Cardiac MRI Certification Exam

Sadeer G Al-Kindi, MD is a board-certified multimodality cardiovascular imaging specialist at University Hospitals Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute and an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Radiology at Case Western ReserveUniversity.  He attended medical school at Weil Cornell Medical School in Qatar, followed by residency, cardiology fellowship, and advanced cardiac imaging at University Hospitals/Case Western. He is currently the director of cardiovascular phenomics core and the co-director for the Center for Integrated and Novel Approaches in Vascular Medicine (CINEMA). Scott E Janus, MD is a board certified multimodality imaging specialist. He completed medical school and internal medicine residency at Loyola University. He was Chief Cardiology fellow and completed his advanced cardiovascular imaging fellowship at University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio.

• Basics of MRI- Review of physics and physic questions.- Patient Specific Protocols- Review of specific sequences and patient safety questions.- Ischemic Heart Disease- Review of pathology of coronary disease and stress testing.- Non-Ischemic Heart Disease- Review of pathologies of non-ischemic disease.- Pericardial Disease- Review of pericarditis and constrictive physiology.- Valvular disease- Valvular conditions and vegetations.- Masses- Tumors and cardiac masses.- Congenital- Congenital anatomy and corrective surgeries.- MRA- Magnetic resonance angiography and aortic pathologies.- Flow Quantification- Calculating regurgitation and flow.