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  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    2:00 PM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SCMR AI Special Interest Group Meeting
    Location: Embassy Room
    Moderator: Peng Hu, PhD – School of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    2:00 PM – 2:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    AI Methods for CMR Acquisition and Reconstruction
    Location: Embassy Room
    Speaker: Reza Nezafat, PhD – Harvard Medical School
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    2:15 PM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    AI Methods for CMR Post-Processing
    Location: Embassy Room
    Speaker: Alistair A. Young, PhD – King's College London
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    2:30 PM – 2:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    AI for CMR Contrast Enhancement
    Location: Embassy Room
    Speaker: Qiang Zhang, PhD, FSCMR – University of Oxford
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    2:45 PM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    AI Processing Pipeline for CMR
    Location: Embassy Room
    Speaker: Hui Xue, PhD – Health Futures, Microsoft Research
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    2:40 PM – 3:40 PM East Coast USA Time
    Best Case SCMR
    Location: Hampton Ballroom
    Moderator: Jason N. Johnson, MD – Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
    Moderator: Tim Leiner, MD, PhD – Mayo Clinic
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    2:40 PM – 3:40 PM East Coast USA Time
    Grant Writing 101
    Location: Diplomat Ballroom
    Moderator: Connie Tsao, MD, MPH – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Moderator: Sebastian Weingärtner, PhD – Delft University of Technology
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    2:40 PM – 2:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    How to write the Specific Aims Page
    Location: Diplomat Ballroom
    Speaker: Dan Kim, PhD – Northwestern University
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    2:40 PM – 2:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Unexpected Discovery of Pseudoaneurysm during routine Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging several years after Congenital Heart Surgery
    Location: Hampton Ballroom
    Speaker: Christopher Schmitt, MD, MPH – Nationwide Children's Hospital
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    2:45 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Live session drafting a hypothesis and the specific aims
    Location: Diplomat Ballroom
    Speaker: Dan Kim, PhD – Northwestern University
    Speaker: Karolina M. Zareba, MD – The Ohio State University
    Speaker: Sebastian Weingärtner, PhD – Delft University of Technology
    Speaker: Connie Tsao, MD, MPH – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    2:50 PM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Cardiac Involvement in Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (Churg-Strauss Syndrome)
    Location: Hampton Ballroom
    Speaker: Vijaya Bhaskar Nori, MD Radiology – Vista imaging and medical centre pvt ltd Hyderabad.
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    3:00 PM – 3:10 PM East Coast USA Time
    Multiple Cardiac Hydatid Cysts
    Location: Hampton Ballroom
    Speaker: Mekkaoui Abderrahmane, MD – Oran's Novembre 1st university hospital
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    3:10 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Home Is Where the Heart Is: A Case of a Cardiac Pseudomass in a Patient with Acute Coronary Syndrome
    Location: Hampton Ballroom
    Speaker: TOSHA J. DESAI, MD – Asian Heart institute BKC mumbai
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    3:15 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    How to write the remaining sections
    Location: Diplomat Ballroom
    Speaker: Karolina M. Zareba, MD – The Ohio State University
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    3:20 PM – 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Takeuchi Baffle Leak Resulting in Left Main Coronary Artery Steal
    Location: Hampton Ballroom
    Speaker: Kristin N. Andres, MD – Stanford University
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    3:20 PM – 3:40 PM East Coast USA Time
    Discussion: Grant Writing 101
    Location: Diplomat Ballroom
    Speaker: Dan Kim, PhD – Northwestern University
    Speaker: Karolina M. Zareba, MD – The Ohio State University
    Speaker: Sebastian Weingärtner, PhD – Delft University of Technology
    Speaker: Connie Tsao, MD, MPH – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Other Sessions
  • Thursday, Jan 30th
    3:30 PM – 3:40 PM East Coast USA Time
    Mystery of Isolated Right Atrial Hypertrophy: Story of Two Sisters
    Location: Hampton Ballroom
    Speaker: Nitin Burkule, MD, FSCMR – Jupiter Hospital
    Other Sessions
  • Friday, Jan 31st
    3:50 PM – 4:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    SCMR Annual Assembly
    Location: Empire Ballroom
    Other Sessions
  • Friday, Jan 31st
    3:50 PM – 3:52 PM East Coast USA Time
    Welcome & Call to Order
    Location: Empire Ballroom
    Speaker: Michael Markl, PhD – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Other Sessions
  • Friday, Jan 31st
    3:52 PM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Annual Report
    Location: Empire Ballroom
    Speaker: Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, MD, PhD, FSCMR – Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals
    Speaker: Michael Markl, PhD – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Other Sessions
  • Friday, Jan 31st
    4:00 PM – 4:05 PM East Coast USA Time
    Financial Report
    Location: Empire Ballroom
    Speaker: Vanessa M. Ferreira, MD, PhD, FSCMR – University of Oxford
    Other Sessions
  • Friday, Jan 31st
    4:05 PM – 4:10 PM East Coast USA Time
    Educational Program 2025-2026
    Location: Empire Ballroom
    Speaker: Michael Markl, PhD – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Speaker: Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, MD, PhD, FSCMR – Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals
    Other Sessions
  • Friday, Jan 31st
    4:10 PM – 4:17 PM East Coast USA Time
    Open Discussion
    Location: Empire Ballroom
    Speaker: Michael Markl, PhD – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Speaker: Vanessa M. Ferreira, MD, PhD, FSCMR – University of Oxford
    Speaker: Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, MD, PhD, FSCMR – Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals
    Speaker: Carlos Rochitte – InCor - Univ. of São Paulo / HCOR - Heart Hospital
    Other Sessions
  • Friday, Jan 31st
    4:17 PM – 4:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Concluding Remarks
    Location: Empire Ballroom
    Speaker: Carlos Rochitte – InCor - Univ. of São Paulo / HCOR - Heart Hospital
    Speaker: Michael Markl, PhD – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Other Sessions
  • Saturday, Feb 1st
    9:10 AM – 10:10 AM East Coast USA Time
    CMR Quiz
    Location: Palladian Ballroom
    Moderator: Mark Westwood, MD – Barts Heart Centre at St Bartholomew's Hospital
    Moderator: John-Paul Carpenter, MD, FSCMR – University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
    Moderator: George d. Thornton, MBBS PhD – Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London
    Moderator: Anupama Rao, MD, FACC, FSCMR – Rush University Medical Center/St. Luke's Hospital
    Other Sessions