Kanal’s Magnetic Resonance Medical Director (MRMD) /Magnetic Resonance Safety Officer (MRSO) MR Safety Training Course (July 27 - 30, 2025)

Kanal’s Magnetic Resonance Medical Director (MRMD) /Magnetic Resonance Safety Officer (MRSO) MR Safety Training Course is organized by Northwest Imaging Forums (NWIF), Inc. and will be held from Jul 27 - 30, 2025 at Hilton Washington Dulles Airport, Herndon, Virginia, United States of America.

Program Description:
In an effort to provide Physicians, Technologists, and other course attendees with current information and data to make informed decisions in their clinical settings, this symposium covers several objectives. These include teaching and reviewing the basic principles underlying the potential areas of safety concern involved in the MR imaging process and magnetic resonance environment. In addition, defining the thought process algorithms for assessing whether a patient/device/implant/ foreign object can safely undergo MR imaging, and familiarizing the attendee with medico-legal considerations associated with MR safety.

Educational Objectives:

• Teaching and reviewing the basic principles underlying the potential areas of safety concern involved in the MR imaging process and magnetic resonance environment. This includes defining the roles and responsibilities of the MR Medical Director, the MR Safety Officer, and the MR Safety Expert and how they interact with those of the referring physician, radiologist, and MR technologist. It also incorporates a review of several new recommendations and/or requirements for MR safety, including those by the Joint Commission, ACR, and the recommendations of the international consensus document entitled, “Recommended responsibilities for management of MR safety”.
• Defining and standardizing the thought process algorithms for assessing whether a patient/device/implant/foreign object can safely undergo MR imaging; reviewing the benefit-risk assessment process and establishing protocols and guidelines as to how to formalize the benefit-risk ratio assessment for each patient. Applying these algorithms and this reasoning approach to multiple real and created clinical cases and situations is an integral aspect of this part of the course.
• Medicolegal aspects of MR safety: Learning from the mistakes of others. In this section, numerous real legal cases in which MR safety-related medical malpractice was alleged will be reviewed and analyzed. The objective will always be to learn how to decrease the likelihood of similar issues arising with your patients in your own MR practice.