Introduction

SCCT continues to offer the tremendously successful CTA Academies. These intensive two-day training courses with expert faculty provide a unique opportunity to improve your cardiovascular CT reading skills. The courses are directed towards cardiologists, radiologists, and other physicians with at least basic prior knowledge and especially those with clinical experience in CT interpretation. Leaders in the field serve as mentors and provide immediate feedback of your interpretation results through corresponding invasive coronary angiography, which allows assessment and provides "calibration" for findings in your practice. All new coronary CT angiography cases with a wide range of difficulty levels have been compiled, so the 2012 CTA Academies will be extremely useful to "brush up" reading skills for participants of earlier courses.

Course Content

The course material is selected in a way to cover typical findings, artifacts that can mimic or obscure stenoses, as well as difficult anatomic situations. Cases are selected to highlight specific teaching points. Participants will have extensive exposure to interpretation of carefully selected coronary CT angiography datasets, including hands-on evaluation of 50 coronary CTA cases (maximum of 2 participants per workstation and at least 15 minutes allocated to each case). Every CTA case will then be reviewed on a large screen followed by viewing of invasive coronary angiography for correlation.

Participants will be able to have these 50 cases count towards the "Minimum Number of Mentored Examinations Interpreted" according to the ACCF/AHA Clinical Competence Statement on Cardiac CT and MR (Budoff et al, JACC 46:2005;383-402), which lists 50 cases of mentored examinations interpreted as a requirement for Level 1 training, 150 cases for Level 2 training, and 300 cases for Level 3 training.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of Educational Symposia and the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. Educational Symposia is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Educational Symposia designates this live activity for a maximum of 15.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Offered in Co-Sponsorship with the American College of Cardiology Foundation

Educational Objectives

Attendees will, at the conclusion of this course, be able to:

• Implement the post-processing of computed tomography coronary angiography datasets
• Recognize typical and complex coronary artery stenoses in computed tomography coronary angiography
• Detect artifacts in computed tomography coronary angiography

Registration

Click here to register or click on the course list below to download information and a registration form for the month of your choice. Upon completion of the registration form, mail or fax to the SCCT using the information at the bottom of the page.

Cancellation Policy: Due to popular demand and limited space, all cancellations must be sent to SCCT Headquarters in writing (email is accepted) and refunds will be made by check. A full refund, less a $750 cancellation fee will be made for cancellations 4 weeks prior to the CTA Academy. No refunds will be made for cancellations less than 4 weeks prior to the CTA Academy.

Agenda

2012 Schedule of Training Courses

Date:	Saturday - Sunday, April 21 - 22, 2012
Location:	Washington, DC - Embassy Suites Hotel Crystal City
Course Director:	Wm. Guy Weigold, MD, FSCCT, FACC
Faculty:	Armin A. Zadeh, MD, PhD, FSCCT
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Date:	Saturday-Sunday, May 26 - 27, 2012
Location:	Los Angeles, CA - The Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites
Course Director:	Jonathon Leipsic, MD, FSCCT and James K. Min, MD, FSCCT, FACC
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Date:	Wednesday-Thursday, July 18 - 19, 2012
Location:	Baltimore, Maryland - Marriott Baltimore Waterfront
Course Directors:	Stephan Achenbach, MD, FSCCT, FACC and John Lesser, MD, FSCCT, FACC
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Date:	Saturday - Sunday, October 13 - 14, 2012
Location:	Chicago, Illinois - Renaissance Blackstone Chicago Hotel
Course Director:	John Lesser, MD, FSCCT, FACC
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Additional dates may be added, please visit this web page for updates.