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Special Communication |
1 In accordance with the bylaws of the Radiological Society of North America (section 6.12), the Board of Directors has appointed a Committee on Nominations. In 2002, the Committee on Nominations consists of Peggy J. Fritzsche, MD, Chairman, Riverside, Calif; Jerry P. Petasnick, MD, Chicago, Ill; and Glenn Forbes, MD, LaCrosse, Wisc. Suggestions for nominations should be addressed to the Chairman.
Index terms: Radiological Society of North America, 88th scientific assembly and annual meeting • Special Communications
Digital technology is one of the driving forces behind the tremendous growth in the radiological sciences over the past few decades. Recognizing the important role of digital technology in medicine, this year’s RSNA Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting is aptly titled "RSNA 2002: Leading Medicine’s Digital Transformation."
Radiology has become an invaluable player in diagnosis and the treatment of patients. To serve the members of the radiology team—radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and their support personnel—in the medical community, the Society has developed an annual meeting that is relevant, inspiring, and intellectually satisfying.
RSNA 2002 offers the latest scientific research, state-of-the-art technology, access to medical imaging leaders from around the world, and the opportunity to earn enough continuing medical education (CME) credit to satisfy the requirements for an entire year. Each physician can earn a maximum of 80.5 hours of category 1 CME credit toward the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician’s Recognition Award. Last year, more than 53,000 people participated in the world’s largest gathering of imaging experts, experiencing an impressive array of scientific presentations, hands-on workshops, educational activities, technology, and networking opportunities.
For this year’s meeting, the RSNA Board of Directors has made several changes—changes that will enhance the scientific program and make the meeting more "user friendly."
One of those changes is a response to the needs of busy radiology professionals. RSNA 2002 will offer a refresher course track in General Radiology that provides 12 hours of category 1 CME credit in a compact 2-day session. The Essentials of Radiology: Eight Refresher Courses for Radiologists and Trainees Interested in Reviewing Basic Radiology is designed for general radiologists, residents, and subspecialists who want to review other areas of radiology. The course bloc will include sections on imaging of the breast, chest, liver, and shoulder, as well as pediatric and trauma imaging, ultrasonography (US), and uroradiology.
Courses on computed tomographic (CT) colonography and radio-frequency tumor ablation will be initiated as refresher courses at RSNA 2002. The Friday Imaging Symposium from last year will be revised and expanded into a minicourse on screening. This will include screening justification, techniques, accuracy, cost-effectiveness, ethics, and safety topics.
This year, a select number of scientific presentations on PowerPoint (Microsoft, Redmond, Wash) from the Sunday schedule will be available for viewing throughout the week by means of an Intranet system. While the logistics are still being refined, the goal is to provide papers from 12 scientific sessions, each in a different radiologic specialty, along with the audio from the presentation.
Another change is the expansion of the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Symposium to include a week-long Radiology Informatics Symposium to be presented in the traditional refresher course format. RSNA is committed to advancing the digital environment within the radiology profession. These changes in the curriculum enable a coordinated focused educational experience for informatics in radiology.
A Residents’ Forum will be held this year during RSNA 2002. In addition to the Residents’ Lounge, which was very popular during RSNA 2001, the Society thought it was important to host a special event in which residents are recognized as an important component of the future of radiology. The reception will give residents the opportunity to network with colleagues and leadership.
The RSNA remains committed to offering an impressive array of lectures, courses, orations, symposia, panel discussions, poster sessions, paper presentations, education exhibits, and workshops. More than 7,500 scientific abstracts were submitted for RSNA 2002. Only the very best will be chosen for the Scientific Assembly. For more than a year, four major RSNA committees—the Program Committee, the Refresher Course Committee, the Education Exhibits Committee, and the Electronic Communications Committee—have been planning the scientific and educational portion of RSNA 2002, while the Technical Exhibits Committee has overseen the development of the technical exhibition.
More than 200 Scientific Paper and Poster Sessions will feature more than 2,000 scientific abstracts in both oral and poster formats, representing 15 radiologic subspecialties. The scientific sessions highlight completed research with a comprehensive report; a work-in-progress report of research under way with initial, defined results; or a brief report of a particular new aspect or understanding of clinical radiology. The variety of presentation formats allows increased flexibility and improved communication of ideas.
The 298 Refresher Courses will include 45 limited-attendance workshops that feature intensive demonstration and discussion and expanded question and answer opportunities. Among the highlights of this year’s Refresher Course selection are a Categorical Course in US, update courses on "Thoracic Imaging: Chest and Cardiac and Practical MR Safety Considerations for Physicians, Physicists, and Technologists," and a special course in digital radiography.
More than 1,000 Educational Exhibits will offer everything from displays to fully interactive computer-assisted demonstrations. They are designed for review of radiologic signs, pathologic correlations, procedures, techniques, treatments, and interventions or other aspects related to the practice of imaging.
infoRAD will provide a dynamic learning experience featuring more than 120 education and commercial exhibits showcasing hands-on computer-assisted self-instruction, Web-based applications, clinical software, virtual reality, and year 4 of RSNA’s IHE Vendor Demonstrations. These educational sessions will showcase the integration capabilities IHE makes possible, will provide a detailed understanding of their operational and clinical benefits and will give users and purchasers the tools they need to achieve systems integration.
Hands-on workshops will be conducted by industry leaders to give attendees first-hand experience with the latest computer products available. These workshops will include computer-assisted diagnosis, radiology information systems, picture archiving and communication systems, integrating computers into radiology practice, and training with state-of-the-art computer equipment.
The printed 2002 Scientific Program will be dedicated to the memory of 1967 RSNA President Harold G. Jacobson, MD, a renowned musculoskeletal radiologist, who died last year at the age of 89. The Honorary Members for RSNA 2002 are Philippe A. Grenier, MD, from Paris, France; Yuji Itai, MD, from Ibaraki, Japan; and Henry Wagner, MD, from Baltimore, Md. They will receive their awards on Monday afternoon. The Gold Medalists will receive their awards on Tuesday afternoon. They are Michael S. Huckman, MD, from Chicago, Ill; Stanley S. Siegelman, MD, from Baltimore, Md; and Michael A. Sullivan, MD, from New Orleans, La.
My Presidential Address, on radiology’s Digital rEvolution, will open RSNA 2002 at 8:30 AM on Sunday, December 1. Following the address, there will be lectures on one of today’s hot topics, screening,—the scientific side versus the entrepreneurial side—moderated by George Bisset III, MD. Lecturer Bruce J. Hillman, MD, will present "Who Benefits and Who Pays—The Individual and Society," and lecturer Michael N. Brant-Zawadzki, MD, will discuss the "Role of CT."
At 3:30 PM on Sunday, Michael A. Sullivan, MD, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the RSNA Research and Education Foundation, will present the latest Foundation news, followed by the popular Image Interpretation Session. Hedvig Hricak, MD, from New York, NY, will moderate the session. The panelists are Gordon Gamsu, MD, New York, NY; Maximilian F. Reiser, MD, Munich, Germany; Susan M. Ascher, MD, Washington, DC; Walter Kucharczyk, MD, Toronto, Ontario; and Gerald D. Dodd III, MD, San Antonio, Tex.
On Monday, December 2, the Eugene P. Pendergrass New Horizons Lecture will be dedicated to Juan M. Taveras, MD, one of the "fathers of neuroradiology" and a 1980 RSNA Gold Medalist, who died on March 28, 2002, at the age of 82. The New Horizons Lecture, "Functional Brain Imaging," will be presented by Bruce R. Rosen, MD, PhD, from the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital is Boston. Also beginning on Monday, the RSNA Associated Sciences Consortium will host the first of three symposia. The theme for this year’s program is "Fusion Imaging—The New Horizon." The sessions will be held from 10:30 AM until noon. Monday’s session is "Image Fusion: Techniques, Technology, and Applications for Oncologic Patients from a Medical Physics Perspective," presented by Charles Pelizzari, PhD, and Jeffrey T. Yap, PhD. Tuesday’s session is "Fusion Imaging: An Introduction to Its Clinical Uses and the Education Challenges It Presents," given by Robert E. Henkin, MD, and Betty G. Wilson, MEd, RT(R)(CT), RDMS. Wednesday’s session is "Fusion Imaging and Issues of Reimbursement," presented by Frances Keech, MBA, RT(N).
The Associated Sciences program will also include a series of eight refresher courses designed primarily for radiologists, managers, and supervisors of radiology departments. The courses are "Workforce Crisis: Strategies for Management," "Digital Technology for Diagnostic Imaging," "Transforming the Organization: eCommerce and Its Influence on the Modern Radiology Facility," "Continuity of Care, HIPAA, and Radiology: The Operational Impact," "The Digital Department: Its Architecture and Design," "How to Effectively Manage the Capital Asset Cycle: From Acquisition Planning to Maintenance and Replacement Strategies," and "The Process of Managing Outcomes."
Special Focus Sessions will be presented on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons. Monday’s sessions are "Digital Mammography—State of the Art," moderated by Etta D. Pisano, MD; "Controversies in Image-guided Tumor Ablation," moderated by Gary M. Onik, MD; "What Is Health Services/Outcome Research?" moderated by Robert L. Bree, MD; "The Radiologist Shortage/Will It Continue?/Workloads/Practice Costs," comoderated by E. Stephen Amis, MD, and C. Douglas Maynard, MD; "Evaluation and Treatment of Hypertension—Which Test is Best?" moderated by Elliot K. Fishman, MD; and "Establishment of a Vascular Center," moderated by Flavio Castañeda, MD.
Wednesday’s sessions are "Coronary Artery Imaging—MR or CT?" moderated by Richard D. White, MD; "Endovascular Grafts: The Role of the Radiologist," moderated by Matthew A. Mauro, MD; "CT/PET Fusion Imaging," moderated by Richard L. Wahl, MD; "New Applications of Radiofrequency Ablation Outside the Liver," moderated by Daniel I. Rosenthal, MD; "Innovations in Ultrasound (Spatial Compounding, Harmonics, Acoustical Microscopy and Real-time 3-D Imaging)," moderated by Christopher R. Merritt, MD; and "Planning in a Time of Tax Law Changes," moderated by Michael A. Sullivan, MD. The Oncodiagnosis Panel, moderated by Paul D. Brown, MD, will focus on "Adult Brain Tumors."
Thursday’s sessions are "CTA and MRA in Pediatrics—Current Applications," moderated by Marilyn J. Siegel, MD; "Evaluation of GI Bleeding—State of the Art," moderated by Erik K. Paulson, MD; "What’s New in Cartilage," moderated by David G. Disler, MD; "Informed Consent for Screening," moderated by Heather J. Ohrt, MD; "Fungal Infections from Head to Toe," moderated by Kelly K. Koeller, MD; and "The New Focus on Quality Assurance and Best Practices in Radiology by Insurance Companies," moderated by Cherrill Farnsworth.
The Annual Oration in Diagnostic Radiology will be presented on Tuesday, December 3, at 1:00 PM on "Screening Mammography: Controversies and Headlines" by Valerie P. Jackson, MD, from Indianapolis, Ind. Immediately following will be the AAPM/RSNA Physics Lecture for Radiologic Technologists on the ACR Magnetic Resonance Imaging Accreditation Program.
The Annual Oration in Radiation Oncology will be given on Wednesday, December 4, at 1:00 PM, by C. Norman Coleman, MD, from Bethesda, Md, on "Linking Radiation Oncology and Imaging through Molecular Biology."
The RSNA/AAPM Symposium will be held on Thursday, December 5, at 1:20 PM. The topic is "Volumetric Visualization and Analysis: Introduction and Clinical Benefits," moderated by Sandy Napel, PhD, immediately following the inauguration of the RSNA Board of Directors for 2003 and the introduction of the 2003 AAPM Officers and Council Chairs.
On Friday, December 6, the Imaging Symposium will focus on "PET Imaging," moderated by Barry A. Siegel, MD.
These important programs would not be possible without the dedication of more than 2,000 volunteers, who have worked tirelessly for the past 18 months. I thank each and every one of them for helping to prepare a stimulating program that will ultimately have a positive impact on patient care.
The following committees and key representatives are to be congratulated for their commitment to excellence:
The Program Committee is responsible for review and selection of all scientific papers proffered for the annual scientific assembly within budgetary and space limitations, and is responsible for the organization of special symposia: George S. Bisset III, MD, Chairman; David R. Pickens III, PhD, AAPM Liaison; William W. Olmsted, MD, Education Editor and Editor, RadioGraphics; Anthony V. Proto, MD, Science Editor and Editor, Radiology; Theresa McLoud, Board Liaison. The Program Subcommittee Chairs are Gilda Cardenosa, MD, Breast Imaging; Melvin E. Clouse, MD, Cardiac Radiology; Caroline Chiles, MD, Chest Radiology; Dennis M. Balfe, MD, Gastrointestinal Radiology; Joseph K. T. Lee, MD, Genitourinary Radiology; Kimberly E. Applegate, MD, MS, Health Services, Policy and Research; Leanne L. Seeger, MD, Musculoskeletal Radiology; Charles F. Lanzieri, MD, Neuroradiology/Head and Neck; Patrice K. Rehm, MD, Nuclear Medicine; Simon C. Kao, MD, Pediatric Radiology; Sandy Napel, PhD, Physics; Robert R. Kuske, MD, Radiation Oncology and Radiobiology; H. Hughes Hawkins, Jr, MD, Radiology Informatics; Myron A. Pozniak, MD, Ultrasound; and Anne C. Roberts, MD, Vascular and Interventional.
The Refresher Course Committee is responsible for curriculum organization and faculty selection: Ronald J. Zagoria, MD, Chairman; Shaio Y. Woo, MBBS, Radiation Oncology Subcommittee Chairman; Paul A. Larson, MD, Associated Sciences Committee Liaison; David E. Avrin, MD, PhD; Paul J. Chang, MD; Peter L. Cooperberg, MD; Laurie L. Fajardo, MD; Michael P. Federle, MD; Stephen A. Feig, MD; Richard M. Gore, MD; Robert T. Heelan, MD; Stephen G. Ho, MD; Mark J. Kransdorf, MD; Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD; Laurie A. Loevner, MD; Shirley M. McCarthy, MD, PhD; Nestor L. Müller, MD, PhD; Lawrence R. Muroff, MD; Robert A. Novelline, MD; Bhudatt Paliwal, PhD; Arthur J. Segal, MD; Richard Semelka, MD; William E. Shiels II, DO; Marilyn J. Siegel, MD; James G. Smirniotopoulos, MD; Perry Sprawls, Jr, PhD; Ronald L. Van Heertum, MD; Srinivasan Vijayakumar, MD; William W. Olmsted, MD, Education Editor and Editor, RadioGraphics; Anthony V. Proto, MD, Science Editor and Editor, Radiology; Peter R. Mueller, MD, Ex-Officio, RadioGraphics; and Theresa C. McLoud, MD, Board Liaison.
The Education Exhibits Committee is responsible for review and selection of education exhibits offered through formal application, within budgetary and space limitations, and is responsible for developing CME category 1 programming within the educational exhibits: Kerry M. Link, MD, Chairman; Joel E. Gray, PhD, AAPM Liaison; William W. Olmsted, MD, Education Editor and Editor, RadioGraphics; Anthony V. Proto, MD, Science Editor and Editor, Radiology; Theresa C. McLoud, MD, Board Liaison. The Education Exhibits Subcommittee Chairs are Arthur B. Diamond, MD, Breast; Robert M. Steiner, MD, Cardiac; Lawrence R. Goodman, MD, Chest; Robert E. Bechtold, MD, Gastrointestinal; Melissa Rosado de Christenson, MD, Multisystem/Special Interest; Thomas L. Pope, Jr, MD, Musculoskeletal; Edgardo J. Angtuaco, MD, Neuroradiology; C. Leon Partain, MD, PhD, Nuclear Medicine; Teresita L. Angtuaco, MD, OB/GYN; Johan G. Blickman, MD, PhD, Pediatrics; Joel E. Gray, PhD, Physics; Robert K. Zeman, MD, Policy and Practice; Katherine L. Griem, MD, Radiation Oncology; Susan Hilton, MD, Uroradiology; Michael A. Bettmann, MD, Vascular/Interventional.
The Electronic Communications Committee is responsible for evaluating the computer software and hardware, magnetic and optical data storage devices, and electronic data transmission that facilitate scientific communication: Ronald L. Arenson, MD, Chairman; David E. Avrin, MD, PhD; Paul J. Chang, MD; David S. Channin, MD; Keith J. Dreyer, DO, PhD; Adam E. Flanders, MD; Donald P. Harrington, MD; H. Hughes Hawkins, Jr, MD; Curtis P. Langlotz, MD, PhD; David W. Piraino, MD; Eliot L. Siegel, MD; David J. Vining, MD; Raymond F. Rodebaugh, PhD; Theresa C. McLoud, MD, Board Liaison; and Robert R. Hattery, MD, Board Liaison.
The Technical Exhibits Committee is responsible for review and acceptance of all applications for commercial exhibit space, limiting such exhibit space to educational opportunities for radiologists and allied scientists, and for implementing the Society’s policies and regulations related to exhibition and for monitoring rules and regulations: Michael C. Brunner, MD, Chairman; Jonathan M. Alexander, MD; Javier Beltran, MD; Gail C. Hansen, MD; Dennis Kay, MD; Alice C. Patton, MD; Shayle B. Patzik, MD; Deborah L. Reede, MD; James R. Marbach, PhD, AAPM Liaison; and R. Gilbert Jost, Board Liaison.
RSNA 2002 presents an unequaled opportunity to evaluate the results of new research in radiology and to develop knowledge and skills vital to clinical practice. The registration deadline is October 11 for attendees outside of North America to receive their badge wallet in advance and November 1 for those living within North America. Online registration is available 24 hours a day through the RSNA Web site, RSNALink (www.rsna .org/rsna/advanceregistration/).
Be sure to register early to avoid the $100 on-site registration fee, and plan your meeting schedule in advance to ensure that you maximize your experience at this truly extraordinary event.
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