On-Demand

2021

Dr. Evren Özçınar

Ass. Prof. Cardiovascular Surgery

Department of Surgical Medical Sciences

Ankara University Faculty of Medicine

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Prof. Ghannam A. Al-Dossari

MD, MSc, MBA, ACHE

Consultant Cardiothoracic & Minimally Invasive Surgery

Almoosa Specialist Hospital, Saudi Arabia

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Learning Objectives 

. Switching from non-invasive to open without moving the   patient and without obstruction

. Increased room utilization

. Multiple disciplines with different workflows & procedures integration into one room

Dr. Angel LM de Francisco

Faculty of Medicine Cantabria University

Nephrology - Spain

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George Iskandar

Medical Director, GE Healthcare, Egypt

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Learning Objectives 

· AKI risk in intra-arterial procedures

· AKI impact on cardiac & patient outcome and how to mitigate the risk

Dr. Selin Ardalı Düzgün

Radiologist

Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Turkey

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Prof. Habib A. Dakik

 Nuclear Cardiologist, Chief of Cardiology

American University of Beirut – Medical Center, Lebanon

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Prof. Abdullah M. A. Shehab

MD, FACP, FESC, FASCI, FACC, FAHA, PHD

Chairman of Cardiology Fellowship Arab Board Council

Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

Editor in Chief NEMJ, UAE

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Learning Objectives 

Cardiac Amyloidosis MRI Review

·    To describe the Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) findings of cardiac amyloidosis

·    To point out CMR findings that aid in differential diagnosis

Role of Molecular Imaging in Diagnosis Cardiac Amyloidosis

·    Epidemiology and natural history of cardiac amyloidosis

·    Clinical presentations and markers

·    Role of imaging in diagnosis and prognosis

 

Management of Cardiac Amyloidosis Including New Treatments

·    Discuss red flags for cardiac amyloidosis

·    Discuss and position statement of European Society of Cardiology on Myocardial Disease & Therapeutic Management of Myocardial

·    Amyloidosis update discussion

Dr. Faiza Abdullah Al Kindi  

MD, B.A.Sc., CBCCT, FRCPC 

Assistant Director & Senior Consultant Radiologist, Royal Hospital – Oman

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Dr. Ahmed  Al-Kamali   

MD, FAAP, FRCPC

Project manager of Heart Center of Excellent, Consultant pediatric Cardiologist,

Al Qassimi Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Sharjah. UAE

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Prof. Hani Adel    

MD, FAEPC

Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology, University of Alexandria Children's Hospital, Egypt, Alexandria

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Learning Objectives 

4D Flow in Valvular disease

·   Explain the Technical Principles of 4D Flow MRI

·   Describe the Current and Advanced Tools Provided by 4D Flow MRI in Cardiovascular Disease.

·   Discuss the Established and Potential Indications of 4D Flow MRI in Cardiovascular Disease

Management of Congenital cases

Highlight on History and Usage of Cardiac Catheterization Procedure in Congenital heart disease

Examples of Critical CHD treatment by cardiac Cath Future of cardiac Cath in CHD

Dr. Serçin Özkök 

M.D

Radiologist, Acibadem Hospital, Istanbul,Turkey 

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Dr. Serap Baş  

M.D

Medipol Health Group

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Dr. Mashael AlRujaib   

MBBS, MBA

Consultant Radiologist & Adjunct Assistant Professor, AlFaisal University, KSA

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Learning Objectives 

Tetralogy of Fallot is the most Common Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease. The CMR Assessment is a Novel Imaging Technique, Plays key a Role in Follow-up and Decision of Pulmonary Valve Replacement after the Surgical Repair.

Here, we will Discuss the Imaging in Tetralogy of Fallot with a Collaborative Experience Between Radiologists, Cardiologists, & Cardiovascular Surgeons.

We will then Discuss MDCT Evaluation of Congenital Heart Disease in Children Focusing on:

- Modality Choices in Pediatric Cardiovascular Imaging

- MDCT Scanner Requirements for Evaluating Children with Congenital Heart Disease

- Patient Preparation & Scanning Techniques

- Radiation Awareness

Dr. Ahmed Abdullah Alsaileek 

MD. MSc. FESC

Assistant Professor of Cardiology

Consultant Adult Cardiology & Cardiac Imaging, King Abdulaziz Medical City

King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs, KSA

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Prof. Ahmed Khashaba 

MD, MS, M.B.B.Ch, FSCAI

Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University

Consultant Interventional Cardiology

Al Qassimi Hospital, Sharjah, UAE

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Prof. Ertuğrul Ercan  

MD, PhD, FESC, FEAPCI

Interventional Cardiologist / Cardiologist

İzmir Ekonomi University Hospital, İzmir, Turkey

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Dr. Abdullah M Alshehri

FACC   

Associate Professor of Medicine

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

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Learning Objectives 

1-    Describe the complex Anatomy of the Aortic Root & its Different components, as well as the Implications for Correct Measurement & Reporting of Imaging Findings.

2-    Discuss the Various Viewpoints Regarding Sizing of the Aortic Annulus Using Non-Invasive Imaging Techniques, the Specific Problems Associated with 2D Versus 3D Imaging Modalities & Potential Solutions.

3-    Registration Anatomy & Enhanced Moving Contrasted Structures in the Image to Improve the Visualization

4-    How to Avoid Major Complications like Paravalvular Leak or pop out the Devise & howe to Reduce Dose & Contrast During TAVI Procedure

Prof. Hector M. Garcia MD, MSc, PhD       

Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University

Director, Angiography & Invasive Coronary Imaging, MedStar CV Research Network

Scientific Lead, Invasive Coronary Imaging, MedStar CV Research Network

Chairman, Clinical Event Committee, MedStar CV Research Network

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Dr. Imad Haddad MD, FACC, FACP   

Director, Cardiovascular Department

Director, Cardiovascular Catheterization & Interventions Jordan Hospital,

Amman-Jordan

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Learning Objectives 

1. Fast & Patient-Safe Ways to Introduce Physiology in Your Daily Clinical Practice

2. Objective Physiologic Assessment for the Need of Stent Placement Without the Use of Pressure Wire or Adenosine

3. 3D Coronary Modeling that Allows Calculation & Best View for Intervention

4. Pull-Back During & After Procedure Without Patient Exposure

Prof. Rabih Azar     

- Professor of Medicine, St. Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon

- Director of Cardiovascular Research; Division of Cardiology; Hotel Dieu de France Hospital and the Saint-Joseph University School of Medicine

- Current Chief of Cardiology; Division of Cardiology; Hotel Dieu de France Hospital

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Prof. Hussein Heshmat 

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist, Fujairah hospital - Fujairah, UAE

- Head of Cardiology Department, Fujairah Hospital, UAE Ministry of Health

- Professor Cardiology, Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

- Associate Editor, The Egyptian Heart Journal

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Dr. Farouk Mamdoo

Interventional Cardiologist / Cardiologist

Private Practice at the Union Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Learning Objectives 

1. Define Optimal Interventional Course During Complex PCI with Tools Available at Tableside

2. Low Dose & low Contrast Tips

3. When to Choose Image Quality Overdose

4. Speed & Efficiency During Emergency Situations

Prof. Ahmed Samir Ibrahim    

Head of the Advanced Cardiac Imaging Unit, Ain Shams University Hospital, Egypt


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Dr. Gianluca Pontone 

Director of Cardiovascular Imaging Department of Centro Cardiologico Monzino, Italy

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  Learning Objectives 

1.Increase Awareness as Regard bi Ventricular Cardiac Territorial Anatomy

2.Emphasize Role of cMRI in IHD & Different Cardiomyopathies (CM)

3. Update on new cMRI techniques 

4.To Understand the Missed Information of Standard Cardiac CT Coronary Angiography

5.To Learn the Basic Principles of CT Perfusion

DR. Rami Neemtallah   

MD, MSc 

Consultant Cardiovascular Imaging

Head of Non-invasive Cardiovascular Imaging at Allied Diagnostics and Muscat Private Hospital, Dubai, UAE

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Dr. Rima Tulbah

MD

Nuclear Medicine Fellowship Program Director, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Head of the Nuclear Medicine Scientific Committee, Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  Learning Objectives 

1. To provide an overview of clinical and technical advances in CT which have Optimized safety allowing for broader cardiac application.

2. To understand updated appropriate and relevant clinical indications and patient selection for CT coronary angiography

3. MPI Basics:

         Radiotracers, Protocols

         Scanners, Stress testing

4. Systematic scan interpretation

5. Artefacts

2020


(31-October 2020)
ECG Management and Patient Workflow  

Dr. Nicola Cosentino  

MD 

member of the AHA/ASA and a practicing clinician at the Monzino Cardiology Center specializing in the treatment of patients with acute cardiovascular diseases Milan, Italy 

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Learning Objectives 

-Identify the importance of ECG in diagnosis of chest pain in the emergency department

-Recognize the criteria to diagnose STEMI and know the classification of ACS

-Enhance patients workflow management

(3-November 2020)

Cardiac Perfusion in Nuclear Medicine 

Dr. Masoud H. J. M. Garashi 

MD, FRCP(C),CBNC,FASNC 

Chairman, Faculty of Nuclear Medicine

Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization

Chairman, Nuclear Medicine Unit

Chest Diseases Hospital-Kuwait

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Learning Objectives

- Introduction to PET/CT MPI Vs SPECT/CT MPI

- Indication for PET/CT MPI

- Radiotracers used in PET/CT MPI PET/CT MPI Protocol

- Concept of Myocardial blood flow quantification (MFR)

 - MFR in the literature


Dr. Rami Neemtallah  

MD, MSc 

Consultant Cardiovascular Imaging

Head of Non-invasive Cardiovascular Imaging at Allied Diagnostics/Dubai/Muscat Private Hospital

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Learning Objectives 

-Overview of Cardiac CTA

- Impact of Recent ESC Guidelines on Clinical use of Cardiac CTA

- New large Clinical Trials in The Field of Cardiac CTA:

-Perfusion Imaging

    FFRCT

    Plaque Imaging/Progression

    CT Outcomes

Dr. Paul Ong  

MA (Cambridge), MB BChir (Cambridge), FRCP,FESC

Senior Consultant Cardiologist

Head of Interventional Cardiology,

Tan Tock Seng Hospital National Healthcare Group

Organizing Chairman,Asia primary Angioplasty Congress

Organizing Chairman,Asia physiological & Coronary Imaging Course

Vice President of PCI Chapter, Singapre Cardiac Center

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Dr. Adil B. Al-Riyami 

M.D. DABIM, FRCPC, MRCP-UK, CBCCT

Interventional Cardiologist at SQUH, Muscat, Oman

Member of the Royal College of Physician – U.K.

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada 

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Learning Objectives 

-Fast and patient-safe ways to introduce physiology in your daily clinical practice

-Objective physiologic assessment of the need for stent placement without the use of pressure wire or adenosine

-3D Coronary modeling that allows calculation and best view for Intervention

Dr. Stuart Watkins    

BSc(Hons), MB ChB, MD, FRCP(Glasg)

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist ,the West, Scotland Regional Heart and Lung Center, Scotland

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Prof. Mohammed Balghith 

MD, FRCPC, FACC, FACP, FESC

Consultant, Adult Interventional Cardiology at King Abdulaziz Medical City

ACC Governor, KSA

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  Learning Objectives 

 - Identify enhanced stent visibility in relation to the vessel     wall

 - Improve image quality in obese patients

 - How to minimize percentage of in-stent restenosis and      malposition of the stent

Dr. Fahad Al Habshan     

MD, FESC

Head of Pediatric Cardiology, King Abdulaziz Cardiac Center, KAMC

Associate Professor, Cardiac Sciences, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

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  Learning Objectives 

 - Technical principles of pediatric cardiac imaging

 - Indication and utilization of cardiac CT for the diagnosis of difficult congenital cardiovascular anomalies

 - Learn about the optimization of radiation dose in  children undergoing Cardiac CT

 - Obtaining the target of high quality pediatric cardiac CT    with sub millisievert dose of radiation


Prof. Giovanni Di Salvo      

MSc, Ph.D, FESC, FEACVI

Full Professor Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Padua, Italy

Director Pediatric Cardiology at University Hospital Padua, Italy

Secretary of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging

Honorary Consultant at Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK

Honorary Senior Lecturer Imperial College of London, UK

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Prof. Luigi P. Badano       

MD, PhD, FESC, FACC Hon. FASE, Hon FEACVI

Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Milano-Bicocca.

Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Unit, Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, San Luca Hospital, Piazzale Brescia,Milano, Italy

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  Learning Objectives 

- A quick Introduction for cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, interventional cardiologists, anesthesiologists, sonographers, to understand the added value of 4D Echocardiography in various heart diseases and guide surgical and interventional procedures

 - A quick Introduction to Pediatric Cardiologists on Implementing 4D Trans Thoracic Echocardiography in diagnosing and assessing Congenital Heart Disease in Pediatrics Echola

(31-October 2020)
ECG Management and Patient Workflow  

Prof. Ronak Rajani     

MD FESC FRCP FACC FSCCT

Consultant Cardiologist and Professor, Cardiovascular Imaging

Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London

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Dr. Imad A. Alhaddad        

MD, FACC, FACP

Director, Cardiovascular Department

Director, Cardiovascular Catheterization & Interventions, Jordan Hospital, Amman-Jordan

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  Learning Objectives 

- Live coregistered navigation in 4D ultrasound and CT data to improve awareness of calcified structures by fusing CT with 4D ultrasound

- Enhanced planning of 3D CT images to better visualize the anatomy of the AO, make key measurements and help select the optimal implantation C-Arm angulation.

- Optimal trajectories & device optimal landing zone overlaid on X-Ray images help improve navigation throughout key steps of the procedure & deliver the device with increased accuracy

- How CT/X-Ray images fusion facilitates communication with the echocardiographer.

Prof. Dr. med. Mathias Goyen   

Chief Medical Officer EMEA

GE Healthcare, Germany

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Dr. Ibraheem Elmogy

MD

Medical Director of Imaging

GE Healthcare, UAE

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Jawdat Sanuri

Cardiovascular Ultrasound Product Manager, Eastern Growth Markets

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  Learning Objectives 

- As an introduction to the AI through “AI, personalized medicine and rethinking design” session you will learn how artificial intelligence and imaging analytics help caregivers to digest all big data points in Healthcare and how AI will help make medicine more human again.

- Then you will learn about various Quantification & AI tools across different modalities which can enhance Cardiac patient journey

Prof. Rabih Azar   

MD, MPH, FACC

Professor of Medicine, the St. Joseph University

Chief of the Cardiology Division, Hotel-Dieu de France Hospital, Lebanon

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Dr. Ahmed Abdullah Alsaileek

MD. MSc. FESC

Assistant Professor of Cardiology

Consultant Adult Cardiology & Cardiac Imaging, King Abdulaziz Medical City

King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

Ministry of National Guard- Health Affairs-Saudi Arabia

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  Learning Objectives 

-  Achieving low dose in Interventional Imaging 

·         Low dose techniques in CT/ Cath Lab Angiography

·         Right image quality at the lowest dose/contrast volume, regardless of Patient size and angulations.

·         Low dose cases review

·         Possibility of dose reduction and impact

 -  Low radiation dose in cardiac CT, is it achievable?

·         Low dose techniques in CT

·         Right image quality at the lowest dose/contrast      volume, regardless of patient size and angulations

·         Low dose - cases review

·         Possibility of dose reduction and impact



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