The University of Chicago Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Program

Chicago, Illinois, United States

The 2017 CMR Group Team:

Our Research Interests

We regularly improve many types of CMR approaches, and investigate new clinical insights through:

1) Pre-clinical technology development (blue), 2) Translational research (green), and 3) Clinically driven investigations (red).

Amit Patel,

MD

Noreen Nazir,

MD

Javed Zaidi,

MD

Cardiac Imaging Center – MRI Program Faculties

Research Investigators

Akhil Narang,

MD

Kirk Spencer,

MD

Jonathan

Chung, MD Juliana

Bueno, MD

Luis

Landeras, MD

Karima

Addetia, MD

Victor Mor-Avi,

PhD

Keigo Kawaji,

PhD Amita Singh,

MD

Diego

Medvedovsky, MD

CMR Imaging Fellows

Automated Segmentation for perfusion

and cine sequences

RV Shape Analysis for

Tetralogy of Fallot

RV Insertion point LGE predicts

PH patient survival

Quantification of Tricuspid

Regurgitation with CMR

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Ventricular Shape Analysis

Fully Automated Basal Slice

Correction

ICD Patient CMR

Radial Cine-CMR at a 15ms High-

Temporal Resolution

New 3D Acquisition Development

CENTRA-PLUS (left); NCS (right)

Sarcoidosis with preserved LVEF

associated with poor prognosis

CMR PROGRAM ALUMS 2008-2017

Sui-Cheng Wang, MS

(Philips, Netherlands)

Mita Patel, MD

(MC. Wisconsin,

Milwaukee, WI) Nicole Bhave, MD

(U. Michigan,

Ann Arbor, MI)

Francesco Maffessanti, PhD

(USI Lugano, Switzerland)

Cristiana Corsi, PhD

(U. Bologna, Italy)

Marco Marino, MS

(ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Homaa Ahmad, MD

(Washington U.

St. Louis, MO)

Anuj Mediratta, MD

(NorthShore Long Island

U. Hosp., NY)

Wendy Tsang, MD

(U. Toronto, Canada)

Giacomo Tarroni, PhD

(Imperial Col. London,

United Kingdom)

Sonal Chandra, MD

(Rush U., Chicago, IL)

Waseem Cossor, MD

(Advocate Christ

Hosp., Chicago, IL)

Gillian Murtagh, MD

(Abbott Laboratories,

Chicago, IL)

Benjamin Freed, MD

(Northwestern U.,

Chicago, IL)

Nadjia Kachenoura, PhD

(UPMC Paris, France)

Semi-Quantitative Perfusion Stress

for Chronic Myocardial Infarction

Quantitative Strain

Thursday, Feb. 2 Friday, Feb. 3 Saturday, Feb. 4

3:15 pm – CASE REVIEW: Akhil Narang

A Case of Lung Cancer, MI, and Cardiac Mass: The Added

value of CMR

11:15 am – CASE REVIEW: Amita Singh Utilization of a Wideband Protocol to Attenuate

Intracardiac Device Artifact

11:15 AM – R039: Diego Medvedovsky

CMR to Diagnose Orthotopic Heart Transplant

Rejection

6:15 pm – P012: Amita Singh Burden of Premature Ventricular Contractions and myocardial fibrosis

as measured by Native Myocardial T1 Time: Is there an Association?

12:30 pm – P166: Noreen Nazir Utility of CMR in Survivors of Sudden Cardiac Death

12:30 pm – P329: Keigo Kawaji A Single BH Simultaneous Acq. of both Cine-CMR

and Strain-Encoded CMR

6:15 pm – P019: Akhil Narang Mechanisms of Abnormal Myocardial Perfusion In Post-

Heart Transplant Patients

12:30 pm – P167: Noreen Nazir Improved Assessment of Ischemia: Comparison of

Intermediate Dose Dobutamine Strain Encoded CMR vs SPECT

12:30 pm – P332: Keigo Kawaji Scan-Time Reduction by Improved Utilization of

Idle Times by Permuting Pre-Scan Ordering

6:15 pm – P033: Akhil Narang

Abnormalities In Myocardial Perfusion Are Associated With

Subclinical Systolic Dysfunction in Post-Heart Transplant Patients

Contact: Amit Patel amitpatel@uchicago.edu

SCMR 2017 – Please join us at our Presentations!

Roberto Lang,

MD