Program

Karen Burns, MBA RN RVT FSVU, SVU 2024 Annual Conference Chair

George Berdejo, BA RVT FSVU

SVU Past President

• A Review of the IAC Consensus Criteria: It’s Ready for Primetime -- Heather Gornik, MD RPVI RVT
•  I Agree But I’m Not So Sure It’s Worth the Effort or We Will Get the Buy-In That Is Needed -- David Dawson, MD RPVI RVT FSVU
• Errors In Carotid Stenosis Quantification: Estimation of Stenosis Based on Doppler Derived Velocity Is Not The Correct Measurement In The Majority Of Cases: We Need More Emphasis On Imaging Measurements -- Sergio Salles Cunha, PhD RVT FSVU
• Will Technologist, Technique and Equipment Challenges Pose A Problem? -- Ann Marie Kupinski, PhD RVT FSVU
• What About Criteria for The CCA, ECA and Vertebrals…or Does It Matter? -- Christopher Skelly, MD RPVI FACS
• Does Parallel to the Vessel Wall vs Color Flow Jet Matter? -- Steve Knight, RVT RDMS RDCS FSVU

ORAL CLINICAL:

• Soft tissue masses: The vascular technologist role in applying enhanced ultrasound protocols -- David Williams, MS RVT RDCS FSVU
• The Relevance of Thyroid Nodules in Vascular Ultrasound: A Case-based Literature Review -- Elizabeth Wooster, MEd

ORAL CASE STUDIES:

• Perirenal fluid & the unusual DVT challenge following renal transplantation -- Mahnoor Bibi, RVT
• Hemodialysis-Induced Central Venous Occlusion Masquerading as Caput Medusa -- Emmanuel Pelingon
• Intralumenal Foreign Body -- Sethimol Pich, BS AAS
• Eagle syndrome with compression of the internal jugular vein -- Brianna Chochard, RVT
• Eagle syndrome: Case report, literature review, proposed classification & role of ultrasound in its diagnosis and management -- Douglas Wooster, MD RVT

SCIENTIFIC ORAL:

• Intracranial & Extracranial Internal Carotid Artery Doppler Findings in Kuwaiti Children with Sickle Cell Disease -- Akram Asbeutah, PhD

• Aortoiliac Duplex (Techniques, Back to the Basics) -- Melissa Warren, RVT
• Type and Shape Matters (Evolution & Types of Devices) -- Ross Milner, MD
• Complementary roles of CTA and Duplex Ultrasound -- Laurence Needleman, MD FSVU
• Picture Perfect Surveillance (Endoleak, optimization) -- Maya Hutchinson, MS RVT RDMS RDCS
•  Contrast Enhanced Duplex Ultrasound for Endoleak Detection (How it works and when it helps)

• Venous Anatomical Variants -- Sara Skjonsberg, RVT RPhS
• Incidental Arterial Findings -- Patrick Washko, RVT RDMS FSVU
• Dissections. Case Based learning -- MaryBeth Georges, BS RVT & George Berdejo, BA RVT FSVU

• Vernacular of Vein Disease (Nomenclature and Variations) -- Marresa Houle, RVT RDMS RPhS
• The Age Old Question (Acute & Chronic Characteristics) -- Laurence Needleman, MD FSVU
• Polling session with Images of Clot -- Sara Skjonsberg, RVT RPhS
• I Feel Swell (Incidental findings, other causes of swelling/pain) -- Anahita Dua, MD MS MBA
• Incidental Findings/MSK and other Incidental Findings -- Brittany Nestico, RVT RDMS
• You’ve got some Nerve  (ID Nerves in Upper & Lower Extremities/ Symptoms) -- Brittany Nestico, RVT RDMS
• Live Scan: Saphenous Sural and Brachial -- Brittany Nestico, RVT RDMS

• Multiple Splenic Artery Aneurysms -- Rusul Abu Naqdi, RVT
• Hemodynamic Disturbance Caused by Bilateral Carotid Artery Dissection -- Manar Alsalihi, RVT
• Hemodialysis graft dissection in a patient with a genetic mutation -- Logan Brauer, AS
• Takayasu’s Arteritis in a 22-year-old female -- Aseth Dyer
• Correlation of Common Femoral Vein Dilation with Proximal Iliac Vein Obstruction -- Jomel Jacinto