Learning Cardiac CT

Dr. Justin Sharim is a Cardiologist at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He completed his fellowship training in Cardiology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He pursued his undergraduate and medical degree at UCLA and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He has published extensively within Cardiology, and focuses particularly in Cardiac CT and atherosclerotic mechanisms. As a physician, he emphasizes the importance of both evidence-based therapies and prevention with his patients. An accomplished educator and physician, he has received accolades and numerous awards for his teaching. 

Dr. Matthew Budoff is a Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Director of Cardiac CT at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA. Dr. Budoff has conducted extensive research over the last 15 years using electron beam CT and multi-detector CT to identify those patients at high-risk for cardiac events, progression of coronary calcium, and non-invasive CT angiography. He is the Vice President of the Society of Atherosclerosis Imaging (SAI) and a founding Board Member of the Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT). Previously, he served as chair of the ACC/AHA Competency document for cardiac CT and MR; the COCATS 2-CT Section (ACC training for fellows); as well as the AHA Scientific Statement on Cardiac CT.

Intro to Physics and Basic Principles.- Radiation Principles.- Scan Acquisition.- Image Reconstruction, Post-Processing, and Artifacts.- Appropriate Patient Selection and Preparation.- Coronary Calcium.- Approach to Reading a CT.- Coronary disease, stents, and grafts.- Anatomy Variations and Anomalies.- Non-coronary Cardiac Structure and Masses.- Non-Cardiac Findings.- Basics of Structural Heart Disease and Procedures.