Advances in Nuclear Cardiology, Cardiac CT and Cardiac MRI: 37th Annual Case Review with the Experts

Friday, January 19, 2024, 7:30 AM - Sunday, January 21, 2024, 3:30 PM PST, Cedars-Sinai Harvey Morse Conference Center, Los Angeles, CA


A major national healthcare imperative for noninvasive imaging is for the tests that are used provide value. Nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT and cardiac MRI studies provide powerful tools for diagnosis, risk assessment, and guiding management of selected patients with known or suspected cardiac disease. In the current environment, imaging must address the combined considerations of improving outcomes and containing costs. To this end, advanced cardiac imaging studies must be ordered on the right patients and optimally performed, interpreted, reported, and acted upon by physicians and allied health professionals. Additionally, effective methods to reduce radiation exposure need to be implemented to maximize patient safety. There is a clear need for physicians ordering, performing and interpreting the tests to understand the issues regarding value-based imaging and to optimally implement this understanding. We meet these educational needs through a live activity entitled: Advances in Nuclear Cardiology, Cardiac CT and Cardiac MRI: 37th Annual Case Review with the Experts. The course is designed to meet the current needs of professionals who perform or request nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT or cardiac MRI studies. The course covers the use of these modalities across the spectrum of patients routinely seen by cardiologists in typical day-to-day practice and is designed to improve ordering patterns and increase quality in performing, interpreting, reporting and applying the advanced imaging methods.

Unique program features include:
• Case presentations covering common clinical, interpretation, and technical problem
• Interactive reading with expert faculty
• Emphasis on new clinical applications of each modality
• Focus on incorporating new AUC and guidelines in practice
• The latest evidence from clinical trials and registry findings

1. Identify up-to-date evidence regarding the information provided by tests, the appropriate use of testing and how the tests affect outcomes and costs in coronary and noncoronary heart and aortic disease
2. Recognize the implications of 2019 ESC CTA ACC/AHA chest pain guidelines on the use of noninvasive testing
3. Implement the latest acquisition/processing protocols, instrumentation and software for multiple imaging modalities
4. Appreciate how new approaches to functional assessment, such as coronary flow reserve, noninvasive fractional flow reserve and plaque measurements, increase test information
5. Improve image interpretation and recognition of image artifacts
6. Recognize strategies to reduce patient radiation and contrast exposure while conducting high quality studies
7. Apply optimal protocols for pharmacologic stress testing
8. Create optimal reports that integrate test findings and provide guidance for patient management
9. Identify the latest information regarding how test findings should be used to guide patient management decisions
10. Use criteria and evidence-based strategies to reduce inappropriate testing
11. Identify knowledge gaps regarding blueprints for the CBNC and CBCCT Boards

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Physicians: $750
Non-physicians: $500
Residents/Fellows: $400

FOR A LIMITED TIME: Residents/Fellows can use the discount code NUCFELL24 during the registration process.   This will reduce the registration fee to $100.

Refund Policy:
All cancellations must be submitted in writing and refunds will be subject to an administrative charge. To view the policy, click here. Please e-mail cancellation request to [email protected]. If you do not receive confirmation of your cancellation via e-mail, please call (310) 423-5548.

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Disclaimer
All educational materials provided during and after the course are for your personal use only and should not be reproduced or distributed in any manner without the express permission of Cedars-Sinai.

Right to Cancel or Postpone
Cedars-Sinai reserves the right to cancel or postpone any registration or course due. In the unlikely event that Cedars-Sinai must cancel or postpone this course or your registration, the registration fee will be fully refunded. Cedars-Sinai is not responsible for any related costs, charges or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline, travel or lodging agencies.

In support of improving patient care, Cedars-Sinai is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

AMA Credit Designation Statement
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 24.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Non-Physician AMA Attendance
Attendance credit will be provided to other healthcare professionals upon the fulfillment of attendance requirements. Participants should ensure in advance that their credentialing or licensing organization accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  

 

American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) MOC Recognition Statement
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 24.00 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Cedars-Sinai adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ (MD, DO) (24.00 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (24.00 hours), Non-Physician AMA Attendance (24.00 hours)

Numerous hotels are available in the area surrounding Cedars-Sinai. Many of these are within a short walking or driving distance from the medical center. The following link below contains some of the available choices.

Cedars-Sinai Nearby Hotels: https://www.cedars-sinai.org/patients-visitors/nearby/stay.html\ 

The closest hotels are the

Sofitel Los Angeles: https://www.sofitel-los-angeles.com/

SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills: http://slshotels.com/beverlyhills/

Elan Hotel Modern: http://www.elanhotel.com/

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Cedars-Sinai adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Nuclear Cardiology 2023--Exhibitors by Cedars-Sinai CME

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