SCBT-MR Spotlight

SCBT-MR Quarterly Newsletter

Editors: SCBT-MR Communications Committee

Fall│2016

IN THIS ISSUE

► President’s Address

► 2016 Meeting Update

► 2016 Gold Medal Awardees

► 2017 Board

► 2016 New Fellows

► Abstract Update

► Image Gentle - Think - Ahead

► MACRA Resources: Understanding MIPS and APMs

► Case of the Quarter

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President’s Address Dr. Erik Paulson, MD, FSCBTMR

Dear SCBT-MR Members, Fellows, Colleagues, and Others,

This last “Presidential Message” is a thank you note written with heartfelt gratitude.

Thanks for mentors who encouraged me to attend and participate in the society’s annual meeting. I recall listen-ing to radiology giants give top notch lectures which combined deep understanding of cutting edge technology with appropriate practical clinical translation. Further, I remember a welcoming atmosphere and ample opportunity for socializing, questioning, and colleague-making. I knew then it was an important career step to engage with SCBT-MR.

Thanks for accepting some of the scientific work I submitted. Those presentations and ensuing discussions were among the highlights of my career. I strongly encourage our learners and rising faculty to sub-mit as much of their work as possible to the SCBT-MR.

Thanks for voting me in as a “fellow” of the society. In my cap, the society feather is one of the prettiest and brightest. It has been an honor to develop deep friendships and collaborations with our amaz-ingly strong and talented group of fellows.

Thanks for appointing me to the SCBT-MR Board. The board is engaged, active, and hard-working and is deeply dedicated to the society and its various missions. Our board is outstanding and I was honored and humbled to serve.

Thanks for having me as President of the SCBT-MR! It has been a tremendous honor, one of the highlights of my career.

And, I greatly look forward to continued involvement in our Soci-ety.

Sincerely,

Erik K. Paulson, MD, FSCBT-MR

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2016 Meeting Update

Andrew D. Hardie, MD

Medical University of South Carolina

From the standing room only seating in the expansive main

exhibit hall to the overflowing room for the morning round

table discussions, it is clear that our society had one of its

most successful annual meetings. For the first time ever,

the meeting was preceded this year by the Multi-Energy CT

Workshop followed by the typical jam packed agenda of

world class lectures,. It was the right time to highlight this

emerging CT technology, which will likely become a signifi-

cant part of routine clinical care in the next few years. Not

only was this session an opportunity to introduce more

practitioners to the concepts on multi-energy CT, but it led

to lively discussions among the experts as to the applica-

tion and future direction of the technology. This lead to the

regular annual meeting formally getting underway with a

thought-provoking presentation on value driven health

care by Vivian Lee, CEO at the University of Utah.

The educational program again included timely and top-

quality presentations from many established national and

international leaders in the field. On the other hand, sever-

al speakers were relatively new faces; faces that will be-

come more familiar to us all. One of the highlights of the

program, as usual, was the scientific session. The society

has sought to slowly expand the opportunity for young in-

vestigators to present both oral presentations and their

posters orally, which continued to great success this year.

Our society took time to celebrate the careers of several of our

members and giants in the field of imaging with the annual Gold

Medal Awards. At the awards banquet, we were regaled by the life

experiences of Melvin Korobkin and Joseph Lee, while we remem-

bered the monumental career of Morton Bosniak. During this event,

the society was also happy to present an award for Outstanding Ser-

vice to SCBT-MR to Dr. Eric Tamm. Many of us in the society can

attest to his tireless efforts to not only improve the society for its

members but more importantly increase the exposure of the society

to new potential members.

On the other side of the career circle, the society has made an in-

creased effort to be accessible to members in-training. To this end,

we began a new tradition this year of inviting all in-training members

to a breakfast focused on improving their involvement in the society.

This was well attended by fellows and faculty and proved to be high-

ly rated by the members. Our society is also pleased to welcome

several new fellows to the society: Priya Bhosale, MD, Les Folio, DO,

Reena Jha, MD, and Avinash Kambadakone Ramesh, MD.

The Society wants to express its appreciation to everyone who con-

tributed to making this meeting such a success. Plans are already

underway for next year’s meeting to take place in Nashville, Tennes-

see.

Visit the 2016 Meeting Recap page.

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2016 Gold Medal Awardees

Morton A. Bosniak , MD, FSCBTMR

Dr. Morton Bosniak completed his radiology resi-

dency at New York Hospital – Cornell where his

training was interrupted by two years of military

service as a captain in the U.S. Air Force. After

completing his residency, he held faculty posi-

tions at Moneifiore Hospital, Boston University Medical School,

and Albert Einstein School of Medicine. From 1960 until his

retirement in 2002, Dr. Bosniak was a Professor of Radiology

and Urology at New York University. He was named “Teacher

of the Year” 4 times.

He has published more than 200 articles, co-authored 5 books,

and 30 chapters. He was an outstanding teacher and served

over 300 Visiting Professorships, Lectures to Radiologic

Societies, Lectures at Post Graduate Courses,and Refresher

Course presentations at National and International meetings.

He served on the editorial boards of both Radi-

olgy and Cardiovascular Radiology and was Co-Editor in Chief

of Urologic Radiology. He is known for his pioneering work on the

differentiation of benign from malignant cystic lesions in the

kidney. Read More

Melvyn Korobkin, MD, FSCBTMR

Melvyn Korobkin, M.D., was born in De-

troit, Michigan and as a young boy, moved

to California. He attended high school in

Santa Monica, CA and obtained his Bache-

lor of Arts from the University of Califor-

nia, Los Angeles and his medical degree from Yale Universi-

ty. He served an internship at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston

and returned to California to complete his radiology resi-

dency at the University of California, San Francisco. He

joined the Radiology Department at UCSF as an Assistant

Professor in 1972. He was quickly promoted to Associate

Professor after only 3 years. In 1973, UCSF was one of the

first medical centers in the nation to install a body CT scan-

ner, and Dr. Korobkin led the implementation of this very

promising technology. He was one of the founding mem-

bers of the Society of Uroradiology in 1974 and an early

member of the Society of Computed Body Tomography

(SCBT) in 1976. Read More

Joseph K. T. Lee, M.D., FACR, FSCBTMR

Joseph K.T. Lee is a Distinguished Professor of Radiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and

Visiting Professor at National University of Singapore (2014 – 2016). A world-class expert in the developing technolo-

gies of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), his primary area of expertise is abdominal

imaging.

Lee graduated from Washington University School of Medicine in 1973. He completed his residency training at Mallinckrodt Institute

of Radiology and joined the faculty in 1977. He became a full professor in 1986. Lee left Washington University in 1991 for the Univer-

sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he continued to excel as chair of radiology before relinquishing his administrative duties in

2007. He now devotes his time to patient care, clinical research and mentoring the next generation of radiology leaders. Read More

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2016 Fellows

Priya Bhosale, MD, FSCBTMR MD Anderson Cancer Center Dr Bhosale completed abdominal Imaging fel-

lowship from MD Anderson Cancer Center. Pri-

ya has participated as an educator in multiple

national and international conferences. This

includes refresher courses and workshops at

the RSNA and the Society of Abdominal Radiology. Dr. Bhosale

has published articles in oncologic imaging in AJR, Radiology,

Radiographics, Neuroendocrinology, JCAT, BJR, and Abdominal

Imaging. She has co-author multiple book chapters and sec-

tion of a textbook on oncologic imaging. Priya has been invited

to participate as a speaker at national and international con-

ferences. Priya has severed as the Expert panel member of the

AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, 8th Edition. - Read More

Les Folio, DO, FSCBTMR National Institutes of Health Les R. Folio, DO, MPH, FAOCR, FSCBTMR is a radiologist in Body Imaging and the Lead Radiologist for Computed Tomography at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. He is also a Clinical Professor (adjunct) at George Washington

University Hospital.

Dr. Folio retired from the Air Force as a Colonel in the summer of 2009. His latest assignments included Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Uniformed Services University and the Penta-gon. While in the military, he deployed to hospitals in the Mid-dle East including Iraq. His book "Combat Radiology Imaging of Blast and Ballistic Injuries" is based on his military experiences while treating wounded warriors. Dr. Folio has chaired (and presented) several trauma and imaging conferences both na-tionally and internationally. Read More

Reena Jha, MD, FSCBTMR Medstar Georgetown University Hospital

Avinash Kambadakone Ramesh, MD, FSCBTMR Massachusetts General Hospital

2017 Board

President

Dushyant V Sahani MD, FSCBTMR

Massachusetts General Hospital

President - Elect

Garry E Gold MD, FSCBTMR

Stanford University Medical Center

Vice President

Susan M Ascher MD, FSCBTMR

Medstar Georgetown University Hospital

Treasurer

Elizabeth G McFarland , MD, FSCBTMR

SSM St Joseph Health Center

Chief Membership Officer

Scott B Reeder MD, PhD, FSCBTMR

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Secretary

Joel F Platt, MD, FSCBTMR

University of Michigan Medical Center

Immediate Past President

Erik K Paulson MD, FSCBTMR

Duke University Medical Center

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2016 Scientific Session Winners

Moncada Award

Brian Jiang, BA

Duke University School of Medicine

Optimization of a Frequency-Based Fusion Technique for Improv-

ing the Image Quality on Low Energy Virtual Monochromatic

Images from Dual-Energy CT

Junior Faculty Award

Lakshmi Ananthakrishnan, MD

UT Southwestern

Prototype Detection-based Spectral CT scanner derived Virtual

Non-Contrast Attenuation Values compare favorably to Attenua-

tion Values on Unenhanced Images

Innovation Award

Sponsored by Resoundant Inc.

Kum Ju Chae, MD

Seoul National University Hospital

Application of Image Registration Based Local Displacement

Technique (Lung Motionography) for the Assessment of Lung

Fibrosis

Lauterber Award

Andrew Trout, MD

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Reproducibility of hepatic proton density fat fraction measure-

ments across scanners and field strengths and between multiple

reviewer

Hounsfield Award

Todd Soesbe, PhD

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

The separation of simultaneously administered intravascular and

oral x-ray contrast agents using Spectral CT: pre-clinical exam-

ples of pseudo-cloaking with high-Z materials

1st poster

Alessandra Borgheresi, MD

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

Accuracy and inter-reader agreement of Iodine quantification

with Single Source Dual Energy Computed Tomography (ssDECT)

in calf liver model using different post-processing methods

2nd poster

Yayone Rivaud, MD

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Clot or Not? Mimics of Acute Pulmonary Embolism on Computed

Tomography

3rd poster

Mina Hanna, MD

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Update on cardiac MR Imaging of Muscular Dystrophies

1st power poster

Bhavikl Patel, MD, MBA

Duke University

Measurement of Variability in CT Imaging-based Quantification of

Tumor Heterogeneity

2nd power poster

Domenico De Santis, MD

Medical University of South Carolina

Contrast media injection protocols optimisation in CT angi-

ography at different tube voltages: evaluation in a circulation

phantom using third generation dual-source CT

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MACRA Resources: Understanding MIPS and APMs Reprinted from ACR.org The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) repealed the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formu-la. It also replaces existing quality programs with the Quality Payment Programs (QPP) in which physician payments will be based on participation in one of two pathways: the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) or Alternative Pay-ment Models (APMs). These programs reward physicians based on performance data and taking part in new payment and delivery models.

What Are MIPS and APMs as Defined by MACRA?

What Do I Need to Know? - ACR Radiology Specific Summary of MACRA Final Rule - ACR Analysis of Proposed MACRA-MIPS Rule - ACR Comment Letter to CMS on MACRA Pro-posed Rule - MIPS Measures Relevant to Radiologists - MACRA/MIPS Acronym Explanation

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