UCSF Imaging Update in Alaska 2025 (Slides only)

The Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco invites you to attend UCSF Imaging Update in Alaska, July 21-25, 2025, at the beautiful Alyeska Resort outside of Anchorage. The course will present comprehensive, up-to-date reviews of important topics in abdominopelvic, thoracic, and musculoskeletal imaging, neuroradiology, and interventional radiology.
Lectures will cover typical and atypical presentations of common pathology, as well as less common pathologies encountered in major organ systems. Interventional radiology lectures will cover material relevant to both practicing interventionalists and the diagnostic radiologists working alongside them. Faculty will additionally highlight appropriate imaging protocols, patient management strategies, and important pitfalls in imaging interpretation.

Objectives
An attendee completing this course will be able to:

Identify important imaging characteristics of kidney, liver, pancreas, and spleen masses at CT and MRI, and then systematically come to an appropriate diagnosis or differential diagnosis.
Understand indications and techniques for interventions such as kidney and liver tumor ablation, thoracentesis and chest tube placement, and approaches to diagnosis and treatment of venous insufficiency.
Diagnose pathology of major joints on MRI and assess inflammatory spondyloarthropathies with variable presentations.
Recognize and appropriately characterize acute pathology of the liver and biliary tree, pancreas, and bowel.
Apply a pattern-based approach to discerning interstitial lung disease, make key diagnoses for patients with acute chest pain, and identify unusual infections in the chest.
Diagnose CNS and spine infections and characterize acute and subacute intracranial pathologies such as hemorrhage, hydrocephalus, and masses.

Course Outline
Agenda is subject to change. Please refer to final version in the course syllabus emailed to all registrants one week prior to the course.

Monday, July 21, 2025

6:15 AM
Registration and Breakfast

6:50
Introduction/Course Overview
Joseph Leach, MD, PhD

7:00
Renal Masses
Joseph Leach, MD, PhD

7:30
Solitary Liver Masses – Part I
Emma Webb, MD

8:00
Solitary Liver Masses – Part II
Emma Webb, MD

8:30
Fire and Ice – Review of Percutaneous Kidney and Liver Tumor Ablation
Vishal Kumar, MD

9:00
Ankle MRI
Christine Chung, MD

9:30
Coffee Break

10:00
2025 Lung Cancer Staging Update
Maya Vella, MD

10:30
SI Joint Imaging
Christine Chung, MD

11:00
The Spleen…No, Really
Joseph Leach, MD, PhD

11:30
Beyond “No PE”: CT Findings in Acute Chest Pain
Maya Vella, MD

12:00 PM
Knee MRI – Ligaments and Stabilizing Structures

12:30
Adjourn

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

6:30 AM
Breakfast

7:00
Pattern Based Approach to Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease
Maya Vella, MD

7:30
Assessment of Inflammatory Spondyloarthropathy
Christine Chung, MD

8:00
Challenging Chest Radiographs
Maya Vella, MD

8:30
Thoracentesis and Chest Tubes – What Every Radiologist Should Know
Vishal Kumar, MD

9:00
Metabolic Bone Disorders
Christine Chung, MD

9:30
Coffee Break

10:00
Classic Appearances of Unusual Infections
Maya Vella, MD

10:30
Acute Hepatopancreatobiliary
Joseph Leach, MD, PhD

11:00
Stones No More – IR and Percutaneous Cholangioscopy
Vishal Kumar, MD

11:30
MRI Finger/ Hand
Christine Chung, MD

12:00 PM
Bowel Ischemia
Joseph Leach, MD, PhD

12:30
Adjourn

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

6:30 AM
Breakfast

7:00
Cysts and Hydrocephalus
David Wilson, MD, PhD

7:30
Elbow MRI
Christine Chung, MD

8:00
Facial Symptoms in Neuroradiology
David Wilson, MD, PhD

8:30
CT of Diverticulitis and It’s Mimics
Emma Webb, MD

9:00
Rotator Cuff: From Tendinosis to Arthropathy
Christine Chung, MD

9:30
Coffee Break

10:00
Cystic Pancreatic Masses
Emma Webb, MD

10:30
Acute Intracranial Hemorrhage
David Wilson, MD, PhD

11:00
CT of Colitis
Emma Webb, MD

11:30
CNS Infections
David Wilson, MD, PhD

12:00 PM
Atypical Pancreatic Masses
Emma Webb, MD

12:30
Adjourn

Thursday, July 24, 2025

6:30 AM
Breakfast

7:00
Imaging and Treatment of Chronic Venous Insufficiency
Vishal Kumar, MD

7:30
Troubleshooting the Pulmonary Arteries
Maya Vella, MD

8:00
Role of IR in Palliative Care
Vishal Kumar, MD

8:30
Carotid Ultrasound
Joseph Leach, MD PhD

9:00
Introduction to Coronary Artery CTA
Maya Vella, MD

9:30
Coffee Break

10:00
Abdominal Vascular Disease
Joseph Leach, MD PhD

10:45
Post-Op Heart: Normal Findings and When to Raise the Alarm
Maya Vella, MD

11:15
Transplant Vascular Complications
Joseph Leach, MD PhD

12:00 PM
Addressing Disparity – Role of IR in Gynecologic Hemorrhage
Vishal Kumar, MD

12:30
Adjourn

Friday, July 25, 2025

6:30 AM
Breakfast

7:00
Appendicitis: Imaging Update
Emma Webb, MD

7:30
Infection and Inflammation of the Spine
David Wilson, MD, PhD

8:00
Role of Race and Bias Elements in Trauma Care
Vishal Kumar, MD

8:30
Midline Masses and Sella
David Wilson, MD, PhD

9:00
Recentering Humanism in Image Guided Therapy – Periprocedural Care
Vishal Kumar, MD

9:30
Coffee Break

10:00
Tumors and Postoperative Complications
David Wilson, MD, PhD

10:30
Retroperitoneal Masses: Problem Solving with CT and MR
Emma Webb, MD

11:15
Acute Genitourinary
Joseph Leach, MD, PhD

11:45
Interesting Abdominal Imaging Cases
Joseph Leach, MD, PhD
Emma Webb, MD

12:30 PM
Adjourn