I hope you and your families are all well. Even with the challenges of COVID-19, SCMR committees and staff continue to meet and work as usual to fulfill our shared goals of education, advocacy, networking, research, and clinical excellence. Member volunteers are the lifeblood and driving force for our society. You provide inspirational new ideas and ensure that our activities are grounded in the realities of our members’ practices all over the world. You create fresh engaging educational programs, develop important guideline documents, advance science, and knit us together through communications and global outreach efforts. I encourage you to share your time and talent. By volunteering, you can impact our field, gain new insights from your colleagues, network, and demonstrate your commitment to the specialty. As always, SCMR is steadfastly committed to diverse membership participation: junior through senior, all genders, small and large programs, all specialties, and multinational. SCMR is now making its annual call for committee membership applications. Learn about our committee opportunities here and express your interest by submitting an application. Throughout the year, members can also join our Sections and Special Interest Groups

To be eligible you must be a member in good standing – to renew your dues for 2021, click here.

✤ This call for volunteers is for the committee term of February 2021 – February 2024.

✤ Committee terms are three (3) years, and committee members can serve one (1) additional consecutive three (3) year term.

✤ For more information, please refer to Article VIII in the SCMR Bylaws.

To express your interest, apply here. 

Despite a strong body of evidence, use of gadolinium contrast media for stress perfusion CMR to detect CAD was until recently considered off-label by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, last month, the GadaCAD investigators published their results in JACC, of an international multi-center study evaluating use of gadobutrol in stress perfusion CMR designed to support regulatory approval. GadaCAD included 2 phase III clinical trials, GadaCAD1 and GadaCAD2, enrolling a total of 764 patients with suspected CAD. The study built upon the previous single-center CE-MARC and multicenter MR-IMPACT II trials demonstrating high diagnostic accuracy of stress perfusion CMR for the detection of angiographically significant CAD. CMR had a sensitivity of 79% and specificity of 87% for detecting single-vessel CAD, and a sensitivity of 87% and specificity of 73% for diagnosing multivessel CAD. Many of the “missed” intermediate-QCA lesions may indeed be “true-negative” in their hemodynamic significance rather than “false-negative,” - a fundamental challenge in comparing physiological and anatomical standards. These results exceeded the anticipated standards needed for clinical practice by a wide margin. Further, as expected, gadobutrol was well-tolerated, leading to FDA approval in July 2019 for evaluation of CAD - at a dose of 0.05 mmol/kg for each stress and rest perfusion, and cumulative 0.1 mmol/kg for late gadolinium enhancement, which will provide further standardization and help expand clinical adaptation of stress perfusion CMR in the U.S.

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Kings College, London, UK

Online Course- MS Teams

The online course covers the basic principles of CMR, its clinical indications and role in a multi-modality imaging environment. Delegates will learn in lectures and interactive sessions, at the end of the course they will have a solid understanding of when to refer a patient for Cardiovascular MRI and how to interpret CMR images and reporting. This established 3-day course has been running for 10 years at King's, with an exceptional faculty of internationally renowned experts in the field of cardiac MRI. Find more information here.

Mexico City, Mexico

100% Online

This online course will develop skills, increase the knowledge of attendees in various areas of related to imaging and technology in Cardiology and promote interaction between the various branches of cardiology to exchange and enrich knowledge and experiences. Find more information here.

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