Advanced Cardiac Imaging: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR)

Dr. Ming-Yen Ng

Clinical Associate Professor, the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Course director for Cardiac CT and CMR MOOC

The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Ng is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Hong Kong; and HKU Cardiac Imaging Massive Open Online Course Director.

Dr Ng undertook his radiology training in Manchester where he underwent subspecialist cardiothoracic imaging training for 2 years and a 1 year cardiac imaging fellowship at Toronto General Hospital before coming to Hong Kong. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), and Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT).

He sits on various committees for the SCMR, SCCT and RSNA and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. He is a member of the SCCT Board of Directors and the current chair of the SCMR Education Committee.

He was awarded the HKU Teaching Innovation Award, Gold Award for Life Sciences by the QS Reimagine Education Award and EdX Finalist 2021 and 2023.

He is actively involved in research with interests in quantitative stress CMR, coronary artery disease, diabetes, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and COVID-19. He has >80 peer-reviewed publications in JACC, JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging, European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging and Radiology.

Dr. Varut Vince Vardhanabhuti

Clinical Assistant Professor

The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Vince Vardhanabhuti, MBBS, BSc, FRCR, LMCHK, PhD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Hong Kong. He completed his medical degree at Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine in London in the United Kingdom. He had subsequent training in London, Oxford, Plymouth, Exeter in the UK whilst also completing a PhD during his residency. He completed a radiology fellowship in cardiovascular imaging at Imperial College London. He is passionate about using technology in education and has served as Microsoft Cloud Research Software Fellow and an Amazon Faculty Ambassador in AWS Educate Cloud Ambassador Program.

Guest speaker: Dr. Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci

Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging at Kings College, UK, and Consultant Cardiologist at Royal Brompton Hospital ;Chief Executive Officer of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR)

Kings College UK; SCMR

Dr Bucciarelli-Ducci is a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) in Cardiology since 2010 at the University of Bristol and honorary cardiologist at the Bristol Heart Institute, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom. She is the co-Director of the Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (CRIC) Bristol, University of Bristol. She was awarded a PhD in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London in 2012.

In May 2019 she was also appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) with headquarters in the United States.

She is the past European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) Vice-President and chair of the cardiac MRI section (2016-2018), within the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). She was part of the writing committee for the 2017 ESC guidelines on STEMI and the 2018 ESC/AHA/ACC/WHF 4th definition of myocardial infarction. She is a consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (for medical imaging) of the United Nations and a consultant for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) (for MRI contrast agents) of the European Union.

She has recently been nominated the Deputy Editor (Imaging) of the European Heart Journal.

She has over 190 peer-reviewed publications (pubmed) including NEJM, JAMA, JACC, JACC Imaging, Circulation, Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging, European Heart Journal, European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging. She is in the editorial board of Circulation Imaging, JACC imaging and European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging.

Guest speaker: Dr. Carmen WS Chan

Consultant Cardiologist

Queen Mary Hospital

Dr Carmen Chan was graduated from the University of Hong Kong. She is currently being the Consultant Cardiologist and the Clinical Honorary Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong. She is sub-specialized in advanced non-invasive cardiac imaging and has undergone advanced cardiac imaging training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA. Apart from providing clinical service, she is also interested and actively involved in clinical researches.

Guest speaker: Dr. Charles Hing-Chiu Chang

Research Assistant Professor

The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Hing-Chiu Chang received his PhD degree in Biomedical Electronics from the National Taiwan University in 2012, and completed his postdoc training at Duke University Medical Center. He is currently a research assistant professor at the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Hong Kong. Before joining the academia, he worked in a medical imaging industry and developed prototype magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) software for research purpose. His research interests include image reconstruction and artifact reduction for fast MRI technique, especially for multi-shot echo-planar imaging (EPI). He has pioneered several 2D and 3D multi-shot EPI techniques to enable high-resolution and time-efficient brain diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI), such as 2D DTI based on multi-band interleaved EPI with multiplexed sensitivity encoding (MB-MUSE), 3D DTI based on interleaved EPI acquisition and multiplexed sensitivity encoding and reconstruction (3D-MUSER), self-calibrated and collaborative Propeller-EPI Reconstruction (SCOPER), etc. To date, he has published 45 peer-reviewed papers and near 100 international conference papers. He also serves as review editor for Radiation Oncology, and reviewer for several international journals in medical imaging.

Guest speaker: Dr. Stephen Chi-Wai Cheung

Consultant Radiologist

Queen Mary Hospital

Dr. Cheung is a radiologist with a subspecialty interest in cardiovascular imaging including cardiac CT and cardiac MRI. He is in charge of the cardiovascular imaging service and training at Radiology of Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. He is also an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, the LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong. He is active in teaching and has delivered lectures in multiple local and international conferences. He has also served in the RSNA Regional Committee for Asia/Oceania, Executive Committee of Asian Society of Cardiovascular Imaging, Program Committee and SCMR and CMR Chapter of Hong Kong College of Cardiology. He also has an interest in aortic intervention including TEVAR for aortic aneurysms and dissections.

Guest speaker: Dr. Kenneth KY Cheung

Associate Consultant

Department of Radiology, Hong Kong Children's Hospital

Dr. Cheung received specialist training at Queen Mary Hospital Hong Kong, and had further subspecialty training as a cardiac imaging fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. His research interests are in paediatric magnetic resonance imaging and advanced visualisation techniques.

Guest speaker: Dr. Calvin Woon-Loong Chin

Senior Consultant

National Heart Centre Singapore

Dr Calvin Chin is a Senior Consultant and Clinician Scientist at the National Heart Centre Singapore, and an Assistant Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School. He is the Director of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance at the National Heart Center Singapore. Dr Chin graduated from Loma Linda University, California in 2003 and completed his cardiology training at the National Heart Centre Singapore in 2012. With the support from the National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Calvin completed the Master of Clinical Investigation at the National University of Singapore and a PhD program at the University of Edinburgh in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He was awarded the Transition Award and Clinician Scientist Award by the NMRC in 2015 and 2018, respectively. His research examines the mechanisms mediating myocardial hypertrophy and fibrosis in patients with hypertensive heart disease, using non-invasive imaging techniques and biochemical markers. In recognition of his research, Dr Chin has received several national and international awards, including the American College of Cardiology Young Investigator Award (2015), British Heart Valve Society Young Investigator Award (2015), American Heart Association Young Investigator Award (2018) and the Singhealth Publish Award (2015 and 2016).

Guest speaker: Dr. Vanessa M. Ferreira

Deputy Clinical Director

University of Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research

Professor Vanessa Ferreira is a British Heart Foundation Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Deputy Director of the Oxford Clinical Centre for Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR) and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine. She was a board member of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (tenure 2016-2019), and serves on its Scientific Program Committee.

Prof. Ferreira obtained her Bachelor of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Doctor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). She completed medical training at the University of British Columbia (Internal Medicine) and the University of Calgary (Cardiology). She subsequently obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford, and has been working at the University since.

Prof. Ferreira has expertise in the study of heart disease using CMR. Her programme of research aims to understand the pathophysiology of acute and chronic myocardial diseases, and how these may be detected using non-invasive MRI biomarkers as a basis to develop new tools for diagnosis and monitoring therapy. She has expertise in quantitative CMR techniques, such as T1- and T2- mapping. Mapping provides a quantitative way to examine the heart, and produces pixel-wise maps which give additional information compared to conventional MR images.

One of her goals is to study subclinical but important pathophysiologic processes (such as the role of diffuse myocardial fibrosis) in heart disease that contribute to increased CV risks and poor outcomes. Advanced CMR methods can assess these non-invasively, and can help us understand common and rare cardiac diseases better, to assess novel therapies, and follow disease progression/response to therapy.

Guest speaker: Dr. Elsie Nguyen

Associate Professor

University of Toronto

Dr. Elsie Nguyen is an Associate Professor of Radiology, Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto. She is also Director of Cardiac Imaging at Womens’ College Hospital where she started the Cardiac MR and CT Imaging Program. She is the only radiologist in Canada to be certified by the American Society of Echocardiography (level III certification) and the only radiologist currently reporting echocardiograms in a tertiary care academic hospital setting. She is passionate about education and has won numerous teaching awards for both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. In 2018, University of Toronto medical students voted Dr. Nguyen as “Best Undergraduate Teacher”. Her research interests include microcoil lung nodule localization techniques; cardiac computed tomography optimization techniques and iron overload imaging with magnetic resonance imaging.

Guest speaker: Dr. Mini Pakkal

Assistant Professor

University of Toronto

Dr. Mini Pakkal is Assistant Professor in Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto since 2014. Prior to that she worked as a consultant cardiothoracic radiologist at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS trust, UK from 2007-2013.

She is level 3 SCCT certified in cardiac CT and level 3 SCMR certified in cardiac MR. She was awarded the FSCCT in 2017. She is actively involved in education and is passionate about sharing cardiothoracic knowledge with the international community. She sits on the SCCT committee for continued medical education. Her educational portfolio is strongly reflective of her commitment towards cardiac imaging. She is the Director of cardiac education at the Joint Department of Medical Imaging and Director of the Advanced cardiac CT course at the Advanced Education and Imaging centre at the University of Toronto and co-director of the UK cardiac CT course. She also supervises the medical imaging fellowship program at the University of Toronto in her role as the Fellowship Program Director. She has received several awards for her teaching skills and has been recently awarded the 2019 RSNA international visiting professorship in cardiothoracic education.

Guest speaker: Prof. Dudley Pennell

Professor of Cardiology

Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London UK

Dudley Pennell is Professor of Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London.

He is also Director of the Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Unit and Director of Non-Invasive Cardiology at Royal Brompton Hospital. He is also Section Head for Genetics and Imaging at National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College.

His current research interests in CMR are:

1. measurement of myocardial iron and the assessment of chelation treatment,
2. the assessment and differentiation of cardiomyopathies,
3. diffusion tensor imaging of myocardial architecture

He has published >570 research papers and recently the 3rd Edition of the textbook “Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance” as part of the Braunwald cardiology series.

He has been awarded a number of fellowships, including in 2014 to the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a recipient of the Gold Medal Award from the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.

Guest speaker: Prof. Steffen E. Petersen

Professor

Queen Mary University of London

Steffen Petersen is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London and a Consultant Cardiologist and Clinical Director for Research at Barts Heart Centre, Barts Health NHS Trust. He is also the Cardiovascular Programme Director of UCLPartners Academic Medical Centre. He is President-Elect of the European Society of Cardiology's (ESC) European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI). He is the chief specialty editor of Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine’s Cardiovascular Imaging section. He holds an MBCHB and MDRES equivalent (Dr med.) from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, a DPHIL (OXON) from the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health and an MSc in Health Economics, Outcomes and Management in Cardiovascular Science from the London School of Economics. He is level 3 certified for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). He has been actively involved in cardiovascular magnetic resonance since 1998 and he reports over 1000 cardiac adult MRI scans each year.

Guest speaker: Dr. Shihua Zhao

Professor

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

Dr. Shihua ZHAO is a Professor of Radiology, specialising in cardiovascular imaging, cardiac catheterization and intervention in Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Centre for Cardiovascular Diseases in China. He is currently serving as the chair of the Department of MRI. Dr. Zhao obtained MD and Ph.D. in Peking Union Medical College after his graduation from five-year medical university in Anhui. Dr. Zhao went abroad for further education in Austria and France for a total of four years in 1990s.

Academic Position

1. Membership Committee Chair, Asian Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (ASCI)
2. EC member, Asian Society of Thoracic Imaging (ASTI)
3. FESC, Fellow of European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
4. FACC, Fellow of American College of Cardiology（ACC）
5. EC member and imaging group head, Chinese Society of Cardiology
6. EC member, imaging group head, Radiologic Branch of Chinese Medical Doctor Association
7. Deputy director, Cardiac & Thoracic Committee, Chinese Society of Radiology

Dr. Zhao obtained many grants including key projects supported by the National Natural Science Fund. As the first one in order, he has sequentially won 8 achievement awards including National Science and Technology Award in 2019. In 2013, Dr. Zhao was honoured Prominent Teacher by Peking Union Medical College. In 2015, he won one gold medal from Asian Society for cardiovascular imaging (ASCI). He has published more than 400 scientific papers, among which more than 100 were published in SCI-cited journals, with the highest Impact Factor 24.3 in CIRCULATION.

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