SMRT Southeast Regional Educational Seminar
Saturday, 15 March 2008
Greenville Hospital System, Patewood Medical Office Building
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Organizers:
Melonee Elrod, R.T., (R)(M)(CT)(MR)
Cindy Hipps, B.H.S., R.T., (R)(MR), FSMRT
Carol Lee, B.S., R.T., (R)(CT)(MR)
Sheryl Peace, R.T., (R)(CT)(MR)
Wendy Porter, R.T., (R)(MR)

Program
     
07:30 Registration/ Breakfast  
07:50 Welcome/ Introductions  
08:00 ACR MRI Accreditation Update: Preparing for an On-Site ACR Inspection David W. Jordan, Ph.D.
West Physics Consulting, LLC
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
08:50 How to Get Started with Breast MRI and MRI Biopsy Terri-Ann Gizienski M.P.H., M.D.
University of Pittsburgh
At Passavant-Cranberry
Cranberry, Pennsylvania, USA
09:40 Break
 		  
10:00 Basic Physics of Making an MR Image - and Dealing with Terms like … “Bandwidth” Robert V. Mulkern, Ph.D.
Children’s Hospital
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
10:50 MR Safety Carolyn Roth, R.T., (R)(MR)(CT)(M)(CV)FSMRT
Imaging Education Associates
Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, USA
11:40 Lunch  
12:30 Optimized Protocols for Enhanced Imaging Carolyn Roth, R.T., (R)(MR)(CT)(M)(CV)FSMRT
Imaging Education Associates
Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, USA
13:20 Advances in Body Imaging Bobbie Burrow, R.T.,(R)(MR)(CT), FSMRT
Emory University Medical Center
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
14:10 Break  
14:30 Imaging the Pregnant Patient Leena Mammen, M.D.
Spectrum Health Hospital
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
15:20 Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis-NSF Charles T. Stanley, C.R.A., R.T., (R)(CT)(MR)
University of Virginia Health
Sciences Center
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
16:10 Closing Remarks