NERRS ANNUAL REFRESHER COURSE
BREAST IMAGING

Saturday, March 6, 2010
Course Director: Priscilla J. Slanetz, MD, MPH, FACR
Location: Massachusetts Medical Society Headquarters, 860 Winter Street, Waltham, MA

The NERRS designates this educational activity for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
One and one-half (1.5) credits meet the criteria of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in
Medicine for risk management study.
The NERRS is accredited by the Massachusetts Medical Society to provide
continuing medical education for physicians.

Download the course schedule and registration form

7:30 - 7:55 am	Registration and Coffee
7:55 - 8:00 am	Welcome and Introduction Priscilla J. Slanetz, MD, MPH Academic Appointment Pending, Harvard Medical School Director of Breast Imaging Research and Clinical Breast MRI, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
BACK TO BASICS
8:00 - 8:30 am	Managing Masses and Distortion Dianne Georgian-Smith, MD Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School Radiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
8:30 - 9:00 am	Managing Calcifications Eren D. Yeh, MD Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School Radiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
9:00 - 9:30 am	Managing Asymmetry Gillian M. Newstead, MD Professor of Radiology, University of Chicago Section Chief, Breast Imaging, University of Chicago Medical Center
9:30 - 10:00 am	Managing the Axilla Martha B. Mainiero, MD Associate Professor of Diagnostic Imaging, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University Director, Anne C. Pappas Center for Breast Imaging, Rhode Island Hospital
10:00 - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 - 11:00 am	Evaluation of the Male Breast Elaine Iuanow, MD Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School Radiologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
11:00 - 11:30 am	Principles of Breast Biopsy: When, How, and Why Priscilla J. Slanetz, MD, MPH
11:30 am- 12:15 pm	Rad-Path Correlation Cases Using Audience Response Tejas Mehta, MD Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School Radiologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
12:15 - 1:45 pm	LUNCH (“Survival in the Court Room ;” “Try Not to Get There in the First Place ”) Daniel B. Kopans, MD
EMERGING BREAST IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES
1:45 - 2:15 pm	Breast Specific Gamma Imaging Patricia M. Morris, MD Staff Radiologist, Lahey Clinic
2:15 - 2:45 pm	Positron Emission Mammography Gillian M. Newstead, MD
2:45 - 3:15 pm	Clinical Breast MRI Elsie Levin, MD Clinical Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School Director, Faulkner-Sagoff Centre, Faulkner Hospital
3:15 - 3:45 pm	Break
3:45 - 4:15 pm	3T Breast MR Robyn L. Birdwell, MD Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School Section Head, Division of Breast Imaging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
4:15 - 4:45 pm	Breast Cancer Cryoablation with MRI Monitoring: Initial Experience Stephen Poplack, MD Associate Professor of Radiology and OB-GYN, Dartmouth Medical School Co-Director of Breast Imaging, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
4:45 - 5:15 pm	Questions and Answers