25th Anniversary of the Asian-Oceanic Society for Pediatric Radiology

24th October 2025
Alternate Track

Day 1

24th October 2025 (Friday)

ALTERNATE TRACK (Ballroom C)

Quality & Safety, Informatics, Child-Life

Moderators: Joanna Kaznia-Brown, Govind Chavhan

9:35 - 9:55
(incl. 5 min. Q&A)

Perspectives on Health Informatics, Medicine, and AI

Mowafa Househ

Illustrate how health and imaging informatics helps improve pediatric imaging care.
Describe the role of health informatics in enhancing pediatric imaging workflows and improving patient outcomes.
Explain the integration of artificial intelligence technologies in pediatric imaging diagnostics and decision-making.

9:55 - 10:15
(incl. 5 min. Q&A)

Beyond Protocols: Nurturing a Culture of Hospital Safety.

Elaine Kan

Recognize role of leadership commitment in nurturing a culture of hospital safety.
Understand the relationship between Just Culture and Speak-Up Culture.
Appreciate the inter-relationship of personal accountability, open communication and reporting.

10:15 - 10:35
(incl. 5 min. Q&A)

Risks of CT radiation versus the risks of sedation for MRI.

Michael Callahan

Understand the general differences between the linear-no-threshold and threshold hypothesis for carcinogenesis as it relates to medical imaging.
Recognize the potential short-term and long-term risks of anesthesia for diagnostic imaging in infants and children.
Gain a more nuanced understanding of the relative risks of anesthesia for MRI in the context of patient physical status and disease burden.

10:35 - 10:55
(incl. 5 min. Q&A)

Perceptual & Cognitive Errors.

George Taylor

Describe the interaction between perception and cognition in the diagnostic process in radiology.
Illustrate the most common visual search failures in pediatric radiology.
Recognize the important roles of Human factors, heuristics, and cognitive biases in diagnostic error.

10:55 - 11:15
(incl. 5 min. Q&A)

Supporting pediatric patients in radiology: child life strategies for coping and collaboration.

Stephanie Sharp & Nicole Greene

Describe the role and importance of child life specialists within the healthcare team.
Recognize the emotional and psychological impacts pediatric patients may encounter during radiology interventions.
Explore interdisciplinary approaches that promote increased coping among pediatric radiology patients.

Lunch 11:15 - 12:15

Cardiovascular

Moderators: Cathy Owens, YuMin Zhong

12:15 - 12:35
(incl. 5 min. Q&A)

Post-operative cardiac imaging.

Wendy Lam

Learn about the role of imaging in post-operative congenital cardiac diseases.
Recognize some common surgical procedures performed and normal post-operative findings.
Recognize some post-operative complications.

12:35 - 12:55
(incl. 5 min. Q&A)

Cardiac CT - how to tailor the protocol to answer important questions.

Musa Kaleem

Understand the clinical context of imaging for some of the important congenital defects.
Implement measures which improve scan quality to help delineate the morphologic details wanted by interventional cardiology and cardiac surgical colleagues.
Appreciate the concept of time-enhancement curve and ECG gating.
Recognize the importance of pre-planning (Echo findings; physiological impact of congenital defects on contrast distribution; influence of cannula site in reducing streak artefacts and targeting venous anatomy etc.).

12:55 - 13:15
(incl. 5 min. Q&A)

Situs Revisited Again!

Gurdeep Mann

Describe a structured approach to assessing visceroatrial situs.
Recognize the key features of heterotaxy.
Compare and contrast the role of different diagnostic imaging modalities and the role of planar and 3D image reconstruction in depicting situs.

Musculoskeletal

Moderators: Kushaljit Sodhi, Tatsuo Kono

13:15 - 13:35
(incl. 5 min. Q&A)

Imaging of osteomyelitis – new trends and recommendations.

Joanna Kasnia-Brown

Describe the pathophysiology and clinical presentation of osteomyelitis relevant to imaging.
Review the current imaging modalities used in the diagnosis and monitoring of osteomyelitis, including their advantages and limitations.
Discuss recent advances and emerging trends in imaging techniques for osteomyelitis (e.g., whole-body MRI, diffusion-weighted imaging, hybrid imaging).
Evaluate updated guidelines and international recommendations for imaging in suspected osteomyelitis.
Identify challenges and considerations in pediatric versus adult imaging of osteomyelitis.

13:35 - 13:55
(incl. 5 min. Q&A)

Chondrodysplasia punctata - a fascinating phenotype.

Stephen Miller

Recognize the skeletal and extraskeletal manifestations associated with the chondrodysplasia punctata (CDP) phenotype.
Explain the etiology of skeletal punctata.
Compare and contrast key similarities and differences between genetic (primary) and maternal (secondary or acquired) etiologies for the CDP phenotype.

13:55 - 14:15
(incl. 5 min. Q&A)

Pediatric bone lesions: to act or not to act - diagnostic pitfalls and mimickers.

Kiran Hilal

Define the concept of “don’t touch me” lesions and recognize their characteristic imaging features and typical locations in the pediatric population.
Describe an imaging-based classification and apply a logical algorithm to differentiate benign “do not touch” lesions from conditions that require further evaluation.
Illustrate a case-based radiologic approach to confidently avoid unnecessary biopsy or imaging in commonly encountered pediatric bone lesions.

Break 14:15 - 14:45

Papers - I

Moderators: Members of Scientific Planning Committee & AOSPR Board

14:45 - 15:45

Top 10 Scientific Abstracts (1-5)

Top 10 abstracts (1-5) selected from the submissions by the scientific program committee members to be presented orally

5 papers:
- 9 minutes presentation each
- 3 minutes Q&A each

Oncology

Moderators: Ahmed ElHamed, Abdusamea Shabani

15:45 - 16:05
(incl. 5 min. Q&A)

Imaging of Selected Complications in Pediatric Oncology.