Body MRI: How to Provide Value-Based Care

This online course will provide an intensive review in body MRI that is designed to provide a clinically focused update on the current optimal performance and interpretation of body MRI across a broad range of real life applications. Nationally recognized experts will incorporate scenario-based examples, cutting-edge reviews, practice tips tailored to daily clinical experience, and more.

Learn and earn credit at your own pace with unlimited access to this course for three years. See below for detailed information and learning outcomes.

Learning Outcomes and Modules

After participating in this online course, the participant will be able to:

• Perform and interpret body MRI at a high level across a range of applications
• Describe and implement LI-RADS for reporting of liver lesions in patients with cirrhosis
• Discuss updated concepts in prostate MRI, including PI-RADS and MRI targeted biopsy
• Discuss the indications for adding MRI to ultrasound in gynecologic disease
• Describe critical MRI findings in adult and pediatric patients with diseases of the liver, pancreas, biliary system, gastrointestinal tract, genitourinary, and musculoskeletal system

Module 1—General

• State of the Art Abdominal MRI: An Update—Fergus V. Coakley, MD
• Keeping Patients Safe in the MRI Environment—Kathryn Marie Olsen, MD
• Body MRI: Pitfalls and Artifacts—Kathryn J. Fowler, MD
• Diffusion MRI: Should it Be Routine in the Abdomen and Pelvis?—Hersh Chandarana, MD

Module 2—Hepatobiliary

• Quantitative MRI Biomarkers of Liver Fat, Iron and Fibrosis—Scott B. Reeder MD, PhD
• Benign Hepatic Tumors: Imaging and Management—Koenraad J. Mortele, MD
• Imaging of Focal Disease in the Cirrhotic Liver (LI-RADS)—Claude B. Sirlin, MD
• MRI of Biliary Disease: Technical Considerations and Differential Diagnosis—Courtney Coursey Moreno, MD

Module 3—Pancreas

• Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma—Kumaresan Sandrasegaran, MD
• Pitfalls in Pancreatic Imaging—Jay K. Pahade, MD
• MRI of Cystic Pancreatic Neoplasms—Evan S. Siegelman, MD
• MRI of Pancreatitis—Frank H. Miller, MD

Module 4—Genitourinary

• MRI of Solid Renal Masses—Lejla Aganovic, MD
• MRI Evaluation of Adrenal Gland Abnormalities—Antonio Carlos A. Westphalen, MD, PhD
• MRI of Cystic Renal Masses—Gary M. Israel, MD
• MR Urography—Aarti K. Sekhar, MD

Module 5—Gastrointestinal

• MRI of Anal and Perianal Disease—Elena Korngold, MD
• Rectal Cancer—Mukesh G. Harisinghani, MD
• MR Enterography: Maximizing Value—Jonathan R. Dillman, MD
• MR Defecography—Bryan R. Foster, MD

Module 6—OB/Gynecology

• Management of Incidental Findings of the Adnexa on MRI—Susan M. Ascher, MD
• MRI of Benign Uterine Disease—Fiona M. Fennessy, MD, PhD
• Uterine Malignancy: Incremental Role of MRI—Karen S. Lee, MD
• MRI in Pregnancy—Liina Poder, MD

Module 7—Musculoskeletal

• MRI of Arthritis—Laura W. Bancroft, MD
• MRI of Knee—John A. Carrino, M.D., M.P.H.
• MRI of Shoulder Disorders—Colm McMahon, MD
• Hip MRI—Miriam A. Bredella, MD

Module 8—Hot Topics/General

• Prostate MRI: PI-RADS in Practice—Rajan T. Gupta, MD
• Gadolinium Toxicity: Where Do We Stand in 2018?—David A. Bluemke, MD, PhD
• Current Clinical Applications of Combined PET/MRI—Spencer Behr, MD
• MRI Quality Assurance: Lessons Learned—Jeffrey M. Pollock, MD

Module 9—Cardiovascular

• MRI of Ischemic Heart Disease—Cristina Fuss, MD
• MRI of Nonischemic Cardiac Disease—Gregory A. Kicska, MD, PhD
• MRI of Myocarditis and Pericarditis—Karen G. Ordovas, MD
• MR Angiography of the Large and Medium Vessels—James C. Carr, MD

Module 10—Pediatrics

• Practical MRI of the Pediatric Chest: Lungs, Airways, and Mediastinum—Edward Y. Lee, MD, MPH
• Pediatric Abdominopelvic Congenital Masses: MRI Techniques and Findings—Gary R. Schooler, MD
• Pediatric Oncology MRI: Current Diagnostic Strategies—Rama S. Ayyala, MD
• Up to Date: Pediatric MRI of Musculoskeletal Disorders—Victor M. Ho, MD