2024 Agenda

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th

7:00 - 8:00 AM           

Breakfast in Exhibitor Zone

8:00 - 8:15 AM             

Welcome and Introduction and Remembrances

Steve Feinstein, Stephanie Wilson, and Petros Nihoyannopoulos

8:15 - 9:15 AM              

SESSION I: GLOBAL CEUS REPORTS

Chairs: Stephanie Wilson and Petros Nihoyannopoulos

ICUS for 2024 - Linda Feinstein and Robin Adams

CEUS in China, an Overview - Pintong Huang

WFUMB - Maria Christina Chammas

Short Stretch - Five minutes

9:15 - 10:45 AM 

SESSION II: CLINICAL STUDIES

Chairs: Anthony DeMaria and Andy Appis 

Kullervo Hynynen - Brain Therapy with FUS-induced BBB modulation

Flemming Forsberg and Odd Helge Gilja - Sonoporation of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Results to Date

Dan Adams and Odd Helge Gilja - Assessing vasculature within pancreatic tumor and its environment

Agata Exner - New adventures in CEUS using sub-micron bubbles

Stephanie Wilson - CEUS of Greyscale Occult Nodules

Kassa Darge - Pediatric Contrast-Enhanced US Updates

10:45 - 11:15 AM          

Break and Exhibitor Zone

Pick Up Box Lunches to take into the Ballroom

11:15 - 12:45 PM    

Lunch and Learn Tabletop Talks

Chairs: Sharon Mulvagh and Peter Burns

Non-CME session: Short presentation by leading industry clinical technicians regarding CEUS training and goals for the future of contrast echo in disease diagnostics and therapeutics.

12:45 - 1:15 PM   

Dessert Break and Exhibitor Zone

1:15 - 2:30 PM   

SESSION III: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS \ TRIALS

Chairs: Melisa Tracy and Mike Main

Misun Hwang - CEUS in Neonatal Hydrocephalus: Updates and Future Directions

Dirk Clevert - Super Resolution MVI and Time of Arrival Imaging (TOA) in Small Testicular Tumors

Wilson Mathias & Tom Porter - High ultrasound mechanical index and microbubbles to reduce acute myocardial infarction burden - I.

Otto Kamp - Post-PCI sonothrombolysis What’s next?

Richard Barr - Update on CEUS Renal Masses

2:30 - 3:45  PM                     

SESSION IV: CLINICAL UPDATES

Chairs: Dan Adam and Alan Goldberg

Yuko Kono - Quantitative CEUS for HCC treatment response

Andrej Lyschik - LI-RADS Quality Initiative

Amer Johri - Carotid CEUS Updates 2024: CIRCE Study Updates and Advanced CEUS Techniques

Roxy Senior - 2024 ESC Guidelines on Management of Chronic Coronary Syndrome: Implications for UEA

Mengxing Tang - Volumetric Super-Resolution Ultrasound Localization Microscopy

3:45 - 4:15 PM 

Break and Exhibitor Zone   

4:15 - 5:15 PM                     

SESSION V: CEUS EDUCATIONAL UPDATES

Chairs: Gina Hesley  and Christine Lee

Jordan Strom -

Folkert ten Cate - Personal Highlights of 29th Contrast Rotterdam

Maria Stanczak - Sonographer Initiatives

7:00 - 10:00 PM            

Thursday Night Social Event

Casino Royale - The Drake Hotel

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th

7:00 - 8:00 AM            

Breakfast in Exhibitor Zone

8:00 - 8:45 AM            

SESSION VI: ADVANCED APPLICATIONS

Chairs: Tochukwu Okwuosa and Tom Porter

Nico de Jong - Subharmonics of microbubbles for (dynamic) ambient pressures

Anurag Paranjape – Microbubble cavitation near endothelial cells: Permeability mechanisms and bioeffects

Soheb Anwar Mohammed – Nitro fatty acid-loaded microbubble for targeted drug delivery and ischemia-reperfusion injury treatment by UTMC

Jonathan Lindner – Ultrasound Molecular Imaging of Thromboinflammation A Platform For New Therapies

9:00 - 10:00 AM   

SESSION VII: ADVANCED APPLICATIONS

Chairs: Seth Powsner and Harald Becher

Connor Krolak - Ultrasound and microbubble-mediated modulation of the tumor microenvironment for enhanced drug delivery

Klazina Kooiman - Theragnostic Microbubbles for Therapy and Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis

Henrik Vos - High-Frame-Rate Contrast-Enhanced Echography of Cardiac Microcirculation

Massimo Mischi - Quantitative CEUS for the diagnosis of uterine disorders

10:00 - 10:30 AM           

Break in Exhibitor Zone

10:30 - 11:45 AM            

SESSION VIII: ADVANCED APPLICATIONS

Chairs: Nico de Jong and Payman Sattar

Hessel Wijkstra – Prostate imaging Research trial | Head-to-Head trials

Brian Fowlkes – Renal Obstruction with Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound --- Preliminary Studies

Evan Unger – Ablation of Brain Tumors with Phase Shift MB and FUS

Annemien van de Bosch - Vorticity imaging

11:45 - 12:45 PM        

Lunch in Exhibitor Zone

12:45 - 2:00 PM  

SESSION IX: CASE PRESENTATIONS

Chair: Franco Pizzuto and Paolo Voci

Cases: Arnaldo Rabischoffsky, Jessica Stout, Christine Lee, Joan Olson, Gina Hesley, Maria Stanczak, Christina Merrill

2:15 - 3:00 PM            

SESSION X: 2024 WRAP-UP IN CHICAGO

Chair: Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Sharon Mulvagh and Kassa Darge

General audience participation and interaction with expert faculty!