SCCT2020|Virtual Program - Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

SCCT2020|Virtual Program

9:30am ET

Symposium sponsored by Medis Medical Imaging*

CT Myocardial STRAIN: Who could imagine?
Joao Cavalcante, MD, FSCCT and Victoria Delgado, MD

10:00am ET

Afternoon sessions 1

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Cardiac CT in the COVID Pandemic Chairs: Kanwal M. Farooqi, MD Todd Villines, MD, MSCCT ASRT		Prevention and plaque imaging Chairs: Ahmad Slim, MD, FSCCT Damini Dey, PhD, FSCCT		Best Abstracts & YIA Abstracts Chairs: Jay Earls, MD , FSCCT Ronald Karlsberg, MD, FSCCT
1:00pm	COVID-19: Next steps in prevention James Town, MD	1:00pm	2020 updates in coronary plaque imaging Chun Yuan, PhD	1:00pm	Best Abstract #1 Automated Artificial Intelligence Based Interpretation Of Coronary CTA: Plaque Volume, Plaque Characterization And High Risk Plaque Compared With Consensus Of Level III Expert Readers Andrew D. Choi, MD, FSCCT
1:15pm	Cardiac CT as an alternative for transesophageal echocardiography Andrew Choi, MD, FSCCT	1:12pm	Novel ways to report coronary calcium and present risk Michael Blaha, MD, MPH	1:10pm	Best Abstract #2 Automated Artificial Intelligence-based Interpretation Of Coronary CTA: Determination Of Stenosis Severity Compared With Level III Expert Readers Andrew D. Choi, MD, FSCCT
1:27pm	Opportunities and challenges of coronary CTA during the COVID-19 pandemic Ron Blankstein, MD, MSCCT	1:24pm	Identification of secondary-prevention equivalent individuals and guidance of therapy beyond statins Marcio Bittencourt, MD, PhD, MPH	1:20pm	Best Abstract #3 Feasibility And Performance Of Fully Automated Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring Using Deep Machine Learning Abdul Rahman Ihdayhid, MBBS
1:39pm	Impact on the practice of Cardiology and Radiology Jonathon Leipsic, MD, MSCCT	1:36pm	AI enhanced plaque interpretation Jelmer Wolterink, PhD	1:30pm	YIA #1 Association Between Prosthesis Geometry And Leaflet Thrombosis Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement On Assessment With 320-slice Scanner Ct Hashrul Rashid, MBBS
1:51pm	Q & A	1:48pm	Pericoronary fat to assess residual cardiovascular risk Charalambos Antoniades, MD, PhD	1:40pm	YIA #2 Myocardial Infarction Is Associated With A Distinct Pericoronary Adipose Tissue Radiomic Phenotype: A Prospective Case-Control Study Andrew Lin, MBBS
		2:00pm	Q & A	1:50pm	YIA #3 Prognostic Significance Of Subtle Coronary Calcification In Patients With Zero Coronary Artery Calcium Score: From The Confirm Registry Donghee Han, MD

2:15pm ET

Ask the Experts Breakout Discussions (View topics)

3:00pm ET

afternoon sessions 2

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CT Survivor Audience participation game Chairs: Koen Nieman, MD, PhD, FSCCT Kelley Branch, MD, FSCCT	Current topics in stable coronary disease Chairs: Stephan Achenbach, MD, MSCCT Maros Ferencik, MD, PhD, MCR, FSCCT MOC		Advanced CT technology explained Chairs: Ronen Rubinshtein, MD Suhny Abbara, MD, MSCCT ASRT
	3:00pm	Calcium imaging in symptomatic patients Khurram Nasir, MD, MPH, FSCCT	3:00pm	Iterative and deep learning image reconstruction Martin Willemink, MD, PhD, FSCCT
	3:12pm	Current use and limitations of CAD-RADS Patrick Donnelly, MD, MBBS, MRCP, FSCCT	3:10pm	Spectral and photon-counting CT imaging Rozemarjin Vliegenthart, MD, PhD
	3:24pm	Interplay between plaque morphology and functional stenosis Paul Knaapen, MD	3:20pm	Micro-CT to image vascular pathology Alastair Moss, MD
	3:36pm	Efficient integration of CT-FFR Jeroen Bax, MD	3:30pm	Motion correction for CT angiography Daniele Andreini, MD, PhD, FSCCT
	3:48pm	Causes and consequences of overcalling coronary stenosis Udo Hoffmann, MD	3:40pm	Myocardial strain by CT Elliott McVeigh, PhD
	4:00pm	Q & A	3:50pm	3D printing Shannon Walters, MS, RT(R)(MRI)
			4:00pm	Q & A

4:15pm ET

Happy Hour & Ask the Experts Breakout Discussions (View topics)

9:15am ET

Symposium sponsored by GE Healthcare*

Installing and running a dedicated Cardiovascular CT Scanner: What we are learning
Jonathon Leipsic, MD, MSCCT and Philipp Blanke, MD, FSCCT

9:45am ET

SCCT business meeting

10:00am ET

morning sessions 2

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Gladiators arena: Great debates in cardiovascular CT Chairs: Ricardo Cury, MD, MSCCT Todd Villines, MD, MSCCT		CT-guided Interventions I (co-endorsed by TCT) Chairs: Ed Nicol, MD, MBA, FSCCT Joao Cavalcante, MD, FSCCT MOC ASRT		CT-FFR and perfusion imaging (co-endorsed by ASCI) Chairs: Koen Nieman, MD, PhD, FSCCT Yung-Liang Wan, MD ASRT
11:30am	AI is the panacea for cardiac imaging Pal Maurovich-Horvat, MD, PhD, MPH, FSCCT	11:30am	Complex TAVR: Alternative access, bioprosthetic valve fracture, BASILICA procedure Chad Klinger, MD	11:30am	Principles of computational fluid dynamics Alison Marsden, PhD
11:39am	Not all AI that glimmers is gold Michael Lu, MD, MPH	11:40am	Frozen leaflets on CT: Clinical correlation of HALT and when to sound the alarm Jonathon Leipsic, MD, MSCCT	11:40am	CT-FFR: A dissection of techniques Anders Persson, MD, PhD
11:48am	Rebuttal	11:50am	Planning and follow-up of left atrial appendage occlusion Jacqueline Saw, MD	11:50am	The place of CT-FFR in clinical practice Kavitha Chinnaiyan, MD, FSCCT
11:52am	Echo is the first choice for LAA occlusion planning James Kirkpatrick, MD	12:00pm	Planning thoracic endovascular graft placement Dominik Fleischmann, MD	12:00pm	Acute infarction and chronic myocardial scar: CT vs. MRI Kakuya Kitagawa, MD, PhD, FSCCT
12:01pm	CT is the first choice for LAA occlusion planning Michael Salerno, MD, PhD	12:10pm	Role of CT in planning transcatheter mitral valve replacement Amit Pursani, MD	12:10pm	Myocardial blood flow by CT: Techniques and performance Francesca Pugliese, MD, PhD
12:10pm	Rebuttal	12:20pm	CT guidance of pre-emptive alcohol septal ablation to prevent LVOT obstruction by TMVR John Lesser, MD, MSCCT	12:20pm	CT perfusion imaging in clinical practice Bin Lu, MD, FSCCT
* The second portion of this session is not accredited for CME		12:30pm	Q & A	12:30pm	Q & A
12:14pm	Ischemia is still important for decision making Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, MD, PhD	12:30pm	Q & A	12:30pm	Q & A
12:23pm	Coronary plaque should drive therapy Jim Min, MD, PhD
12:32pm	Rebuttal

12:45pm ET

Symposium sponsored by Siemens Healthineers*

Driving AI Innovation in Cardiothoracic CT Imaging
Puneet Sharma, PhD, Siemens Healthineers

1:15pm ET

afternoon sessions 1

Channel 1		Channel 2		Channel 3
Multimodality Imaging in Acute and Chronic COVID-19 (co-endorsed by ASNC/SCMR) Chairs: Marcelo DiCarli, MD Kavitha Chinnaiyan, MD, FSCCT ASRT		CT-guided interventions II Chairs: Philipp Blanke, MD, FSCCT Omar Khalique, MD, FSCCT ASRT		Women and atherosclerosis Chairs: Martha Gulati, MD Barbara Srichai-Parsia, MD, FSCCT
1:15pm	Chest CT findings in COVID-19 Ann Leung, MD	1:15pm	Post-infarction ventricular septal defect closure: A step-by-step CT evaluation Markus Scherer, MD, FSCCT	1:15pm	Strengths and limitations of stress testing in women Martha Gulati, MD
1:25pm	Role of cardiac CT Gianluca Pontone, MD, PhD, FSCCT	1:27pm	Paravalvular leak closure: Defect localization and sizing Omar Khalique, MD	1:27pm	Sex differences in the burden of atherosclerosis Quynh Truong, MD, MPH, MSCCT
1:35pm	When is CMR helpful? Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, MD, PhD	1:39pm	CT lessons about transseptal crossing for transcatheter interventions Dmitry Levin, MD	1:39pm	Unique role of MRI for evaluation of cardiovascular disease in women Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, MD, PhD
1:45pm	Echocardiography first James Kirkpatrick, MD	1:51pm	Planning pulmonary vascular interventions Robert Frantz, MD	1:51pm	How to diagnose microvascular disease: Complementary value of CT angiography and PET Viviany Taqueti, MD, MPH
1:55pm	Role of nuclear imaging Sharmila Dorbala, MD	2:03pm	Planning peripheral vascular interventions Edwin Takahashi, MD	2:03pm	Clinical management of microvascular and non-obstructive coronary disease in women Janet Wei, MD
2:05pm	Selecting between tests based on clinical question Marcelo Di Carli, MD	2:15pm	Q & A	2:15pm	Q & A
2:15pm	Panel discussion

2:30pm ET

Ask the Experts Breakout Discussions (View topics)

3:00pm ET

CTA Guideline
Harvey Hecht, MD, FSCCT

Diagnostic performance and pitfalls of CT-FFR
Timothy Fairbairn, MD, PhD, MBChB

Dual-energy CT for enhanced myocardial imaging
Gaston Rodriguez-Granillo, MD, PHD

Cardiac CT Basics

Cardiac CT Image reconstruction from FBP to IR
Rebecca Schofield, MD

Post-processing principles and pitfalls
Geoff Rubin, MD

Quality parameters and artifacts
Harold Litt, MD, PhD

Coronary CTA soup to nuts

A systematic approach to incidental findings
Ella Kazerooni, MD, MS

Constrast media and injection protocols
Hans-Christoph Becker, MD, FSCCT

Patient preparation and premedication
Mouaz Al- Mallah, MD, MSc, FSCCT

Reporting and communicating results
Jay Earls, MD, FSCCT

Rescuing scans that went bad
Brian Ghoshhajra, MD, MBA, FSCCT

MULTIMODALITY IMAGING

How to combine cardiac CT and MRI in evaluating aortic stenosis?
Joao Cavalcante, MD, FSCCT

How to select best functional test after an equivocal CT angiogram?
Sharmilla Dorbala, MD

Integrating CT angiography and functional testing: Lessons from the ISCHEMIA trial
Randall Thompson, MD

When is stress MRI preferred over cardiac CT?
Michael Salerno, MD, PHD

PREVENTION & PLAQUE

Calcium imaging in trial designs
Khurram Nasir, MD, MPH, FSCCT

Hepatic steatosis as a novel cardiovascular risk factor
Maros Ferencik, MD, PhD, MCR, FSCCT

How early is too early for calcium imaging?
Micheal Miedema, MD, MPH

Should coronary CT angiography be considered in asymptomatic individual?
Matthew Budoff, MD, MSCCT

STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE & INTERVENTIONS

Cardiac CT for planning robotic-assisted cardiac valve procedures
Eric Williamson, MD, FSCCT

CT and PET findings in cardiac infections
Ayaz Aghayev, MD

CT evaluation of infiltrative cardiac disease
Gianluca Pontone, MD, PHD, FSCCT

CT for interventional planning: Safe access to the heart
James Lee, MD, FSCCT

CT in pericardial disease
Nuno Bettencourt, MD, PhD, MPH

Flow simulations in structural heart disease
Ronak Rajani, MD, PHD, FSCCT

Normal finding and complications after atrial appendage occlusion
Kasper Korsholm, MD

THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT: TAILORED CT PROTOCOLS

Chest pain triage in the ED
Kavitha Chinnaiyan, MD, FSCCT

Critical care and trauma
Claire Sandstrom, MD

Preventive cardiology
Ahmad Slim, MD, FSCCT

The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 10.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicals should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Attendees will be given access to the recordings of live activity sessions. This will afford them the opportunity to earn an additional 15.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ .

*Sponsored Symposia are not a part of the SCCT program content as designed by the SCCT Annual Scientific Program Committee and are not approved for CME credit.

Program is subject to change

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J. Jeffrey Carr, MD, MSCCT

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Kavitha Chinnaiyan, MD, MSCCT

Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD

Phillip Greenland, MD, FSCCT

Cristina Fuss, MD, PhD, FSCCT

Benefactors of SCCT

Stephan Achenbach, MD, MSCCT

Joanne Olson, MBA

Friends of SCCT

Ron Blankstein, MD, MSCCT

Andrew Choi, MD, MSCCT

Jens Eichhorn, MD, PhD

Majd Mark Ibrahim, MD

Kanae Mukai, MD

Ahmad Slim, MD, FSCCT

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