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Eike Nagel, MD, President of SCMR

Professor of Clinical Cardiovascular Imaging, King's College London
Research interests: Assessment and quantification of (myocardial) ischaemia mainly using magnetic resonance imaging.
Validation and translation of new imaging techniques into clinical routine
Improving clinical decision making by applying superior diagnostic strategies in patients with heart disease

Prof Nagel has established new methods for assessing myocardial ischaemia by MRI, including myocardial perfusion and ventricular wall motion. He has assessed the accuracy of these techniques and demonstrated their clinical efficacy

Scott Flamm, MD, Vice President

Scott D. Flamm, MD, is Head of the Section of Cardiovascular Imaging in the Cleveland Clinic Division of Radiology. He is a staff physician with joint appointments to the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and the Division of Pediatrics. Dr. Flamm is board-certified in diagnostic radiology. In addition, he has certification in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and in Protecting Human Research Subjects in Biomedical and Genetic Research. His specialty interests include cardiovascular MRI, cardiovascular CT, ischemic heart disease and congenital heart disease.

Dr. Flamm has an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a medical degree from George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC, where he was born. He took a medical internship in the Department of Medicine at George Washington Medical Center and did his residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He continued his medical training at the University of California, San Francisco, with a fellowship in cardiovascular imaging/MRI.

Dr. Flamm trained in research at the University of California, San Francisco and in the Division of Nuclear Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He has received major grants for research in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. His research work has garnered awards including a 2005 Young Investigator Award from the North American Society for Cardiac Imaging and a 2004 1st Place Award from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance Technologists.

Christopher M. Kramer, MD, Immediate Past President

After receiving his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Christopher Kramer completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine and fellowship in cardiology at the University of Pennsylvania. During his fellowship, he began his research career in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR). He was on the faculty for several years at Allegheny General Hospital, MCP/Hahnemann School of Medicine, in Pittsburgh, where he directed the cardiology fellowship program. In 1999, he moved to the University of Virginia where he is now Professor Medicine and Radiology and Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Center.

Dr. Kramer's principal research interest has been in the application of CMR to the cardiovascular system and he has published widely in the area of left ventricular remodeling and myocardial viability, atherosclerotic plaque imaging, and imaging of peripheral arterial disease. His research is supported by the NIH and AHA and he is a reviewer for numerous scientific journals as well as the Clinical Cardiovascular Sciences NIH study section. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. He is a member of the Imaging and Appropriateness Committees of the ACC and the Annual Scientific Session Program Committees of both the AHA and ACC. He has been on the board of trustees of SCMR since 2000, was chairman of the SCMR Annual Meeting program committee for 2005-06, and has served as a President of SCMR from 2009-2010.