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October 25th CBMD CME for Radiologists & Other Physicians Reading BMD
Course Agenda:
Note: Each lecture (except for the two one-hour interactive Case-Study Workshops and the two
15-minute interactive Q&A Sessions) contains 5 minutes of interactive Q&A using ARS (audience
response system).
07:00 – 07:30
Registration & Hot Breakfast
07:30 – 07:40
Overview of Status of CBMD and the New Physician Program
Dr. Giuseppe Tarulli, Chair, OAR CME Committee
07:40 – 07:50
Review of Course Objectives
Dr. David Lyons, Chair and Medical Director, OAR Canadian Bone
Mineral Densitometry (CBMD) Facility Accreditation Program and
the OAR Accredited Densitometry Technologist (ADT) Program &
OAR CBMD CME Co-Course Director
07:50 – 08:00
Importance of CBMD Technologist Program – Why Your
Technologist Needs ADT (Accredited Densitometry
Technologist Designation)
Dr. David Lyons
08:00 – 08:30
DXA Scanners: Principles of Operation & Changing
Technologies and the Impact on BMD Determination & Quality
Control
Dr. Peter Raaphorst, OAR CBMD Facility Accreditation Program
Senior Consulting Medical Physicist, Professor of Physics, Carleton
University and Professor of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Ottawa
08:30 – 09:00
CBMD Site Accreditation and Policies & Procedures
Dr. Peter Raaphorst
09:00 – 09:15
Interactive Q&A Session with ARS
Dr. Peter Raaphorst
09:15 – 09:30
Morning Break
09:30 – 10:00
Equipment Changes/Cross-Over Precision
Mr. Peter O’Brien, OAR CBMD Facility Accreditation Program
Consulting Medical Physicist
245 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville, Ontario L6J 1H9
Tel: 905-337-2680 or 800-616-6277 Fax: 905-337-2678 or 888-616-6277
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.oar.info
10:00 – 10:30
Radiation Safety and Quality Control
Mr. Peter O’Brien
10:30 – 10:45
Interactive Q&A Session with ARS
Mr. Peter O’Brien
10:45 – 11:30
The Essentials of the Adult BMD Report (the Canadian
Standards) – Part I
Dr. David Lyons
11:30 – 12:15
Lunch
12:15 – 12:30
Review of Case Study Quiz Questions & Submission of
Answers
12:30 – 01:15
The Essentials of the Adult BMD Report – Part II
Dr. David Lyons
01:15 – 01:45
The Importance of Fragility Fractures
Dr. Steven Burrell, Keynote Speaker: Associate Professor,
Department of Radiology, Dalhousie University; Staff Radiologist,
QEII Health Sciences Centre and Clinical Head of Nuclear
Medicine, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia & An Author of
the 2013 CAR Technical Standards for Bone Mineral Densitometry
Reporting
01:45 – 02:15
CAR Recommendations for Reporting Fracture Risk
Assessment
Dr. Steven Burrell
02:15 – 02:45
Paediatric BMD
Dr. Amer Shammas, Assistant Professor of Medical Imaging at the
University of Toronto, has been Interim Head of the Division of
Nuclear Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in
Toronto & OAR CBMD CME Co-Course Director
02:45 – 03:00
Afternoon Break
245 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville, Ontario L6J 1H9
Tel: 905-337-2680 or 800-616-6277 Fax: 905-337-2678 or 888-616-6277
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.oar.info
03:00 – 04:00
Interactive Workshop: Test Your Knowledge with BMD, DXA
and Osteoporosis Case Reviews
Dr. Ian Hammond, Professor of Radiology, University of Ottawa,
staff radiologist, Ottawa Hospital and BMD reporting physician at
several community hospitals, and Member of the OAR CBMD CME
Planning Committee
04:00 – 05:00
Interactive Workshop: Fracture Risk Assessment in the Era of
CAROC 2010 and the 2013 CAR Guidelines
Dr. Steven Burrell
05:00 – 05:20
Panel Discussion: Answers to Submitted Questions
All Speakers
05:20 – 05:30
Quiz Case Review & Results/Draw
This program was developed in response to on-going requests for CME from
radiologists and other physicians reporting BMD.
245 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville, Ontario L6J 1H9
Tel: 905-337-2680 or 800-616-6277 Fax: 905-337-2678 or 888-616-6277
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.oar.info