Advances in Nuclear Cardiology, Cardiac CT and Cardiac MRI: 38th Annual Case Review with the Experts

Advances in Nuclear Cardiology, Cardiac CT and Cardiac MRI: 38th Annual Case Review with the Experts is organized by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and will be held from Jan 23 - 25, 2026, at Harvey Morse Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Description:
A major national healthcare imperative for noninvasive imaging is for the tests to provide value. Nuclear cardiology and cardiac CT studies provide powerful tools for diagnosis, risk assessment, and guiding the management of selected patients with known or suspected cardiac disease. In the current environment, imaging must address the combined considerations of improving outcomes and containing costs. To this end, advanced cardiac imaging studies must be ordered on the right patients and optimally performed, interpreted, reported, and acted upon by physicians and allied health professionals. Additionally, effective methods to reduce radiation exposure need to be implemented to maximize patient safety. There is a clear need for physicians ordering, performing, and interpreting the tests to understand the issues regarding value-based imaging and to optimally implement this understanding. We meet these educational needs through a live activity entitled: Advances in Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT. The course is designed to meet the current needs of professionals who perform or request nuclear cardiology or cardiac CT. The course covers the use of these modalities across the spectrum of patients routinely seen by cardiologists in typical day-to-day practice and is designed to improve ordering patterns and increase quality in performing, interpreting, reporting, and applying the advanced imaging methods. A unique feature of the program is the extensive use of case presentations of each subject as a proven effective teaching tool. It also includes multiple sessions with group faculty discussions. There is a focus on incorporating new guidelines in practice and the latest evidence from clinical trials and registry findings.

Objectives:

• Identify up-to-date evidence regarding the information provided by tests, the appropriate use of testing, and how the tests affect outcomes and costs in coronary and noncoronary heart and aortic disease
• Recognize the implications of the 2019 ESC CTA ACCAHA chest pain guidelines on the use of noninvasive testing
• Implement the latest acquisition processing protocols, instrumentation, and software for multiple imaging modalities
• Explain how new approaches to functional assessments, such as coronary flow reserve, noninvasive fractional flow reserve, and plaque measurements, enhance the information obtained from testing.
• Improve image interpretation and recognition of image artifacts
• Recognize strategies to reduce patient radiation and contrast exposure while conducting high-quality studies
• Apply optimal protocols for pharmacologic stress testing
• Create optimal reports that integrate test findings and provide guidance for patient management
• Identify the latest information regarding how test findings should be used to guide patient management decisions
• Use criteria and evidence-based strategies to reduce inappropriate testing
• Identify knowledge gaps regarding blueprints for the CBNC and CBCCT Boards