RSNA 2025 kicks off in less than two weeks with the theme of “Imaging the Individual.” This year’s plenary sessions focus on precision medicine and the role of medical imaging in tailoring treatments to individual patients.
In the opening session on Sunday, November 30, RSNA president Umar Mahmood, MD, PhD, gets the meeting started with his address highlighting radiology’s importance to health care and its position at the forefront of precision treatment, as well as new opportunities it offers to improve care and outcomes. Also in the opening session, Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, provides an update on the National Institute of Health’s All of Us research program, which aims to gather data from more than 1 million Americans. Ginsburg’s talk will highlight future directions for the program, as well as some of the ways it is enabling individualized disease prevention, treatment, and care.
On Monday, December 1, Tait Shanafelt, MD, delivers a plenary session called “System Interventions to Foster Clinician Well-Being.” Research has demonstrated a link between physician well-being and quality of care, and there are work environment characteristics that organizations can modify to improve well-being and reduce burnout. Shanafelt will review current data and review specific actions organizations can take.
Also on December 1, Aya Kumaya, MD, will moderate an image interpretation session. Five radiologists will be shown unknown cases and provide insight into how they analyze images and develop differential diagnoses.
On Tuesday, December 2, Zeynep Tufekci, PhD, MA, will deliver a lecture about how most people’s perceived fears about AI are different from the true threats it presents. Also on December 2, Alexander Drzezga, MD, will discuss various methods of imaging neurodegeneration in combination with fluid biomarkers to better understand the disease process that contributes to it. His lecture, “Remembering Tomorrow: A Bright Future in Imaging and Treating Neurodegeneration,” will also cover new types of molecular imaging therapies that may become available and the future of personalized therapy.
Additionally, the RSNA/American Association of Physicists in Medicine Symposium takes place on December 2. This year’s program is titled “Together We Can Make a Difference.” The focus of the symposium is the importance of teamwork between radiologists, physicists, and technologists in a breast imaging context. The moderator for the symposium is James F. Kofler, Jr, PhD, and the presenters are Shadi Aminololama-Shakeri, MD, and John M. Boone, PhD.
On Wednesday, December 3, sit back and enjoy a session based on a popular game show with “The PACS and the Furious: An RSNA Family Feud.” Moderators Zahra Kassam, MD, FRCPC, and Iain DC Kirkpatrick, MD, FRCPC, will host two teams of radiologists as they compete to name the top answers that pertain to common and uncommon radiological manifestations of disease states.
Along with the plenary session, there will be plenty of educational sessions and scientific presentations covering all aspects of radiology practice. As in previous years, the Learning Center will be in the Lakeside building and will feature scientific posters, learning labs, and the Case of the Day. In addition, the exhibit halls will feature hundreds of exhibitors, as well as an AI Showcase and a 3D Printing & Mixed Reality Showcase, both in the South Hall.
— A Radiology Today staff report