Advances in Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT: 38th Annual Case Review with the Experts

Friday, January 23, 2026, 7:00 AM - Sunday, January 25, 2026, 5:30 PM PST, Cedars-Sinai Harvey Morse Conference Center, Los Angeles, CA


A major national healthcare imperative for noninvasive imaging is for the tests to provide value. Nuclear cardiology and cardiac CT 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 and Cardiac CT: 36th Annual Case Review with the Experts. The course is designed to meet the current needs of professionals who perform or request nuclear cardiology or cardiac CT. 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. A unique feature of the program is the extensive use case presentations of each subject as a proven effective teaching tool. It also includes multiple sessions with group faculty discussions. There is a focus on incorporating new guidelines in practice and 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 an how the tests affect outcomes an costs in coronary and noncoronary heart and aortic disease
2. Reocognize the implications of 2019 ESC CTA ACCAHA chest pain guidelines on the use of noninvasive testing
3. Implement the latest acquisition processing protocols, instrumentation and software for multiple imaging modalities
4. Explain how new approaches to functional assessmentsuch as coronary flow reserve, noninvasive fractional flow reserve, and plaque measurementsenhance the information obtained from testing.
5. Improve image interpretation and recognition of image artifacts
6. Recognize strategies tor educe patient radiation and contrast exposure while conduct 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 decision
10. Use criteria and evidence based strategies to reduce inappropriate testing
11. Identify knowledge gaps regarding blueprints for the CBNC and CBCCT Boards

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 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™.  

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)

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.