Thyroid Ultrasound Skills Training Workshop --$$ (ticketed session)

Thursday, May 12, 2022

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Location: Sapphire 410 AB (Level 4)

Moderator(s)

Sun Y. Lee, MD, MSc, ECNU
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Boston Univerrsity School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Speaker(s)

Benjamin J. Gigliotti, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York, United States

Disclosure: Blueprint Medicines (Self) : Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Status: Terminated --- RET+ Virtual Thyroid Discussion Forum (a 7-hour advisory board commitment), started 3/3/21, ended 3/17/21)

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Debra Margulies, MD, ECNU, FACE
Summit Health
Maplewood, New Jersey, United States

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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Alex Tessnow, MD
Associate Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Southlake, Texas, United States

Disclosure: Horizon (Self) : Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Status: Ongoing); Spectrix Therapeutics (Self) : Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Status: Ongoing)

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Sina Jasim, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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Faculty(s)

Matthew J. Levine, MD, FACE
Scripps Clinic, Division of Diabetes/Endocrinology
La Jolla, California, United States

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Kaniksha Desai, MD, ECNU, FACE
Assistant Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine, California, United States

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Anupam Kotwal, MD
Assistant Professor
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Disclosure: Horizon Therapeutics, Inc. (Self) : Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Status: Ongoing)

NOTE: Pre-Registration required. This workshop has a $75 supplies charge.

AGENDA
1:00 pm-1:30 pm Introduction to Ultrasound and Thyroid Anatomy--Alex Tessnow, MD
1:30 pm-2:00 pm Diffuse Thyroid Disorders--Debra Margulies, MD, ECNU, FACE
2:00 pm-2:30 pm Thyroid Nodule Evaluation and Risk Stratification--Benjamin J. Gigliotti, MD
2:30 pm-3:00 pm Extrathyroidal Structures: Parathyroid & Lymph Nodes--Sina Jasim, MD
3:00 pm-3:15 pm Q & A-ALL FACULTY
3:15 pm-5:00 pm SKILLS-Anatomy and Thyroid Pathology --ALL FACULTY

Learning Objectives:

Review thyroid ultrasound physics, normal thyroid anatomy, and both normal and abnormal extrathyroidal structures including parathyroid glands and lymph nodes.
Recognize sonographic features of Hashimoto's thyroiditis and other diffuse thyroid disorders. Identify nodules of high suspicion and distinguish nodules from pseudonodules in setting of background thyroiditis. Review other, non-Hashimoto's diffuse pathologies encountered in neck ultrasound.
Perform comprehensive US of the neck and be able to identify the parathyroid gland and differentiate benign from malignant lymph nodes in the neck

Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:

Sun Y. Lee, MD, MSc, ECNU: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Benjamin J. Gigliotti, MD: Blueprint Medicines (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards)

Debra Margulies, MD, ECNU, FACE: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Alex Tessnow, MD: Horizon (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards); Spectrix Therapeutics (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards)

Sina Jasim, MD, MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Matthew J. Levine, MD, FACE: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Kaniksha Desai, MD, ECNU, FACE: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Anupam Kotwal, MD: Horizon Therapeutics, Inc. (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards)