Mayo Clinic Echo Alaska Frontiers of Multimodality Imaging Including Echo, Cardiac CT and MRI July 27 – 31, 2026

July 27 – 31, 2026
This symposium is a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art echocardiography, nuclear, cardiac CT, and MRI for a wide variety of cardiovascular disorders. We will emphasize new technologies and how to use imaging information for the care of your patients. Integration of Echo, CT, and MRI and their incremental value in clinical cardiology will be highlighted. An additional focus will be on the role of 2-D and 3-D echocardiography in guiding interventional therapies.
Unique to this course is live scanning of patients with various CV disorders. This session will emphasize the importance of comprehensive echocardiographic acquisition and management decision based on echocardiographic data.
Course Highlights:

Live scanning and diastology workshop
Tips & Tricks for sonographers
Heart Failure
Valvular heart disease
Congenital heart disease
Ischemic heart disease
Imaging for interventional guidance

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this program, attendees should be able to:

Utilize cardiac imaging for clinical decisions
Integrate echocardiography to manage valvular heart disease
Interpret cardiac imaging in patients with heart failure
Utilize cardiac CT and MRI to compliment echocardiographic findings
Apply multimodality imaging to manage congenital heart disease
Identify the strengths and weaknesses of each imaging modality

INTENDED AUDIENCE
This conference is specifically designed for adult and congenital cardiovascular specialists, internists, anesthesiologists, critical care physicians, surgeons, and sonographers interested in the clinical application of echocardiography, cardiac CT, and MRI.
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Monday, July 27, 2026

6:30 a.m.: Precourse Registration and Continental Breakfast

7:00 a.m.: Welcome and Introduction – Course Overview & Objective Review (Grace Lin, MD, MBA)

HEART FAILURE AND INTRODUCTION TO MULTIMODALITY IMAGING (Moderator: Grace Lin, MD, MBA)

7:10 a.m.: Introduction to Cardiac MRI & CT: Which Test for Which Patient (Suhny Abbara, MD)

7:40 a.m.: Case 1 (Grace Lin, MD, MBA)

8:00 a.m.: Case 2 (Daniel Borgeson, MD)

8:20 a.m.: Case 3 (Grace Lin, MD, MBA)

8:40 a.m.: Case 4 (S. Allen Luis, MBBS, PhD)

9:00 a.m.: Questions With Panel Including Surgeon

9:20 a.m.: Refreshment Break & Visit Exhibits

SYSTOLIC AND DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE: ECHO/CT/MRI (Moderator: Grace Lin, MD, MBA)

9:40 a.m.: Multimodality Imaging in Cardiomyopathy (John Bois, MD)

10:10 a.m.: Case 6 (Daniel Borgeson, MD)

10:30 a.m.: Case 7 (Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, MD)

10:50 a.m.: Case 8 (Matthew Martinez, MD)

11:10 a.m.: Case 9 (Grace Lin, MD, MBA)

11:30 a.m.: Case 10 (Daniel Borgeson, MD)

11:50 a.m.: Questions With Panel Including Surgeon

12:15 p.m.: Grab lunch and return to ballroom for product theater, and then return for evening session.

12:45 p.m.: Non-CME Product Theater – Sponsored by AstraZeneca – No CME Credit

1:45 p.m.: Adjourn until 4 p.m.

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

6:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast – Visit Exhibits

VALVULAR HEART DISEASE I

7:00 a.m.: CTA for the Evaluation of Valvular Heart Disease (Suhny Abbara, MD)

7:30 a.m.: Case 1 (Vuyisile Nkomo, MD, MPH)

7:50 a.m.: Case 2 (Matthew Martinez, MD)

8:10 a.m.: Case 3 (Jared Bird, MD)

8:30 a.m.: Case 4 (S. Allen Luis, MBBS, PhD)

8:50 a.m.: Questions With Panel Including Surgeon

9:10 a.m.: Refreshment Break & Visit Exhibits

VALVULAR HEART DISEASE II

9:40 a.m.: Case 5 (Vuyisile Nkomo, MD, MPH)

10:00 a.m.: Case 6 (Rekha Mankad, MD)

10:20 a.m.: Case 7 (Alberto Pochettino, MD)

10:40 a.m.: Case 8 (Rekha Mankad, MD)

11:00 a.m.: Case 9 (Nathaniel Taggart, MD)

11:20 a.m.: Case 10 (S. Allen Luis, MBBS, PhD)

11:40 a.m.: Questions With Panel Including Surgeon

12:00 p.m.: Adjourn. Grab lunch and return to ballroom for product theater.

12:30 p.m.: Non-CME Product Theater Sponsored by Kiniksa – No CME Credit

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

6:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast – Visit Exhibits

ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE AND ASSESSMENT OF THE UNSTABLE PATIENT (Moderator: Crystal Bonnichsen, MD)

12:00 a.m.: POCUS & Echo in the ICU (Jared Bird, MD)

7:00 a.m.: CTA for Chest Pain (Philip Araoz, MD)

7:25 a.m.: Nuclear Perfusion Imaging for Evaluation of Ischemia (Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, MD)

7:50 a.m.: Stress Echo for Ischemia and Beyond (S. Allen Luis, MBBS, PhD)

8:40 a.m.: Questions With Panel Including Surgeon

9:00 a.m.: Refreshment Break & Visit Exhibits

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE AND PREGNANCY (Moderator: Jonathan Johnson, MD)

9:30 a.m.: Case 1 (Steve Kindel, MD)

9:50 a.m.: Case 2 (M. Yasir Qureshi, MBBS)

10:10 a.m.: Case 3 (Nathaniel Taggart, MD)

10:30 a.m.: Case 4 (Jonathan Johnson, MD)

10:50 a.m.: Case 5 (M. Yasir Qureshi, MBBS)

11:10 a.m.: Case 6 (Steve Kindel, MD)

11:30 a.m.: Questions With Panel Including Surgeon

12:00 p.m.: Adjourn

Thursday, July 30, 2026

6:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast – Visit Exhibits

MULTIMODALITY IMAGING WORKSHOPS & ECHO LIVE SCANNING

12:00 a.m.: CT/MRI Workshop – Trouble Shooting, Image Acquisition, Interpretation, Interesting Cases (Ballroom 2) (Suhny Abbara, MD, Philip Araoz, MD, John Bois, MD)

12:00 a.m.: Nuclear Workshop – PET, PYP, and More – Trouble Shooting, Image Acquisition, Interpretation, Interesting Cases (Ballroom 2) (John Bois, MD, Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, MD)

7:00 a.m.: Tips and Tricks for the Sonographer (including hands-on): Imaging Tips (Coronaries, POCUS/Lung US, Pedoff Probe, etc.) (Main Ballroom) (Ahmed Sami Abuzaid, MD, Macy Bartosh, RDCS, Jared Bird, MD, Crystal Bonnichsen, MD, Nicholas Enger, RDCS, Donald Hagler, MD, Steve Kindel, MD, M. Yasir Qureshi, MBBS)

8:00 a.m.: Echo for Guiding Procedures: 3-D Image Acquisition; focus on knobology and optimization, tips and tricks for intraop and procedural imaging (Main Ballroom) (Macy Bartosh, RDCS, Jared Bird, MD, Nicholas Enger, RDCS, Donald Hagler, MD, Rekha Mankad, MD, Vuyisile Nkomo, MD, MPH, Nathaniel Taggart, MD)

9:30 a.m.: Refreshment Break & Visit Exhibits

ECHO LIVE SCANNING (Main Ballroom)

10:00 a.m.: Live Case Demonstrations – Strain Workshop (Ahmed Sami Abuzaid, MD, Macy Bartosh, RDCS, Daniel Borgeson, MD, Nicholas Enger, RDCS, Grace Lin, MD, MBA, Matthew Martinez, MD)

10:40 a.m.: Live Case Demonstrations – 3-D and Valves (Ahmed Sami Abuzaid, MD, Macy Bartosh, RDCS, Jared Bird, MD, Nicholas Enger, RDCS, Vuyisile Nkomo, MD, MPH)

11:20 a.m.: Live Case Demonstrations – Congenital/Other (Ahmed Sami Abuzaid, MD, Nicholas Enger, RDCS, Donald Hagler, MD, Jonathan Johnson, MD, Steve Kindel, MD, M. Yasir Qureshi, MBBS, Nathaniel Taggart, MD)

12:00 p.m.: Adjourn

Friday, July 31, 2026

6:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast – Visit Exhibits

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS (Moderator: Crystal Bonnichsen, MD)

12:00 a.m.: Case of the Year – You Vote! (Crystal Bonnichsen, MD)

7:00 a.m.: Multimodality Imaging for Aortic Disease (Crystal Bonnichsen, MD)

7:25 a.m.: Cardiac Masses: Imaging/Pathologic Correlation (Philip Araoz, MD, Melanie Bois, MD)

8:15 a.m.: Refreshment Break

10:00 a.m.: Adjourn