Advancing Cardiovascular Care through Innovation, Teaching, and Community Engagement-Topic Video

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Dr. Christopher Kramer’s gold medal lecture reflected on 25 years of cardiovascular MR innovation, mentorship, and collaboration. He thanked key mentors and colleagues, then reviewed major research contributions across sheep, mouse, and human studies. His work helped define post-MI remodeling, remote and adjacent myocardial dysfunction, viability, and prediction of recovery using tagging and contrast imaging. He also described advances in atherosclerosis imaging, peripheral arterial disease, quantitative myocardial perfusion, and exercise/perfusion imaging of skeletal muscle. A major current project is HCMR, a large NHLBI-sponsored registry studying hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with CMR. Kramer also emphasized education and field-building through training courses, fellowship standards, appropriate use criteria, and clinical protocol documents, aiming to raise CMR’s status alongside other major imaging societies.

Keywords

cardiovascular MR

Dr. Christopher Kramer

myocardial remodeling

hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

quantitative perfusion imaging

CMR education