Mammography in Santa Fe: Music, Mammograms, MRI and Mountains
August 10 -  14

Monday, August 10, 2009

Quality Screening: The Key to Early Breast Cancer Detection

7:00 am Final Registration, Refreshments, Exhibits

7:45 Welcome: Introduction and Announcements - Michael N. Linver, M.D.

8:00 Mastering the Art of Mammographic Screening - Richard E. Bird, M.D.

8:45 Strategies for finding commonly missed subtle findings of breast cancer - G.W. Eklund, M.D.

9:30 Introduction to the Digital Screening Workshops: How they Work, and How they Will Help - Michael N. Linver, M.D.

10:15 Refreshment Break, Exhibits

11:15 Breast Ultrasound: our old new best friend - Gilda Cardenosa, M.D.

12:00 Panel: Screening tools new and old: how should we use them? - Drs. Bird, Eklund, Linver and Cardenosa

12:45 pm Lunch (on your own)

2:00 Finding Early Invasive Cancer: A Screening Exercise - Richard E. Bird, M.D.

3:30 Workshop: Would you biopsy these calcifications? - G.W. Eklund, MD

(Free CD of all 100 cases of calcifications will be given to attendees)

5:00 Workshop concludes

5:15 pm Begin review of 100 Digital Screening Mammograms at the workstations (on your own)

10:00 pm Workstation review room closes

 

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Beyond Screening: The Art of Diagnosis

7:30 am Refreshments, Exhibits

7:55 Announcements, Case of the Day - Michael N. Linver, M.D.

8:00 The screen-detected lesion: What do you do next, & how do you do it? - Richard E. Bird, M.D.

8:45 "Massology 101": a comprehensive review, from "leave-alone lesions" to "natural-born killers" - Gilda Cardenosa, M.D.

9:30 The Digital Mammography Screening Revolution: FFDM and CAD - Robert A. Schmidt, M.D.

10:15 Refreshment Break, Exhibits

11:00 "Calcificology 101": a practical approach to determining whether calcifications should be biopsied, followed, or ignored - G.W. Eklund, M.D.

11:45 New Technologies: Tomosynthesis, PCM, Whole Breast Ultrasound, BSGI, PEM - Robert A. Schmidt, M.D.

12:30 pm Lunch (on your own)

1:00 pm Continue review of 100 Digital Screening Mammograms at the workstations (on your own)

10:00 pm Workstation review room closes

 

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Hands-on Interventional Breast Imaging: Core and More

7:30 am Refreshments, Exhibits

7:55 Announcements, Case of the Day - Michael N. Linver, M.D.

8:00 Ultrasound-Guided Core Biopsy: State of the Art Review - Robert A. Schmidt, M.D.

8:45 Stereotactic and MR-Guided Core Biopsy Techniques: Something old, something new - Christopher Comstock, MD

9:45 Refreshment Break, Exhibits

10:45 Ductography: Still useful after all these years! - Gilda Cardenosa, M.D.

11:15 Hands-On Workshops: Stereotactic, Ultrasound, and MRI Core Biopsy - The Faculty

1:15 pm Lunch (on your own)

2:15 Digital Screening Mammography Workshop I: Faculty Review of all 100 Screening Cases - The Faculty

5:15 Workshop Concludes

5:30 pm Continue review of 100 Digital Screening Mammograms at the workstations (on your own, if needed)

10:00 pm Workstation review room closes

 

Thursday, August 13, 2009

MINI-COURSE IN BREAST MR, DAY 1: THE BASICS

7:30 am Refreshments, exhibits

7:50 Announcements, Awarding of Prizes to Winners of Case of the Day Contest, and Introduction to Breast MR Mini-Course - Michael N. Linver, M.D.

8:00 Clinical Aspects of Breast MR - Christopher Comstock, M.D.

8:45 Basic Techniques of Image Acquisition - Bruce A. Porter, M.D.

9:30 Basics of Image Interpretation - Gillian Newstead, M.D.

10:15 Refreshment Break

10:30 BI-RADS Lexicon for Breast MR - Christopher Comstock, M.D.

11:15 Breast MR as a Screening Tool - Gillian Newstead, M.D.

12:00 pm Lunch (on your own)

1:00 Breast MR: Interactive Review of Unknown Cases - Christopher Comstock, M.D., Gillian Newstead, M.D., Bruce A. Porter, M.D., and Bernadette Redd, M.D.

3:00 Digital Screening Mammography Workshop II: Faculty Review of all 100 Screening Cases - The Faculty

6:00 Workshop Concludes

 

Friday, August 14, 2009

MINI-COURSE IN BREAST MR, DAY 2: ADVANCED TOPICS

7:30 am Full Breakfast Buffet

8:00 MR of Lobular Cancer - Bruce A. Porter, M.D.

8:45 MR of DCIS - Gillian Newstead, M.D.

9:30 MR Guided Breast Biopsy: Tips and Techniques - Christopher Comstock, M.D.

10:15 Refreshment Break

10:30 Breast Cancer Staging with MR, and Diffusion-weighted Imaging- Bruce A. Porter, M.D

11:15 Panel Session: Faculty Answers Attendees' Questions - Michael N. Linver, Moderator

Richard E. Bird, M.D., Gilda Cardenosa, M.D., Christopher Comstock, M.D., G.W. Eklund, M.D., Gillian Newstead, M.D., Bruce A. Porter, M.D., Bernadette Redd, M.D., Robert A. Schmidt, M.D.

1:00 pm Meeting adjourns