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Shear Wave Elastography for Clinical Decision Making
Learning Objective(s)
After watching this collaborative activity with Samsung, you should be able to:
- Describe the principles of shear wave elastography used to interpret data;
- Identify disorganized tissue through use of a standard deviation; and
- Apply shear wave elastography to identify suspect tissue in the clinical setting.
Faculty: Phillip Steele, MD, RMSK
AIUM Member: $0
Nonmember: $0
This program is a non-CME educational activity.
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Michael Dolinger, MD, MBA
Michael Dolinger, MD, MBA is an assistant professor of pediatrics and associate pediatric gastroenterology fellowship director at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Dolinger 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. Dr. Dolinger is focused on training and educating gastroenterologists in the USA and around the world to perform intestinal ultrasound. He leads the development of eLearning training to meet the growing global demand; and is a co-founder of iUSCAN, the intestinal ultrasound group of the United States and Canada that adapts training to the needs of North America.
