Learning Cardiac CT A Board Review Book © 2025 – Authors: Justin Sharim , Matthew Budoff

This compact educational book provides a succinct review of the use of CT to investigate heart disease for those taking their Cardiac CT Boards. CT is an increasingly used imaging modality in cardiology with increasing numbers of patients undergoing the modality to diagnose coronary artery disease, and more practitioners (cardiologists, radiologists, and physicians-in-training, including cardiology and advanced imaging fellows) taking the Cardiac CT Board exam.

Learning Cardiac CT: A Board Review provides a structured didactic review book targeting the Cardiac CT board exam. As such it will be of vital use to anyone taking their Cardiac CT Boards or looking for a practical and compact review of the use of CT in investigating cardiac disease.

Dr. Justin Sharim is a Cardiologist at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He completed his fellowship training in Cardiology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He pursued his undergraduate and medical degree at UCLA and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He has published extensively within Cardiology, and focuses particularly in Cardiac CT and atherosclerotic mechanisms. As a physician, he emphasizes the importance of both evidence-based therapies and prevention with his patients. An accomplished educator and physician, he has received accolades and numerous awards for his teaching.

Dr. Matthew Budoff is a Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Director of Cardiac CT at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA. Dr. Budoff has conducted extensive research over the last 15 years using electron beam CT and multi-detector CT to identify those patients at high-risk for cardiac events, progression of coronary calcium, and non-invasive CT angiography. He is the Vice President of the Society of Atherosclerosis Imaging (SAI) and a founding Board Member of the Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT). Previously, he served as chair of the ACC/AHA Competency document for cardiac CT and MR; the COCATS 2–CT Section (ACC training for fellows); as well as the AHA Scientific Statement on Cardiac CT.