2009 SVU Annual Conference Program Schedule

Preliminary Program Updated 5/22/09

All sessions are at the Colorado Convention Center (CCC) unless otherwise noted
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
6:00am-5:00pm	SVU Registration – F Lobby, CCC
8:00am-5:00pm	Strategies for a Profitable Vascular Lab Course Speaker: Rita Shugart, RN RVT FSVU, Shugart Consulting (Separate registration required)
1:00-4:00pm	ICAVL Workshop (free) Speakers: Cindy Weiland & Marge Hutchinson, ICAVL
1:00-5:00pm	Diagnosis & Current Treatment Options for Chronic Venous Insufficiency Workshop (Fee required) (Co-Sponsored by GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, Siemens,Terason, and VNUS Medical Technologies, Inc. )
1:00	Welcome and Introduction -- Paula Heggerick, BS RVT RDMS FSVU
1:10	Anatomy & Pathophysiology of Venous Disease -- Steven Kaufman, MD
1:30	Ultrasound Imaging for Chronic Venous Insufficiency Pre-op Evaluation & Mapping -- Diana Neuhardt, MBA RVT
2:00	The Role of Ultrasound During EVA Procedures -- Marresa Houle, BS RVT
2:20	Treatment Options for Chronic Venous Insufficiency – Steven Kaufman, MD
2:40	Ultrasound Evaluation for Incompetent Perforators – Kassandra Garrison, RVT RDMS RT(R)(M)
3:00	Treatment Options for Incompetent Perforators -- Steven Kaufman, MD
3:20	Break
3:30	Live Demonstration & Hands-on Session -- Paula, Kassandra, Diana, & Marresa
1:00 – 5:00 pm	Educators Session (Fee required) (Sponsored by GE Healthcare)
1:00	Group Teaching Techniques -- Eileen French-Sherry, MA RVT
1:30	Resources/Technology for the Educator/Classroom -- Troy Russo, RVT RVS RDCS
2:00	EValue - Program for Electronic Evaluation -- Suzanne Kelley, RN BSN MEd RVT
2:30	Classroom Management -- Jennifer VanderPoel, BS RDCS RVT RMA
3:00	Break
3:15	Test Writing -- Cliff Araki, PhD RVT
3:45	Professionalism -- Gail Size, BS RVT RVS FSVU
4:15	Technology in the Classroom -- Billy Zang, BS RDMS RVT FSVU
4:45	Question & Answer Session
6:00 – 7:00 PM	Meet and Greet Reception for SVU Members The Curtis Hotel, Marco Polo Room (Sponsored by Healthcare Providers Service Organization--HPSO)
Thursday, June 11, 2009
6:30am-5:00pm	SVU Registration – F Lobby, CCC
7:00 – 8:15 am	Concurrent Breakfast Tutorials (Separate registration and fee required. Continental breakfast in each room) Tutorial #1: Physiologic Arterial Testing -- Marsha Neumyer, BS RVT FSVU, FSDMS (Sponsored by Unetixs Vascular) Tutorial #2: Upper Extremity Mapping for Dialysis Access -- Joanne Drago, LPN, RVT, FSVU & Ann Inskeep, RVT Tutorial #3: Aortic Endograft -- Kathleen Carter, RN BSN RVT FSVU (Sponsored by GE Healthcare)
GENERAL SESSION
8:30-8:40 am	Welcome – Paula Heggerick, BS RVT RDMS FSVU, Annual Conference Chair
8:40-10:40	Arterial Endovascular Interventions: What the Technologist /Sonographer Needs To Know Moderator: George Meier, MD RVT FACS
8:40 am	Angioplasty & Stenting – George Meier, MD RVT FACS
9:05 am	Advanced Devices & Beyond - Robert Mendes, MD
9:30 am	Complications Following Intervention - Tish Poe, BA RVT RDCS FSVU
9:55 am	Modern Use of Arterial & Venous Thromoblysis - Fred Weaver, MD RVT
10:20 am	Question and Answer Session
10:40-10:55am	Break
10:55 - 11:40 am	Ergonomics – Joan Baker, MSR RDMS RDCS FSDMS
11:40-11:50am	Meet the Candidates Session Michel Comeaux, RN BSN RVT RDMS, Chair of the Nominations Subcommittee
11:50am-1:15pm	Lunch with the Experts Session: Everything I Know about Vascular Disease I Learned From a Children’s Book Speaker: Thom Rooke, MD (Separate fee required) (Sponsored by ARDMS) Topic Description: Medical case presentations are a lot like children's books. Dr. Rooke will describe how both are traditional vehicles for educating and entertaining their respective audiences. Both teach important lessons about life (and sometimes death). Most importantly, both must be appropriate for an audience that has a short attention span, or is cranky, or is falling asleep. This presentation will take several vascular case presentations and show how the lessons learned from each are also taught in a typical children's book.
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11:50am-1:15pm	Box Lunch in Exhibit Hall (if you signed up for it on registration form)
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11:50am-1:15pm	Lunch on your own
1:30-3:00 pm	Gene Strandness, MD, Scientific Session Moderator: Mark Meissner, MD (Gene Strandness, MD, Scientific Award sponsored by PARKS Medical Electronics) Comparison of IMT Measurements Made on Two Ultrasound Devices -- Jean Alessi-Chinetti Predictors of a Technically Limited Renal Artery Duplex Study: A Retrospective Analysis -- Eugene Lee, MD The Role of Exercise Testing in the Assessment of Leg Arterial Disease -- Douglas L Wooster, MD A Comparison of Software Used to Measure Endothelial Function of Arteries -- Hong T. Tran, BS Ultrasound Mapping Of Arterial and Venous Patterns of the Upper Extremities in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease -- Sergio X. Salles-Cunha, PhD Normal Values of Intima-Media Thickness (IMT) in Patients with No Traditional Risk Factors (RF) for Atherosclerosis -- Massoud Alipour, MD
3:00-3:30 pm	Break and View the Posters
3:30-5:00pm	Invited Session: Point/Counterpoint Moderator: Robert Scissons, RVT FSVU Topics: Laboratory Accreditation (Anne Jones) vs. Sonographer Credentialing Only (Joe Hughes) 2-point + D-Dimer (Bill Schroedter) vs. Full Venous Study (Marsha Neumyer) B-mode Imaging Measurements (Sergio Salles-Cunha) vs. Doppler Only (Rob Daigle)
5:30-6:30pm	Combined Opening Night Reception Exhibit Hall CCC
Friday, June 12, 2009
6:00am-5:00 pm	SVU Registration F Lobby, CCC
7:00-8:15am	Concurrent Breakfast Tutorials (Separate registration and fee required. Continental breakfast in each room) Tutorial #4: Imaging Veins Below the Knee -- Steve Talbot, RVT FSVU (Sponsored by Biosound) Tutorial #5: Carotid Duplex: Technique and Criteria -- Ann Needham, RN RVT FSVU (Sponsored by Philips Healthcare) Tutorial #6: Lumps, Bumps & Incidental Findings -- Patrick Washko, BS RVT RDMS RT(R)
8:30-10:00 am	Invited Speakers Session: Hemodynamic Topics Moderator: Terry Needham, RVT FSVU
8:30 am	Fluid Dynamics from One Side of Pump to the Other – Closing the Loop -- Marie Gerhard-Herman, MD RVT
8:50 am	Cardiac Influences on Vascular Testing: How Does it Affect the Waveform -- Terry Needham, RVT FSVU
9:10 am	Visceral Hemodynamics and Flow Patterns -- Anne Marie Kupinski, PhD RVT FSVU
9:30	Flow Direction & Color: Which Way is it Going and How Do You Know? -- Terrence Case, MEd RVT FSVU
9:50 am	Question and Answer Session
10:00-10:30 am	Poster Session Moderator: Debbie Pirt, RVT FSVU
10:30 am-11:00 am	Break Visit Exhibit Hall and Posters
11:00 – 11:50 am	SVU President's Message, Annual Business Meeting and Induction of 2009 Fellows President Michael Schwebler, MBA RVT FSVU Executive Director Steve Haracznak, BA Debbie Pirt, RVT FSVU -- Fellows Subcommittee Chair
12:00 noon-1:30 pm	Lunch With the Experts Blood Flow and the Colorado River: A Lighthearted Look at Hemodynamics – Rob Daigle, BA RVT FSVU (Separate Fee Required) (Sponsored by GE Healthcare)
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	Box Lunch in the Exhibit Hall (if you signed up for it on registration form)
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12:00 noon-1:30 pm	Lunch on your own
1:45-3:00 pm	Alex Chao, MD, Young Investigators Session Moderator: Jenifer Kidd, RN RVT DMU (Alex Chao, MD / Young Investigator's Award sponsored by Philips Healthcare) Prospective Transcranial Doppler and Carotid Duplex Study in Alzheimer’s Disease -- Zsolt Garami, PhD Ultrasound Diameter Shows Strong Correlation to 3D CT Volume for AAA -- William Veale, MD Rapid Dilatation of Dacron Grafts: How Should That Affect Hybrid Thoracic Endo Vascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR) Planning? -- Houssam K. Younes, MD Inferior Mesenteric Artery Duplex in the Management of Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia? -- Houssam K. Younes, MD
3:00-3:30 pm	Poster Case Study Presentations Carotid Artery Mycotic Aneurysm Identified by Duplex Imaging -- Diana Bekker, RVT RDMS Transcranial Doppler Detection of Embolic Stroke During Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale -- Meryl Harley, BA RVT Case Report: Bilateral Superficial Temporal Artery Aneurysms -- Matthew Wise, BS, RVT Renal Artery Duplex Exams in Neonates * -- Donna Blackburn ( Saturday Clinical Oral Session presentation being presented here.)*
3:30-4:00 pm	Break in Exhibit Hall
4:00-5:30 pm	SVS/SVU Joint Session Duplex Ultrasound of the Carotid Arteries: Beyond Velocities Moderator: Hisham Bassiouny, MD Advances in B Mode Imaging: Have We Overcome the Obstacles -- Jean Primozich, BS RVT FSVU Clinical Relevance of Carotid Intima/Media Thickness -- Anita Harrington, BS RVT RDMS Grey Scale Median Analysis: Role on Management of Patients with Carotid Stenosis -- Hisham Bassiouny, MD Novel Contrast Agents for Carotid Ultrasound Evaluation -- Steven Feinstein, MD
	SVU Committee Meetings
5:15 - 6:15pm	*Academics Subcommittee Meeting*
6:00 - 7:00 pm	*Meetings Subcommittee Meeting*
Saturday, June 13, 2009
6:00am-5:00pm	SVU Registration F Lobby, CCC
7:00-8:45am	Technical Showcase Moderator: Judy Fried, RN RVT CVN FSVU (Sponsored in part by Biosound, Cardinal Health, GE Healthcare, Parks Medical Electronics, Philips Healthcare and Unetixs Vascular)
9:00-10:00am	Government Relations Update Moderator: David Parlato BA RVT, Chair of the Advocacy Committee Anne Jones, RB BSN RVT RDMS FSVU Robert Zwolak, MD PhD RVT Michael Lilly, MD
10:00-10:30 am	Break
10:30am-12 noon	Clinical Oral Session Moderator: Terrence Case, MEd RVT FSVU Evolving Patterns of Vascular Lab Testing in the Hospital and Private Lab Settings -- Kerri Ricci Differences in Saphenous Reflux Detection According to Patient Positioning -- Marresa Houle, BS RVT Expansion of the SAAAVE Program with Addition of Ultrasound Scans of the Femoral and Carotid Arteries to Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes -- George S. Lavenson, Jr., MD Occurrence Of Digital Photoplethysmography Waveforms In Patients With Lower Extremity Critical Limb Ischemia -- Robert Scissons What is a Venous Duplex Study Anyway? Redefining Ultrasound Protocols in Modern Venous Practice -- M Angelson
12:00 noon-1:20 pm	Lunch with the Experts Session: *Management* (Separate fee required) *(Sponsored by Surgidex)* Choosing a PACS System -- Ted Christman, RVT RVS RDCS RCS RCIS Data Management -- David Parlato, BA RVT Structured Reporting -- Gail Size, BS RVT RVS FSVU
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	Box Lunch in Exhibit Hall (if you signed up for it on registration form)
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12:00 noon-1:20 pm	Lunch on your own
1:30-2:00 pm	Coding & Reimbursement Session Rita Shugart, RN RVT FSVU
2:00-2:30 pm	Practice Panel Moderator: Anne Jones ICAVL (Sandra Katanick, RN RVT FSVU CAE) CCI (Aaron White) ARDMS (Steve Leers, MD RVT RDMS)
2:30-3:00 pm	Election Results, Scientific/Service Awards & Chapter Awards Michel Comeaux, RN BSN RVT RDMS FSVU – Nominations Subcommittee Chair Pat Marques, RN RVT FSVU – Awards Subcommittee Chair Jeannette Flannery, RVT RDMS – Chapters Subcommittee Chair
3:00-3:15 pm	Break
3:15-3:45 pm	Screening and IMT -- Joseph Polak, MD (Sponsored by GE Healthcare)
3:45-5:00 pm	Vascular Case Studies with Audience Participation Moderator: Kari Olmsted, BS RVT
5:00 pm	Closing Remarks – See You in Boston in June 2010! Paula Walsh, RVT RDMS RDCS, 2010 Annual Conference Chair