Peripheral CT Angiography

Offers up to 9.5 CME
2½ Day Offering

Matthew Budoff   David Shavelle
Matthew Budoff, M.D.
Professor of Medicine,
UCLA School of Medicine
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Division of Cardiology Program Director
Director, Cardiac CT
Torrance, CA
 David Shavelle, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship
Director, Interventional Cardiology
Division of Cardiology
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, CA

Dates

  • 2011 course dates coming soon!


Location

Saint John's Cardiovascular Research Center
CT Scanner at Harbor-UCLA
1124 W. Carson Street
Torrance, CA 90502


Target Audience

Cardiologists and Radiologists


Course Overview

This comprehensive 2 ½ day course offers extensive review of vascular anatomy, appropriateness of use, image acquisition and post-processing of peripheral CT angiography, including systematic review methods and reporting. A large number of catheterization correlations are also available. Live peripheral cases will be performed during the course.

Extensive hands-on training with 3D post-processing workstation on more then 150 peripheral vascular cases and three level 3 teachers per course, including a peripheral interventionalist.

  • Review of peripheral vascular anatomy
  • Introduction to multidetector computed tomography
  • Image acquisition, imaging review formats, and post-processing
  • Physics and MDCT: Radiation doses and CT physics
  • Introduction to peripheral arterial disease
  • Cerebrovascular disease
  • Renal artery stenosis: Clinical Implications and Treatment Strategies
  • Lower extremity CTA
  • Aortic evaluation with CTA, pre and post stent
  • Carotid evaluation by CTA
  • Renal artery CT angiography
  • Peripheral CTA for interventional planning


Previous basic Advantage Workstation experience recommended.

For basic workstation training, please go to the link below:


Faculty Background

Matthew M. Budoff, M.D., Dr. Budoff graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine and completed his residency and cardiology fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He has published over 100 articles and authored textbook chapters on many aspects of cardiac computed tomography and its impact on coronary artery disease. He lectures both nationally and internationally on Cardiac CT and is an NIH-funded researcher on Subclinical Atherosclerosis. Dr. Budoff chaired the recently published the ACC/AHA Competency Guidelines for Cardiac CT and MR, as well as the COCATS Guidelines for Fellowship Training in CT and MR, and has a textbook entitled Cardiac CT Imaging, published in January 2006 (Springer-Verlach).

David Shavelle, M.D., Dr. Shavelle joined Los Angeles Cardiology in 2002. He focuses primarily on patients with coronary artery disease and peripheral vascular disease.

After receiving his medical degree from the University of California at Los Angeles, Dr. Shavelle completed his internship and residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. His cardiology fellowship was completed at the University of Washington followed by an interventional cardiology fellowship at Good Samaritan Hospital. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology and interventional cardiology.

Dr. Shavelle serves as Director of Interventional Cardiology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and is the director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center/Good Samaritan Hospital. He is the Director of Clinical Research for Los Angeles Cardiology Associates and Director of the Research Advisory Committee at Good Samaritan Hospital. His research interests involve new applications of Multislice CT including the assessment of coronary plaque morphology, atrial septal defect anatomy for percutaneous defect closure and CT assessment of peripheral vascular disease. He is an author for Up-to-Date, Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 15 and The Cardiac CT Self Assessment Program (CT SAP). He is also Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.