The global social media response to the 14th annual Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography scientific sessions

Andrew D Choi; Purvi Parwani; Erin D Michos; James Lee; Vasvi Singh; Emilio Fentanes; Juan Lopez-Mattei; Martha Gulati; Khurram Nasir; Koen Nieman; Leslee J Shaw; Ron Blankstein

doi:10.1016/j.jcct.2019.12.003

The global social media response to the 14th annual Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography scientific sessions

J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr. 2020 Mar-Apr;14(2):124-130. doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2019.12.003. Epub 2019 Dec 6.

Authors

Andrew D Choi¹, Purvi Parwani², Erin D Michos³, James Lee⁴, Vasvi Singh⁵, Emilio Fentanes⁶, Juan Lopez-Mattei⁷, Martha Gulati⁸, Khurram Nasir⁹, Koen Nieman¹⁰, Leslee J Shaw¹¹, Ron Blankstein⁵

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology and Department of Radiology, The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA, USA.
³ Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Center for Structural Heart Disease, Henry Ford Heart and Vascular Institute, Detroit, MI, USA.
⁵ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁶ Department of Cardiology, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, USA.
⁷ Department of Cardiology and Department of Thoracic Imaging, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
⁸ Division of Cardiology, University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
⁹ Houston Methodist Debakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, TX, USA; Center for Outcomes Research, Houston Methodist, Houston, TX, USA.
¹⁰ Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
¹¹ Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA.

PMID: 31843522
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2019.12.003

Abstract

The 2019 Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) was perhaps the most impactful meeting in recent memory for the field of cardiovascular CT. Beyond just being the highest attended ASM meeting in the society's history, the virtual impact of the meeting extended farther than ever before due to coordinated social media coverage and participation. As a result, the ASM reinforced the fact that the educational paradigm and audience of scientific meetings has changed. Bound through the hashtag #SCCT2019, social media allowed the research, education, networking and trends from this year's ASM to extend beyond the walls of the meeting with a record setting level of digital global reach. Using posts from Twitter as a prism of interests and response of the global cardiovascular CT community, this article presents the topics with the highest social media engagement from the 14th ASM.

Keywords: Cardiology; Computed tomography; Coronary artery disease; Radiology; Social media; TAVR.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Cardiovascular Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
Congresses as Topic
Diffusion of Innovation
Humans
Information Dissemination*
Predictive Value of Tests
Scholarly Communication / trends*
Social Media / trends*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / trends*