Draft programme

Please note: this a draft programme and as such may be subject to change

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Sunday – 17th November

12:00-13:30 – Conference registration opens

13:30-13:45 – Opening address – Volker Straub

Session 1: MR as outcome measure in clinical trials (auditorium)

13:45-14:15 – Keynote: Relevance of MRI in clinical development –
Pierre Carlier
14:15-14:45 – Lessons learned from using MRI in a multi-center setting –
Rebecca Willcocks
14:45-15:00 – JAIN Foundation Clinical Outcome Study – Andrew Blamire
15:00-15:30 – Coffee break
15:30-15:45 – Pfizer Trial – Sarah Sherlock
15:45-16:00 – Data analysis for multi-center CRIS – Pierre Yves Baudin
16:00-17:30 – Open panel discussion/debate
17:30-18:00 – Coffee break

Teaching sessions (in parallel)

18:00- 19:00
All you ever wanted to know about MRI – Q&A between pharma
and MR experts
teachers: Andrew Blamire & Gustav Strijkers

All you ever wanted to know about neuromuscular disease – Q&A
between MR experts and clinicians
teachers: Tarek Yousry & Volker Straub

19:00-21:00
Welcome reception

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Monday – 18th November

Session 2: Diffusion imaging – a window on tissue microstructure

8:30-9:15 – Keynote: Diffusion to assess microstructure – Julien Valette
9:15-9:45 – STE-DTI with long echo times– Olivier Scheidegger
9:45-11:00 – Selected oral presentations (based on abstracts)
11:00-11:30 – Coffee break
11:30-13:00 – Poster sessions 1 & 2 (clinical and diffusion)
13:00-14:30 – Lunch and exhibition

Session 3: Imaging cardiac muscle

14:30-15:15 – Keynote: Cardiac imaging – speaker to be confirmed
15:15-15:45 – Plenary talk – cardiac measures in DMD and gene modifiers –
Daniel Ennis
15:45-16:30 – Selected oral presentations (based on abstracts)
16:30-17:00 – Coffee break
17:00-18:00 – Exhibition and poster session 3 (imaging outside skeletal muscle)

19:00-22:00
Conference dinner

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Tuesday – 19th November

08:00-08:30 – Conference desk open

Session 4 : Deep Learning

8:30-9:15 – Keynote: Deep learning and assisted image interpretation –
Bram van Ginneken
9:15-10:30 – Selected oral presentations (based on abstracts)
10:30-11:00 – Coffee break
11:00-12:30 – Poster sessions (Deep Learning, MR as outcome measure, …)
12:30-14:00 – Lunch and exhibition

Session 5: New imaging applications for neuromuscular diseases

14:00-14:45 – Keynote: MR neurography – Jennifer Kollmer
14:45-15:15 – Plenary talk: Imaging fibrosis – Peter Caravan
15:15-17:00 – Selected oral presentations (based on abstracts)
17:00-17:30 – Poster prize giving and closing of conference