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Nidal Al-Saadi, M.D.
Kardiologist
Institute of Cardiac MR
Berlin, Germany

Andrew E. Arai, M.D.
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics
National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health

Edward Baker, M.D.
Guy's Hospital
London, United Kingdom

Aernout Beek, M.D.
Cardiologist
VU Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Robert Biederman, M.D., FACC
Director of Cardiovascular MRI
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Allegheny General Hospital
Drexel University

David A. Bluemke, M.D., Ph.D., MsB.
Associate Professor, Diagnostic Radiology and Medicine
Clinical Director, MRI Division
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Jan G. Bogaert, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Radiology
Gasthuisberg University Hospital
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

Paul A. Bottomley, Ph.D.
Professor & Director
Division of MR Research
Department of Radiology
Johns Hopkins University

Jeff W.M. Bulte, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Radiology and Institute for Cell Engineering
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Peter Buser, M.D.
Professor of Cardiology
University Hospital
Basel, Switzerland

Tim Cannell
Royal Brompton Hospital
London, United Kingdom

Kanu Chatterjee, MB, FRCP, M.D.
Ernest Gallo Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
University of California, San Francisco

Cindy R. Comeau, B.S., R.T.(N)(MR)
Manager, Cardiovascular MRI
Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging
Cardiovascular Research Foundation
New York, New York

Albert de Roos, M.D.
Professor of Radiology
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands

Mark Doyle, Ph.D.
Cardiovascular MRI Physicist
Allegheny General Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Andre Duerinckx, M.D., Ph.D.
Director of Cardiac MR, CT and Nuclear Medicine
Forsyth Radiological Associates
Lewisville, North Carolina

Frederick H. Epstein, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
University of Virginia Health System

Zahi Fayad, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Radiology & Medicine (Cardiology)
Director, Imaging Science Laboratories
Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Research
Director, Eva and Morris Feld Cardiovascular MRI Research Laboratory
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Victor A. Ferrari, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine & Radiology
Associate Director, Noninvasive Imaging Lab
Cardiovascular Division
University of Pennsylvania Medical School

Scott D. Flamm, M.D.
Director, MRI and Cardiovascular MRI Research
Departments of Cardiology and Radiology at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and Texas Heart Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
Baylor College of Medicine

Mark Fogel, M.D., FACC, FAAP
Associate Professor of Cardiology and Radiology
Director of Cardiac MR
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Anthony Fuisz, M.D.
Director, Cardiac MRI
Washington Hospital Center
Washington, D.C.

Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Cardiovascular Institute
Professor of Cardiology
Richard Gorlin, M.D./Heart Research Foundation

Rolf Gebker, M.D.
German Heart Institute Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Tal Geva, M.D.
Director, Cardiac MRI Service
Senior Associate in Cardiology
Associate in Radiology
Children's Hospital Boston
Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Radiology)
Harvard Medical School

Thomas M. Grist, M.D.
Robert Turell Professor in Imaging Science
Chair, Department of Radiology
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Henry R. Halperin, M.D., M.A.
Professor of Medicine, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Division of Cardiology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Thomas Hauser, M.D.
Director of Nuclear Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Willem Helbing, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Charles B. Higgins, M.D.
Professor of Radiology
University of California, San Francisco

W. Gregory Hundley, M.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Radiology & Molecular Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Section of Cardiology

Joanne Ingwall, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine (Physiology)
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Robert M. Judd, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Radiology
Co-Director
Duke Cardiovascular MR Center
Duke University Medical Center

Kraig Kissinger, B.S., R.T. (R)(MR)
Senior CMR Research Technologist
Cardiac MR Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Christopher M. Kramer, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine & Radiology
University of Virginia Health System

Raymond Kwong, M.D.
Co-Director
Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computed Tomography
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Hildo J. Lamb, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands

Robert J. Lederman, M.D.
Investigator
Division of Intramural Research, Cardiovascular
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health

King Li, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP, MBA
Associate Director, Clinical Center
National Institutes of Health

Heiko Mahrholdt, M.D.
Head of Cardiovascular MRI
Division of Cardiology
Department of Medicine III
Robert-Bosch Medical Center
Stuttgart, Germany

Edward T. Martin, MS, M.D., FACC, FACP
Director, Cardiovascular MRI Center at the Oklahoma Heart Institute
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Oklahoma - Tulsa

Michael V. McConnell, M.D., M.S.E.E.
Assistant Professor
Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine

Elliot R. McVeigh, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
National Institutes of Health
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Craig Meyer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Virginia Health System

Oliver K. Mohrs, M.D.
Radiologist
Cardiovascular Center Bethanien (CCB)
Frankfort, Germany

Saul Myerson, M.D.
Clinical Lecturer
University of Oxford

Eike Nagel, M.D.
Internal Medicine/Cardiology
German Heart Institute Berlin
Cardiology - CMR

Krishna Nayak, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Departments of Electrical Engineering and Medicine
University of Southern California

John Oshinski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology & Biomedical Engineering
Emory University School of Medicine

Nael Osman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University

Peter Pattynama, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Interventional Radiology
Department of Radiology
Erasmus University Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Erik M. Pedersen, M.D., Ph.D.
Honorary Associate Professor
Aarhus University
Denmark

Dudley Pennell, M.D.
Professor of Cardiology
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College
Director Cardiovascular MR Unit
Royal Brompton Hospital
London, United Kingdom

Mercedes Pereyra, R.T. (CT)(MR)
Cardiovascular MRI Technologist
Department of Radiology
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital

Ronald Peshock, M.D.
Assistant Dean for Informatics
Professor of Radiology and Internal Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Gerald M. Pohost, M.D.
Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Southern California

Andrew J. Powell, M.D.
Associate in Cardiology
Children's Hospital Boston
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Ashwin Prakash, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (in Radiology)
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, New York

Sanjay Prasad, M.D.
Consultant Cardiologist
Royal Brompton Hospital, CMR Unit
London, United Kingdom

Martin R. Prince, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief of MRI
New York Hospital
Professor of Radiology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Professor of Radiology
Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons

Frank Rademakers, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cardiology
University Hospitals
Leuven, Belgium

Reza Razavi, MRCP
Professor of Pediatric Cardiovascular Science
King's College
London, United Kingdom

Ronald Razmi, M.D.
Director
Cardiovascular MR/CT
The Care Group
Indianapolis, Indiana

John P. Ridgway, Ph.D.
Clinical Scientist
Department of Medical Physics
General Infirmary at Leeds
Leeds, United Kingdom

Matthew Robson, Ph.D.
Head of Cardiac MR Physics
OCMR MRS Unit
John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford, United Kingdom

Walter J. Rogers, Ph.D.
Director of Interventional Cardiovascular MRI
Vice Chair for Research
Department of Radiology and Medicine
University of Virginia Health System

Ariel Roguin, M.D., Ph.D.
Cardiologist
Rambam Medical Center
Haifa, Israel

Jack Roy
Small Animal Imaging Specialist
University of Virginia

Hajime Sakuma, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Radiology
Mie University Hospital
Tsu, Mie
Japan

Jeanette Schulz-Menger, M.D.
Head of the Working Group Cardiac CMR
Franz-Volhard-Klinik-Kardiologie
Charite' Campus Buch
Universitatsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Udo Sechtem, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine and Cardiology
Department of Cardiology and Pulmonology
Robert Bosch Krankenhaus
Stuttgart, Germany

Dipan Shah, M.D.
Director
Nashville Cardiovascular MRI Institute
Nashville, Tennessee

Daniel K. Sodickson, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Radiology and Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director
Laboratory for Biomedical Imaging  Research
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Torsten Sommer, M.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology
Section Chief Cardiovascular MRI and CT
University of Bonn, Germany

Arthur Stillman, M.D., Ph.D.
Head of Cardiovascular MRI
Department of Radiology
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Matthias Stuber, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University

Andrew Taylor, M.D.
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Cardiovascular MR
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
London, United Kingdom

Albert van Rossum, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Cardiology
VU Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ralf Wassmuth, M.D.
Charite' Medical School
Humboldt University
Berlin, Germany

Samuel A. Wickline, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Washington University School of Medicine

Frank Wiesmann, M.D.
Cardiologist
University Hospital
Wuerburg, Germany

Todd Williams, R.T.(R)(MR)
Senior CMR Technologist
Cardiovascular MR Laboratories
Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center

Bernd Wintersperger, M.D.
Fellow of Radiology
Department of Clinical Radiology
University of Munich
Germany

Steven D. Wolff, M.D., Ph.D.
Director of Cardiovascular MRI & CT, Cardiovascular Research Foundation
Director of Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging
Chief of Cardiovascular MRI, Lenox Hill Hospital
New York, New York

Joseph Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor in Radiology
Stanford University

Shi Joon Yoo, M.D.
Professor of Diagnostic Imaging
Head of Cardiac Imaging
Hospital for Sick Children
University of Toronto

Chun Yuan, Ph.D.
Professor of Radiology
University of Washington

Program 1

CMR Hardware (Scanner, ECG-systems, Monitoring)
Frederick H. Epstein, Ph.D.

Sequences: Turbo Spin Echo Imaging
Andre Duerinckx, M.D., Ph.D.
 
Sequences: Gradient Echo Imaging (Perfusion, Viability, Velocity Encoding)
Mark Doyle, Ph.D.

Sequences: SSFP-Cine MR
Craig Meyer, Ph.D.
 
Basic Cardiac Exam
Edward T. Martin, M.S., M.D., FACC, FACP

LV and RV Function and Wall Motion
Robert Biederman, M.D., FACC

Program 2

Dobutamine MRI
W. Gregory Hundley, M.D.

Myocardial Perfusion
Nidal Al-Saadi, M.D.

Myocardial Viability (Hibernation, Stunning, Scar)
Robert M. Judd, Ph.D.

Coronary Artery Imaging
Torsten Sommer, M.D.

Magnetic Resonance Angiography (Peripheral)
Thomas M. Grist, M.D.

MR Angiography (Aorta)
Martin R. Prince, M.D., Ph.D.

Program 3

Tissue Characterization Based on T1, T2 and Contrast Enhancement
Walter J. Rogers, Ph.D.
 
ECG Triggering (Different ECG Systems, Prospective, Retrospective, Self Gating)
Hildo J. Lamb, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D.
 
Non-Cooperative Patients and Arrhythmia: Real Time and Single Shot Imaging
Krishna Nayak, Ph.D.
 
Resolution: Spatial, Temporal and Contrast, Parallel Acquisition Techniques
Bernd Wintersperger, M.D.

Value of Rest Perfusion Imaging for the Detection of Ischemia or Infarction
Rolf Gebker, M.D.

How Should Cine, Perfusion, and Viability Data Be Combined to Yield a Positive/Negative Test for CAD?
Raymond Kwong, M.D.

Program 4
 
CMR in the Assessment of Valvular Heart Disease
Saul Myerson, M.D.

Cardiac Masses
Jan G. Bogaert, M.D., Ph.D.

Valvular Heart Disease
Ronald Peshock, M.D.

Acute and Chronic Myocardial Infarction
Anthony Fuisz, M.D.

Myocardial Ischemia
Peter Buser, M.D.

Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis
Ralf Wassmuth, M.D.

Program 5

3T Cardiac MRI and Beyond
John Oshinski, Ph.D.

Is Viability Best Defined by Low Dose Dobutamine or Delayed Enhancement?
W. Gregory Hundley, M.D.

Is Standardized Acquisition Protocol Needed for Delayed Enhancement Imaging?
Andrew E. Arai, M.D.

What Should Be Offered For Routine Diagnosis of Myocardial Ischemia Today: Dobutamine Stress, Adenosine Perfusion, or Coronary Artery Imaging?
Frank Rademakers, M.D., Ph.D.

CMR in Clinical Routine - Europe
Eike Nagel, M.D.

CMR in Clinical Routine - US
Steven D. Wolff, M.D., Ph.D.

CMR in Clinical Routine - Asia
Hajime Sakuma, M.D.

Training Guidelines
Gerald M. Pohost, M.D.

Program 6

Overview of CMR in Congenital and Acquired Pediatric Heart Disease
Tal Geva, M.D.

Anesthesia versus Sedation
Edward Baker, M.D.

CMR versus CT for Vascular Anomalies
Shi Joon Yoo, M.D.

CMR Guided Interventions
Reza Razavi, MRCP

Flow and Function by Real-time MRI
Eric M. Pedersen, M.D., Ph.D.

CMR Assessment of Fontan
Mark Fogel, M.D., FACC, FAAP

Program 7

Imaging the Vulnerable Patient
Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D.

How to Generate MR Contrast Agents - Coupling, Binding, Etc.
King Li, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP, MBA

Atheroma Characterization and Validation (Preclinical)
Chun Yuan, Ph.D.

The Near Future: Applications of Intravascular Contrast Agents
Eike Nagel, M.D.

Atheroma Evaluation in Clinical Trials
Zahi Fayad, Ph.D.

Cardiac Spectroscopy in 2005
Paul A. Bottomley, Ph.D.

Strain Encoded Cardiac Imaging
Nael Osman, Ph.D.

Case Reviews
Charles B. Higgins, M.D., Frank Rademakers, M.D., Ph.D.,
Ronald Razmi, M.D., Arthur Stillman, M.D., Ph.D.

Case One
Charles B. Higgins, M.D.

Case Two
Arthur Stillman, M.D., Ph.D.

Case Three
Ronald Razmi, M.D.

Program 8

Targeted Isotopes for Radionuclide Imaging of Cell Therapy
Joseph Wu, M.D., Ph.D.

MR Molecular Spectroscopy
Joanne Ingwall, Ph.D.

Cellular Tracking by MR
Jeff W. M. Bulte, Ph.D.

Molecular Imaging by CMR
Samuel A. Wickline, M.D.

Massively Parallel CMR
Daniel K. Sodickson, M.D., Ph.D.

Non-Rectilinear Trajectories in CMR
Craig Meyer, Ph.D.

Program 9

Overview of the CHF Problem
Kanu Chatterjee, MB, FRCP, M.D.

CMR in DCM
Christopher M. Kramer, M.D.

CMR in the HCM
Albert van Rossum, M.D., Ph.D.

CMR of Myocarditis
Heiko Mahrholdt, M.D.

CMR of Infiltrative Disease
Dudley Pennell, M.D.

CMR in ARVD
David A. Bluemke, M.D., Ph.D., MsB.

MR Evaluation of CHF Models
Victor A. Ferrari, M.D.

Early Cardiac Phenotypes - CMR in Newborn Mice
Frank Wiesmann, M.D.

Program 10

Safety in MR - Pacers and Defibrillators
Ariel Roguin, M.D., Ph.D.

MR in the Assessment of Pulmonary Veins
Thomas Hauser, M.D.

CT in the Assessment of Pulmonary Veins
Albert de Roos, M.D.

MR Coronary Angiography
Scott D. Flamm, M.D.

CT Coronary Angiography
Peter Pattynama, M.D., Ph.D.

Myocardial Perfusion and Delayed Enhancement in CHD
Ashwin Prakash, M.D.

Pre-bidirectional Glenn
Andrew J. Powell, M.D.

Program 11     

Why Choose CMR as Your Career
Andrew E. Arai, M.D.

How to Become an Expert and What to Look For in a Training Program
Elliot R. McVeigh, Ph.D.

How to Transition to the Real World
Krishna Nayak, Ph.D.

Ischemic Heart Disease
Edward T. Martin, MS, M.D., FACC, FACP

Non-ischemic Heart Disease
Sanjay Prasad, M.D.

Tetralogy of Fallot
Willem Helbing, M.D.

By-Pass Graft Imaging and Flow
Oliver K. Mohrs., M.D.

Program 12

Valvular Heart Disease
Jeanette Schulz-Menger, M.D.

Congenital Heart Disease and Masses
Aernout Beek, M.D.

Maintaining the Workflow
Dipan Shah, M.D.

Interventional Cardiovascular MRI: Conventional & Un-conventional  Applications
Robert J. Lederman, M.D.

Electrophysiologic Interventions
Henry R. Halperin, M.D., M.A.

Interventions in Congenital Heart Disease
Charles B. Higgins, M.D.

Coronary MRA at 3T
Matthias Stuber, Ph.D.

Is CMR Trending Toward Performance at 3T Rather than 1.5T?
Gerald M. Pohost, M.D.

Program 13

Preparation of the Patient and Physiological Monitoring
Todd Williams, R.T. (R)(MR)

How to Acquire the Basic Views for CMR
Tim Cannell

Fundamental Cardiac MR Terms & Techniques
Cindy R. Comeau, B.S., R.T. (N)(MR)

Myocardial Tissue Phase Mapping and Tagging
Matthew Robson, Ph.D.

Program 14

CMR in Congenital Heart Disease
Andrew Taylor, M.D.

Parallel Imaging and It's Applications in CMR
John P. Ridgway, Ph.D.

Contrast Agents
Jack Roy

Program 15

Cardiac MR Pulse Sequences, Blood Flow Appearances & Quantification
Frederick H. Epstein, Ph.D.

Vascular Imaging and Function
Zahi Fayad, Ph.D.

Case Reviews
Charles B. Higgins, M.D., Michael V. McConnell, M.D., M.S.E.E., Ronald Razmi, M.D., Udo Sechtem, M.D., Arthur Stillman, M.D., Ph.D.

Case One
Udo Sechtem, M.D.

Case Two
Michael V. McConnell, M.D., M.S.E.E.

Case Three
Charles B. Higgins, M.D.

Case Four
Arthur Stillman, M.D., Ph.D.

Case Five
Ronald Razmi, M.D.

Case Six
Udo Sechtem, M.D.

Program 16

Stress Function and Myocardial Perfusion
Jeanette Schulz-Menger, M.D.

Coronary Imaging
Kraig Kissinger, B.S., R.T. (R)(MR)

Myocardial Viability
Mercedes Pereyra, R.T. (CT)(MR)

Mouse Imaging
Frank Wiesmann, M.D.