Peripheral CTA: Advanced Course
Offers up to 9.5 CME
2 ½ - Day Offering
Matthew Budoff, M.D.
Professor of Medicine,
UCLA School of Medicine
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Division of Cardiology Program Director
Director, Cardiac CT
Torrance, CA
Joseph Thomas, M.D.
Director, Peripheral Vascular Medicine
Co-Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship Program
Dates
- May 17-18, 2012
Location
Saint John’s Cardiovascular Research Center CT Scanner at Harbor-UCLA
1124 W. Carson Street
Torrance, CA 90502
Target Audience
Cardiologists and Radiologists
9.5 Hours CME provided, as well as disk with powerpoint lectures on all aspects of peripheral CT
Course Overview
This comprehensive 2 ½ day course offers extensive review of vascular anatomy, appropriateness of use, image acquisition and post-processing of peripheral CT angiography, including systematic review methods and reporting. A large number of catheterization correlations are also available. Live peripheral cases will be performed during the course.
Extensive hands-on training with 3D post-processing workstation on more then 150 peripheral vascular cases and three level 3 teachers per course, including a peripheral interventionalist.
- Review of peripheral vascular anatomy
- Introduction to multidetector computed tomography
- Image acquisition, imaging review formats, and post-processing
- Physics and MDCT: Radiation doses and CT physics
- Introduction to peripheral arterial disease
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Renal artery stenosis: Clinical Implications and Treatment Strategies
- Lower extremity CTA
- Aortic evaluation with CTA, pre and post stent
- Carotid evaluation by CTA
- Renal artery CT angiography
- Peripheral CTA for interventional planning
- Participants will be provided with a USB flash drive with powerpoint lectures on all aspects of cardiovascular CT
Previous basic Advantage Workstation experience recommended. For basic workstation training, please go to one of the links below:
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Faculty Background
Dr. Budoff graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine and completed his residency and cardiology fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He has published over 100 articles and authored textbook chapters on many aspects of cardiac computed tomography and its impact on coronary artery disease. He lectures both nationally and internationally on Cardiac CT and is an NIH-funded researcher on Subclinical Atherosclerosis. Dr. Budoff chaired the recently published the ACC/AHA Competency Guidelines for Cardiac CT and MR, as well as the COCATS Guidelines for Fellowship Training in CT and MR, and has a textbook entitled Cardiac CT Imaging, published in January 2006 (Springer-Verlach).
Comments From Previous Participants
"I would like to express my appreciation for all the hard work that you guys do there. I had an excellent experience at Dr. Budoff's CTA courses. Although, I know it is extremely hard to achieve his level of expertise regarding CTA, the interaction and guidance from him as well as the assistance of his fellows was extremely helpful. It is hard to find a training environment with the right mixture of expert guidance and case volume, but you have it at Harbor. Out of the four courses I have attended since 2006, I have found Dr. Budoff's to be the most informative and rewarding."
"Training course by Dr.Budoff at UCLA Harbor is excellent. He is a great teacher spends time with you, his staff is very helpful. The introductory course prior to actual course was very helpful. At the end of the course you start feeling comfortable with CT interpretation especially when you do cath correlation. I have recommended this course to my friends they liked it very much."
Announcements
Dr. Matt Budoff will be training Level II and III CT Angiography courses at Harbor-UCLA in Torrance, California. Click on the image below to view the details, or follow the links for more information:
