32^nd Annual
Advanced Ultrasound Seminar: OB/GYN

Co-Sponsored by:
Wake Forest University School of Medicine & Orlando Regional Healthcare

Presented by:
The Center for Medical Ultrasound of Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Orlando Regional Healthcare Foundation
Continuing Medical Education Department, Orlando Regional Healthcare

Lennard D. Greenbaum, MD
Co-Director, The Hughes Center for Fetal Diagnostics, Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies, Orlando Regional Healthcare, Orlando, FL

Frederick W. Kremkau, PhD
Professor and Director, Center for Medical Ultrasound, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC

Alfred Abuhamad, MD
Mason C. Andrews Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia

Joshua Copel, MD
Professor of OB/GYN & Reproductive Sciences and Pediatrics; Vice Chairman, Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Greggory R. DeVore, MD
Director, Fetal Diagnostic Center, Pasadena, CA

Harris Finberg, MD
Director, Diagnostic Ultrasound, Phoenix Perinatal Associates, Phoenix, AZ

Steven Goldstein, MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University School of Medicine; Director, Gynecologic Ultrasound; Co Director Bone Densitometry, New York University Medical Center,
New York, NY

Frederick W. Kremkau, PhD
Professor and Director, Center for Medical Ultrasound, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC

Edward Lyons, MD
Professor of Radiology, Obstetrics & Gynecology & Anatomy, Section of Ultrasound,
University of Manitoba Health Sciences Center, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Jean Lea Spitz, MPH, RDMS
Director, Nuchal Translucency Quality Review Program; Professor Emeritus, University of Oklahoma

Paula Woletz, RDMS, RDCS, MPH
Director of Accreditation and Clinical Affairs, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, Laurel, MD

Wednesday, February 18 (Optional)

Pre-Conference Workshop
Principles Refresher & Update:  Imaging and Doppler Principles

7:30-8:00 am                Registration and Continental Breakfast

                                    All Lectures Presented by:  Frederick Kremkau, PhD

8:00 am                        Principles of Sonography

·        Ultrasound

·        Transducers

·        Instruments

·         Artifacts

10:00 am                      Break

10:15 am                      Doppler Principles

·        Doppler Effect

·        Color-Doppler Instruments

·        Spectral-Doppler Instruments

·        Artifacts

11:45 am                      Adjourn (Lunch on your own)

Pre-Conference Workshop

Nuchal Translucency Credentialing Course

1:00-1:45 pm               First Trimester Risk Assessment: What Does the Data Show?

Joshua Copel, MD

1:45-2:45 pm               Technical Aspects of NT and Nasal Bone Imaging

Alfred Abuhamad, MD

2:45-3:15 pm               Break  

3:15-3:30 pm               First Trimester Risk Assessment in Twins

Alfred Abuhamad, MD

3:30-4:00 pm               Additional Benefits of First Trimester Screening

Joshua Copel, MD

4:00-4:30 pm               The Role of Second Trimester Ultrasound in Aneuploidy Risk Assessment

Alfred Abuhamad, MD

4:30-5:15 pm               Questions and Answers, Wrap-up and What’s Next

Drs. Abuhamad and Copel

4:00-6:00 pm               Early Conference Registration Opportunity

                                    Fantasia Registration Desk – Lower Level, Conference Center

Thursday, February 20, 2009

7:00-8:00 am                Registration and Continental Breakfast – Visit Exhibits

7:55-8:00                     Welcome and Announcements

8:00-8:40                     Obstetrical Sonography: Tricks of the Trade

Alfred Abuhamad, MD

8:40-9:20                     Coding the OB Scan

Joshua Copel, MD

9:20-10:00                   3D Sonography: How is it Better than 2D Sonography

Alfred Abuhamad, MD

10:00-10:15                 Panel Discussion

Drs. Abuhamad and Copel

10:15-10:45                 Refreshment Break – Visit Exhibits

10:45-11:25                 Monochorionic Twins: Diagnosis, Problems and Pathophysiology Harris Finberg, MD

11:25-12:05 pm           IUGR: Diagnosis and Management

Alfred Abuhamad, MD

12:05-12:45                 Understanding Risks: What I Tell Patients…and What I Document for Nuchal Translucency Screening

Harris Finberg, MD

12:45-1:00                   Panel Discussion

Drs. Finberg and Abuhamad

Friday, February 20 , 2009

7:00-8:00 am                Registration and Continental Breakfast – Visit Exhibits

7:55-8:00                     Announcements

8:00-8: 40                    Genetic Ultrasound: 98% Detection of Down Syndrome

Gregory DeVore, MD

8:40-9:20                     Screening for Heart Defects

Joshua Copel, MD

9:20-10:00                   The Nuts and Bolts of Fine Tuning Your Ultrasound Machine to Examine the Fetal Heart

Gregory DeVore, MD

10:00-10:15                 Panel Discussion

Drs. DeVore and Copel

10:15-10:45                 Refreshment Break – Visit Exhibits

10:45-11:25                 Fetal Arrhythmias

Joshua Copel, MD

11:25-12:05 pm           Fetal Echocardiography: Just Images

Gregory DeVore, MD

12:05-12:45                 Sonomorphology: Toward the More Specific Diagnosis of Ovarian Lesions

Harris Finberg, MD

12:45-1:00                   Panel Discussion

Drs. Copel, DeVore and Finberg

AIUM Accreditation Workshop (Optional)

2:20-2:30 pm               Registration

2:30-5:30 pm               Workshop
                                    Paula Woletz, RDMS, RDCS, MPH


Saturday, February 21, 2009

7:00-8:00 am                Registration and Continental Breakfast – Visit Exhibits

7:55-8:00                     Announcements

8:00-8:40                     Miscarriage, Ectopic and Pregnancies of Unknown Location: What is the Role of Ultrasound?

Steven Goldstein, MD

8:40-9:20                     Bleeding After Pregnancy

Edward Lyons, MD

9:20-10:00                   An Ultrasound Approach to Abnormal Uterine Bleeding

Steven Goldstein, MD

10:00-10:15                 Panel Discussion

Drs. Goldstein and Lyons

10:15-10:45 am            Refreshment Break – Visit Exhibits

10:45-11:25                 Pelvic Pain 1

Edward Lyons, MD

11:25-12:05 pm           The Increasing Sensitivity of Transvaginal Ultrasound: Friend or Foe?

Steven Goldstein, MD

12:05-12:45                 Pelvic Pain 2

Edward Lyons, MD

12:45-1:00 pm             Panel Discussion

Drs. Lyons and Goldstein