QUICK FACTS

Provider: Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR)

Course Director:
Ann N. Leung, MD
Stanford University Medical Center

Credits: Earn a maximum of 27.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™

Case of the Day – I

• Case I – John W. Nance, MD

• Case II – Milena Petranovic, MD

Diffuse Lung Disease I

• ILD in Connective Tissue Diseases: Prospects and Issues – Sujal R. Desai, MBBS, MD

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 1: Minimum Intensity Projections Improves the Assessment of Interstitial Lung Disease – Sonja Kandel, MD

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 2: CT Characteristics of Interstitial Pneumonia with Autoimmune Features (IPAF) – Steven M. Montner, MD

• Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis: Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation – Jeffrey P. Kanne, MD

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 3: Prognostication in IPF: Analysis of Longitudinal Change in Computer and Visual CT Variables and FVC – Joseph Jacob, MBBS (Hons), BSc (Hons), MRCS, MRCP, MTM&H, FRCR

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 4: Pulmonary Vessel Volume (PVV) Change, Versus Change in Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) as a Predictor of Mortality in IPF – Joseph Jacob, MBBS (Hons), BSc (Hons), MRCS, MRCP, MTM&H, FRCR

• Recent Developments in Interstitial Lung Disease: Imaging and Its Implications for Therapy – Anna Rozenshtein, MD, MPH

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 5: A Multicentre Evaluation of Inter-multidisciplinary Team Agreement for Diagnosis in Diffuse Lung Disease –Simon Walsh, MD, MRCPI, FFRRCSI

• Holes in the Lung: Time to Revisit the Definitions – James F. Gruden, MD

• Sarcoidosis: Case-Based Review – H. Page McAdams, MD

Diffuse Lung Disease II

• Labs and Lungs – Serologic Evaluation of ILDs and CTDs for the Radiologist – Travis S. Henry, MD

• Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis: A Resurgent Problem – James C. Reed, MD

• Smoking-Related Interstitial Lung Disease – Amita Sharma, MD

• Thoracic Manifestations of Primary Histiocytosis – Daniel Vargas, MD

• Drug-Related Lung Disease: A Refresher – Simon Walsh, MD, MRCPI, FFRRCSI

• Non-infectious Diffuse Air-space Disease: A Case-based Review – Kathryn M. Olsen, MD

• Eosinophilic Lung Disease: A Review of Clinical and Imaging Findings – Adam M. Bernheim, MD

Quality and Best Practices

• Thoracic Imaging: Assuring a Value-added Service – Warren B. Gefter, MD

• Clinical Decision Support and Thoracic Imaging – Todd R. Hazelton, MD

• Optimizing Contrast Utilization – Irena Tocino, MD

• Structured Reports in Cardiothoracic Imaging: A Practical Approach – Eduardo J. Mortani Barbosa, Jr., MD

• Practice Quality Improvement Projects for Cardiothoracic Radiologists – Aine Marie Kelly, MD, MS

• The Team Approach to Thoracic Surgery: Where are My Radiologists? – Diane C. Strollo, MD, FACR

Pulmonary Arteries and Aorta

• Intramural Hematoma and Its Variants: How We Do It – Santiago Martínez-Jiménez, MD

• Dual-Energy CT in Assessment of Pulmonary Thromboembolic Disease – Rahul D. Renapurkar, MD

• Pulmonary AVMs: Role of CT in Evaluation and Management – Kristopher W. Cummings, MD

• SAMS Questions – Andetta R .Hunsaker, MD; Brent P. Little, MD

• Learning with an Expert: Common Pitfalls with High-Resolution CT – David A. Lynch, MB

Case of the Day – II

• Case I – Patricia M. de Groot, MD

• Case II – Joao R. Inacio, MD

• Case III – Jane D. Cunningham, MB, BCh, BAO, BMedSci

Lung Nodule/Cancer

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 7: Framework to Personalize Patient Cancer Risk in Lung-Rads 1.0 and Fleischner Guidelines from NLST Data –Michael A. Morris, MD, MS

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 8: Texture Analysis (TA) of Early Stage Lung Cancer on Positron Emission Tomography / Computed Tomography (PET/CT) as a Predictor of Clinical Outcome Post Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) – Anastasia Oikonomou, MD, PhD

• Lung Tumor Volumetry – Friedrich D. Knollmann, MD, PhD

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 9: CT Evaluation of the Displacement of Lung Nodules Following Lobectomy – Priya K. Shukla

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 10: Delayed Diagnosis of Lung Cancer in an Academic Medical Center: Contributing Factors – Michael A. Kadoch, MD

• Thermal Ablation of Lung Cancer: State of the Art – Christopher Lee, MD

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 11: Modified Blood Patch Technique Reduces Pneumothorax and Chest Tube Rates for Percutaneous Lung Biopsies – Joshua D. Clayton, MD

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 12: CT – Guided Fiducial Localization of Small Pulmonary Nodules Using Co-Axial Needle Technique: Our Initial Experience – Shaunagh McDermott, MD, BCH, BAO

• Benjamin Felson Lecture: Evaluation of Incidental Pulmonary Nodules: Saving Lives or Wasting Time? – Michael K. Gould, MD, MS

Lung Cancer Screening

• Update on ACR Lung Cancer Screening Registry – Ella A. Kazerooni, MD

• Risk Stratification of Pulmonary Nodules – Theresa C. McLoud, MD

• Indolent Lung Cancers: Significance in Screening – Jin Mo Goo, MD, PhD

• Lung Cancer Screening in an Inner City Population: Trials and Triumphs – Linda B. Haramati, MD, MS

• Scanlon Lecture: CT Screening: Lessons from the Canadian Trials – Stephen Lam, MD, FRCPC

New and Emerging Technologies

• Use of Bone Subtraction Techniques in Evaluation of Chest Radiographs – Joseph G. Mammarappallil, MD, PhD

• Digital Tomosynthesis: Pretty Picture or Improved Diagnostic Capability? – Sudhakar N. J. Pipavath, MBBS, MD

• Update on Dual-Energy CT in Cardiothoracic Imaging – Prabhakar Rajiah, MBBS, MD

• Noble Gas MR Imaging – Justus E. Roos, MD

Thoracic Oncology

• Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Staging: Where Are We Heading? – Ioannis “Johnny” Vlahos, BSc, MBBS, MRCP, FRCR

• The Value of PET/CT in Lung Cancer Staging – David M. Naeger, MD

• Modern Imaging of Esophageal Cancer – Brett W. Carter, MD

• Zebras in Tumor Board – Juliana Bueno, MD

• Structured Reporting: What the Oncologists/Thoracic Surgeons Need to Know – Maria C. Shiau, MD

• SAM Questions – Carol C. Wu, MD, Fereidoun G. Abtin, MD

Case of the Day – III

• Case I – Gregory D. N. Pearson, MD, PhD

• Case II – Arthur S. Souza, Jr, MD, PhD

• Case III – Katherine A. Kaproth-Joslin, MD, PhD

NASCI/STR: Advances in Cardiac Imaging

• From Structure to Function: CT Approaches to Myocardial Ischemia Imaging – U. Joseph Schoepf, MD, FAHA, F-SCBT-MR, F-SCCT

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 13: Diagnostic Accuracy of Coronary CT Angiography Using 3rd Generation Dual -Source CT and Automated Tube Voltage Selection: Clinical Application in the Non-obese and Obese Patient Population – Christian Tesche, MD

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 14: Comparison Between Dynamic Parameters on CTA and Echocardiogram for Detection of Pulmonary Hypertension and Heart Dysfunction as Diagnosed by Right Cardiac Catheterization – Yoel Siegel, MD

• Assessment of Diastolic Dysfunction Using Cardiac MRI – Seth J. Kligerman, MD

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 15: The use of Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction to Significantly Improve Detection of Congenital Cardiovascular Anomalies in Infants Undergoing Free Breathing, Non-Gated, Ultra-Low Dose Axial CT Angiography – Seth J. Kligerman, MD

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 16: Left Ventricular Late Gadolinium Enhancement Identified on Pre-procedure Pulmonary Vein Cardiac MR: Incidence, Pattern of Enhancement and Clinical Implications –Fareed R. Riyaz, MD

• 4D Flow Imaging – Michael Hope, MD

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 17: Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography Program in a Large County Hospital Emergency Department: Initial Experience – Ashley E. Prosper, MD

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 18: Prognosis and Pattern of Cardiac Metastases in Patients with Stage IV Cancer Evaluated with Cardiac Magnetic Resonance – Andrew J. Plodkowski, MD

• Cardiac MRI in Patients with Pacemaker/ICD: How I Do It – Isabel B. Oliva, MD

• TI Mapping – Kate A. Hanneman, MD

Cardiac Imaging: Back to Basics

• Imaging of Cardiac Masses – Sanjeev Bhalla, MD

• Shock Through the Heart: Review of Common and Uncommon Pacemaker/ICD System – Ahmed H. El-Sherief, MD

• Imaging of the Atria: More Than Just Clots – Adam Jacobi, MD

• Total Artificial Heart: Indications and Evaluation Pre- and Post-Procedure – Karin E. Dill, MD

• Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Infiltrative Disorders of the Myocardium – Patricia J. Mergo, MD

• Cardiac Stress MRI: How I Do It – Jared D. Christensen, MD

• SAM Questions – Kaushik S. Shahir, MD, Robert M. Steiner, MD

Coronary Imaging

• Normal and Variant Coronary Anatomy – Nikhil Goyal, MD

• Anomalous Coronary Arteries Requiring Intervention – Prachi P. Agarwal, MD

• Coronary Artery Aneurysms – Amar B. Shah, MD

• Imaging of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts – Cheng Ting (Tony) Lin, MD

• Coronary Artery Imaging in the ED – Eric J. Feldmann, MD

• Coronary Venous Anatomy – Arlene Sirajuddin, MD

Education and Image Interpretation

• An Introduction to Active Learning – Marc V. Gosselin, MD

• Tips and Tricks for Using Mobile Devices to Improve Education and Patient Care – Charles T. Lau, MD, MBA

• Using Osirix to Create a Collaborative Teaching File – Howard Mann, MD

• A Physiological Approach to Chest Radiographic Interpretation – Andrew C. Yen, MD

• Medical Image Perception and Perceptual Errors in Thoracic Radiology – William F. Auffermann, MD, PhD

Scientific Oral Presentation Session: Miscellaneous

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 19: Optimizing Performance of Routine Contrast Enhanced Chest CT for Detection of Pulmonary Embolus Using Dual-Energy CT (DECT) – Scott Landreth, BS

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 20: Phase CT Pulmonary Angiography: Improving Contrast Enhancement in Failed Diagnostic Studies – Joao R. Inacio, MD

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 21: Chest-CT at X-ray Dose Using Forward Projection Based Iterative Reconstruction and 1024 Image Matrix – Patrik Rogalla, MD

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 22: Fat / Bone Ratio: A new Measurement of Obesity – Albert Roh, MD

• Scientific Oral Presentation – 24: Impact of Nonvascular Thoracic MRI on the Clinical Decision Making of Thoracic Surgeons: A Two Year Prospective Study – Jeanne B. Ackman, MD

Mixing it up: Miscellaneous Topics

• PowerPoint for Thoracic Radiologists: Improving Efficiency and Enhancing – Teaching Value – Brent P. Little, MD

• 3D Printing Application in Medicine – Nadeem Parkar, MD

• PET/CT Pitfalls in the Thorax – Mylene T. Truong, MD

• Pitfalls in Chest CT: Pericardial Recesses Mimicking Lymphadenopathy – Girish S. Shroff, MD

• Diseases of Thoracic Lymphatic System – Carlos S. Restrepo, MD

• Bridges, Crypts, Tendons and Tics: Unusual Structures on Cardiac Imaging – Julianna M. Czum, MD

• Imaging of Rejection in Lung Transplantation – Brett M. Elicker, MD

Pulmonary Infection

• Update in Epidemiology of Pulmonary Infections in Immunocompromised Host – Gopal Allada, MD

• Imaging of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Mimics and Uncommon Findings – Santiago E. Rossi, MD

• Pulmonary Infections: Rational Approach to Imaging on MDCT – Constantine A. Raptis, MD

• Hemorrhagic and Vascular Complications of Lung Infections – Tomas C. Franquet, MD

• Atypical Infections: Can We Be More Specific? – Laura E. Heyneman, MD

• Fungal Pneumonias: Keys to the Diagnoses – Loren H. Ketai, MD

• SAM Questions – Archana Laroia, MD; Maria C. Shiau, MD

Mediastinum & Pleura

• How I Do It: The Approach to the Anterior Mediastinal Mass – Edith M. Marom, MD

• The Indeterminate Mediastinal Mass: Added Value of MR and PET/CT – Rachna Madan, MD

• The CT-Guided Mediastinal Biopsy: A Case Based Approach to Minimizing Complications – Andrew J. Bierhals, MD, MPH

• Mediastinal Widening in Trauma: Aortic Injury and Beyond – Archana Laroia, MD

• MRI of the Pleura – Jeanne B. Ackman, MD

• Thinking Outside the Pleura: Multi-modality Imaging of Chest Wall Neoplasms – John P. Lichtenberger III, MD

COPD & Airways

• CT-definable Phenotypes of COPD – Sushilkumar K. Sonavane, MD

• Cystic Fibrosis in the Adult Population – Susan K. Hobbs, MD, PhD

• Dynamic CT of Large Airways in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Tracheobronchomalacia – H. Henry Guo, MD, PhD

• The Cough That Won’t Go Away: Imaging Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis of Bronchiectasi – Ami N. Rubinowitz, MD

• Airways Imaging in Hemoptysis – Diana Litmanovich, MD