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Dear Colleague,
We would like to draw your attention to an upcoming "Special Event" - preceding the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography Annual Conference, led by Wayne Persutte, PhD, MS, RDMS and Pam Foy, RDMS and including Drs. John Hobbins and Lorraine Dugoff as featured speakers. We encourage you to attend the Nuchal Translucency Credentialing postgraduate course and also would like you to help us spread the word to sonographers who will be attending the meeting. This consensus content course has received uniformly outstanding reviews.
Location
Adams Mark Hotel Denver
1550 Court Place
Second Floor, Tower Court B
www.adamsmark.com
| Larry Platt, MD |
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Richard Depp, MD |
| Treasurer, MFM Foundation |
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President, MFM Foundation
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Executive VP, SMFM |
| For the Nuchal Translucency Oversight Committee |
| Alfred Abuhamad, MD |
Steve Chasen, MD |
James Goldberg, MD |
| Richard Berkowitz, MD |
Joshua Copel, MD |
Jean Lea Spitz, RDMS |
| Beryl Benacerraf, MD |
Mary D’Alton, MD |
Ronald Wapner, MD |
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Mark Evans, MD |
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Nuchal Translucency Credentialing
Date: Wednesday, October 11
Time: 1 PM – 5:30 PM
Cost: $75 per person (includes promotional discount leading to full credentialing)
Course Directors: Wayne Persutte, PhD, MS, RDMS and Pam Foy, RDMS
The Nuchal Translucency Quality Review Program is offering a complete 4.5 hour NT course – “Nuchal Translucency Credentialing“ preceding the upcoming SDMS Annual Conference in Denver, CO on Wednesday, October 11 from 1 - 5:30 PM. SDMS has approved this independent educational activity for 4.5 CME credit hours.
This outstanding course, directed by Wayne Persutte, PhD, MS, RDMS and Pam Foy, RDMS, will include a panel of expert speakers including Drs. John Hobbins and Lorraine Dugoff. The course addresses first trimester risk assessment strategies and will benefit sonographers and sonologists who perform NT measurements.
Benefit for those who intend to offer Nuchal Translucency measurements: This Nuchal Translucency program will fulfill all content needs leading to completion of NT credentialing to become a participant in the ongoing NT Quality Review program. Course attendees are eligible for a promotional package which includes free program registration, exam, image proficiency review and feedback regarding strategies to improve acquisition of NT measurements. Credentialed providers will be eligible to participate in ongoing epidemiologic monitoring.
Course Objectives: At the conclusion of this course, the participant should be able to:
• Explain the scientific research that validates these newer methodologies
• Demonstrate in detail the critical requirements for reproducibly obtaining accurate Nuchal Translucency measurements
• Enumerate the important additional fetal syndromes, conditions and anatomic
malformations that are associated with first trimester abnormal NT measurements
• Provide the didactic basis to complete the credentialing process by taking the on-line examination and submitting NT images.
Once the on-line exam and image review have been successfully completed, a certificate of satisfactory completion will be issued.
Course Outline and Speakers:
| Time |
Title |
Presenter |
| 1:00 – 1:20pm |
Introduction and Overview |
Wayne Persutte, PhD, MS, RDMS |
| 1:20 – 1:50pm |
Principles of Screening |
Lorraine Dugoff, MD |
| 1:50 – 2:20pm |
First Trimester Screening – What Do the Data Show? |
Lorraine Dugoff, MD |
| 2:20 – 3:05pm |
Techniques of NT Scanning – with Demonstration |
Pam Foy, RDMS |
| 3:05 – 3:25pm |
Maintaining Quality Assurance |
Pam Foy, RDMS |
| 3:25 – 3:45pm |
Other Advantages of First Trimester Screening |
Wayne Persutte, PhD, MS, RDMS |
| 3:45 – 4:15pm |
Aneuploidy Screening in Twins |
Wayne Persutte, PhD, MS, RDMS |
| 4:15 – 4:45pm |
The Genetic Sonogram |
John Hobbins, MD |
| 4:45 – 5:15pm |
Invasive Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques |
John Hobbins, MD |
| 5:15 – 5:30pm |
Summary and Conclusions |
Pam Foy, RDMS |
For more information and to register go to www.smfm.org.
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