2025 Agenda

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Welcome Reception at Club International Drake Hotel
Enjoy bar and buffet appetizers with live music. Sponsored by TBD.

 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th
7:00 - 8:00 AM
Breakfast in Exhibitor Zone

8:00 - 8:15 AM
Welcome and Introduction and Remembrances
Steve Feinstein, Stephanie Wilson, and Petros Nihoyannopoulos

8:15 - 9:15 AM
SESSION I: GLOBAL CEUS REPORTS
Chairs: Stephanie Wilson and Petros Nihoyannopoulos

  • Linda Feinstein & Robin Adams - ICUS Update

  • Kassa Darge - Peds CEUS Global Report

  • Pintong Huang - CEUS in China

  • Maria Cristina Chammas - The WFUMB World Reports

Short Stretch – Five minutes

9:15 - 11:15 AM
SESSION II: CLINICAL STUDIES
Chairs: Anthony DeMaria and Mike Main

  • Flemming Forsberg - Chemotherapy and Sonoporation for Treating Pancreatic Cancer: An Ongoing Phase 2, Clinical Trial

  • Dan Adams - CEUS Enhanced Cytology Allows for the Early Detection of Pancreatic Dyspalsia and Cancer

  • Stephanie Wilson - CEUS:  its Contribution to Imaging following TARE

  • Pintong Huang - CEUS Fusion Imaging for Liver Tumor Ablation

  • Kassa Darge - Pediatric CEUS - Paradigm Shifts

11:15 - 11:45 AM
Break and Exhibitor Zone
Pick Up Box Lunches to take into the Ballroom

11:45 - 12:45 PM
Lunch and Learn Tabletop Talks
Chairs: Sharon Mulvagh and Peter Burns
Non-CME session: Short presentation by leading industry clinical technicians regarding CEUS training and goals for the future of contrast ultrasound in disease diagnostics and therapeutics.

12:45 - 1:15 PM
Dessert Break and Exhibitor Zone

1:15 - 3:00 PM
SESSION III: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS / TRIALS
Chairs: Melisa Tracy and Wilson Mathias

  • John Eisenbrey - Microbubble Augmentation of Radiotherapy: TJU Clinical Trials Updates.

  • Hessel Wijkstra - Prostate Imaging Results Head-to-Head trial

  • Jonathan Lindner - First-in-Human Trial of Cavitation Therapy for Critical Limb Ischemia

  • Dirk Clevert - Enhanced Diagnostic Confidence in Pregnancy: Expanding Horizons with Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound

  • Richard Barr - Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound for Evaluation of Nephron Sparing Treatment for Renal Cell Carcinoma

  • Bernarda Viteri - Redefining Pediatric Kidney Transplant Surveillance? Preliminary CEUS Results of the IMPAKT Study

  • Soheb Anwar Mohammed - Sonoreperfusion with Fibrin-Targeted Phase Shift Microbubbles for the Treatment of Microvascular Obstruction

3:00 - 4:15 PM
SESSION IV: CLINICAL UPDATES
Chairs: Richard G. Barr and Alan Goldberg

  • Otto Kamp - Sonothrombolysis in STEMI “The ongoing story”

  • Yuko Kono - CEUS on Fontan Nodules - update -

  • Andrej Lyshchik - LI-RADS 2025 update

  • Amer Johri - Carotid CEUS Updates 2025: CIRCE Study Updates

  • Roxy Senior - The SECURE Trial

  • Mengxing Tang - Super-Resolution Ultrasound Localisation Microscopy – an Update

4:15 - 4:45 PM
Break and Exhibitor Zone

4:45 - 5:30 PM
SESSION V: CEUS EDUCATIONAL UPDATES
Chairs: Gina Hesley and Christine Lee

  • Jordan Strom - A Pandemic, An Excipient, And A Lot Of Smoke: Updates On Ceus Safety For Echocardiography

  • Folkert ten Cate - Personal highlights of the 30th European Symposium

  • Joan Olson- Sonographer Initiatives

6:15 PM Buses will be available at the Drake Hotel North Entrance for transportation to the Classic Lady. Walking groups will also depart from the same location and head down Michigan Avenue to the River.

7:00 - 9:00 PM
Wednesday Night Social Event
Classic Lady - Boat Trip


 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th
7:00 - 8:00 AM
Breakfast in Exhibitor Zone

8:00 - 9:15 AM
SESSION VI: ADVANCED APPLICATIONS
Chairs: John Pacella & Flemming Forsberg

  • Yi Dong - CEUS in Pediatric Liver Disease in China: The Current and the Future

  • Nico de Jong - Super-resolved Human Brain Tumor Vasculature Imaging During Surgery

  • Anurag Paranjape - Effects of Cavitating Microbubbles on Cell Functions: Ca2+ Influx and Transient Gene Expression Changes

  • Misun Hwang & Sophie Haddad - Real-Time Imaging of Placental Microvasculature Using Ultrasound Contrast in a Guinea Pig Model of Pregnancy

  • Ying Meng

9:15 - 10:15 AM
SESSION VII: ADVANCED APPLICATIONS
Chairs: Seth Powsner and Harald Becher

  • Klazina Kooiman - Vascular Drug Delivery with Monodisperse Microbubbles: Does Size Matter?

  • Massimo Mischi - Advancing breast lesion classification with quantitative contrast-enhanced and multiparametric ultrasound

  • Mike Averkiou - Subharmonic Imaging Revisited

10:15 - 10:45 AM
Break in Exhibitor Zone

10:45 - 11:30 AM
SESSION VIII: ADVANCED APPLICATIONS
Chairs: John Eisenbrey and Payman Sattar

  • Evan Unger - MVT-100 – A New Ultrasound Contrast Agent

  • Kourosh Kalayeh -Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound: A Radiation-Free Alternative to Diuretic Renography for Evaluating Upper Urinary Tract Obstruction

11:30 - 12:30 PM
Lunch in Exhibitor Zone

12:30 - 2:00 PM
SESSION IX: CASE PRESENTATIONS
Chair: Ken Ford & Wilson Mathias Jr.

  • Arnaldo Rabischoffsky - Clinical Cases of Ultrasound-Enhanced Agents in Echocardiography: An Overview of Applications and Outcomes

  • Jessica Stout - Cardiac Manifestations of Hypereosinophilic Syndrome: Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Loeffler’s Endocarditis

  • Gina Hesley & Christine Lee - Radiology Surgical Correlation with CEUS Lymphography

  • Christina Merrill - Quantification techniques Ovary Objective Assessment

2:00 - 3:00 PM
SESSION X: 2025 WRAP-UP IN CHICAGO
Chair: Petros Nihoyannopoulos, and Dirk Clevert
General audience participation and interaction with expert faculty!

See you on September 4-5, 2026, for the 40th Anniversary!