Emergency Department Radiology
March 18–21, 2027 · Mexico City · Grand Fiesta Americana Chapultepec
Course Directors: Dr. Daniela Galan and Dr. Leandro Singerman
CME for physicians
ARRT CE for technologists
Trauma & acute care
Case-based
Polytrauma, undifferentiated abdominal pain, the overnight head CT with a surgeon on the phone. Emergency and trauma imaging is defined less by anatomy than by the clock and the consequences — and it rewards pattern recognition built on volume.
Both course directors are full-time faculty in the Emergency and Trauma Imaging Division at the University of Miami / Jackson Memorial Hospital, home of the Ryder Trauma Center. The cases come from a service that sees this work every day.
Overview
Four days of case-based emergency and trauma imaging in Mexico City, led by Course Directors Dr. Daniela Galan and Dr. Leandro Singerman, with senior faculty from one of the busiest trauma services in the United States.
The format is deliberately case-driven rather than lecture-driven. Emergency radiology is a volume discipline: the reason an experienced trauma radiologist sees the subtle finding is that they have seen it before, often. Four concentrated days of reviewing real cases with the people who read them is the fastest available substitute for time on that service.
The program runs immediately after the Breast Imaging Program at the same venue, so a single trip to Mexico City can cover both.
Areas covered
Indicative scope. The final program is set by the course directors.
Polytrauma
Whole-body CT, triage, and reporting priorities
Neurotrauma
Head and spine in the acute setting
Thoracic emergencies
Aortic injury, PE, chest trauma
Acute abdomen
Undifferentiated pain, bowel, solid organ injury
Musculoskeletal trauma
Fracture patterns and missed injuries
Pitfalls & misses
The findings most often missed on call
Who should attend
Radiologists who cover emergency departments — whether as a subspecialty or as part of a general practice taking call. Also relevant to residents and fellows preparing for independent overnight responsibility, and to radiologic technologists working in emergency and trauma settings, who attend for ARRT CE credit.
Learning objectives
Learning Objectives subject to change
The objectives below are subject to change. Session-level objectives are authored by the presenting faculty and reviewed by the accrediting provider before publication.
On completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Apply a systematic, region-specific search pattern to emergency CT of the head and neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis, and musculoskeletal system.
- Apply current grading and classification systems that drive management decisions, including the AAST organ injury scales and the 2025 renal update, Biffl grading for blunt cerebrovascular injury, Young-Burgess pelvic classification, and endoleak classification, and report findings in the terms the treating service uses.
- Recognize the high-consequence findings most frequently missed in each anatomic region, and describe the search behaviors that account for those misses.
- Interpret imaging in the postoperative and post-intervention patient, distinguishing expected altered anatomy from complication.
- Integrate imaging findings with damage-control surgical management in penetrating and blunt abdominal trauma.
- Evaluate acute arterial pathology outside the trauma setting, including the acute aorta, pulmonary embolism, cerebral emboli, and the acute limb on CT angiography.
- Select and interpret advanced techniques, including dual-energy CT and contrast-enhanced ultrasound, in acute presentations where they change management.
- Appraise artificial-intelligence tools encountered in the emergency imaging workflow, including their failure modes and the governance questions a practice should ask before deployment.
Program
Four mornings, 18–21 March 2027. Each day starts with breakfast at 7:30 am and finishes at 12:15 pm, with question-and-answer blocks built in mid-morning and at the close — so the afternoons stay clear.
Agenda subject to change
16.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. The full statement is under Accreditation.
Day 1 · Thursday 18 March — Neuro, head & neck, and spine trauma
Day 2 · Friday 19 March — Thoracic emergencies
Day 3 · Saturday 20 March — Abdominal and genitourinary emergencies
Day 4 · Sunday 21 March — Musculoskeletal emergencies
Who is teaching it
Course Directors Dr. Daniela Galan and Dr. Leandro Singerman lead a faculty of seven. Dr. Felipe Munera, Dr. Fabio Paes, Dr. Eduardo Moya and Dr. Etan Dayan join them from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and Dr. Carlos Torres, a neuroradiologist at the University of Ottawa, teaches most of Day 1. Every session is assigned, and the presenter is shown beside each one above. Each day closes with an all-faculty panel working from cases attendees submit in advance.
Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of International Institute for Continuing Medical Education and Altus Collective. International Institute for Continuing Medical Education is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
International Institute for Continuing Medical Education designates the live format for this educational activity for a maximum of 16.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Live activity date: March 18 – 21, 2027
Other Healthcare Professionals
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME. Visit the ANCC’s website for more information.
Different state boards of pharmacy have different requirements for continuing education. Some accept CME credit, while others accept only ACPE-approved CPE (continuing pharmacy education) credit. Please refer to your state board of pharmacy to find out if CME is accepted.
Please note that all final decisions about credit hour acceptance will be made by the licensing organization to which the credit hours are submitted.
NCCPA accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society.
Faculty
Course Director
Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dual fellowship-trained in Emergency and Trauma Radiology and in Body and Oncologic Imaging at the University of Miami / Jackson Memorial Hospital. Her interests center on the imaging of critically ill and injured patients: vascular, abdominal and pelvic trauma, whole-body CT, oncologic emergencies, and imaging strategy for time-sensitive diagnoses. An active educator and invited speaker at the annual meetings of ASER and ARRS.
Course Director
Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and an emergency and trauma radiologist at Jackson Memorial Hospital and the Ryder Trauma Center. He began his career in Argentina, training first in orthopedics and trauma before moving to radiology, and completed fellowships in Abdominal Imaging, Cardiothoracic Imaging, and Emergency and Trauma Radiology in the United States. He teaches from real cases, connecting subtle findings directly to clinical decision-making.
Senior Advisor
Professor of Radiology; Division Director, Emergency and Trauma Radiology; Vice Chair for Strategy and Expansion, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. An internationally recognized expert in emergency, critical care and trauma imaging, and ARRS Ambassador for Spain. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, contributed to the editorial boards of Radiology and RadioGraphics, and directed the 2024 RSNA Spotlight Course on Emergency Radiology in Santiago and the 2025 ARRS Categorical Course on Emergency Radiology.
Faculty
Full Professor and Vice Chair of Research, and CME Director, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine. A diagnostic neuroradiologist at The Ottawa Hospital with expertise in vascular disease, demyelinating disorders, spine imaging and neuro-oncology. President-Elect of the Eastern Neuroradiological Society, First Past President of the Ibero-Latin American Society of Neuroradiology, and a member of the Executive Committee of the American Society of Spine Radiology. He has delivered more than 500 invited lectures across 45 countries and authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and 24 book chapters. RSNA Honored Educator; Order of Merit from the Government of Colombia; Fellow of the Canadian Association of Radiologists.
Faculty
Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology; Vice Chair for Quality, Patient Safety and Compliance, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Medical degree from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil; residency in Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the University of Miami / Jackson Memorial Hospital; MBA in Healthcare Administration from Florida International University. He joined the Emergency and Trauma Imaging Division in 2016. His research covers the utilization and appropriateness of imaging in emergency care, acute trauma imaging, and the application of AI algorithms to the detection and quantification of traumatic findings.
Faculty
Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He joined the University of Miami in 2023 after completing four subspecialty fellowships at Jackson Memorial Hospital — body imaging, cancer imaging, emergency and trauma radiology, and nuclear medicine — following earlier training in Costa Rica and Spain. He practiced for more than a decade in Costa Rica, at Hospital México with the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social and at Hospital CIMA San José among others. Member of RSNA, ARRS and the Society of Abdominal Radiology.
Faculty
Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology, University of Miami. Board-certified, with expertise in musculoskeletal imaging and intervention, combining diagnostic imaging with image-guided procedures. Medical degree from SUNY Downstate with Alpha Omega Alpha honors and the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award; residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was Chief Resident; fellowship in Musculoskeletal Imaging and Intervention at Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as an on-site imaging consultant at the 2020 and 2022 US Open.
Both course directors trained in Latin America — Dr. Galan in Venezuela, Dr. Singerman in Argentina — before joining the trauma service in Miami. For a program in Mexico City drawing attendees from across the region, that means faculty who can teach and take questions in both languages.
Mexico City & the venue
Four days at the Grand Fiesta Americana Chapultepec, structured so the time away produces a measurable return on a schedule that has none to spare.
The Grand Fiesta Americana Chapultepec, on the edge of the Bosque de Chapultepec and a Forbes Travel Guide award recipient. Rooms in the program block are $195 per night plus local taxes. The block covers 14–22 March 2027 and is sized for both March Mexico City programs, so one booking works whether you are attending one or both. Booking instructions are published closer to the event.
Afternoons in Mexico City
Sessions end at 12:15, and the afternoon is yours. Four optional activities run alongside the program, one each afternoon, chosen so that a few days in Mexico City can take in the city's great park, its colonial and Mexica core, the largest ancient city in the Americas, and a round of golf — without ever competing with the academic sessions. All are optional and carry their own costs, separate from conference registration.
Chapultepec Castle — the only castle in the Americas to have housed reigning sovereigns.
© ProtoplasmaKid / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
The National Museum of Anthropology — “El Paraguas” in the courtyard.
© Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0
The lake in the first section of the Bosque de Chapultepec.
© Bohao Zhao, CC BY 3.0
The Zócalo — laid directly over the ceremonial center of Tenochtitlán.
© ProtoplasmaKid / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Templo Mayor — the Mexica great temple, excavated alongside the colonial city.
© José Luiz, CC BY-SA 4.0
Catedral Metropolitana — two and a half centuries of building on a sinking lakebed.
© ProtoplasmaKid / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Torre Latinoamericana — 45 stories, and an open deck on the 44th.
© Thomas Ledl, CC BY-SA 4.0
Teotihuacán — the Pyramid of the Sun and the Avenue of the Dead.
© Arian Zwegers, CC BY 2.0
Photographs, Wikimedia Commons: Chapultepec Castle, Zócalo and Catedral Metropolitana © ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 4.0 · National Museum of Anthropology, Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Bosque de Chapultepec, Bohao Zhao, CC BY 3.0 · Templo Mayor, José Luiz, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Torre Latinoamericana, Thomas Ledl, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Teotihuacán, Arian Zwegers, CC BY 2.0. El Copal Club de Golf is not pictured.
Sessions end at 12:15, and an optional afternoon program runs every day. Groups leave the hotel at 1:30 pm, after the final session and lunch, so nothing competes with the academic sessions. Join all four, one, or none — guests and family are welcome on every activity.
Thursday 18 March — Bosque de Chapultepec. The castle on its hill, or the National Museum of Anthropology at the foot of the same park. Ten minutes on foot from the hotel. Back by 5:45 pm.
Friday 19 March — Teotihuacán. A four-kilometer processional axis on a grid 1,600 years old, 50 km northeast of the city. The coach tours clear after three, so a late arrival gets the site in low light. Back by 6:45 pm.
Saturday 20 March — Centro Histórico. The Zócalo, Templo Mayor and the cathedral, finishing on the Torre Latinoamericana deck at sunset. Back by 7:45 pm.
Sunday 21 March — El Copal. Nine holes, par 70, on the northern edge of the city. The practice range and clubhouse are open to non-players. Back by 5:30 pm.
Participation is optional and à la carte, at additional cost: join one, join several, or none, and guests and family members are welcome on every activity. Coach groups depart from the hotel entrance; walking groups leave from the lobby.
The afternoon program is not included in the $1,595 conference registration, which covers the academic program, credit and your 12-month Collective Membership. Each activity is priced separately and paid by the attendee, and guests and family members pay the same rates. The three ticketed sites come to roughly 520 MXN in total — about US$28 at August 2026 rates — plus the Torre Latinoamericana ticket and any cathedral donation. Golf is separate and higher once the green fee, cart and caddie are counted. Budget for pesos in cash: card acceptance at museum gates is inconsistent.
Park, castle & national museum · moderate walking
A forest with an empire’s worth of history stacked inside. The hill was a Mexica retreat before it was a military academy, and the castle at the top is the only one in the Americas to have housed reigning sovereigns — Maximilian and Carlota, whose apartments still hold their furniture. From the ramparts the whole valley and the Paseo de la Reforma line up in one view. At the foot of the same park, the National Museum of Anthropology holds the Sun Stone, the Olmec heads and the Maya jades. The two are an either-or, not an add-on.
Moderate walking, 2–3 km, including a 15-minute climb to the castle (a tram runs the hill for 15–20 MXN). Castle 210 MXN or museum 95 MXN. Last castle entry is 4:30 pm and no bags are allowed inside — free lockers sit at the base of the hill.
The castle and the Anthropology Museum are both closed on Mondays. The castle sits on an exposed hilltop and can close for lightning, in which case the museum is the wet-weather substitution.
Full excursion outside the city · demanding walking
The largest city in the Americas long before the Mexica arrived — and large enough that they treated the ruins as sacred ground and gave the place the name we still use, “where the gods were created.” Who built it remains unsettled. What survives is the scale: a four-kilometer axis with the Pyramid of the Sun on one flank, the Pyramid of the Moon closing the north end, and the Temple of the Feathered Serpent at the south, laid out on a grid roughly 1,600 years old.
The longest option and the only one that leaves the city: 50 km northeast, 60–90 minutes each way. Demanding walking — a 4 km axis with no shade and full sun at 2,300 m. 210 MXN for foreign visitors, 105 MXN for Mexican nationals. An afternoon allows one coherent route rather than the whole city.
Open every day, including holidays, and the site closes at 5:00 pm. Climbing the pyramids has been permanently prohibited since 2024 for conservation reasons — the staircases are viewed from the ground.
Four landmarks on foot · easy to moderate walking
The densest option and the most compact: four landmarks and three civilizations, all within a few blocks. The Templo Mayor — the Mexica great temple, buried under the colonial city and only rediscovered in 1978 when electrical workers struck the Coyolxauhqui monolith. The Catedral Metropolitana, built over two and a half centuries on the sinking lakebed, where the tilt in the floor is the same subsidence the city still fights. And the 44th-floor deck of the Torre Latinoamericana, which rode out the 1985 earthquake intact when newer buildings did not.
Easy to moderate walking, about 2 km. Templo Mayor 100 MXN; the cathedral is free with a 20–50 MXN donation; the tower is ticketed on site. Smart casual — the cathedral enforces no shorts and no sleeveless tops.
Templo Mayor is closed Mondays and closes at 5:00 pm; the tower stays open to 10:00 pm. This walk runs on Saturday, when the historic center is busier than midweek, and is kept off Sunday because 21 March is Palm Sunday and the walk centers on the cathedral. Worth doing in order — ruins, then cathedral, then tower, so the tower catches the late light.
Nine holes · 30–45 minutes from the center
A nine-hole, par-70 layout on the northern edge of the metropolitan area — close enough to reach after a closing session, long enough at just under 6,000 yards to be a real round, and open to visiting players without a member sponsor. Caddies are available and worth taking; the greens read differently than they look. For anyone who does not play, the practice range and the clubhouse restaurant are open to the group.
Juan Ixhuatepec, Tlalnepantla. Nine holes, par 70, 5,982 yards from the white tees and 4,876 from the red, Bermuda greens and Kikuyu fairways. Nine holes plays in about two hours against a 4:30 pm course close. Collared shirt and golf shoes.
Green fees depend on the day and the tee time: 800–1,200 MXN on a weekday, 1,550 MXN at weekends and on holidays, with an afternoon start priced above the standard weekday nine-hole rate. Cart 450 MXN, caddie 300–450 MXN. A negotiated group rate is part of the booking conversation.
Altitude. The city sits at roughly 2,240 m (7,350 ft). Expect to feel the first day’s walking more than you would at home: drink more water than usual, go easy on alcohol the first evening, and pace the uphill sections. Sun and rain in one afternoon. Afternoons run bright and hot until a short, heavy shower arrives; sunscreen, a hat and a packable rain shell cover both. Cash. Admissions, the Chapultepec tram, cathedral donations, caddies and tips are simplest in pesos — card acceptance at museum gates is inconsistent. Shoes. Every activity except golf involves 2–5 km on uneven stone, cobble or volcanic rock. Closed walking shoes, not sandals. Holy Week. Sunday 21 March 2027, the final day of the program, is Palm Sunday, and Holy Week runs from 21 to 28 March. Domestic travel and hotel demand across Mexico rise sharply that week. If you plan to extend your stay beyond the room block, book early.
These activities are social and recreational. They carry no CME credit, sit entirely outside the certified education, and are not funded by commercial support. Each is scheduled strictly after the day’s final session, which keeps that separation clean.
The booking arrangements. Peso amounts are the rates published in August 2026 and are reconfirmed before registration opens. Also to come: whether these fees are collected with registration or paid on site, group transport and bilingual guides for Teotihuacán and the Templo Mayor, and an accessible alternative for each activity — the castle hill, the Teotihuacán axis and the Templo Mayor walkways are all difficult for attendees with limited mobility.
Program sponsors
Program sponsors for Emergency Department Radiology are confirmed closer to the event and acknowledged here.
Attending both March programs?
It ends the day before this program begins, at the Grand Fiesta Americana Chapultepec. One flight, one hotel booking, one set of travel approvals, two subspecialties. Your Collective Membership covers recorded access to both either way.
Common questions
Live attendance at Emergency Department Radiology with full credit, plus a 12-month Altus Radiology Collective Membership — recorded access to every other 2027 conference, the digital library, community features, and credit tracking.
No. It’s built for anyone who reads emergency studies, including general radiologists who take ED call as part of a broader practice. The case-based format works at both levels because the discussion adapts to the room.
Yes. Physician CME is approved and ARRT Category A continuing education is anticipated for this program, so radiologists and the technologists they work with can attend together and each claim the credit that applies to their role.
Sessions are delivered in English. Both course directors are fluent Spanish speakers and are available for discussion in either language throughout the program.
16.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for the four-day program — four credited hours on each of the four mornings. ARRT Category A continuing education is anticipated alongside physician CME. The full statement is under Accreditation on this page.
Registration invoices as accredited continuing education conference registration — the category most hospital CME offices already recognize. Institutional travel approval typically needs about six months of lead time, so for a March 2027 program that conversation belongs in autumn 2026.
The All-Access Pass gives you the same 12-month membership and recorded access to all six 2027 programs without live attendance.
Yes. Sessions end at 12:15, and an optional activity runs every afternoon — Bosque de Chapultepec on Thursday, Teotihuacán on Friday, the Centro Histórico on Saturday, and nine holes at El Copal on Sunday. Nothing departs before 1:30 pm, so no activity competes with the academic sessions. Participation is optional and à la carte, and guests and family are welcome. These activities are social, carry no CME credit, and are not included in the $1,595 registration — each is priced separately and paid by the attendee. See Afternoons in Mexico City.
Faculty, topics and times are subject to change.
March 18–21, 2027 · Mexico City
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- 12-month Collective Membership
- Access to all six 2027 programs
- Digital library & community
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