Beaver Creek Clinical MRI: New Essentials - What You Need To Know 2012

Beaver Creek Clinical MRI: New Essentials - What You Need To Know 2012
Sunday, February 05, 2012 - Friday, February 10, 2012
Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort
Avon, Colorado (CO), United States
Provided by Educational Symposia (ESI)

CME Provider:
Educational Symposia (ESI)
5620 W. Sligh Avenue
Tampa, Florida (FL) 33634-4490
United States

Toll Free: (800) 338-5901
Phone: (813) 806-1000
Fax: (800) 344-0668

Conference Center:
Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort
136 East Thomas Place
Avon, Colorado (CO)
United States

Toll Free: (888) 421-1442
Phone: 970-476-4444

Description:
ABOUT THE MEETING

This symposium is structured to provide a comprehensive and practical review of clinical MRI. Topics include a mix of basic and advanced applications including body, vascular, neurological, and musculoskeletal techniques. Expert faculty share their advice regarding the latest applications, techniques and protocols used to improve diagnostic capabilities and expand the clinical applications of MRI.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This CME activity is primarily intended and designed to educate diagnostic imaging physicians who perform and interpret MRI examinations. It should also be useful in educating referring physicians who order MRI procedures, as well as radiologic technologists.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Attendees should, at the completion of this course, be able to:

Apply state-of-the-art MRI/MRA protocols and techniques to clinical practice
Apply imaging protocols and techniques to effectively assess the peripheral vascular system to clinical practice
Recognize the strengths and pitfalls of breast MRI
Effectively assess neurological disease using MRI/MRA imaging techniques
Expand clinical applications for body MRI More effectively utilize MRI to assess patients with musculoskeletal pathology

No special educational preparation is required for this CME activity.

Self Assessment Module (SAM): No

Instructors:
Program Director
Lawrence N. Tanenbaum, M.D., FACR

Christine B. Chung, M.D.
Professor of Radiology
University of California, San Diego

Thomas M. Grist, M.D., FACR
John H. Juhl Professor of Radiology, Medical Physics and Bioengineering
Chairman, Department of Radiology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
School of Medicine and Public Health

Blake A. Johnson, M.D., FACR
Medical Director
Center for Diagnostic Imaging
Minneapolis, MN

Elizabeth A. Morris, M.D., FACR
Chief, Breast Imaging Service
Member, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Radiology
Weill Cornell Medical College

Neil M. Rofsky, M.D.
Professor and Chairman, Radiology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Radiology
Dallas, TX

Lawrence N. Tanenbaum, M.D., FACR
Director MRI, CT and Outpatient/Advanced Development
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

Bachir Taouli, M.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology and Medicine
Director of Body MRI
Director of Abdominal Imaging Fellowship
Department of Radiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

Michael B. Zlatkin, M.D., FRCP(C)
President, National Musculoskeletal Imaging, Inc.
Weston, FL
Voluntary Professor of Radiology
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
Miami, FL

Specialty Audience:
Radiology