease, and will provide both beginners and advanced imagers with a width of information that cannot be found anywhere else at this level.
Physician's Course
The Physician’s Pre-Conference addresses clinicians who would like to learn about the basics of MR physics and methodology. The three sessions on “Basics of MRI”, “Applications 1” and “Applications“ will cover core technical competencies of both Level 1 and Level 2 CMR training. While the first session will provide an overview on hardware, software, and safety aspects of MRI, the two applications sessions will systematically go through the principal methods used in routine CMR and explain both technical background and practical aspects of these tools. This pre-conference is designed to lay the ground for taking full advantage of the case review sessions during the main meeting, which will teach how the different CMR tools come together in clinical applications.
* Included in costs of full registration.
The Engineer’s Pre-Conference is directed at engineers, physicists, and other basic researchers involved in cardiovascular imaging. The aim is to give an introduction on “Cardiovascular medicine for non-medics”. Three sessions will address “Normal anatomy and physiology”, “Heart failure pathophysiology”, and “Therapeutic concepts in heart failure”, reflecting this year’s outreach topic of the scientific sessions: heart failure. In each of the sessions, experienced clinicians will give introductory lectures on the basics of cardiovascular medicine, explaining the questions that physicians would like CMR to answer for them. Besides the lectures, each of the sessions will include round table discussions in order to allow for discussing questions from the attendees.
Interventional Course
There will be an excellent group of speakers with an emphasis on open forum for community discussion. The format will be focused on casepresentations/discussion, updates on progress in the field, and future directions. View full agenda for topics and speakers.
Congenital Course
The Congenital Pre-Conference will address specific problems regarding CMR in both pediatric and adult patients with congenital heart disease. Presented by experienced clinicians in the field of pediatric and congenital cardiology, topics of the three sessions will range from “Normative values for the ventricle and aorta in children” over “How to do complex flow calculations” to “Assessing for chemotherapy-related disease”. This Pre-Conference will be of interest to anyone involved in CMR of congenital heart disease, and will provide both beginners and advanced imagers with a width of information that cannot be found anywhere else at this level.
Physician's Course
The Physician’s Pre-Conference addresses clinicians who would like to learn about the basics of MR physics and methodology. The three sessions on “Basics of MRI”, “Applications 1” and “Applications“ will cover core technical competencies of both Level 1 and Level 2 CMR training. While the first session will provide an overview on hardware, software, and safety aspects of MRI, the two applications sessions will systematically go through the principal methods used in routine CMR and explain both technical background and practical aspects of these tools. This pre-conference is designed to lay the ground for taking full advantage of the case review sessions during the main meeting, which will teach how the different CMR tools come together in clinical applications.
* Included in costs of full registration.
opening plenary
THURSDAY, 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Welcome
1:30 – 1:45 PM / Speaker: Jeanette Schulz-Menger
Lessons Learned from 20 Years of SCMR
1:45 – 2:00 PM / Speaker: Joao Lima
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance: State-of-the-Art in 2017
2:00 – 2:15 PM / Speaker: Eike Nagel
What's Next to Come in CMR?
2:15 – 2:30 PM / Speaker: Robert Balaban
The Heart Failure Epidemic: Diagnostic needs
2:30 – 2:45 PM / Speaker: John Cleland
1:30 – 1:45 PM / Speaker: Jeanette Schulz-Menger
Lessons Learned from 20 Years of SCMR
1:45 – 2:00 PM / Speaker: Joao Lima
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance: State-of-the-Art in 2017
2:00 – 2:15 PM / Speaker: Eike Nagel
What's Next to Come in CMR?
2:15 – 2:30 PM / Speaker: Robert Balaban
The Heart Failure Epidemic: Diagnostic needs
2:30 – 2:45 PM / Speaker: John Cleland
Live Case: MRI Heart Catheterization
Friday, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Invasive X-ray guided cardiac catheterization hemodynamic and angiographic assessment is central to management of pediatric and adult cardiology patients. Similarly, cardiac MRI is a critical diagnostic tool to evaluate cardiac anatomy and function, measure volume and flow, measure tissue infarction, evaluate perfusion and viability, and allow for three-dimensional reconstruction of cardiac and vascular anatomy. Real-time cardiac MRI can guide invasive catheterization to provide a radiation-free, robust diagnostic option combining invasive catheter hemodynamic measurements and MRI physiologic assessment. Children’s National Medical Center, in Washington DC, has been performing real-time MRI-guided cardiac catheterization for pediatric patients since early 2015 demonstrating safety and feasibility of the procedure. As the first SCMR live case, the transmission from Children’s National Medical Center will be a unique experience for the SCMR audience and a milestone in the history of our conference.
Learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Watch a clinical MRI catheterization program live in operation
- Learn how to build and operate a MRI catheterization program
- Recognize potential benefits of interventional cardiac MRI for pediatric and adult patients
- Understand workflow and procedural conduct of radiation free diagnostic heart catheterization toward consideration of incorporating into clinical practice
CMR Analysis Software Face-Off
Friday, 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Software tools for image analysis play an important role in CMR and make the difference in every-day workflow for CMR physicians. SCMR would like to establish new avenues of interaction between its members and software vendors in order to enhance visibility of existing products and facilitate feedback from users. In this plenary face-off session, software vendors will be given the opportunity to present the use of their software in a live setting. Vendors will be provided with real-world CMR image data 4 weeks before the meeting. At the session, a representative of the company will be asked to analyze these data within 10 minutes live from a vendor’s workstation connected to large screens in one of the meeting’s ballrooms. During the session, two senior SCMR figures will moderate the presentations and will discuss with the presenters the approach of their software to different analysis tasks. Moderators will aim to create a friendly atmosphere that allows for asking the questions that are of interest to the users while giving the vendors' representatives the opportunity to demonstrate and explain the advantages of their products.
20th Anniversary Celebration*
FRIDAY, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The upcoming Annual Scientific Sessions of the SCMR in February 2017 will be the 20th of its kind. As this 20-year history has been a remarkable success story, join us in celebrating this anniversary by going back through history together.
The celebration will kick-off with opening remarks from the President, Jeanette Schulz-Menger, MD. In addition, past presidents will share the major developments, achievements, and challenges they faced during their presidency. The celebration will conclude with entertainment for all to enjoy.
*Celebration event included in cost of full registration.
The celebration will kick-off with opening remarks from the President, Jeanette Schulz-Menger, MD. In addition, past presidents will share the major developments, achievements, and challenges they faced during their presidency. The celebration will conclude with entertainment for all to enjoy.
*Celebration event included in cost of full registration.
Outreach topic: Heart failure & CMR
Saturday, 8:00 AM - 10:45 AM
This year’s outreach topic addresses the specific imaging needs associated with the “epidemic” of heart failure caused by recent advances in the management of acute cardiac disease states. Two dedicated sessions will present in-depth lectures and discussions on disease mechanisms, diagnostic problems, and the application of CMR methods in patients with heart failure. Faculty will consist of international experts from both the fields of heart failure and CMR.