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Intestinal Ultrasound for GI Disease Course

Live Online | Saturday, April 5, 2025

Join us for this new one-day virtual live CME course, hosted by the AIUM, focusing on using intestinal ultrasound as a real-time diagnostic and objective disease activity assessment tool in the evaluation of inflammatory bowel disease.

Learn from world-class instructors
Master appropriate scanning techniques
Earn up to 3.25 CME credits
Access course recordings for 90 days*

*There is no CME credit attached to the video recordings

The goal of this CME course is to incorporate intestinal ultrasound into your medical ultrasound practice for the diagnosis and monitoring of gastrointestinal pathologies.

Who Should Attend?

Gastroenterologists, pediatric gastroenterologists, radiologists, pediatric radiologists, pediatricians, colorectal surgeons, internists, OB/GYN physicians and sonographers, and other clinicians involved in ultrasound of the abdominal region.

Course Tuition & Registration

PHYSICIAN

$299

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SONOGRAPHER / NONPHYSICIAN / STUDENT

$249

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PHYSICIAN

$399

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SONOGRAPHER OR NONPHYSICIAN

$299

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Faculty

The AIUM is excited to bring you this new course in Intestinal Ultrasound led by the following esteemed leaders and faculty.

Course Directors

Will also serve as faculty.

Mallory Chavannes, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FAAP

Clinical Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics,
Keck School of Medicine of USC

Dr Chavannes received her MD degree at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 2011. She then completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada, in 2014. She successfully completed her pediatric gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2016. Dr Chavannes completed her Master’s of Health Science in Epidemiology and one year of Advanced Inflammatory Bowel Disease Fellowship at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in December 2017.

Dr Chavannes’ research focus has been on the evaluation of therapies in inflammatory bowel diseases. Her paper on “The Assessment of the use of therapeutic drug monitoring of Adalimumab during maintenance therapy in children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease” was presented both at the ECCO (European Crohn’s & Colitis Organization) meeting in Barcelona in 2017 and at DDW in Chicago in May 2017. Her research interest is in finding noninvasive ways of monitoring disease activity in children with inflammatory bowel disease.
Michael Dolinger, MD, MBA

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

Dr Dolinger is an assistant professor of pediatrics and associate pediatric gastroenterology fellowship director at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Michael became the first gastroenterologist to be trained and certified to perform intestinal ultrasound in the United States by the International Bowel Ultrasound Group. He currently directs the Henry and Elaine Kaufman Intestinal Ultrasound Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the first program of its kind in the country created to improve disease activity monitoring in IBD patients. Michael is focused on training and educating gastroenterologists in the USA and around the world to perform intestinal ultrasound, leading the development of eLearning training to meet the growing global demand and as a co-founder of iUSCAN, the intestinal ultrasound group of the United States and Canada to adapt training to the needs of North America.
Jonathan R. Dillman, MD, MSc, FACR, FSAR, FAIUM

Associate Chief, Research
William S. Ball Chair of Radiology Research
Medical Director, Imaging Research Center, Department of Radiology
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Professor of Radiology
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, OH

Dr Dillman is a Professor in the Department of Radiology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC). He is the Associate Chief of Research, Medical Director of the CCHMC Imaging Research Center, and William S. Ball Endowed Chair of Radiology Research. He has clinical and research interests in pediatric abdominal imaging, including ultrasound of the bowel and Crohn's disease.

Faculty

Michael W. Winter, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH

Dr Winter earned his medical degree at Tufts University School of Medicine and completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He completed a fellowship in adult gastroenterology at Tufts Medical Center in 2019 and joined Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in 2019 as an advanced fellow in inflammatory bowel disease. Following this fellowship he joined the faculty in 2020 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine. His clinical and research interest is focused on improving care for patients with inflammatory bowel disease, with a particular focus on the use of intestinal ultrasound as a noninvasive disease monitoring tool and the integration of multidisciplinary care teams remotely to improve patient engagement and outcomes.
Bincy P. Abraham, MD, MS, AGAF, FACG, FASGE

Professor of Clinical Medicine, Houston Methodist Academic Institute Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Adjunct Professor of Clinical Education, Texas A&M University, College of Medicine
Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship Program, Houston Methodist
Co-Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Advanced Fellowship Program
Distinguished Professor and Director, Underwood Center - Fondren Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program
Houston Methodist Gastroenterology Associates
Houston, TX

Dr Abraham is the Distinguished Professor and Director of the Fondren Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at the Underwood Digestive Diseases Center of Houston Methodist Hospital. She is also the Program Director for the Gastroenterology Fellowship at Houston Methodist Hospital. She earned her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, where she continued with residency training in internal medicine and a fellowship in gastroenterology. During her fellowship, she received specialized training in inflammatory bowel disease and earned her degree in a Master’s of Clinical Investigation. She also completed a National Visiting Fellow Inflammatory Bowel Disease Rotation program through the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. She has chaired the Southern Regional chapter of the CCFA Medical Advisory Committee, served as president of the Texas Gulf Coast Gastroenterology Society, is involved in national committees for and is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology, American Gastroenterology Association, American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. She is passionate about intestinal ultrasound in IBD patient care.
Baldeep S. Pabla, MD, MSCI

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN

Dr Pabla earned his undergraduate degree from Duke University and his medical degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He then completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago before returning to Vanderbilt for his Gastroenterology and IBD training. He started at Vanderbilt as faculty in 2020 and has been seeing patients at the Vanderbilt Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Center since then. His interests include medical education, improving patient outcomes, and the use of point-of-care intestinal ultrasound for the monitoring of disease activity in patients with IBD.
Amelia Kellar, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Intestinal Ultrasound Program
Associate Director, Pediatric IBD Program
University of Chicago
Comer Children's Hospital
Chicago, IL

Dr Kellar completed her MD at the University of Calgary in Calgary, AB, Canada. She completed her Pediatric residency at the Hospital for Sick Children and her Pediatric Gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Calgary. She went on to complete an advanced fellowship in adult IBD at the University of Calgary and an additional year of advanced fellowship in pediatric and adult IBD at Mount Sinai Hospital in NY. She is one of the few certified intestinal ultrasonographers and trainers with the International Bowel Ultrasound Group (IBUS) and was appointed to the Pediatric Committee for IBUS. She is the Co-Chair of Research for iUSCAN (the North American subdivision of IBUS). She is the Director of the Pediatric IUS program and Associate Director of the Pediatric IBD Program and is cross-appointed to both Pediatric and Adult Gastroenterology at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include intestinal ultrasound, novel and dual advanced therapies, and clinical trials.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Describe the utility of intestinal ultrasound (IUS) in clinical practice in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and other gastrointestinal diseases;
Compare the role of IUS in IBD diagnosis and monitoring with other cross-sectional imaging modalities;
Acquire didactic knowledge on the use and features of IUS for assessing normal bowel, including differentiating the colon from small intestine, and gastrointestinal pathologies with a focus on inflammation and complications in IBD;
Establish the framework needed to interpret findings seen on IUS;
Illustrate the fundamental features of IUS to assess bowel pathologies, including those of IBD Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis;
Recognize the features and findings of common extra-intestinal pathologies that can arise from routine bowel examinations (eg complications of bowel disease, genitourinary conditions, hepatic disease);
Review indications for IUS, including monitoring of IBD and role in therapeutic decisions, and relate those indications to pathologies that may be seen on imaging; and
Explain the potential role of IUS in the differential diagnosis of right lower quadrant abdominal pain.

Course Schedule

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Time	Presentation Title	Presenter/Faculty
9:30 AM – 9:35 AM	Welcome and Introduction	Michael Dolinger, MD, MBA
9:35 AM – 9:55 AM	Indications and rationale for IUS in gastroenterologic practice—advantages and disadvantages	Abraham Bincy, MD, MS, AGAF, FACG, FASGE
9:55 AM – 10:15 AM	Understanding ultrasound principles and machines	Michael Dolinger, MD, MBA
10:15 AM – 10:25 AM	Live Q&A
10:25 AM – 10:45 AM	How to perform IUS and standardize the assessment	Mallory Chavannes, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FAAP
10:45 AM – 11:05 AM	IUS findings in IBD, Crohn’s Disease, and Ulcerative Colitis	Ameila Kellar, MSc, FRCPC
11:05 AM – 11:25 AM	IUS as a tool for monitoring bowel disease activity and treatment efficacy	Baldeep Pabla, MD, MSCI
11:25 AM – 11:35 AM	Live Q&A
11:35 AM – 11:55 AM	Complications in IBD	Michael Dolinger, MD, MBA
11:55 AM – 12:15 PM	Intestinal and extra-intestinal findings	Jonathan Dillman, MD, MSc, FACR, FAIUM, FSAR
12:15 PM – 12:35 PM	What’s next? Future education and acquisition of proficiency in IUS	Michael Winter, MD
12:35 PM – 12:45 PM	Live Q&A/Wrap-up
12:45 PM	Adjourn for the day

CME Accreditation

The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation

The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine designates this live internet activity for a maximum of 3.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians can claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ARRT Category A Credit

The AIUM is a Recognized Continuing Education Evaluation Mechanism (RCEEM) for the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT). The AIUM is the owner and sponsor of this activity. This activity is approved by the AIUM for 3.25 ARRT Category A credits. This CE activity may be available in multiple formats or from different CE sponsors. ARRT does not allow CE activities (e.g., Internet courses, home study programs, directed readings, live lectures) to be repeated for CE credit in the same CE biennium.

Additional Credit Information

American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS). The ARDMS accepts AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credit(s)™.

Disclosure Policy

In accordance with the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all individuals in control of content must disclose any financial relationship(s) or other relationship(s) held within the past 24 months. The AIUM implements a mechanism to identify and mitigate all conflicts of interest prior to delivering the educational activity to learners.

Disclosures for this Activity

All relevant financial relationships for this activity will be disclosed and any conflicts will have been mitigated prior to the start of the activity.

Course Recordings

All registered participants will receive access to the course recordings for 90 days, ensuring you can revisit valuable insights at your convenience.

*Recordings do not meet the participation requirements to earn CME credit.

Cancellation Policy

Written cancellation must be received by March 8, 2025, to receive a refund of the course registration fee minus a $150 administration fee. Written cancellations received after March 8, 2025, will not receive a refund. All cancellations must be received by the AIUM via e-mail to learn@aium.org. In the unlikely event that the program is canceled, seminar registration fees will be fully refunded. However, please note that the AIUM cannot be held responsible for any travel or hotel costs incurred by participants.

About the AIUM

Through rigorous research, high-quality education, accreditation, and evidence-based training and practice resources, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) is the leading global multidisciplinary ultrasound community.