Echo Alaska: Frontiers of Multimodality Imaging Including Echo, Cardiac CT and MRI

This program will be presented live in-person in Anchorage and also is available via livestream Alaska Standard Time (AKST). When registering you will be required to choose in-person or livestream.

Livestream participation is to be viewed during the livestreaming hours posted for the course. This course is not intended, nor approved, as an on-demand learning activity. The recorded lectures take approximately 3-4 weeks to be posted on the course dashboard and ABIM MOC credit must be claimed within 30 days of the livestream course.

What do I get with the livestream option?  As a livestream participant learners will have access to the live presentations, ability to participate in polling, as well as submit questions to the faculty.  Also available for one year post conference are PDF’s of the PowerPoint presentations, video recordings uploaded to your learning dashboard, as well as CME and MOC. 

COURSE LOCATION
Marriott Anchorage Downtown
820 W 7th Ave
Anchorage, AK 99501

OVERVIEW
This symposium is a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art echocardiography, cardiac CT, and MRI for a wide variety of cardiovascular disorders.  We will emphasize new technologies and how to use imaging information for the care of your patients.  Integration of Echo, CT, and MRI and their incremental value in clinical cardiology will be highlighted.  An additional focus will be on the role of 2-D and 3-D echocardiography in guiding interventional therapies.

Unique to this course is live scanning of patients with various CV disorders.  This session will emphasize the importance of comprehensive echocardiographic acquisition and management decision based on echocardiographic data. 

Course Highlights:

• Imaging in echo, cardiac CT and MRI
• Strain imaging
• Heart Failure
• Mitral/Aortic valve disease
• Congenital heart disease
• Ischemic heart disease
• Imaging for interventional guidance
• Live scanning sessions – Strain, Valvular Heart, and Congenital

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this program, attendees should be able to:

• Describe applications of echocardiography, cardiac CT, and MRI to clinical decision-making
• Integrate Doppler, 2-D, 3-D echocardiography for management of patients with valvular heart disease
• Describe how to apply information from Doppler, 2-D, and strain imaging to management of patients with cardiomyopathy and heart failure patients including heart failure with preserved EF
• Integrate information from cardiac CT and MRI to compliment echocardiography evaluation of patients with valvular disease, cardiomyopathy, and heart failure
• Apply information from echo/Doppler, cardiac CT, and MRI to management of patients with congenital heart disease
• Describe how to critically appraise imaging data for use in case-based management
• Assess treatment strategies for cardiomyopathies including amyloidosis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

INTENDED AUDIENCE
This conference is specifically designed for adult and congenital cardiovascular specialists, internists, anesthesiologists, critical care physicians, surgeons, and sonographers interested in the clinical application of echocardiography, cardiac CT, and MRI.