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Breast & Women's Imaging Seminar

Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
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This program is designed to provide radiologists and other breast and women’s imaging health care professionals with advances in the detection, diagnosis, management, and treatment of breast cancer and benign breast abnormalities. Our focus will be on the impact of new technological advances and interventional procedures. The SAWI course will focus on all areas of women’s imaging

  • More than 25 hours of video – 20.25 credit hours are applicable towards fulfillment of MQSA accreditation requirements
  • Program focuses on the impact of technical advances in clinical practice which include all areas of breast and women’s imaging
  • Covers the principles involved and the latest advances being utilized in the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer

 
CREDITS Earn up to 25.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
CE RELEASE December 15, 2008
CE EXPIRE December 14, 2011
 
Item No Media (Can't decide on a format?) Price Purchase
646DD
Video - DVD: Includes 14 DVDs, carrying case, comprehensive program syllabus on CD-ROM, and program evaluation.
$895.00
6464P
: Includes 2 MP4 data discs, carrying case, comprehensive program syllabus on CD-ROM, and program evaluation.
$895.00
646AUP
Additional User Package: Includes a comprehensive program syllabus on CD-ROM and a program evaluation (initial video purchase required.)
$250.00
 
Special pricing for clinic-wide orders or for group subscriptions/purchases. Minimum order quantities apply for eligible discounts. For further information and pricing estimates, contact Kyle Jackson at 1-800-952-0690 x3075.
 

Topics & Speakers


BREAST CANCER DETECTION
AND DIAGNOSIS BEYOND MAMMOGRAPHY

  • Screening With MRI
    Constance D. Lehman, MD, PhD
  • ACRIN 6666 Results: How Will They
    Change Your Practice?
    Ellen B. Mendelson, MD, FACR
  • US Equipment, Technique, and Scanning Pitfalls
    Giorgio Rizzatto, MD

ULTRASOUND

  • Feature Analysis in Ultrasound Interpretation
    Using BI-RADS®
    Ellen B. Mendelson, MD, FACR
  • Anatomy of the Breast and Axilla
  • Future Trends and Techniques in Breast
    Ultrasound Including Elastography
    Giorgio Rizzatto, MD
  • Physics of Ultrasound
    Jack Jellins, PhD, Hon MD

MRI

  • BreastMRI — Essential Technical Aspects
    R. Edward Hendrick, PhD, FACR
  • BreastMRI - Clinical Indications and
    BI-RADS® Interpretation
  • Imaging of the Ducts: Ductography, US and MRI
    Gillian M. Newstead, MD, FACR
  • How to Image the Patient with Newly
    Diagnosed Breast Cancer
  • MR Case Review with Audience Participation System
    Ulrich Bick, MD
  • MRI-guided Breast Biopsy: Lesion Selection and Optimizing Efficiency
    Constance D. Lehman, MD, PhD
  • Ultrasound Case Review with Audience
    Response System
  • Image-guided Ablation Advances
    Christopher E. Comstock, MD
  • DCIS: Correlating Extent and Histologic Type
    Using Modern Imaging and Pathology Techniques
    F. Lee Tucker, MD, FCAP
  • US and Stereo-guided Interventions
    Jean R. Paquelet, MD, FACR

PACS/DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY/TOMOSYNTHESIS

  • Want to be 100% Digital? Everything You Need to Know
  • IHE and DICOM, Universal or Mammo
    Specific Workstations
    Margarita L. Zuley, MD
  • An Approach to Interpreting Digital Mammograms
    Judith A. Wolfman, MD, FACR
  • Digital Mammography — CAD, Tomosynthesis,
    and Other Advanced Applications
    Robert A. Schmidt, MD
  • Multimodality CAD
    Maryellen L. Giger, PhD
  • Radiation and Dose and Cancer Risk in
    Breast Imaging and CT: Digital Mammography,
    Tomosynthesis, Dedicated Breast CT,
    BSGI, and PEM
    R. Edward Hendrick, PhD, FACR
  • PACS and Connectivity
    Paul J. Chang, MD, FSIIM

MANAGEMENT OF THE BREAST CANCER PATIENT

  • Panel: Do You Review Outside MRI Cases
    and Other Controversial Issues
    Moderator: Robert A. Schmidt, MD
  • Talking with Patients: Ways to Gain Their Trust
    Michael N. Linver, MD, FACR
  • Breast Specific Gamma Imaging
    Rachel Brem, MD

 

MANAGEMENT OF THE BREAST CANCER PATIENT (cont'd)

  • Changes in Surgical Management in the Last Decade —
    Role of Multimodality Breast Imaging
    Nora Hansen, MD
  • Improving Breast Surgery Outcomes:
    Integrated Pathologic and Imaging Methods
    F. Lee Tucker, MD, FCAP
  • Surgical Techniques for Reconstruction —
    Correlation with Breast Imaging
    David H. Song, MD, FACS
  • Newer Approaches to Medical Management
    of Breast Cancer
    William J. Gradishar, MD
  • Radiation Therapy Update – PBI and Imaging
    Requirements for Eligibility
    Krystyna D. Kiel, MD
  • Case Studies — Controversies in Management
    Moderator: Paula M. Grabler, MD
    with William J. Gradishar, MD
    Nora Hansen, MD
    Charlene Sennett, MD
    Robert A. Schmidt, MD
    F. Lee Tucker, MD, FCAP

JOINT CIBC/SAWI

  • Benchmarks in Breast Imaging
    Stephen A. Feig, MD, FACR
  • Mammography and Computer Aided Detection:
    Past, Present and Future
    Rachel Brem, MD
  • The High-Risk Breast Clinic
    Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, FACP
  • Breast Imaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
    Lawrence W. Bassett, MD, FACR
  • Follow-up Imaging of the Breast Cancer Patient
    Ellen B. Mendelson, MD, FACR
  • The Mammography Audit
    Michael N. Linver, MD, FACR
  • Breast Cancer Screening in China
    Li Junlai, MD

SAWI

  • Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer with Sonography
    Arthur C. Fleischer, MD, FACR
  • MRI in Gynecologic Cancers
    Marcia C. Javitt, MD, FACR
  • Women’s Imaging: Using the Appropriateness
    Criteria In Your Practice
    Lawrence W. Bassett, MD, FACR
  • Advanced Obstetrical Imaging (3D and MRI)
    Teresita L. Angtuaco, MD, FACR
  • Benign Uterine Conditions
    Darcy Wolfman, MD
  • OB/GYN Modalities Case Studies: US and MRI
    Moderator: Marcia C. Javitt, MD, FACR
    with Teresita L. Angtuaco, MD, FACR
    Marcela Böhm-Vélez, MD, FACR
    Arthur C. Fleischer, MD, FACR
    Anna S. Lev-Toaff, MD, FACR
    Darcy Wolfman, MD
     
  • Evaluation and Management of Osteoporosis — DXA
    Donald M. Bachman, MD, FACR
  • Evaluation and Management of Osteoporosis —
    QCT and Other Imaging
    Jean Weigert, MD
  • Imaging of Pelvic Pain: Pre- and Postmenopausal
    Marcela Böhm-Vélez, MD, FACR
  • 3D Ultrasound of Uterine/Endometrial Disorders
    Anna S. Lev-Toaff, MD, FACR

Faculty

Teresita L. Angtuaco, MD, FACR
Professor of Radiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology;
Director, Division of Imaging,

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,
Little Rock, AR

Donald M. Bachman, MD, FACR
MetroWest Medical Center,
Framingham, MA

Lawrence W. Bassett, MD, FACR
Iris Cantor Professor of Breast Imaging;
Section Chief, Breast Imaging,
University of California at Los Angeles,
 Los Angeles, CA

Ulrich Bick, MD
Professor and Vice-Chairman,
Department of Radiology, Charité University Medicine,

Berlin, Germany

Marcela Böhm-Vélez, MD, FACR
Weinstein Imaging Associates,
Pittsburgh, PA

Rachel Brem, MD
Professor of Radiology;
Director, Breast Imaging and Intervention,
George Washington University Medical Center,

Washington, DC

Paul J. Chang, MD, FSIIM
Professor and Vice-Chairman, Radiology Informatics,
The University of Chicago,

Chicago, IL

Christopher E. Comstock, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Radiology,
University of California, San Diego, CA

Stephen A. Feig, MD, FACR
Professor of Radiology;
Director of Breast Imaging, University of California at Irvine,

Irvine, CA

Arthur C. Fleischer, MD, FACR
Professor of Radiology, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN

Maryellen L. Giger, PhD
Professor of Radiology,
The Committee on Medical Physics, and the College;
Vice Chair for Basic Science Research,
University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL

Paula M. Grabler, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology,
Northwestern University,
Chicago, IL

William J. Gradishar, MD
Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology,
Northwestern University,
Chicago, IL

Nora Hansen, MD
Director, Lynn Sage Breast Center;
Associate Professor of Surgery,
Northwestern University,

Chicago, IL

R. Edward Hendrick, PhD, FACR
Consultant in Physics of Breast Imaging,
Fort Collins, CO

Junlai Li, MD
PLA General Hospital,
Beijing, China

Marcia C. Javitt, MD, FACR
Section Head, Body MRI and GU Radiology,
Walter Reed Army Medical Center,
Washington, DC

Jack Jellins, PhD, Hon. MD
Founding President, International Breast
Ultrasound School (IBUS),
Sydney, Australia

Krystyna D. Kiel, MD
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology,
Northwestern University,
Chicago, IL

 

Constance D. Lehman, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology;
Section Head, Breast Imaging,
University of Washington,

Seattle, WA

Anna S. Lev-Toaff, MD
Professor of Radiology, Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Michael N. Linver, MD, FACR
Director of Mammography, X-Ray Associates of New Mexico PC;
Professor of Radiology,

University of New Mexico School of Medicine,
Albuquerque, NM

Ellen B. Mendelson, MD, FACR
Professor of Radiology,
Chief, Section of Breast Imaging, Lynn Sage Breast Center,

Northwestern University,
Chicago, IL

Gillian M. Newstead, MD, FACR
Professor of Radiology,
 Director of Clinical Breast Imaging,
University of Chicago,

Chicago, IL

Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics,
Director, Cancer Risk Clinic,
University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL

Jean R. Paquelet, MD, FACR
Advanced Medical Imaging Consultants,
Fort Collins, CO

Giorgio Rizzatto, MD
Chairman, Department of Diagnostic Imaging,
General Hospital,
Gorizia, Italy

Robert A. Schmidt, MD
Professor of Radiology,
Director, Breast Imaging Clinical Research,
University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL

Charlene Sennett, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
The University of Chicago Medical Center,
Chicago, IL

David H. Song, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery;
Chief, Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,

University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL

F. Lee Tucker, MD, FCAP
Breast Pathologist, Division of Breast Cancer Research,
Carilion Clinic;
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology,
University of Virginia Health System,
Roanoke, VA

Jean Weigert, MD
Director of Women’s Imaging,
Mandell and Blau MDs PC,
Hartford, CT

Darcy Wolfman, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology,
Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington, DC

Judith A. Wolfman, MD, FACR
Assistant Professor of Radiology,
Medical Director of Breast Imaging,
Lynn Sage Breast Center,
Northwestern University,
Chicago, IL

Margarita L. Zuley, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology,
Director of Breast Imaging, Magee-Womens Hospital,

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,
Pittsburgh, PA


 
 

Learning Objectives


Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to:
  • Integrate breast MRI into their practice
  • Utilize devices for MRI-guided procedures and automated breast ultrasound
  • Recognize indications for and selection of appropriate Percutaneous image-guided breast intervention procedures
  • Establish concordance of histopathology with imaging findings
  • Describe the management of high-risk breast lesions and how imaging influences selection of surgical procedures
  • Apply basic physics to the various breast imaging and interventional modalities
  • Optimize new applications of digital mammography, CAD, US, MRI, sestamibi, and PET
  • Prepare digital mammography set-up and performance in the workplace
  • Review connectivity issues involving PACS and other archiving systems
  • Identify the role of CAD in breast imaging modalities – mammography, US, and MRI
  • Describe the role of imaging in the diagnosis and screening of ovarian cancer
 
 
 

Accreditation


This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, The University of Chicago, and Society for the Advancement of Women’s Imaging. Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
 

Designation


Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 25.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Contained within the total number of 25.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ are the credits associated with each discipline’s requirements: MQSA Mammography: 20.25 credits; Digital Mammography: 5.00 credits; Breast MRI: 4.50 credits; Breast Ultrasound: 5.00 credits; Stereotactic Breast: 0.50 credits; Nuclear Medicine: 0.50 credits; MRI (non-breast): 2.00 credits; Ultrasound (non-breast): 2.50 credits; and Bone Densitometry: 1.25 credits.

The American Board of Radiology accepts this CME certified activity towards the AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ requirement as established in the maintenance of certification criteria.

Release date: December 15, 2008   •   Credits expire: December 14, 2011

CME credit is obtained upon successful completion of an activity evaluation, as well as payment of a $30 processing fee.