15th Annual Mammography in Santa Fe
August 9 -  13

Monday, August 9, 2010

Quality Screening: The Key to Early Breast Cancer Detection

7:00 am 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 Sonographic Breast Anatomy, the Basis for Identifying Breast Pathology - A. Thomas Stavros, M.D.

12:00 Panel: Screening Tools New and Old: How Should We Use Them? - Drs. Bird, Eklund, Linver and Stavros

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 10, 2010

 

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 Ultrasound of Solid Breast Nodules: Current State-of-the-Art - A. Thomas Stavros, 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.

12:45 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 11, 2010

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 of Regional Lymph Nodes - A. Thomas Stavros, M.D.

8:45 Problem-Solving In Breast Imaging, Gilda Cardenosa M.D.

9:30 Refreshment Break, Exhibits

10:00 Ultrasound-Guided Core Biopsy: State of the Art Review - Robert A. Schmidt, M.D.

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

11:30 Hands-On Workshops: Stereotactic, Ultrasound, and MRI Core Biopsy - The Faculty

1:30 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 12, 2010

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 Basic Techniques of Image Acquisition - Gillian Newstead, M.D.

8:45 Clinical Aspects of Breast MR - Christopher Comstock, 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 - hristopher Comstock, M.D., Gillian Newstead, 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 13, 2010

 

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

 

7:30 am Full Breakfast Buffet

8:00 MR of Lobular Cancer - Christopher Comstock, 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 Assessing your Practice's Breast MR Performance - Bernadette Redd, 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., Bernadette Redd, M.D., Robert A. Schmidt, M.D.

1:00 pm Meeting adjourns