Scientific Program
The SCMR Annual Scientific Sessions remain the premier forum for scientific dialogue and education in CMR in the world and the Annual EuroCMR Meeting is its European counterpart. Both meetings have a long tradition of bringing together physicists and clinicians that have so importantly contributed to the rapid advances in CMR.
The program for the 2011 Joint SCMR/EuroCMR Scientific Sessions will build on these traditions and emphasize in particular the translational aspects of CMR and the dialogue between physics and clinical application. Reflecting the emphasis on translation, there will be new abstract categories for early clinical testing of new methods. In addition, the plenary sessions are organised jointly by physicists and clinicians to ensure relevance to both disciplines. As ever, these sessions will provide cutting edge presentation of the latest developments in CMR delivered by the world-leading experts in the field. In addition, as an effort to promote a strong clinical focus for future technical development, a new feature of the 2011 programme will be early morning educational sessions that will explain common cardiological concepts to non-cardiologists.
As in 2010, three distinct tracks will be followed throughout the program: Basic Science/Physics, Congenital/Paediatric CMR, and General CMR. In addition, the highly successful case presentations first offered at the 2010 meeting will be expanded as a fourth parallel track of the program. These sessions will offer interactive and didactic case presentations.
The program will be complemented by three pre-conferences. A Basic Science Pre-conference, organised in conjunction with ISMRM, will focus on new pulse sequence developments. A Clinical Pre-conference will provide education in General CMR and a new third Congenital/Paediatric Pre-conference will provide a unique training opportunity for this subspecialty. We have received extremely positive comments from the attendees in the recent past meetings regarding the educational values of these pre-conferences. We believe that our attention to the feedback from the attendees has been the key to the success of these pre-conferences.
With all these developments, we anticipate that the 2011 Joint SCMR/EuroCMR Scientific Sessions will be as equally stimulating and educationally valuable an event as its predecessors, which reinforces the traditional strengths of the meeting with an expanded program. We are looking forward to welcoming you to this event in the beautiful city of Nice.
Sven Plein & Raymond Kwong
Program chairs