Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Established 1994
Type Non-profit professional medical society
Headquarters 19 Mantau Road,
Mt Royal, NJ 08061
United States
Key people

CEO - Orlando Simonetti, PhD

COO - Pete Pomilio
Website Official Website

The Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) is an international non-profit medical society established in 1994.[1] Its goal is to be an international representative and advocate for all physicians, scientists, and technologists working in cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging to improve patient outcomes through education, training, standards, research and development.[2] Since its inception, the society has published more than 30 professional guidelines and expert consensus statements to help standardize and guide education, research and patient management with CMR.[3][4][5] The society is consist of physicians, scientists, technologists and trainees, and is based in Mt. Royal, New Jersey, in the United States.

Working Groups

The society has regional working groups and affiliates in Asia,[6] Australia/New Zealand, Canada,[7] Europe,[8] India,[9] Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States. The role of these working groups is to promote CMR in these regions. There are also special interest groups focusing on Pediatrics/Congenital and Interventional CMR.

Leadership

The SCMR is governed by its officers, including the president, vice-president, secretary, vice-secretary, past-president, and the board of trustees. The following summarises individuals holding the office of president from 1996 to 2016.

Year President
1996-1998 Gerald M. Pohost
1998-2000 Dudley J. Pennell
2000-2002 Nathaniel Reichek
2002-2004 Robert S. Balaban
2004-2006 Warren J. Manning
2006-2008 Stefan Neubauer
2008-2009 Charles B. Higgins
2009-2010 Christopher M Kramer
2010-2011 Eike Nagel
2011-2012 Scott D. Flamm
2012-2013 Andrew E. Arai
2013-2014 Albert de Roos
2014-2015 Orlando Simonetti
2015-2016 Victor Ferrari
2016-current Jeanette Schulz-Menger

Gold Medal Award

The Gold Medal Award is the highest honor bestowed by SCMR annually for distinguished and extraordinary service to the field of CMR and to the Society. Recipients have been:

Year Awardee(s)
2011 Gerald M. Pohost,[10] Charles B. Higgins.[11]
2012 Dudley Pennell.[12]
2013 Stefan Neubauer.[13]
2014 Warren J. Manning.[14]
2015 Christopher M. Kramer,[15] Raymond J. Kim, Robert M. Judd.
2016 Joao A.C. Lima, Eike Nagel.

Annual Scientific Sessions

SCMR has held annual scientific meetings since 1998. The meeting has grown to having >1000 attendees.[16] SCMR has organized joint scientific meetings with EACVI, as well as Joint Workshops with ISMRM.[17]

Guidelines/Appropriate Use Criteria/Consensus Statements

SCMR has worked with other cardiovascular societies (e.g. AHA, ACC, SCCT, ASE, ASNC) in establishing cardiovascular guidelines and appropriateness use criteria.[5] These guidelines and consensus statements are based on published research studies and expert opinions in the field to help improve cardiovascular patient care. SCMR also joined the Choosing Wisely campaign in 2014 to reduce excessive testing.[18]

References

  1. ↑ "Choosing Wisely | Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  2. ↑ Flamm, Scott D (2011). "SCMR President's Page". J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 13 (1): 47. doi:10.1186/1532-429X-13-47. PMC 3189392Freely accessible. PMID 21914184.
  3. ↑ Wood, Shelley. "New Appropriate-Use Criteria Issued for Diagnostic Tests in Stable CAD". Heartwire. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  4. ↑ Stiles, Steve. "Filling Gaps in Guidelines: BiV pacing, ICDs Get Appropriate-Use Criteria". medscape. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  5. 1 2 "List of SCMR Guidelines and Consensus Statements in Pubmed". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  6. ↑ "SCMR Japan Chapter". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Canadian Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  8. ↑ "European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "Indian Association of Cardiac Imaging". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  10. ↑ "Gerald Pohost". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  11. ↑ "Charles Higgins". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  12. ↑ "Professor of Cardiology Honoured". Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  13. ↑ "People and Prizes". Blueprint. University of Oxford. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  14. ↑ "Warren J. Manning". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  15. ↑ "Christopher M. Kramer". Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  16. ↑ "SCMR 2014". http://www.guerbet.co.jp/healthcare-professionals/congress-topics/scmr-2014.html. Guerbet. External link in |website= (help);
  17. ↑ "Past ISMRM Workshops". ISMRM. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  18. ↑ "Choosing Wisely - More than 30 Speciality Societies to Release New Choosing Wisely Lists of Tests or Treatments to Question". Retrieved 6 February 2015.

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