2011 Oncology Imaging Update in Costa Rica

2011-001-Onc-Costa - 2011 Oncology Imaging Update in Costa Rica

Overview

Please save the date for this week-long meeting at the Hilton Papagayo, Costa Rica. We hope you can join us and be sure and check your Spring Break Calendar to see if it coincides so you can bring the entire family.
We're pleased to announce that Dr. Evan Siegelman (from the University of Pennsylvania Med Centre) and Dr. D. David Dershaw (Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr, NYC) will be our two guest faculty.

This 4 half-day course will serve as a review of relevant radiology topics with a particular focus on oncology and areas where radiology is making a difference: screening, detection, staging, problem-solving and followup. The course has been designed to provide an update on current practice in the fields of chest, breast, thyroid, abdomen and pelvis imaging.

Course Director(s)

Drs. Cynthia Walsh and Geoff Doherty

Target Audience

Radiologists, oncologists, surgeons, residents/fellows & techs.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
1. Apply principles of evidence-based radiology to their everyday practice
2. Determine which specific MRI techniques are advantageous in oncologic imaging
3. Assess the benefits of using various imaging modalities in the evaluation of hepatic, renal and gynecologic malignancies
4. Evaluate essential imaging findings which alter clinical management in colorectal cancer
5. Improve patient management through enhanced knowledge of current breast imaging options such as MRI and screening of the high-risk patient
6. Outline current concepts of lung cancer staging, pleural malignancies and evaluation of the solitary pulmonary nodule
7. Understand where radiologists can impact clinical management of lymphoma
8. Develop an approach in distinguishing benign from malignant fractures

Participating Faculty
Co-Course Directors:

Cynthia Walsh, MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor of Radiology

Geoffrey Doherty, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Assistant Professor of Radiology

University of Ottawa Faculty

Carole J. Dennie, MD, FRCPC
Associate Professor of Radiology & Medicine
Head, Thoracic & Cardiac Sections

D. Blair Macdonald, MDCM, FRCPC, Dipl Epi
Assistant Professor of Radiology

Guest Faculty:

D. David Dershaw, MD, FACR
Director of Breast Imaging
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
USA

Evan S. Siegelman, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Chief, MRI Section
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
USA

Registration Fees


All prices are in Canadian currency
Residents/
Physicians Fellows/
Date Technologists
Full Attendance (All 4 days)$900.00 $400.00
Monday, March 14, 2011 $250.00 $125.00
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 $250.00 $125.00
Thursday, March 17, 2011 $250.00 $125.00
Friday, March 18, 2011 $250.00 $125.00

Registration fees are discounted if you sign up for the entire course. We encourage you to attend the full meeting. Discounts are also possible for physicians from Costa Rica and all non-North American countries.