news from cmr 2018
CMR 2018 - The Joint EuroCMR/SCMR meeting in Barcelona was the largest SCMR meeting ever with more than 1,900 attendees from all over the world. View news and highlights on the SCMR twitter site and search #CMR2018.
Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process to convert EACCME credit to AMA credit can be found here.
CMR2018 Award Recipients
SCMR Gold Medal Award
Andrew E Arai, MD, FAHA
Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Group at National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Best Image Award

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James Goldfarb
St. Francis Hospital
Roslyn, New York |
Best of 2017 SCMR Case of the Week
Arun Dahiya
RBWH and Logan Hospital
"Intramyocardial hematoma mimicking hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-evaluation by multimodality imaging"
Seed Grant Awards
Yan Wen
Cornell University
"Assessment of Heart Chamber Oxygenation using Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM)"
Anthony Christodoulou
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
"Toward a Push-Button, Single-Scan Quantitative CMR Exam"
Abstract Awards
Early Career Award - Clinical Oral Abstract
Andrea Baggiano
Centro Cardiologico Monzino, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
"Native myocardial T1 for clinical diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis: ready for prime time – a 715 patient prospective study"
Early Career Award - Basic Science Oral Abstract
Aurelien Bustin
King’s College London
"Four-minute whole-heart coronary MRA with sub-millimeter isotropic resolution and 100% respiratory scan efficiency"
Early Career Award - Translational Oral Abstract
Alexander Liu
University of Oxford
"Microvascular Dysfunction is a Coronary Artery Specific Phenomenon, associated with Elevated Microvascular Resistance, Myocardial Hypo-Perfusion and Dysfunction - Time for a Paradigm Shift"
Best Moderated e-Poster
Zohya Khaliqu
NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital
"Diffusion tensor cardiovascular magnetic resonance assessment of recovered dilated cardiomyopathy"
Best Technologist Abstract
Sarah Anderson
UCL Department of Cardiac MRI
"Live detection of left atrial appendage thrombus in cardiac amyloidosis"
JCMR Best Manuscript Awards
11th Gerald M. Pohost Award 2018
Henrik Engblom and colleagues
"Fully quantitative cardiovascular magnetic resonance myocardial perfusion ready for clinical use: a comparison between cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography”
11th Gerald M. Pohost Award Runner-Up 2018
Zhengwei Zhou and colleagues
"Optimized CEST Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance for Assessment of Metabolic Activity in the Heart"
1st Dudley J. Pennell Award 2018
Vanessa Ferreira and colleagues
“Native T1-mapping Detects the Location, Extent and Patterns of Acute Myocarditis Without the Need for Gadolinium Contrast agents”
1st Dudley J. Pennell Award Runner-Up 2018
Darius Dabir and colleagues
“Reference Values for Healthy Human Myocardium Using a T1 Mapping Methodology: Results from the International T1 Multicenter Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Study”