Early Career & Professional Development - 01 - Building a Successful CMR Program-Running an Efficient and Successful CMR Program in a Multi-Modality Cardiac Imaging Practice

Running an Efficient and Successful CMR Program in a Multi-Modality Cardiac Imaging Practice

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The talk uses a hemochromatosis case to show how cardiac MRI complements other imaging. A woman with cardiomyopathy, low platelets, normal coronary CT angiography, and reduced ejection fraction underwent CMR, which confirmed ventricular dysfunction, showed no scar or ischemic injury, and demonstrated myocardial iron deposition on T2* imaging—avoiding biopsy and establishing cardiac involvement.<br /><br />The speaker then shares practical advice for building a strong CMR program: know the strengths and limits of each imaging modality, understand your local scanners, and educate referring clinicians on when CMR adds value. He emphasizes close collaboration with MRI technologists, creating efficient disease-specific protocols, making ordering easy in the EMR, and writing reports that answer clinical questions rather than merely describe findings. Finally, he encourages networking, ongoing learning, research, and adapting to change to keep the program relevant.

Keywords

hemochromatosis

cardiac MRI

myocardial iron deposition

cardiomyopathy

CMR program