As usual, this year’s RSNA offers something for everyone. Interested in AI? Who isn’t? This year features an expanded AI Showcase area on the lower level of McCormick Place. And there will be plenty of sessions on the topic from industry demonstrations to educational forums. Of course, there will also be sessions dedicated to all of the major modalities, as well as a plethora of programs covering various aspects of radiology practice.
The plenary sessions are always illuminating, and this year’s Presidential Address by Valerie P. Jackson, MD, at the opening session is aptly titled “A Matter of Perspective: Putting a New Lens on Our Patient Interactions.” Also at the opening session, Abraham Verghese, MD, will deliver a lecture called “Finding the Caring in Care.”
Monday’s plenary session features New Horizons lectures from Andrew J. Saykin, PsyD, ABCN, and Robert M. Pascuzzi, MD. Saykin’s lecture is “The War on Alzheimer’s Disease: Neuroimaging, Biomarkers and Genetics on the Front Lines” and Pascuzzi’s is “Charcot, The Iron Horse, and Creeping Paralysis: Good Science in the Treatment of ALS.”
Tuesday is a busy day, with two plenary sessions and three lectures taking place. In the morning, Mitchell D. Schnall, MD, PhD, and Anant Madabhushi, PhD, kick things off with “The Path to Integrated Diagnostics” and “Radio-Patho-Genomics: Computationally Integrating Disease Specific Features Across Scales,” respectively. In the afternoon, Sanjiv S. Gambhir, MD, PhD, delivers the Annual Oration in Diagnostic Radiology, “Next Generation Technologies and Strategies for Precision Health.”
On Wednesday, Lisa A. Kachnic, MD, wraps things up with the Annual Oration in Radiation Oncology. Her lecture is titled “Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy (OART): The True Intersection of Diagnostic Radiology and Radiation Oncology.”
Finally, in some future RSNA news, the 2021 conference will be one day shorter. It has yet to be decided whether it will begin on a Sunday or a Monday.
Enjoy the show, and we hope to see you there!
— A Radiology Today staff report