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ISMRM 2008 ANNUAL
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Musculoskeletal Study Group |
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Program for Toronto 2008 Study Group Meeting |
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Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 19:30, Room 715 A/B |
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Why
aren’t we there yet?
Evaluation of the (lack of) impact of MRI in OA:
Panel and audience discussion, and call for recommendations |
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In the
late 1980s, the application of the superb soft tissue contrast of
MRI to image the joint led to great optimism that inroads to
understanding the natural history of, and applying therapeutics to,
osteoarthritis would be quickly forthcoming. However, nearly 20
years later, much about clinical OA has yet to be discovered, there
is yet to be a successful trial for a disease modifying OA drug (DMOAD),
and radiography is still the mainstay of imaging of OA. The goal of
the study group meeting is to delineate what has been accomplished
in MRI of OA thus far, what impediments have been present, and
provide recommendations for future directions. |
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19:30 |
Welcome |
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19:30 - 19:40 |
Review of
MRI development for OA over the past 20 years |
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Bernard
Dardzinski, Ph.D., BRIE Franchise Imaging Lead, Blue Bell,
PA, USA |
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19:40 – 19:50 |
How is
MRI viewed by the OA clinical and pharmaceutical
communities? |
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Jeffrey Evelhoch, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, USA |
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19:50 - 20:10 |
Why have
we not proven the utility of MRI for OA? |
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Part I:
Resource limitations |
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Charles Mamisch,
M.D., University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
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Part II:
Paradigm and existing dogma limitations |
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Deborah
Burstein, Ph.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA |
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20:10 - 20:20 |
The OAI:
Current status of data acquisition and analysis |
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Gayle
Lester, Ph.D., NIAMS/NIH Bethesda, MD, USA |
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20:20 - 21:00 |
Recommendations for future success: (Panel and audience
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a.
Delineation of concepts learned about OA from MRI data
b. Potential new areas in MRI for OA research
c. OAI: Potential data interpretation studies / additional
acquisition protocols
d. Resources needed to accomplish the above |
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21:00 - 21:15 |
Administrative |
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a. Election
Results
b. Announcements |
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