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Standing room only at #CSCMR inaugural session within #CSEcho2025: #echofirst vs #whyCMR for MR assessment ft. Dr. A.Patel 🇺🇸 vs Dr. L.Rudski 🇨🇦. Congrats @ChetritMichael for the amazing turnout! @CSEchoCa @SCMRorg

Feeling blessed 🙌 to have had the privilege of meeting, talking to, and learning from prez elect @EACVI @VDelgadoGarcia at the #CSEcho2025. Outstanding cast at this years conference. 🎩off to the @CSEchoCa prez @IgalSebag and VP @amerjohri

During CSE 2025 Weekend in Toronto on May 1, 2025! 📍Register now through the Canadian Society of Echocardiography: 👉 lnkd.in/g342V8iJ Don’t miss out! #whyCMR #MedicalEducation #WomenInCardiology #CardiologyConference #CSE2025 #CMRWorkshop #Cardiomyopathy

🚨 Calling all cardiac imagers, trainees, nurses, and MRI enthusiasts! 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce a 1-day workshop on CMR hosted by @canSCMR Join national and international experts in CMR as we dive into: 🧠 Cutting-edge scanning techniques ❤️ Cardiomyopathies: what’s new +

Effect of mavacamten on atrial size and function in the VALOR-HCM trial. Intriguing data on patients with AF as well jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… #CardioTwitter

The book of abstracts for the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance | SCMR annual meeting is now online. It can be found here 👉 sciencedirect.com/journal/journa… #SCMR2025 #WhyCMR

A huge congratulations on a tremendous effort by a rising star @katerinaeyre who is helping us move towards quick and effective CMR scans!! @mgwfriedrich @JudyMLuu

New consensus paper on Pericardial Diseases: International Position Statement on New Concepts and Advances in Multimodality Cardiac Imaging Read more on doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg…

The mechanism of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) is complex in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). We aimed to evaluate the impact of mitral valve geometry on LVOTO by echocardiography. Read our @JournalASEcho article: bit.ly/3LXwA32

The story starts 12 years ago when I was a #whyCMR fellow @BIDMChealth building a homegrown reporting database in need of robust normative data… 3 years prior I had developed a Bayesian methodology to meta-analyze normative data for the @ASE360 RV guidelines… Should be easy enough to apply to CMR, right? (spoiler alert - no) Oh wait, there are 1000s of studies to screen, I’ve never been one to shy away from scut work… Uh oh, lots of studies didn’t specify how they traced so need to email the authors, lots of them… I finish my fellowship and move from 🇺🇸 to 🇨🇦 @mcgillu where I set up shop… Original statistician retires, new statistician suggests some tweaks… First look at meta-analysis results in 2015, present proof-of-concept abstract @scmr 2016… Something is not 100% right, why isn’t the contribution of pap muscles consistent across all parameters?? Must be because of variability in individual studies… Need to smooth this out with informative prior knowledge about the expected difference between tracing techniques… Where can I find patient-level data to derive these priors? Thankfully @mgwfriedrich is now in Montreal and he has the goods… More time goes by, new studies have been published and need to refresh (actually redo) the lit search… Recruited up-and-coming cardio resident @YangZhanMD to motor through this (he ended up being absolutely vital to the success of the project)… Combing through all these studies is actually a massive undertaking and another star resident (now star staff) @ChetritMichael joins the team… Statistician #2 goes MIA and luckily we enlist top-notch @NandiniDenduku1 who tightens everything up and runs the (near) final analyses… Catch a bug in the code, fix it, open source it… Paper is done, was supposed to be a society guideline but leadership change requires de novo vetting, too late in the game for that… Submit to @CircImaging and the rest is history…

If you’re not sure about MRI contrast: consult the paper by @SCC_CCS and @canSCMR on #WhyCMR safety ! Link here: onlinecjc.ca/article/S0828-… @ChetritMichael @ChrisKramerMD @HeartDocSubha

Excited to hear from our leader @AndreasKumarMD pres of @canSCMR discussing heart failure and imaging !! Chaired by the very best @HeartDocSharon pres of @CSEchoCa . Canada = multimodality!!! @SCC_CCS

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BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

An honor to be recognized by @HFSA and @hfcollaboratory -thank you for your leadership in this space This award goes to PIs but it represents the sum of hard work by many individuals and the time and effort of our patients who participate #CardioTwitter

I’m heartbroken to hear that another Canadian fighting wildfires has lost their life – my condolences to the family and friends of the brave pilot whose helicopter crashed in Alberta yesterday. We’ll never forget his service to his province and to our country.

Very nice paper and complementary to the previous work by @DorbalaSharmila et al jacc.org/doi/abs/10.101… #CardioTwitter

Thrilled to see @AuntMinnie cover this @ISMRM session on 30-min #whyCMR with a focus on health equity and sustainability! Shorter #MRI protocols benefit patients, the healthcare system, and the environment 🧲🌎 auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec… @MichaelAtalay @MRInicole @TheklaOe

Eosinophils up to no good.... Image of the month at the MUHC #whyCMR Lab. @JudyMLuu @mgwfriedrich @CardioMcgill @canSCMR

A very special congratulations to @canSCMR @KateHanneman for receiving the #CaRadiologist Young investigator award! @ChetritMichael @AndreasKumarMD