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Nuclear Cardiology Today: Bringing Value to Your Nuclear Cardiology Lab
Caribe Royale, Orlando, Florida
April 17-19, 2015
Twitter: @myasnc
#NCToday
Friday, April 17
11:00 – 12:00
Registration – Box Lunch
Session 1
State of the Art of Cardiac PET
12:00 – 12:10
Welcome
Dennis A. Calnon, MD
12:10 – 12:40
Advantages of Cardiac PET: Comparisons to SPECT
Dennis A. Calnon, MD
12:40 – 1:20
Quantitation of Absolute Myocardial Blood Flow by PET:
Is it Ready for Prime Time?
James A. Case, PhD
1:20 – 1:50
Imaging Artifacts Unique to cardiac PET
Dennis Calnon, MD
1:50 – 2:20
Emerging Applications for Cardiac PET: Sarcoidosis,
Prosthetic Valve and Implanted Device Infections
Ron Blankstein, MD
2:20 – 3:00
New PET tracers
James A. Case, PhD
3:00 – 3:30
Break
3:30 – 4:10
Myocardial Viability Assessment
Ron Blankstein, MD
4:10 – 6:00
Interactive Cases with audience response
Blankstein, Calnon, Thompson
6:00 – 7:00
Exhibitor’s reception
Dennis A. Calnon, MD – Session Chair
Saturday, April 18
Session 2
Technology Update
Dennis A. Calnon, MD – Session Chair
7:45 – 8:25
Software Approaches to Radiation Dose Reduction
Robert Pagnanelli, RT(R)(N), CNMT, NCT
8:25 – 9:05
New SPECT Cameras
W. Lane Duvall, MD
9:05 – 9:45
Artifacts in SPECT
Robert Pagnanelli, RT(R)(N), CNMT, NCT
9:45 – 10:00
Break
Session 3
Evolving Roles for Nuclear Cardiology
10:00 – 10:25
Predicting Benefit of Device Therapy in Heart Failure:
Part 1: CRT (Dyssynchrony)
Prem Soman, MD, PhD
10:25-10:50
Predicting Benefit of Device Therapy in Heart Failure:
Part 2: ICD (MIBG)
Randall C. Thompson, MD
10:50 – 11:30
Imaging in Amyloidosis and Sarcoidosis
Ron Blankstein, MD
11:30 – 12:10
Cardio-Oncology
Ronald G. Schwartz, MD
Dennis A. Calnon, MD – Session Chair
12:10 – 1:15
Lunch with Exhibitors
Session 4
How to Effectively Run A Modern Nuclear Cardiology Lab Dave Wolinsky, MD Session Chair
1:15 – 1:45
Stress Only Imaging: Who, When, How to Schedule
1:45 – 2:15
Evaluation of the Difficult patient: Obese, Elderly,
Ronald G. Schwartz, MD
Uncooperative, Young: Using the right protocol, right camera
2:30 – 3:00
Chest Pain Evaluations in the ER:
What is the Best Test for a Given Patient
Wael Jaber, MD
3:00 3:30
Cases
W. Lane Duvall, MD
3:30 – 3:45
Break
3:45 – 4:15
Pharmacologic Stress Update
Dennis A. Calnon, MD
4:15 – 4:45
Working With Insurers, RBMS, and Referring MDs;
Getting MPI Studies Approved: Tips and Pearls
David G. Wolinsky, MD
4:45 – 5:45
Cases
Randall C. Thompson, MD
Session 5
Appropriateness of Cardiac Imaging
David G. Wolinsky, MD – Session Chair
7:45 – 8:25
ASNC Registry, SGR, and AUC: What ASNC is doing
David G. Wolinsky, MD
8:25 – 9:05
Cases - AUC: When SPECT is Better and When it is Not
Wael Jaber, MD
9:05 – 9:45
State of the art of coronary CTA
TBD
9:45 – 10:15
Coronary CTA Cases
TBD
10:15 – 10:30
Break
Session 6
Testing Special Populations
David G. Wolinsky, MD – Session Chair
10:30 – 11:00
Evaluation of the Patient Before and After Non-cardiac
Transplantation
Wael Jaber, MD
11:00 – 11:30
Risk stratification: Diabetic Population
Randall C. Thompson, MD
11:30 – 12:00
Risk Stratification of the Patient with Chronic Renal Disease
David G. Wolinsky, MD
12:00 – 12:30
Evaluation for the Patient with Heart Failure
Prem Soman, MD, PhD
12:30 – 1:15
Cases
Schwartz, Soman
W. Lane Duvall, MD
SUNDAY, April 19