GE Healthcare Announces Cardiology Symposium; World’s Only Volume CT to be Featured


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January 21, 2005

Waukesha, Wis. - January 21, 2005 - GE Healthcare today announced that it is hosting a special event on Saturday, Jan. 22 highlighting the company’s groundbreaking technology in computed tomography (CT) angiography for cardiologists. The event will include more than 125 cardiologists and business managers, and will highlight GE’s commitment and leadership in cardiovascular CT. The symposium will feature new advances with GE’s LightSpeed VCT, the world’s first volume CT system, which is able to capture images of the heart and coronary arteries in five heartbeats - something no other CT system can offer.

Featured speakers include:

  • Dr. Tracy Callister, a partner at Tennessee Heart and Vascular Institute
  • Dr. Matthew Budoff, Director of the Electron Beam CT Laboratory at the Research and Education Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
  • DeAnn Haas, Global CT Cardiac Product Manger, GE Healthcare

Topics include:

  • CT Angiography: Accuracy and Clinical Utility
  • Utilization of CT Angiography and Advances in CT Angiography

The event will take place at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, Calif. It is the first is a series of planned CT cardiology events during 2005 sponsored by GE Healthcare.

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