23rd Annual Scientific Session - On Demand

Sep 6, 2018 ‐ Sep 9, 2018

The focus of ASNC2018 meeting is to showcase current best practices, new ideas and emerging technology, radiation safety and appropriate use criteria in the nuclear cardiology clinical practice.

ASNC2018 Annual Scientific Session On Demand

Overview

This On Demand activity is comprised of sessions and presentations from the live ASNC2018 23rd Annual Scientific Meeting hosted September 6-9, 2018 in San Francisco, CA. The focus of ASNC2018meeting is to showcase current best practices, new ideas and emerging technology, radiation safety and appropriate use criteria in the nuclear cardiology clinical practice.

Important Dates
Date of Release: October 26, 2018
Date of Termination: October 25, 2019

Statement of Need

In order to maintain competence and improve performance, imaging professionals must assimilate and integrate knowledge spanning multiple areas, including clinical data, technical aspects of imaging, and appropriate application of imaging (e.g., clinical guidelines and appropriate use criteria). Each of these areas is constantly evolving, particularly as innovative technologies and novel pharmacologic agents are introduced. ASNC2018 is an educational activity designed to help you and other imaging professionals obtain the latest information in clinical practice and review cutting-edge scientific advances in nuclear cardiology and cardiac imaging.

Overall Purpose: the overall goal of this activity is to enhance physician knowledge, competence and skills in applications about appropriate use criteria, radiation safety, reporting, and lab performance in using appropriate guidelines-based treatment.

Learning Objectives:

• Demonstrate improved skills in image interpretation and reporting
• Learn how to recognize and minimize technical problems and artifacts that may be associated with cardiac imaging
• Learn the appropriate use of cardiac imaging techniques based on current guidelines
• Evaluate new imaging technologies, software, and stress techniques
• Understand the role of nuclear and cardiac CT imaging in overall patient care
• Learn the importance of balancing radiation exposure with image quality
• Describe future directions in cardiac PET, CT, and SPECT/CT in order to anticipate training and equipment needs
• Understand the clinical implication of CT coronary angiography cases and recognize its value and limitations in clinical cardiology

Target Audience

This online activity is intended for cardiologists, radiologists, nuclear medicine specialists, practice administrators, nuclear technologists, nurses and other health care professionals with an interest in the field of nuclear cardiology and cardiac CT imaging.

Accreditation and Continuing Education Credit

Physicians: The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 50.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Planners

Organizing Committee

Rob S.B. Beanlands, MD, FASNC, Chair
Firas Al Badarin, MD, FASNC
Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam, MD, FASNC
Timothy L. Dunn, CNMT
Donna M. Polk, MD, MPH, FASNC
Raymond R. Russell, MD, PhD, MASNC
Prem Soman, MD, PhD, FASNC

Program Committee

Disclosure

As an accredited provider of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Commercial Support. In compliance with these standards, it is ASNC’s policy to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific merit in all of its educational activities through the disclosure of relevant financial relationships with commercial companies and resolution of conflicts of interest. The financial interest or relationships requiring disclosure are outlined in ASNC’s CME Conflict of Interest Policy. All planners, reviewers, moderators, and presenters involved with this activity were required to disclose any relevant financial relationships. 

The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology has reviewed this activity’s faculty disclosures and resolved or managed all identified conflicts of interest through a peer review process.

¹ designates presenter
² designates peer reviewer/moderator
³ designates planner

The following planners, moderators, presenters, and staff reported no financial relationships:

The following planners, moderators, presenters, and staff reported financial relationships:

Commercial Acknowledgement
This activity has not received commercial support.

Off Label Use

Presentations may include discussion of drugs or devices, or uses of drugs or devices, that have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or have been approved by the FDA for specific uses only. The FDA has stated that it is the responsibility of the physician to determine the FDA clearance status of each drug or device he or she wishes to use in clinical practice. ASNC is committed to the free exchange of medical education. Inclusion of any discussion in this program, including discussion on off-label uses, does not imply an endorsement by ASNC of the uses, products or techniques presented. Presenters are required to disclose to the learners, if there is any off-label usage within the presentation.

Method of Participation and CME Certificates

This product offers up to 50.5 CME credits, based on the number of hours you spend watching presentations and taking the post-test questions.

To receive CME credit for this product, you must:

1. Purchase the product
2. Read the CME front matter.  
3. View the session(s) of your choosing.
4. Click the CE Information tab, and the Test button.
5. Complete the post-test. You must score 75% to earn credit. You may take the post test as many times as you need to score 75%.
6. When you are finished watching the sessions of your choosing, your certificate will reflect the total accumulated credits from the sessions. If you already claimed CME on some of these sessions during the live stream, your credit total will include those as well. Generate and print your CME certificate.
7. If you complete more tests, the certificate will update with the newly claimed credits.

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Bill of Rights
The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology recognizes that you are a life-long learner who has chosen to engage in continuing medical education to identify or fill a gap in knowledge, skill, or performance. As part of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology’s duty to you as a learner, you have the right to expect that your continuing medical education experience with the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology includes:

• Content that:


• promotes improvements or quality in healthcare;
• is valid, reliable, and accurate;
• offers balanced presentations that are free of commercial bias for or against a product/service;
• is vetted through a process that resolves any conflicts of interests of planners, teachers, or authors;
• is driven and based on learning needs, not commercial interests;
• addresses the stated objectives or purpose; and
• is evaluated for its effectiveness in meeting the identified educational need.


• A learning environment that:


• supports learners’ ability to meet their individual needs;
• respects and attends to any special needs of the learners;
• respects the diversity of groups of learners; and
• is free of promotional, commercial, and/or sales activities.

• Disclosure of:


• Relevant financial relationships planners, teachers, and authors have with commercial interests related to the content of the activity; and
• commercial support (funding or in-kind resources) of the activity.

Preview Available

Heart Failure: Pump in a Slump

Sep 7, 2018 10:30am ‐ Sep 7, 2018 12:00pm

Presentation 1 - A Patient with New Onset Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy Case Presenter

Presentation 2 - A Patient with New Onset Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy Imaging Discussant

Presentation 3 - Discussion

Presentation 4 - A Patient with Chemo/Radiation Therapy Case Presenter

Presentation 5 - A patient with Chemo/Radiation Therapy Imaging Discussant

Presentation 6 - Discussion

Presentation 7 - A Patient with Prior Cardiac Transplantation Case Presenter

Presentation 8 - A Patient with Prior Cardiac Transplantation Imaging Discussant

Presentation 9 - Discussion

Moderator(s):

• Wael Jaber, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Panelist(s):

• James E. Udelson, MD, MASNC, Tufts-New England Medical Center
• Ronald Witteles, MD, Stanford Health Care

Speaker(s):

• Vikram Agarwal, St. Louis Hospital
• Hicham Skali, MD, Brigham & Womens' Hospital
• Shivda Pandey, Boston Medical Center
• Diwakar Jain, MD, FASNC, Westchester Medical Center
• Patrycja Galazka, Aurora HealthCare
• Mark I. Travin, MD, FASNC, Montefiore Medical Center

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Young Investigator Competition-Basic Science

Sep 7, 2018 12:00pm ‐ Sep 7, 2018 1:30pm

Presentation 1 - Dual Angiotensin Receptor-neprilysin Inhibitor Sacubitril/valsartan Attenuates ^99mTc-RP805 Uptake and Systolic Dysfunction in a Rodent Model of Doxorubicin-induced Cardiotoxicity

Presentation 2 -  Automatic Classification of Myocardial Perfusion Abnormalities from Nuclear Cardiac SPECT Images Using a Neural Network Model

Presentation 3 - Development and Evaluation of Novel Macrophage Elastase-targeting Radiotracers for Imaging of Aneurysms

Presentation 4 - Increase in Myocardial Matrix Metalloproteinase (MMP) Activity Detected by ^99mTc-RP805 Precedes Hypertension and Cardiac Remodeling in a Rat Model of Pressure Overload and Unilateral Renal Hypoperfusion

Presentation 5 - Externally Validated Deep Learning Improves Per-vessel Prediction of Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease from Upright and Supine Spect MPI: a Multicenter Study

Moderator(s):

• Robert J. Gropler, MD, MASNC, Washington University

Panelist(s):

• James A. Case, PhD, Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies
• Robert A. deKemp, PhD, PEng, PPhys, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
• Ernest V. Garcia, PhD, MASNC, Emory University Hospital

Speaker(s):

• Nabil Boutagy, PhD
• Yu-Cheng Zhang, MS
• Kiran Gona, PhD
• Attila Feher, MD, PhD
• Julian Betancur, PhD

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Machine Learning, Medicine, and Imaging: The Future is Now

Sep 7, 2018 1:45pm ‐ Sep 7, 2018 3:15pm

Presentation 1 - Machine Learning, Medicine, and Imaging: The Future is Now

Presentation 2 - Discussion

Moderator(s):

• Andrew J. Einstein, MD, PhD, FASNC, Columbia University Medical Center
• Piotr J. Slomka, PhD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Speaker(s):

• John Axerio-Cilies, PhD, Arterys
• Arun Krishnan, PhD, IBM Watson Health Imaging
• Martin C. Stumpe, PhD, Google
• Puneet Sharma, PhD, Siemens Medical Systems

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Expanding the Horizon: Clinical Applications of New Tracers in Nuclear Cardiology

Sep 7, 2018 1:45pm ‐ Sep 7, 2018 3:15pm

Presentation 1 - Cardiovascular Pathophysiology Targeted by Novel Tracers

Presentation 2 - Molecular Imaging of Aneurysms and Peripheral Arterial Disease

Presentation 3 - Imaging Device Thrombosisand DVT

Presentation 4 - Sodium Fluoride Imaging of Coronary and Valvular HeartDisease

Presentation 5 - Imaging Cardiac Inflammation Post Myocardial Infarction

Presentation 6 - Discussion

Moderator(s):

• Edwin Wu, MD, Northwestern University
• Frank Bengel, MD, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

Speaker(s):

• Adel Allam, MD, FASNC, Al Azhar Medical School
• Mehran Sadeghi, MD, Yale University
• Ilknur Ay, MD, PhD, MGH, Harvard Medical School
• Marcus Hacker, MD, Allgemeines Krankenhaus Wien
• Robert J. Gropler, MD, MASNC, Washington University

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Contemporary Evaluation and Management of Cardiac Amyloidosis

Sep 7, 2018 1:45pm ‐ Sep 7, 2018 3:15pm

Presentation 1 - Contemporary Evaluation and Management of Cardiac Amyloidosis

Presentation 2 - Case Presenter

Moderator(s):

• Prem Soman, MD, PhD, FASNC, UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute
• James E. Udelson, MD, MASNC, Tufts-New England Medical Center

Panelist(s):

• Adam Castaño, MD, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
• Sharmila Dorbala, MD, FASNC, Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Yvonne Eisele, UPMC Heart & Vascular Inst.
• C. Christina Quarta, National Amyloidosis Centre

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SPECT QA

Sep 7, 2018 3:15pm ‐ Sep 7, 2018 4:15pm

Presentation 1 - DSPECT

Presentation 2 - DNM530

Presentation 3 - Novel Reconstruction Software

Moderator(s):

• Robert A. Pagnanelli, CNMT, RT(N)(R), NCT, FASNC, Duke University Medical Center
• R. Glenn Wells, PhD, University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Speaker(s):

• Maria L. Mackin, CNMT, RT, RT(N), University of Rochester
• Vera Tsatkin, CNMT, Yale New Haven Hospital
• James A. Case, PhD, Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies

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How to Optimize your SPECT Lab: An Imaging Team Approach

Sep 7, 2018 4:15pm ‐ Sep 7, 2018 5:45pm

Discussants: Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam, MD, FASNC; Saurabh Malhotra, MD, MPH, FASNC

• Team 1 - Ernest G. DePuey, MD, MASNC; Jereme Morley, CNMT
• Team 2 - Ronald G. Schwartz, MD MS, MASNC; Maria L. Mackin, CNMT, RT, RT(N)
• Team 3 - Terrence D. Ruddy, MD; Brian Marvin, CNMT
• Team 4 - Jeffrey A. Rosenblatt, MD, FASNC; Timothy L. Dunn, CNMT
• Team 5 - Renee Bullock-Palmer, MD, FASNC; Denise Kale, CNMT

Moderator(s):

• Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam, MD, FASNC, Henry Ford Hospital
• Saurabh Malhotra, MD, MPH, FASNC, University of Buffalo

Speaker(s):

• Ernest DePuey, MD, MASNC, Mount sinai St. Luke's Hospital
• E. Gordon DePuey, MD, MASNC, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s & Roosevelt Hospital
• Jereme Morley, CNMT, Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital
• Ronald G. Schwartz, MD MS, MASNC, University of Rochester Medical Center
• Maria L. Mackin, CNMT, RT, RT(N), University of Rochester
• Terrence D. Ruddy, MD, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
• Brian Marvin, CNMT, University of Ottawa Heart Inst.
• Jeffrey A. Rosenblatt, MD, FASNC, Maine Health Cardiology
• Timothy L. Dunn, CNMT, Maine Cardiology Associates
• Renee Bullock-Palmer, MD, FASNC, Deborah Heart and Lung Hospital
• Denise Kale, CNMT, SNJCS-Cooper Heart Institute

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Cardiac Sarcoidosis: Evolving Imaging Algorithms for an Evolving Disease (in Collaboration with the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research)

Sep 7, 2018 4:15pm ‐ Sep 7, 2018 5:45pm

Presentation 1 - Patient Interview

Presentation 2 - Cardiac MRI and Echocardiography: Screening, Diagnosis and Prognosis per the Guidelines

Presentation 3 - PET for Cardiac Sarcoidosis: Robust Test in the Right Hands and Patients per the Guidelines

Presentation 4 - Putting it all Together: Evaluation and Management of Sarcoidosis in the Real World

Presentation 5 - Discussion 

Moderator(s):

• Wael Jaber, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
• Reimer H.J.A Slart, MD, University Medical Center

Speaker(s):

• Ronald Witteles, MD, Stanford Health Care
• Amit Patel, MD, University of Chicago
• Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, MD, Mayo Clinic
• Walid Saliba, MD, Clevaland Clinic Foundation

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ImagingGuide Registry Update: Supporting Change and Creating Value

Sep 7, 2018 4:15pm ‐ Sep 7, 2018 5:45pm

Presentation 1 - National Multimodality Perspective on Registries

Presentation 2 - Impact on Clinical Activities: MIPS/QCDR

Presentation 3 - Impact on Clinical Activities: Quality/Accreditation

Presentation 4 - Impact on Directing Care and Guidelines for the Future

Presentation 5 - ImageGuide- Today and Tomorrow

Presentation 6 - Discussion

Moderator(s):

• Peter Tilkemeier, MD, FASNC, Greenville Health System

Speaker(s):

• Ralph Brindis, MD, Univ. of CA San Francisco
• Georgia Lawrence, ASNC
• Scott Jerome, DO, FASNC, University of MD School of Medicine
• Rory Hachamovitch, MD, FASNC, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

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Towards Molecular Cardiovascular Medicine - Emerging Opportunities for Noninvasive Imaging

Sep 8, 2018 8:00am ‐ Sep 8, 2018 9:30am

Presentation 1 - The (Molecular and Cellular) Future of Cardiovascular Medicine from a Translational Scientist's Prospective

Presentation 2 - Explorer Project, Role of Whole Body PET Imaging of the Cardiovascular System

Presentation 3 - Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging in Drug Development

Presentation 4 - President-Elect's Address: What will the Future hold for Nuclear Cardiology?

Presentation 5 - Discussion

Moderator(s):

• Frank Bengel, MD, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
• Albert J. Sinusas, MD, FASNC, Yale University School of Medicine

Speaker(s):

• Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Simon R. Cherry, PhD, UC Davis
• Robert J. Gropler, MD, MASNC, Washington University
• Rob S.B. Beanlands, MD, FASNC, University of Ottawa