2019 Rectal MRI Workshop

The use of pelvic MRI for staging and restaging rectal cancer in routine clinical practice continues to grow due to extensive evidence that it impacts clinical outcomes. This hands-on course will offer the opportunity to learn or brush up on fundamental rectal MRI skills. Short lectures and whole-case reviews on individual workstations will demonstrate a full range of rectal cancer cases and some less common tumors as well as anal cancer. Pearls and Pitfalls will be emphasized. Post-treatment restaging cases will be plentiful as this is more commonly performed and requires experience to interpret properly.

Our annual hands on workshop includes dedicated workstations and a large number of rectal MRI cases of varying stages and clinical scenarios for each participant to work through. A course manual with reproduced images and arrows serves as a guide to all cases. Mini-lectures are interspersed throughout the day by expert faculty, including guest faculty. At the end of the course, participants will have greater confidence interpreting rectal MRI.

By attending this workshop, attendees will learn:

• How to interpret baseline rectal MRI
• How to interpret re-staging MRI
• How to avoid pitfalls

The educational activity is designed for practicing radiologists, radiologists in training, and anyone with an interest in pelvic MRI.

Course attendees will receive complimentary registration to MSK's 4th Annual Advances in Colorectal Oncology: Regional Therapy for Advanced and Metastatic Colorectal and Appendiceal Cancers on Friday-Saturday, November 8-9. Registration is required and selection can be made during registration for the Rectal MRI Workshop. 

1. Understand how to perform high-quality MRI of the pelvis for rectal and anal cancer evaluation
2. Understand how to interpret baseline staging MRI for rectal and anal cancer
3. Understand how to interpret post-treatment, restaging MRI for rectal cancer
4. Understand the value of synoptic/structured reports for rectal and anal cancer

*Early registration rate expires October 1, 2019.
**Industry professionals may attend MSK CME activities for their own education. Marketing, sales, and promotion of products and services is strictly prohibited at MSK CME activities. The ACCME defines a commercial interest as “any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests. Please click here for more information or email [email protected] if you have additional questions.

Course registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshment breaks. Please contact [email protected] at least one week prior to the course if you have any special dietary requests or require any specific accommodations.

Registration Discounts/Promotions

• MSK CME offers a discounted rate for MSK Alumni, MSK Cancer Alliance and Cancer Care Partners. If you are a member of one of these groups, please contact [email protected] for more information.
• MSK employee registration is complimentary. However, you must register for the MSK waitlist. We will email you prior to the course if workstation space is available. 

Please note: after your payment has been processed, no further promotional discount adjustments will be made to your registration.

Cancellation Policy

If you cancel your participation in this course, your registration fee, less a $75 administrative fee, will be refunded when email notification is received by the MSK Office of Continuing Medical Education (MSK CME) at least 7 days prior to the first day of the course ([email protected]).

Cancellations or no-shows after this date are not eligible for a refund. MSK CME reserves the right to cancel or postpone any course due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event we must cancel or postpone this course, we will refund the registration fee in full, but are not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees incurred by airline/travel/lodging agencies. At any time, you may substitute another registrant in your place after contacting MSK CME with the relevant information.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

MSK Course Directors

Marc J. Gollub, MD, FACR, FSAR
Director of CT and GI Imaging
Body imaging Service
Department of Radiology

Jennifer S. Golia Pernicka, MD
Assistant Attending Radiologist
Body Imaging Service
Department of Radiology

Invited Course Faculty 

Supreeta Arya, MD
Professor of Radiology
Tata Memorial Centre Advanced Centre for Treatment
Research and Education in Cancer
Mumbai, India

Lennart K. Blomqvist, MD, PhD
Professor, Department Imaging/Physiology 
Karolinska University Hospital Research Group 
Leader, Radiology
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden

MSK Course Faculty 

David D.B. Bates, MD
Assistant Attending Radiologist

Viktoriya Paroder, MD, PhD
Assistant Attending Radiologist

Iva Petkovska, MD
Assistant Attending Radiologist

Faculty Disclosures (All Faculty) 

Thursday, November 7, 2019