Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Course: Enhance Your Interpretation Skills

This comprehensive course is designed to provide radiologists, radiologic nurses, physician assistants, technologists, scientists, residents, fellows, and other medical professionals with the necessary tools to enhance their interpretation skills using the latest imaging technologies.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the availability and use of decision-support tools for radiologists to facilitate making more accurate and clinically useful diagnoses.
• Explain the appropriate use of imaging modalities, including CT, MR, sonography, and fluoroscopy, for the most important abdominal disorders likely to be confronted by radiologists.
• Utilize contemporary imaging techniques and protocols to accurately diagnose airway disease, lung infection, and mediastinal masses.
• Outline thoracic radiologic procedures for clinical cancer management.
• Integrate information presented in this course into efforts to improve imaging skills.
• Outline CT protocols and techniques for improved clinical diagnosis of diseases of the cardiovascular system and abdominal imaging.

Target Audience

This course is intended for practicing radiologists, radiologic nurses, physician assistants, technologists, scientists, residents, fellows, and other medical professionals interested in current techniques and applications for advanced diagnostic imaging.

Course Program

Thursday, October 6, 2022

• 1:00-1:30 PM: Imaging of the Pericardium – Case Review by Seth Kligerman, MD
• 1:30-2:00 PM: UIP and IPF: Diagnostic Guidelines by Seth Kligerman, MD
• 2:00-2:30 PM: Post-COVID Lung Imaging by Seth Kligerman, MD
• 2:30-3:00 PM: Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis by Seth Kligerman, MD
• 3:00-3:15 PM: Discussion, Questions, and Answers
• 3:15-3:45 PM: Connective Tissue Disease by Seth Kligerman, MD
• 3:45-4:15 PM: Smoking-Related Lung Disease by Seth Kligerman, MD
• 4:15-4:45 PM: Mosaic Attenuation by Seth Kligerman, MD
• 4:45-5:15 PM: EVALI by Seth Kligerman, MD
• 5:15-5:45 PM: Challenging Cases Reviewed by the Expert by Seth Kligerman, MD
• 5:45-6:00 PM: Discussion, Questions, and Answers

Friday, October 7, 2022

• 7:30-8:00 AM: Low-Dose Lung Screening CT by Charles S. White, MD
• 8:00-8:30 AM: Solitary Pulmonary Nodule by Charles S. White, MD
• 8:30-9:00 AM: Missed Lung Cancer by Charles S. White, MD
• 9:00-9:30 AM: Pulmonary Infections: Multimodality Approach by Charles S. White, MD
• 9:30-9:45 AM: Discussion, Questions, and Answers
• 9:45-10:45 AM: Mediastinal Disease: Assessment on Cross-Sectional Imaging by Charles S. White, MD
• 10:45-11:15 AM: Pulmonary Embolism on CT: New and Old Insights by Charles S. White, MD
• 11:15-11:45 AM: The Acute Aortic Syndromes by Charles S. White, MD
• 11:45-12:15 PM: Challenging Cases Reviewed by the Expert by Charles S. White, MD
• 12:15-12:30 PM: Discussion, Questions, and Answers
• 12:30-1:30 PM: Break
• 1:30-2:00 PM: Imaging of the Peritoneum by Robert M. Marks, MD
• 2:00-2:30 PM: Prostate MRI by Robert M. Marks, MD
• 2:30-3:00 PM: Imaging of Infertility by Robert M. Marks, MD
• 3:00-3:15 PM: Discussion, Questions, and Answers
• 3:15-3:45 PM: Imaging of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction by Robert M. Marks, MD
• 3:45-4:15 PM: A Case-Based Review of the Ureters and Bladder by Robert M. Marks, MD
• 4:15-4:30 PM: Discussion, Questions, and Answers

Saturday, October 8, 2022

• 7:30-8:00 AM: Rectal Cancer by Kathryn Fowler, MD
• 8:00-8:30 AM: Practical MRI: Optimizing Images and Dealing with Artifacts by Kathryn Fowler, MD
• 8:30-9:00 AM: Pancreas Imaging by Kathryn Fowler, MD
• 9:00-9:15 AM: Discussion, Questions, and Answers
• 9:15-9:45 AM: Diffuse Liver Disease by Kathryn Fowler, MD
• 9:45-10:15 AM: Unusual Imaging Features of HCC by Kathryn Fowler, MD
• 10:15-10:30 AM: Discussion, Questions, and Answers