Endorsed by the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography,
the professional society devoted exclusively to cardiovascular CT.

Dr. Matthew Budoff   Cardiac CTA: Advanced Course
Offers up to 20 CME
5 ½ - Day Offering

Matthew Budoff, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine,
UCLA School of Medicine
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Division of Cardiology Program Director
Director, Cardiac CT
Torrance, CA

Dates

  • February 22-27, 2009
  • March 8-13, 2009
  • April 19-24, 2009
  • May 3-8, 2009
  • June 7-12, 2009


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 5 ½ day offering begins with a four hour 'Intro to Advantage Workstation Cardiac Software Workshop' to be held on Sunday afternoon lead by a GE Applications Specialist. The purpose of this class is to provide attendees with basic knowledge of the workstation to produce diagnostic coronary images. The skills learned in this session will allow for a faster pace during Dr. Budoff's course resulting in a maximum number of cases reviewed. (This session is a mandatory part of the class. Unless attendees have extensive experience using GE's latest Cardiac CT software on the AW they should plan on attending this session.)

During the 5-day experience attendees will:
- Learn how to systematically read cardiovascular CT studies with complete hands-on workstation experience (one workstation per student)
- Be proctored to perform 50 live cases that include: patient and scanner setup, contrast injection, and image acquisition, reconstruction and post-processing
- Discover how to troubleshoot issues and challenges that might be encountered in practice
- Have 150 case studies (comprising native coronary artery disease, bypass, stents, congenital heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, incidental findings) to systematically read and interpret between live cases and lectures
- Be provided the opportunity to fulfill the Level 2 certification requirements of the ACC/AHA

This course also offers the opportunity to obtain additional cases toward Level 3 cardiology certification requirements.

Previous basic Advantage Workstation experience recommended.
For basic workstation training, please go to one of the links below:


Faculty Background

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).


Comments From Previous Participants

"Training course by Dr.Budoff at UCLA Harbor is excellent. He is a great teacher spends time with you, his staff is very helpful. The introductory course prior to actual course was very helpful. At the end of the course you start feeling comfortable with CT interpretation especially when you do cath correlation. I have recommended this course to my friends they liked it very much."

"I had a good hands-on experience from an expert and it accomplished my learning goal for Cardiac CTA. Ultimately, I will be able to translate this improved understanding into better care for my patients."