MARK YOUR CALENDAR
2010 Summer Practicum

• August 8 - 11, 2010
• Jackson Lake Lodge -
  Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

News

New AMA CPT Codes: Cardiac CT No Longer “Emerging Technology”
The American Medical Association (AMA) has announced four new Category I CPT® codes for cardiac CT. These new codes, effective Jan. 1, 2010, replace current Category III “T” CPT codes under which cardiac CT had been considered an “emerging technology”. (read more)

The War Over Imaging
Response to NEJM Article by Joseph Schoepf, MD
The current contribution in the New England Journal of Medicine is the latest installment of articles in high profile journals that make the case against medical imaging citing concerns over increasing radiation exposure as the authors’ motivation. (read more)

ACRIN National Trial Demonstrates Comparable Accuracy of CT Colonography and Standard Colonoscopy 

See Dr. Judy Yee's summary of the NEJM article here

The SCBT-MR is very proud that one of our Fellows, C. Daniel Johnson, is the lead author of this landmark work in the New England Journal of Medicine (N Engl J Med 2008;359:1207-17), which also includes five additional SCBT-MR Fellows as co-authors.

Statement of the SCBT-MR Regarding the FDA Notification on CT Causing Electronic Device Malfunction. (click here for statement)

On July 14th, 2008, the FDA issued a Public Health Notification regarding possible malfunction of electronic medical devices caused by CT. We have attached that Notice as a pdf file and have reproduced an excerpt below. click here for the direct link.

New Officers Elected
Members of the Society elected new officers to serve for the 2009-2010. Dr. Isaac R. Francis of the University of Michigan became president of the Society on March 4, 2009.

SCBT-MR Honors at Annual Course
Nineteen Scientific Papers were presented at the 2009 SCBT-MR Annual Course in Miami Beach, Florida. The Society presented its highest awards to researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Stanford University Medical Center, University of California San Francisco and Mayo Clinic Rochester.