I am honoured and excited to begin my term as president of SCMR this year. First and foremost, I want to thank Subha Raman, MD, MSEE, FSCMR, for steering the Society through another testing year in 2021. Thanks to her steadfast leadership, SCMR has weathered the storm and has come out stronger than ever before. My particular gratitude also goes to Michael Salerno, MD, PhD, FSCMR, and all SCMR staff for delivering a truly amazing 2022 Scientific Sessions, despite the challenges of pivoting last minute to a fully virtual format. The depth and quality of the science and clinical evidence presented at the meeting were an impressive testament of ingenuity, diversity, and creativity of our community. Finally, I would like to thank our board members old and new, committee members, and all other volunteers dedicated to our common goal of advancing and promoting appropriate use of CMR around the globe.

We have big plans for the next year. In a recent members survey we asked you what the Society’s future priorities should be. Your answers were clear: shorter CMR exam times, improved reimbursement, support for CMR practitioners around the world for setting up local services, and improved awareness and training in CMR for all practitioners. With the help of our new management company, AMC, the Board of Trustees has undertaken a Strategic Planning Exercise to set the roadmap for delivering these priority areas, and we will keep you posted on our progress. We are also working on a number of new educational activities and are looking forward to our first in-person meeting in over 2 years at the AI in CMR Summit in London on 5-6 May 2022. I hope to see many of you there.

With the very best wishes for 2022,

University of Leeds

Leeds, UK

We are excited to announce the results of the 2022 SCMR Board of Trustees election! Thank you to all our candidates and the 467 members who voted.

Congratulations to these members who joined the SCMR Board of Trustees in February 2022.

The SCMR Verification Committee supports the cardiac MR community by ensuring that practitioners have met multidisciplinary society–defined standards for Cardiac MR training (Levels I, II, or III). The goal of the committee is to provide verification as to the competency achieved by applicants and therefore help assure that CMR is practiced by qualified individuals providing a quality product. Imaging specialists who have completed the required training and cardiac MR case requirements submit through the SCMR for review by the verification committee. The committee has worked to streamline the application process, including providing a form letter for mentors / lab directors to ensure that all required criteria have been addressed. Additionally, the SCMR has committed to reduce the turn-around for applications to 30 days or less.

Additional information can be found at https://scmr.org/page/LetterofCertLdgPg.

The Gold Medal is the highest award given by the SCMR to an individual for distinguished and extraordinary service to the field of cardiovascular magnetic resonance and to the Society.

Congratulations to our 2022 Gold Medal recipients, Robert R. Edelman, MD, and James C. Moon, MD.

During the 25th Annual Scientific Sessions, attendees shared openings and available positions on the Career, Fellowship, and Research Opportunities message board. The board is still available for viewing; please review each individual post for the appropriate contact information about an opportunity. While the board will be archived within the next month, you can always visit SCMR’s Career Center to post and search for job openings.

New JCMR Editor-in-Chief 2023—Gratitude for Dr. Warren Manning, and Welcome Dr. Tim Leiner

After 6 years as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Warren Manning, MD, MSCMR, will be stepping down at the end of this year. The Society is indebted to Warren for his outstanding work and commitment to the journal and for manifesting the position of JCMR as the leading journal in our field and one of the leading cardiovascular imaging journals. Under his leadership, several new features have been introduced, including online CME credits, the monthly webinar JCMR journal club, annual SCMR Cases review, and a thriving @journalofCMR social media presence. Under his leadership, the journal’s latest 2021-2022 impact factor is on the rise to 5.364! We are delighted to introduce Tim Leiner, MD, PhD, FSCMR, as Warren’s successor as the new Editor-in-Chief beginning in January 2023. Warren and Tim will be working together this year to ensure a smooth transition of the journal’s editorship.

2022 Scientific Sessions—An Event to Remember

The 2022 Early Career Awards were presented by João L. Cavalcante, MD, FSCMR, and Claudia Prieto, PhD. Congratulations to our 2022 recipients, Quiang Zhang, PhD, Soham Shah,BS, and Tianle Cao, BME!

JCMR Best Manuscript Awards 2021

JCMR Editor-in-Chief Warren J. Manning, MD, MSCMR, presented the recipients of the 15th Gerald M. Pohost Award and 4th Dudley Pennell Award. Congratulations to the 2022 recipients and runners up!

The 2022 Seed Grant Awards were presented by Daniel Kim, PhD. Congratulations to our 2022 recipients, Justin Canada, PhD, RCEP, and Junyu Wang, BE!

The 2022 Case of the Week Award was presented by Sylvia Chen, MD, Editor of the SCMR Case of the Week. Congratulations to the 2022 recipient, Daniel Clark, MD, MPH!

SCMR’s Best Tweet Contest recognizes attendees who post about education, research, and activities taking place at the conference and have the most engagement with their Tweet. Congratulations to our 2022 Best Tweet Contest winner, Anudeep Dodeja, MD, and runners up, Amro Alsaid, MD, FSCMR, and Jennifer Co-Vu, MD!

Cardiac MR Eyes (👀)

Twitter-based #WhyCMR journal watch 📚⌚—join the online discussion!

1.   Defibrillator or not with CRT? No scar no worries?! 🧲❌✅

2.    Vaccine myocarditis less severe than regular or COVID-related 💉💚💙🆗

3.    Rapid-CMR protocol can impact care in 62% & save money! 💨👟🏃‍♀️🕗💲💥❗

4.    Red. Blue. ECV rules! Moving beyond LGE. 🖤🤍💥🌈

5.    CMR score predicts mortality in Tetralogy of Fallot & may guide ICD use 🍀 🎯

6.    Bringing MAPSE back with AI. Keeping it simple. Does the GLS job? 🤖🤷‍♀️

7.    More myocardial fibrosis in DM – especially with poor control 🍩💚💙💔

We had an extremely informative Multicenter Collaborative Research subcommittee meeting on 17 February. The subcommittee is chaired by Drs. Jonathan Soslow and Heynric Grotenhuis. We heard about an impressive number of ongoing CHD studies. Get involved and stay informed about all of the CHD CMR ongoing studies!

Kanwal Farooqi, MD

Department of Pediatrics

Columbia University, New York, United States

The arrival of the pandemic and focus on athlete return to play (RTP) after COVID-19 have elevated the importance of diagnosing myocarditis in a younger population. Drs. Jason Johnson, Jonathan Soslow, and Simon Lee hope to expand the investigation of practice variation of CMR utilization across more pediatric centers, particularly with regard to the utilization of parametric mapping. Please complete the REDCap survey that will take 10 to 15 minutes to fill out, describing your individual/center's practices using CMR for myocarditis in general, and specifically in the post-COVID athlete.

This initiative aims to promote research pertaining to ALL areas of pediatric cardiac imaging including #whyCMR. In the coming months, junior faculty will have the ability to submit grant applications for review and feedback. Faculty who would like to apply to be experienced research mentors (ERM) will also be able to submit their information online. Stay tuned for our annual symposium information planned to take place this summer! Check it out at https://priismgroup.com.

As the world changes, more cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) become MRI compatible. As we as a society scan more legacy CIEDs, technologists are faced with adapting our imaging techniques to eliminate metal artifacts. In MRI, we need to know how to change our techniques. Vendors are producing more metal artifact reduction sequences (MARS), but if there is no MARS sequence available to your center, or your protocol, here are a few tricks immediately available to us.

The first option is to change the sequence from a steady-state free precession (SSFP) cine to a gradient recalled echo (GRE). The sequence will lose contrast and SNR, but the image will gain in reducing metal artifact.

The second option is to increase the bandwidth. Increasing the bandwidth reduces the signal amplitude, increases the noise, and reduces the scan time (by allowing a reduction of TE and TR). The metal artifact can be moved off the area of interest by widening the bandwidth.

The third option is trying a delta frequency shift. Potentially, a delta frequency shift allows for the artifact to be moved off the myocardium. However, a delta frequency shift can create an issue with moving the off-resonance frequency onto the area of interest, so it may not be the option.

Vendors are working on metal reduction techniques, and sequences are changing. Keeping current with new developments is a great way to ensure that the center uses the best sequence technique for the patients!

Participate in the 2021 revision of the SCMR Introductory course in CMR. This course is designed to cover theory, knowledge, and some of the skills required for core training in CMR. The course takes approximately 10 hours to complete and is split into 15 topics. There is a strong interactive component, with questions at the end of each topic, as well as lots of case reviews along the way.

The course is not designed to replicate the practical aspects of scan acquisition and live reporting that can only be gained from working in a CMR department. The course will, however, provide you with 10 hours of theoretical and case-based learning and contribute 30 online cases toward your level I, II, or III certificate.

If you are enrolled in the course via SCMR, a certificate will be provided at the end. Nonmembers will need to sign up as a guest to complete. Registration is free to SCMR members and $100 for nonmembers. To learn more about becoming an SCMR member, visit the SCMR membership page.

SCMR is excited to offer an important and timely webinar series on the 2021 AHA/ACC/ASE/CHEST/SAEM/SCCT/SCMR Guideline for the Evaluation and Diagnosis of Chest Pain.

The 2021 AHA/ACC Chest Pain Guidelines mark an important step toward the more appropriate use of cardiac MRI, especially for patients in the United States who are particularly disadvantaged compared to Europe and other parts of the world.

This four-part webinar series is now available on demand from SCMR.

Part 1: Stress Perfusion CMR in the 2021 ACC/AHA Chest Pain Guidelines

Speakers: John P. Greenwood, MBChB, PhD, FSCMR; and Raymond Y. Kwong, MD, MPH, FSCMR

Moderators: Subha V. Raman, MD, MSEE, FSCMR; Sven Plein, MD, PhD; and Purvi Parwani, MD

Part 2: Stress Perfusion CMR in Patients with Chest Pain: Evidence-Based Summary

Part 3: How to Start a Stress CMR Service

Speakers: Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, MD, PhD, FSCMR; and Christopher Dyke, MD

Moderators: Scott Yang, MD; Mark Westwood, MD, FSCMR; and Manish Motwani, MB ChB, PhD, FSCMR

Part 4: Stress CMR Perfusion Cases: Guideline Scenarios Read with the Experts

Moderators: Eike Nagel, MD, PhD, MSCMR; Faisal Nabi, MD; and Christopher Kramer, MD, MSCMR

This webinar series is FREE for both SCMR members and nonmembers.

We are excited to announce that two of our Stress Perfusion webinars have been translated into Spanish! Thank you to the Asociación Nacional de Cardiólogos de México (ANCAM) for helping translate these informative webinars.

Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging—A Joint Summit of EACVI and SCMR

On 21 July 2021, experts Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, MD, PhD, FESC, FRCP, FSCMR; and Colin Berry, MD, PhD, presented the Siemens Healthineers webinar Novel Insights into MINOCA and INOCA: Resolving Diagnostic Dilemmas and discussed the potential of diagnostic imaging for risk assessment and prognosis in MINOCA and INOCA patients. This webinar highlighted the added value of CMR, CT, and Angio imaging in both acute and chronic ischemia without obstructive coronary arteries. The recording of this innovative session is now available on the SCMR Online Learning Portal.

The Canadian Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance was founded in Calgary, Alberta, in 2005. Since its inception, CMR in Canada has exploded, with availabilities in most university hospitals across our vast country. Consequently, a vibrant community has established itself with important contributions to academia. Most notably, among others, recent key contributions include hemorrhagic infarction research (Dr. Kumar, Sudbury, and Dr. Ghugre, team Toronto), oxygen sensitive CMR (Dr. Friedrich, team McGill) and the ever expanding role of CMR in COVID (Dr. Hanneman, team Toronto).

Since being rebranded and restructured by recent Past President Dr. Idan Roifman, The Canadian Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging (SCMRI Canada) became an affiliate of the

Canadian Cardiovascular Society, increasing its outreach to everyday cardiologists by regularly hosting CMR workshops at the annual Canadian Cardiovascular Conference, and establishing consensus/guideline statements with regards to CMR safety¹ among others.

Under our new leadership of President Dr. Andreas Kumar and Vice President Dr. Michael Chetrit, SCMRI Canada is planning to expand further with a webinar series and research awards for trainees to be presented at the annual Canadian Cardiology Congress. Canadians are known for their warm hearts—SCMRI Canada makes them resonate!

Please use this link for a filtered PubMed list of all CMR-related manuscripts for February—more than 250 in total!