4th Annual Body MRI Update

About the Fourth Annual Body MRI Update Meeting

The collective objective of the Body MRI Course faculty is to condense and transfer the years of experience and advanced methods developed in each of their respective practices to others who wish to further refine their own MRI practice. The didactic sessions will serve to review and update attendees on the latest methods and applications for disease detection and characterization for use at their own centers.

Fourth Annual Body MRI Update

Date:
March 26-28, 2010

Location:
Sheraton National Hotel
Arlington, Va.

Attend the Fourth Body MRI Update to refine your practice and:

• Learn what’s new — Get state-of the-art updates, trends, and review advanced methods and applications for disease detection and characterization.
• Engage — Meet world-class faculty and speakers.
• Get savvy — Attend MRI technical review sessions led by GE, Siemens, and Philips.
• Connect — Reconnect with old friends … Meet new people.
• Collaborate — Share your experiences ... Gain inspiration.
• Re-energize — Enjoy springtime in Virginia! You’ll stay at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, Va. (five minutes from D.C.)
• Save all year — Register for this meeting and receive $500 off your next Body MR course offered by the ACR Education Center in 2010.

CME disclosure:
The American College of Radiology (ACR) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The ACR designates this educational activity for a maximum of 19.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The ACR is approved by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologist (ARRT) as a Recognized Continuing Education Evaluation Mechanism to sponsor and/or review Continuing Medical Educational programs for Radiologic Technologist and Radiation Therapists. The ACR designates this educational activity as meeting criteria for up to 12.5 Category A credit hours of the ARRT.

Presenters at this conference have disclosed any conflict of interest or their intention to discuss off-label use, if applicable, in accordance with ACCME Standards and FDA requirements. Disclosure information will be presented either verbally or printed in the final program material.

Registration Information

Rates.

Registration now open. To register online, please click here.

Meeting Cancellation/Refund Policy

All cancellations must be made in writing and received by February 26, 2010. A $75 administrative fee will be charged for all cancellations. NO REFUNDS will be given for cancellations after February 26, 2010 or for no-shows.

Registration Form Information

To download a PDF verison of the 4th Annual Body MRI Update brochure, please click here.

Please complete all sections of the registration form and return by mail or fax.

Fourth Body MRI Update
PO Box 2348
Merrifield, VA 22116-2348
FAX: 703-648-1863

For questions regarding your registration form, or if you do not receive a confirmation by e-mail within two weeks after submitting your form, please call 800-373-2204

Learning Objectives

After the course, attendees will be able to:

• To develop an updated understanding of appropriate and cost-effective utilization of MRI for the evaluation of diseases affecting the chest, abdomen, and pelvis, including breast, pregnancy and the acute abdomen, angiography, pediatric application of MRI and diseases specific to male or female pelvis
• To improve MRI diagnostic interpretation skills for common and important diseases
• To understand optimization techniques for fast and reproducible imaging results and for quickly imaging from thorax to pelvis
• To develop an understanding of new and developing applications in body MRI for common and important diseases
• To have an updated understanding of safety issues, including NSF, and a practical approach to safe imaging

Friday, March 26, 2010

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Sunday, March 28, 2010

*NO CME has been awarded for the MRI Technical Review Sessions

Faculty

Meet the faculty of the nation’s finest experts in Body MRI, get to know a little about each of our faculty members before the meeting.

Kimberly Applegate, MD, MS, FACR is a professor and vice chair of quality and safety for radiology at Emory University. Dr Applegate is the recipient of several research grants, awards, and scholarships including an American Roentgen Ray Society Scholarship. Dr Applegate was a RSNA Editorial Fellow and created and co-edited the Statistical Concept Series for Radiology in addition to serving on multiple editorial boards--Academic Radiology, AJR Integrative Imaging, Journal of the American College of Radiology, and Radiology, Pediatric Radiology, and Radiology. She is the Past President of the Association for University Radiologists and was the 2006 President of the Radiology Alliance for Health Services Research. She serves or has served on multiple boards of directors including the Association for University Radiologists (AUR), Association for Program Directors in Radiology, Association for Program Coordinators in Radiology, Academy for Radiology Research, American Academy of Pediatrics section on radiology executive committee, Society for Pediatric Radiology, and the AAWR. Dr Applegate has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and presented scientific papers and lectures at medical and scientific assemblies across the United States. In 2007, Dr. Applegate was elected to both the National Council for Radiation Protection and the Steering Committee of the American College of Radiology (ACR), and began work on the Steering Committee for the Image Gently Campaign to reduce radiation exposure in children.

Michele A. Brown, MD is currently an associate professor of Radiology at University of California, San Diego, where she serves as chief of pelvic MR imaging. She completed her radiology residency training at UCSD and body imaging fellowship at Stanford University.  Trained in all modalities of abdominopelvic imaging, her research interests predominantly involve MR imaging of the female pelvis. Dr. Brown has authored or co-authored over 30 articles and book chapters, and she is an active speaker on the topic of MR imaging of the female pelvis.

J. Paul Finn, MD
Professor of Radiology; Section Chief, Diagnostic Cardiovascular Imaging; Director, Magnetic Resonance Research
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Bobby T. Kalb, MD joined the faculty at Emory University as Assistant Professor in 2008, after completion of a Transitional Science Research Fellowship in the Body MRI Applied Research Program.  Dr. Kalb also completed his radiology residency training at Emory University, where he served as chief resident, and prior to this had completed his undergraduate and medical degree at the University of Virginia. He has been recognized for his educational efforts at Emory University, and has also been involved with educational programs through the American College of Radiology.  Dr. Kalb’s research interests include quantitative functional imaging of the kidney, and his more recent areas of research include the evaluation of pulmonary vascular disease with MRI.

John R. Leyendecker, MD is Clinical Director of MRI and an Associate Professor of Radiology in the Abdominal Imaging Section at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He completed medical school at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, diagnostic radiology training at Emory University in Atlanta, fellowship training in VIR at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio,  and fellowship training in body MRI at the Washington University School of Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St. Louis. He is a co-editor of two textbooks- ProblemSolving in Abdominal Imaging and Practical Guide to Abdominal and Pelvic MRI and an active member of the ACR, RSNA, ARRS, SUR, SGR, and ISMRM.

Diego R. Martin, MD, PhD (Program Chair) is a Professor, Director of MRI, Director of the Clinically Applied Research Body MRI Program, Chair of MRI Safety at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta Georgia.  His MRI Program is centered on building an interdisciplinary team with the triple mission of clinical service, translational research, and education, through the implementation of innovation from bench to bedside.  The clinical practice he directs is amongst the largest and most efficient body MRI practices in the U.S. with use of multi-vendor multicenter unified set protocols, rapid patient exams, free-breathing imaging, and novel clinical applications related to diseases of the liver, kidneys, pancreas, lungs, bowel, and male/female pelvis.  His team’s research focuses on cancer, transplantation, metabolic diseases, and functional tissue imaging that will be useful for community practice within short scan times.  He has also spearheaded institutional systems for patient safety and quality control and has been playing a role in developing the peer-reviewed published clinical database to guide safe gadolinium-chelate contrast utilization and policies as well as on ionizing radiation risk assessment. His team has had a significant role in the evolution of new MRI machine and software design and Dr. Martin is intent on transferring the developments from his team to other centers through improved engineering of next-generation MRI scanners with increased automation, image quality, and faster patient scans.  He is highly committed to working with the ACR on education pathways.  In addition to this program, he also is program director for the level 2 ACR Body MRI Education Center Course, an intensive mini-fellowship designed as an adjunct to this ACR course, and is Chair of the newly forming ACR Continuous Professional Improvement Program (CPI) written case-based self-learning course on body MRI.  Dr. Martin is highly published, reviews for numerous journals, serves as a reviewer for the NIH-NIBIB, and is one of the Associate Editors for JMRI.  He has authored a textbook “Primer on Body MRI” with co-authors Michele Brown and Richard Semelka, designed as a quick reference guide for the resident, fellow, or practicing radiologist.

Mary S. Newell, MD has been at Emory since 2001, and serves as Assistant Director of the. Section of Breast Imaging, Director of Breast MRI, Director of Emory’s  Breast Imaging Fellowship Program and  Associate Director of the Breast Cancer Center of Winship Cancer Institute. She is active in the ACR, currently acting as councilor. She serves as Education Chair for the Georgia Radiological Society and has been a board examiner for the ABR.  Before 2001, she was in private practice in Northwest Indiana.

Scott B. Reeder MD, PhD joined the UW faculty in 2005 as an assistant professor in the department of Radiology, and is Division Chief of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Cardiovascular Imaging. He comes from Stanford University where he completed his radiology residency in diagnostic imaging and a fellowship in cardiovascular and abdominal imaging. Previously, he completed medical school at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, where he also received his Masters and PhD in Biomedical engineering. He is originally from Canada where he received his BScE in Engineering Physics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Dr. Reeder's research interests are in the development of quantitative biomarkers of chronic liver disease, as well as novel imaging methods for cardiovascular and abdominal MRI, particularly in the development of rapid and quantitative imaging techniques, including rapid cardiac imaging methods, and novel fat-water separation techniques. More recent areas of interest include metabolic imaging with hyperpolarized 13C labeled compounds and stem cell tracking with super-paramagnetic iron-oxide (SPIO) labeled cells.

Richard C. Semelka, MD is a Professor, Director of MRI Services, and Vice Chairman of Clinical Research and Vice Chairman of Quality and Safety of the Department of Radiology, at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals JMRI, MRI and TMRI, among many others. He has contributed to over 200 publications in referred journals and has authored numerous review articles and textbook chapters. He has authored 7 text-books, including Abdominal-Pelvic MRI, second edition, Wiley-Liss, 2006. His main expertise lies in cross sectional abdominal imaging with an emphasis on MRI, with a particular interest of liver, pancreas, kidney and bowel diseases. He regularly conducts various teaching and categorical courses at International Radiology Conferences.

Puneet Sharma, PhD is a Clinical MRI Physicist by Emory Healthcare, Inc in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Shrama is involved with both optimization and quality assurance of all clinical MRI protocols, as well as the development of new techniques to improve efficiency. He has an active role in research activities, focusing primarily on body MRI applications. These include hepatic lipid measurement with MR spectroscopy; quantitative contrast-enhanced liver imaging of liver disease; functional imaging of the kidney; functional imaging of the lung; delayed contrast-enhancement of myocardial infarction; T1 and T2 mapping of contrast kinetics. Annually he attends and presents at the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and has been published in an array of peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Dr. Sharma obtained his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Tech, with research focused in cardiac MRI.

Evan S. Siegelman, MD is an Associate professor within the Abdominal Imaging Division of the Department of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.  He completed medical school at Johns Hopkins and radiology residency and MR fellowship training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. His interests are the clinical principles and practice of Body MR imaging.

Hotel, Travel, & Local Information

ACR has negotiated preferred rates at the Sheraton National Hotel for hotel accommodations, with American Airlines for air travel, and with Enterprise Rent-a-Car for car rental. For reservations, please see the information and instructions below. General information about ground transportation, local attractions and ADA assistance, is also provided below.

Hotel Information

Ideally situated just minutes from Washington DC, the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, Virginia, provides attendees and their guests with easy access to the many attractions in the nation's capital. With stunning panoramic views, contemporary accommodations, and first-class service, the Sheraton National Hotel is located four miles from Ronald Reagan National Airport and the Pentagon City Metrorail station is nearby.

Spacious, all non-smoking guest rooms feature the Sheraton Sweet Sleeper (SM) Bed, radio alarm clock, individual climate control, coffee and tea maker, luxurious baths with deluxe amenities, bathrobes, hairdryer and Speakman shower heads. Two dual-line cordless telephones with voice mail, wireless high speed Internet, and easy access to data ports for Internet connectivity, an executive desk with an ergonomic desk chair and two free daily newspapers.

Enjoy year-round swimming in the hotel’s enclosed, rooftop, heated pool with a rooftop sundeck or work out in the fully equipped, state-of-the-art fitness center. The hotel services include a concierge, business center, gift/sundry shop and complimentary shuttle service to and from Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) and the Pentagon City Mall Metro. Covered parking is available.

Visit www.sheratonnational.com for more information about the hotel.

Hotel Reservation Information

Rates: $129 single / double, plus state and local taxes of 10.25%, per room, per night, and subject to change.

Reservation Methods: Contact Starwood Reservations at 1-888-627-8210, or visit their Web site.

Group Codes: American College of Radiology

Airline Information

American Airlines is pleased to offer a group travel discount of 5% off the lowest applicable, eligible fare for travel to your events and meetings.  For reservations, call Meeting Services at 1-800-433-1790 from anywhere in the United States or Canada, seven days a week, from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight (Central Time), and refer to the authorization number A1410SS.  Reservations for the hearing and speech impaired are also available at 1-800-543-1586.  There is a $20.00USD reservations service fee for tickets issued through AA reservations, and a $30.00USD ticketing fee for tickets issued at the airport.  (Please note: The STARFile number cannot be applied online for discounts).

Car Rental

Special fares have been negotiated with Enterprise Rent – a – Car. Attendees may book online at www.enterprise.com. Select the Date, Time, and Location of the rental and enter 16MT127 in the field labeled, “Optional: Coupon, Customer, or Corporate Number.” Click “search”, and you will be prompted for a PIN number. The PIN is AME.

Ground Transportation

The Sheraton National Hotel is located approximately four miles from Ronald Reagan National Airport  (DCA).  Complimentary hotel shuttle service is available from 6:00 am until 11:00 pm by calling the hotel from the courtesy phones available at each terminal for shuttle pickup. Transportation via taxi is available and the fare is approximately $10 each way.  An alternate airport is the Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD), located approximately 30 miles from the Sheraton National Hotel, and taxi fare is approximately $60 each way.

Local Attractions

Located across the Potomac River from the nation’s capital, Arlington, Virginia, provides visitors with parks and recreation areas as well as notable restaurants and nightlife.  Nearby attractions include Arlington National Cemetery, the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial "Iwo Jima", The Pentagon, and other cultural attractions as well as the Fashion Centre mall.  Visit www.arlingtonvirginiausa.com for more information

American’s with Disability Act

If you need auxiliary aids or services, as identified in the American with Disabilities Act, please contact Justine Wood at jwood@acr-arrs.org or at 800-227-5463 ext. 4957.

Fourth Annual Body MRI - testimonials

• Very well organized; will attend another MRI course
• Excellent course. I can't wait for the advanced course.
• Will definitely recommend to fellow residents. Perfect overview of body MRI. Good lectures.
• One of the best I have attended, looking forward to next year’s meeting.
• Excellent! Would recommend to associates and I plan to attend again.
• fantastic speakers, they kept everyone's attention and were engaging after their lectures
• Outstanding course, this is a must for radiologist practicing in MRI

MRI Technical Review Sessions (GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, Siemens Medical Solutions, Bayer Healthcare, and Bracco Diagnostics):

• These are a great way to get in touch with your vendor representative, we arranged for a follow up after the meeting
• Hearing the latest technologies is always a positive addition to any meeting
• Enjoyed this part of the program, good way to interact with the vendors