Cardiovascular MRI with clinical &
multimodality correlation
Padua (IT), 10-12 December 2025
General Information
Language course: English
Course Director:
Prof. Alessia Pepe, Padua (IT)
Local Organizing Secretariat
MCO International Group Srl
Via Luigi Carlo Farini 11, 50121 Firenze
martina.bisconti@mcointernationalgroup.com
Course Venue
Aula Morgagni, Teaching Room and reporting room
Institute of Radiology, Department of Medicine, University of Padua
N. Giustiniani, 2 Street
35128 Padova
REGISTRATION:
Go to the preregistration area.
For payment (valid registration only after payment): click here.
FEE:
Before 30 September
€ 750,00 Physicians
€ 550,00 Residents, PhD students, Technologists, Nurses
After 30 September
€ 850,00 Physicians
€ 650,00 Residents, PhD students, Technologists, Nurses
The fee will cover:
• Frontal lectures: from the diagnostic semiotic to the appropriateness based on the current recommendations in a multimodality and multidisciplinary view
• Practical sections aimed at protocol optimization based on the clinical question, post-processing in an AI era, and reporting in a multidisciplinary view.
• Tutor assistance by the faculty
• Teaching course material
• Coffee Breaks and Lunch
• Social dinner and social events
PAYMENT TERMS
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Payment will be possibile on our bank account by bank transfer and credit card (each participant will receive automatic registration confirmation by email and who pay with bank transfer has 2 days for completing payment)
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Registration fees are VAT 22% not included
Faculty
Local Organizers: A. Pepe/Padova/IT
Co-organizers: L. Natale/Rome/IT and H. Lamb/ND
Faculty
Giovanni Donato Aquaro, Research Fellow, Radiodiagnostics Unit, University of Pisa (IT)
Dietrich Beitzke, Head of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Unit, Medizinische Universität, Wien (AT)
Francesco Bovenzi, Head of the Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology Unit, San Luca Hospital, Lucca (IT)
Giulio Cabrelle, Department of Medicine, University of Padua (IT)
Marco Castellaro, Research Fellow, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua (IT)
Filippo Crimì, Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Padua (IT)
Domenico Corrado, Full Professor of Cardiology, University of Padua (IT)
Giovanni Di Salvo, Full Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, , University of Padua (IT)
Andrea Ermolao, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Padua (IT)
Antonio Esposito, Full Professor of Radiology, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano (IT)
Marco Francone, Full Professor of Radiology, Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
Gino Gerosa, Full Professor of Cardiology, University of Padua (IT)
Alessia Gimelli, Head of Nuclear Cardiology Unit, Fondazione G. Monasterio, Pisa (IT)
Hildo. J. Lamb, Full Professor of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center. Leiden (NL)
Guido Ligabue, Associate Professor of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy, Università Degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (IT)
Amalia Lupi, Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Padua (IT)
Sophie Mavrogeni, Visiting Professor of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, University of Athens (GR)
Antonella Meloni, CMR Unit, Fondazione G. Monasterio, Pisa (IT)
Luigi Natale, Associate Professor of Radiology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma (IT)
Anna Palmisano, Associate Professor of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano (IT)
Alessia Pepe, Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Padua (IT)
Emilio Quaia, Full Professor of Radiology, University of Padua (IT)
Rodrigo Salgado, Radiologist, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem (BE)
Patrizio Sarto, Head of the Department of Sports Medicine,ULSS2 Marca Trevigiana, Treviso (IT)
Aurelio Secinaro, Head Of Advanced Thoracic and Cardiovascular Radiology Unit, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Roma (IT)
Rosa Sicari, Senior Researcher, Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa (IT)
Giuseppe Tarantini, Full Professor of Cardiology, University of Padua (IT)
Francesco Tona, Full Professor of Cardiology, University of Padua (IT)
Eric McWilliams, Cardiologist., (UK)
Stefania Zinato, Radiology Technician, Radiology Unit, University Hospital of Padua (IT)
Programme
Wednesday 10th December
8:00 Registration
8:45 Opening remarks, welcome and course introduction A. Pepe, L. Natale and H. Lamb
9:00-9:20 Historical perspective of heart imaging L. Natale
9:30 -9:50 Physics for dummies in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) - F. Crimi
10:00 -10:20 ECG for dummies in CMR – TBD
10:30-10:50 Sequences in CMR – M. Castellaro
11:00 -11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 -11:50 Free-Breathing 4D Cardiovascular MRI: towards Fully Automated CMR - H. Lamb
12:00-12:20 Parametric Technique in CMR (T1, T2, T2* mapping): tips and tricks - A. Meloni
12:30-12:50 Contrast media in CMR: who, why and when – E.Quaia
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Chair persons: A. Pepe and E. Quaia
14:00 – 14:20 Image analysis by a practical approach - A. Lupi
14:30 – 14:50 CMR patient preparation also in “unsafe” conditions (stress, sedations, ICD/PM) –– TBD
15:00 – 17:00 Interactive session 1 | CMR mentored case review: good technique and preparation for a good diagnosis- Whole Wednesday faculty
Thursday 11th December
Chair persons: H. Lamb and F. Bovenzi
9:00-9:15 Clinical challenges in chronic coronary syndromes: what the cardiologist needs
to know from the cardiac imaging? - F. Tona
9:20 -9:35 When and why eco stress R. Sicari
9:40 -9:55 When and why stress myocardial perfusion scintigraphy - A. Gimelli
10:00-10:20 When and why stress CMR - A. Pepe
10:30 - 10:50 When and why coro CT – E. McWilliams
11:00 -11:30 Coffee Break
11.30 -13.00 Interactive session 2: stress CMR in the real life – A. Pepe, S. Zinato, A. Lupi, L.
Natale and whole Thursday morning faculty
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Chair persons: A. Esposito and G.Tarantini
14:00 – 14:15 Clinical challenges: what the cardiac surgeon needs to know from the cardiac
imaging? - G. Gerosa
14:20 – 14:35 CMR and CT in valvular heart disease – A. Palmisano
14:40 - 14:55 CMR and CT in heart transplantation - D. Beitzeke
15:00-15:15 CMR and CT in aortic diseases - TBD
15:20 - 15:35 Clinical challenges: what the pediatric cardiologist needs to know from the
cardiac imaging? - G. Di Salvo
15:35 - 15:55 Congenital heart disease in CMR made easy - A. Secinaro
16:10 – 18:00 Interactive session 3 | CMR and CT mentored case review: from the cardiac
surgeon to the patient through the imaging: - G. Cabrelle and Whole Thursday afternoon
Faculty
Friday 12th December
Chair persons: R. Salgado and TBD
9:00-9:20 Articfial intelligence in cardiac imaging - H. Lamb
9:30 -9:45 Clinical challenges in cardiomyopathy: what the cardiologist needs to know from
the cardiac imaging? – D. Corrado
09:45 -10:00 CMR in Hypertrophic Phenotype Cardiomyopathies – G. Ligabue
10:00-10:15 CMR in dilated a non-dilated Phenotype Cardiomyopathies - M. Francone
10:15 -10:30 CMR in arrhythmogenic Phenotype Cardiomyopathies - G.D. Aquaro
10:30 -10:45 One stop shot MR in iron loaded patients: not only heart - A. Pepe
11:00 -11:30 Coffee Break
11.30 -13.00 Interactive session 4 | CMR and CT mentored case review: cardiac imaging in the cardiomiopathy - Whole Friday morning Faculty
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Chair persons: A. Pepe and P. Sarto
14:00 - 14:15 Structured report in CMR: how to dialogue with the reference clinician – R. Salgado
14:20 - 14:35 Clinical challenges in Sportive Medicine: what the clinician needs to know from the cardiac imaging? - A. Ermolao
14:35 -14:50 CMR and CT in the diagnostic work up of the Sportive Medicine - TBD
15:00 - 15:15 Clinical challenges in Autoimmune Rheumatic disease: what the clinician needs to know from the cardiac imaging? - TBD
15:15 - 15:30 CMR in Autoimmune Rheumatic disease – S. Mavrogeni
15:30 – 16:40 Interactive session 5 | CMR and CT mentored case review - Whole Friday afternoon Faculty
16.40 CME test
17.10 Closing remarks – A. Pepe/IT, L. Natale/IT, H. Lamb/ND
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