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Program Director
Ferenc A Jolesz, MD

Program Codirectors
Alexander Norbash, MD
Stuart G Silverman, MD
Clare M C Tempany, MD

 

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Schedule :: Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day Five

 

This annual, highly acclaimed postgraduate course emphasizes clinical MRI and CT. It is designed for practitioners using MRI, spiral (helical) CT and multi-detector CT and those who wish to learn the latest applications from experts.

The basic format of this course will be didactic leture style. The first two and a half days of the course (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday morning) cover Body including, Chest, Abdomen, Cardiovascular, Breast and Musculoskeletal Imaging; second two days (Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday morning) cover Neuro Imaging. The Neuro curriculum includes a module on head and neck/ENT, MR, and CT. The Neuroradiology and Head and Neck curricula are directed at the clinical practice of neuroradiologic imaging, with only brief introductions to research topics. One can register for the entire five-day course (including the Body and Neuro sections) or only for the Body or Neuro Imaging components.


At the conclusion of this course, participants will be provided with:
  • Up to date information on the latest MR and CT techniques, many of which will be directly applicable in the clinic.
  • Sufficient background to manage an MRI or CT facility and gain insight into the way experienced radiologists perform and interpret these examinations.

  • Abdominal, Extremity, and Cartoid Doppler
  • Hepatic, Renal, and Scrotal Ultrasound
  • Thyroid Sonography and Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy
  • Fetal Anomalies, including 3D and Fetal Surgery
  • MRI in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • First Trimester Fetal Ultrasound
  • Ectopic Pregnancy
  • Postmenopausal Bleeding
  • Ovarian Ultrasound
  • Breast Imaging and Interventional Procedures

The Ultrasound/Women’s Imaging course is aimed at radiologists involved in ultrasound, radiology residents, and sonographers. The Women’s Imaging course is directed toward radiologists in practice and in training, obstetricians and gynecologists with an interest in imaging, and sonographers.

Michael P Federle, MD: Professor of Radiology; University of Pittsburgh; Chief, Abdominal Imaging, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Vivian S Lee, MD, PhD: Associate Professor; Vice Chair of Research, Department of Radiology, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY

Lawrence H Schwartz, MD: Associate Professor of Radiology, Cornell University Medical College; Director Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Lab for Computational Image Analysis, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Evan S Siegelmann, MD: Associate Professor of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Section Chief, Body MR, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

Chip Truwit, MD: Professor and Chair, Department of Radiology, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN

S James Zinreich, MD: Professor of Radiology and Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD


Matthew A Barish, MD: Assistant Professor of Radiology; Director, 3D Image and Processing Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH)

Russell A Blinder, MD: Associate Professor of Radiology; Residency Program Director, Department of Radiology, BWH

John A Carrino, MD, MPH: Assistant Professor of Radiology; Clinical Director, Magnetic Resonance Therapy Program, Codirector, Spine Intervention, BWH

Paul Caruso, MD, FACR, FRACR: Professor of Radiology; Chief, Division of Thoracic Imaging, BWH

Philip Costello, MD: Instructor in Radiology; Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Fiona Fennessy, MD, PhD: Instructor in Radiology; Fellow in Abdominal Imaging and Intervention, BWH

Liangge Hsu, MD: Assistant Professor of Radiology; Division of Neuroradiology, BWH

Andetta Hunsaker, MD: Assistant Professor of Radiology; Division of Thoracic Imaging, BWH

Francine Jacobson, MD, MPH: Instructor in Radiology; Division of Thoracic Imaging, BWH

Ferenc Jolesz, MD: B Leonard Holman Professor of Radiology; Director, MRI and Image Guided Therapy Program; Vice Chairman, Research, Department of Radiology, BWH

Ramin Khorasani, MD, FRCPC, MPH: Assistant Professor of Radiology; Director, Information Management Division, BWH, Medical Director, Multidisciplinary PACS, Chairman, Partners Radiology Utilization Management Committee

Rosemary J Klecker, MD: Instructor in Radiology, Staff Radiologist, Division of Musculoskeletal Radiology, BWH

Jonathan Kleefield, MD: Associate Professor of Radiology; Division of Neuroradiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Roman A Klufas, MD: Instructor in Radiology; Division of Neuoradiology, BWH

Philipp Lang, MD, MBA: Associate Professor of Radiology; Director, Musculoskeletal Radiology, BWH

Koenraad J Mortele, MD: Assistant Professor of Radiology; Staff Radiologist, Abdominal Imaging and Intervention, BWH

Alexander Norbash, MD: Associate Professor of Radiology; Director of Neuroradiology, BWH

Richard L Robertson, Jr, MD: Assistant Professor of Radiology; Staff Neuroradiologist, Director of Neuroradiology and MRI,
Children’s Hospital

Laura V Romo, MD: Instructor in Radiology; Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Pablo R Ros, MD, MPH, FACR: Professor of Radiology; Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Radiology, BWH; Director, Partners Radiology

U Joseph Schoepf, MD: Research Fellow in Radiology; Staff Radiologist, Division of GI Radiology, BWH

Richard B Schwartz, MD, PhD: Associate Professor of Radiology; Assistant Director of Neuroradiology, BWH

Stuart G Silverman, MD: Associate Professor of Radiology; Director, Abdominal Imaging and Intervention, Director, CT Scan, BWH

A Gregory Sorensen, MD, MS: Associate Professor of Radiology; Associate Director, MGH NMR Center, MGH

Clare M C Tempany, MD: Associate Professor of Radiology; Director, Clinical MRI, BWH

Kemal Tuncali, MD: Instructor in Radiology; Director, Genitourinary Radiology Services, Assistant Director, Cross-sectional Interventional Service, BWH

Carl S Winalski, MD: Assistant Professor of Radiology; Director, Musculoskeletal MRI, BWH

Tina Young Poussaint, MD: Assistant Professor of Radiology; Staff Neuroradiologist, Children’s Hospital

E Kent Yucel, MD, FACR: Associate Professor of Radiology and Medicine; Director, Cardiovascular Imaging, Codirector, Cardiac MRI, BWH

Amir A Zamani, MD: Associate Professor of Radiology; Division of Neuroradiology, BWH


Monday, October 20th
7:00 Registration
Full Course and Body Imaging
Continental Breakfast
8:00 Welcome and Introduction
Silverman
8:05 MR Physics
Blinder
8:30 MDCT of Trauma
Federle
9:00 HRCT
Hunsaker
9:30 MDCT of the Heart
Schoepf
10:00 Break
10:30 PE/CT
Costello
11:00 Mediastinum
Hunsaker
11:30 Lung Cancer Screening
Jacobson
12:00 Questions
12:15 Lunch Recess
1:30 PET/CT
Federle
2:00 Mesentery
Ros
2:30 CT and MR Imaging of Hyperplastic, Dysplastic and Malignant Hepatic Masses
Federle
3:00 Break
3:30 CT Urography
Silverman
4:00 CT and MRI of Pancreatic Diseases
Mortele
4:30 Adrenal CT and MRI
Khorasani
5:00 Questions
5:15 Adjourn

Tuesday, October 21st
7:00 Continental Breakfast
8:00 Oncologic Imaging - From Unknown Primary to Therapeutic Response Assessment
Schwartz, L
8:30 Prostrate MR
Tempany
9:00 MRI of the Female Pelvis: Malignant Disease
Schwartz, L
9:30 MRI of the Female Pelvis: Benign Disease
Fennessy
10:00 Break
10:30 Virtual Colonoscopy
Barish
11:00 MRCP
Schwartz, L
11:30 Liver MRI State of the Art
Lee
12:00 Questions
12:15 Lunch Recess
1:30 MRA Physics
Blinder
2:00 MR Angiography: Pearls and Pitfalls
Lee
2:30 Break
3:00 Practical Cardiac MRI
Lee
3:30 MRA of the Aorta and Peripheal Arteries
Yucel
4:00 Biopsy/Drainage
Tuncali
4:30 Adjourn

Wednesday, October 22nd
7:00 Continental Breakfast
8:00 MRI of Articular Cartilage
Lang
8:30 MRI of the Knee
Winalski
9:00 MRI of Wrist and Elbow
Carrino
9:30 MRI of the Shoulder
Winalski
10:00 Break
10:30 MRI of Foot and Ankle
Klecker
11:00 Clinical Applications of Chemical Shift MR Imaging
Siegelman
11:30 MR of the Breast
Siegelman
12:00 Questions
12:15 Lunch Recess
12:30 Registration / Neuro Imaging
1:30 Imaging Pathology of the Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses
Zinreich
2:15 Temporal Bone Imaging
Romo
3:00 Break
3:30 Imaging of the Suprahyroid Neck
Zinreich
4:00 Orbital Imaging
Caruso
5:00 Questions
5:15 Adjourn

Thursday, October 23rd
7:00 Continental Breakfast
8:00 Imaging of Head Trauma
Klufas
8:30 Spinal Canal Tumors
Zamani
9:00 Imaging of Extra-Axial Neoplasms
Hsu
9:30 Stroke Imaging
Sorensen
10:00 Break
10:15 Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Sorensen
10:45 Infections of the CNS
Hsu
11:25 MR of the Breast
Schwartz, R
12:10 Questions
12:25 Lunch Recess
1:40 Pituitary and Sellar Neuroimaging
Truwit
2:25 Break
2:45 Interventional MR - Guided Neuro Surgery: The Minnesota Experience
Truwit
3:30 Pediatric Neuroimaging I
Robertson
4:15 Pediatric Neuroimaging II
Young Poussaint
5:00 Questions
5:15 Adjourn

Friday, October 24th
7:00 Continental Breakfast
8:00 MRI of the Cervical Spine
Klufas
8:40 MRI of Hemorrhage
Schwartz, R
9:25 Degenerative Diseases of the Spine
Kleefield
9:55 Break
10:10 Proton MR Spectroscopy of Common Brain Lesions
Zamani
10:45 Questions
11:00 Future Direction in Neurointervention
Norbash
11:30 Future Direction in Neuroimaging
Jolesz
12:00 Questions
12:15 Adjourn

For specific tuition fees, see the particular course description. All foreign payments must be made by a draft on a United States bank, or by Visa or Mastercard. If paying by check, make it payable to Harvard Medical School and mail with the completed registration form to: Harvard MED-CME, PO Box 825, Boston, MA 02117-0825. If paying by credit card, fax the completed registration form to (617) 384-8686, register online at www.cme.hms.harvard.edu, or mail it to the above address. Telephone registrations are not accepted.

Inquiries should be directed to the above address; made by phone: (617) 384-8600, Monday-Friday, 10 am to 4 pm (Eastern Time); or by e-mail: hms-cme@hms.harvard.edu.


A handling fee of $60 is deducted for cancellation. Refund requests must be received by mail or fax one week prior to the course. No refunds will be made thereafter.

Hotel rooms in Boston are limited. You are urged to make your reservations early. A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Seaport Hotel (617) 385-4000 until September 24, 2003. Please specify that you are enrolled in MRI/CT Update to receive a reduced room rate. All sessions will be held at the Seaport Hotel, 200 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA (617) 385-4000.


Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Harvard Medical School designates the Full Course for a maximum of 31.5 category 1 credits, Body Imaging for a maximum of 17 category 1 credits, and Neuro Imaging for a maximum of 14.5 category 1 credits towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

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