International Conference on Integrated Medical Imaging in Cardiovascular Diseases (IMIC-2022) - Programme - Day 1

13 December 2022

IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria

Note: This page will be updated as more information about the sessions is added.

10:00 – 10:30 | Opening Session

10:30 – 12:00 | Plenary Session I: Setting up the Scene

12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch break and Exhibition Visit

13:30 – 15:15 | Plenary Session II – Ischaemic Heart Disease and Management of Chest Pain

15:15 – 15:30 | Coffee Break and Exhibition Visit

15:30 – 16:30 | Plenary Session III - Imaging in Ischaemic Heart Disease from Mechanism to Practice

16:30 – 17:30 | Poster Review and Exhibition Visit - Session I

OPENING SESSION

10:00 - 10:30 | Board Room A

Opening Remarks by Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General, IAEA

Welcome by May Abdel-Wahab, Director of the Division of Human Health, IAEA

Administrative Remarks by Diana Paez, IMIC-2022 Conference Scientific Secretary, IAEA

PLENARY SESSION I: SETTING UP THE SCENE

10:30 - 12:00 | Board Room A

IAEA Coordinator: Diana Paez, IAEA
Chairperson: Leslee Shaw, USA
Co-chair: Mboyo Vangu, South Africa

10:30 – 10:45 | The Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases
Taskeen Khan, World Health Organization

10:45 – 11:00 | Cardiovascular Diseases in Women
Amalia Peix, Cuba

11:00 – 11:15 | Multimodality Cardiac Imaging: the Big Picture –Ischemic Heart Disease
Marcelo Di Carli, USA

11:15 – 11:30 | Emerging Integrated Medical Imaging: Approaches for Cardiovascular Diseases
David Newby, UK

11:30 – 12:00 | Debate Session I: Setting-Up the Scene
Panellists: Taskeen Khan, Amalia Peix, Marcelo Di Carli, David Newby, Miguel Fernandes-Silva, Mouaz Al-Mallah, Diana Paez

PLENARY SESSION II: ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE AND MANAGEMENT OF CHEST PAIN

13:30 - 15:15 | Board Room A

IAEA Coordinator: Miriam Mikhail-Lette, IAEA
Chairperson: Ganesan Karthikeyan, India
Co-chair: Paolo Raggi, Canada

13:30 – 13:45 | Interactive Cases: SPECT Imaging of Ischaemic Heart Disease
Nathan Better, Australia

13:45 – 14:00 | Interactive Cases: PET Imaging of Ischaemic Heart Disease
Mouaz Al-Mallah, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC)

14:00 – 14:15 | Interactive Cases: Imaging Ischaemic Heart Disease: Role of CCTA
Christian Loewe, European Society of Radiology, International Society of Radiology (ESR/ISR)

14:15 – 14:30 | Interactive Cases: Echocardiography to Evaluate Ischaemic Heart Disease
Alexander Geppert, Austria

14:30 – 14:45 | Interactive Cases: MRI a to Evaluate Ischaemic Heart Disease
Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR)

14:45 – 15:15 | Debate Session II: How To Select The Right Test For The Right Patient
Panellists: Nathan Better, Mouaz Al-Mallah, Christian Loewe, Alexander Geppert, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Rodrigo Cerci, Sharmila Dorbala, Amelia Jimenez Heffernan, Michelle Williams

PLENARY SESSION III - IMAGING IN ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE FROM MECHANISM TO PRACTICE

15:30 – 16:30 | Board Room A

IAEA Coordinator: Miriam Mikhail-Lette, IAEA
Chairperson: Marcus Hacker, Austria
Co-chair: João Vitola, Brazil

15:30 – 15:45 | Integrated Multimodality Imaging: Disentangling Mechanism of Cardiovascular Disease
Ahmed Tawakol, USA

15:45 – 16:00 | Evidence-Based Medicine in Cardiac Imaging in the Era of the ISCHEMIA Trial
Leslee Shaw, USA

16:00 – 16:30 | Debate Session III: Imaging in Ischemic Heart Disease from Mechanism to Practice
Panellists: Ahmed Tawakol, Leslee Shaw, Gabriel Grossman, Erick Alexanderson, Jan Bucerius

POSTER REVIEW AND EXHIBITION VISIT - SESSION II

16:30 – 17:30 | Board Room A

Miriam Mikhail-Lette, IAEA Coordinator