Learning Outcomes and Lectures

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

• Discuss a consistent and practical approach to prostate MRI interpretation.
• Distinguish between significant and insignificant prostate cancers and clinical outcomes.
• Describe the most commonly used components of a multiparametric prostate MRI exam.
• Outline rapidly evolving options for targeted biopsy and focal treatment options.
• Analyze the wide range of clinical settings where MRI can be a powerful diagnostic tool: screening, active surveillance, staging, recurrence identification, treatment planning, treatment response evaluation.

TOPICS:

Module 1—Multiparametric Prostate MRI

• Prostate Cancer Backrground: Epidemiology and Pathology—Abhinav Sidana, MD
• Prostate MRI: Anatomy and Staging—Sadhna Verma, MD
• Diffusion Weighted Imaging: Tricks to Optimize This Technique—Jeffrey Weinreb, MD
• Case based PI-RADS V2.1 Interpretation—Daniel Margolis, MD

Module 2—Practical Approaches to mp-MRI

• Tips and Pitfalls in Prostate MRI—Rajan Gupta, MD
• Risk Assessment of Prostate Cancer—Clare Tempany, MD
• Active Surveillance—Jeffrey Weinreb, MD

Module 3—Targeted Prostate Biopsy and Treatment

• Targeted Prostate Biopsy Techniques—Daniel Margolis, MD
• Emerging Focal Therapies in Prostate Cancer—Sadhna Verma, MD
• Optimal Imaging for Prostate Cancer Recurrence—Clare Tempany, MD

Module 4—Biopsy Case Review

• Biopsy Case Review—Silvia Chang, MD

Module 5—Optimizing Pelvic Imaging Techniques

• Artifacts and Pitfalls in MR Imaging of the Pelvis—Mukesh Harisinghani, MD
• Abbreviated Pelvic MR Protocols—Mukesh Harisinghani, MD

Module 6—Women’s Imaging

• Ultrasound and MRI of Uterine Masses—Elizabeth Sadowski, MD
• Imaging of Endometrial and Cervical Cancer: What Your Gynecologist Wants You to Know—Elizabeth Sadowski, MD

Date of issuance: 11/1/2021