diff --git a/Packages/ohif-measurements/client/conformance/ConformanceCriteria.js b/Packages/ohif-measurements/client/conformance/ConformanceCriteria.js
index fedd10957..9ca9989bd 100644
--- a/Packages/ohif-measurements/client/conformance/ConformanceCriteria.js
+++ b/Packages/ohif-measurements/client/conformance/ConformanceCriteria.js
@@ -163,10 +163,7 @@ class ConformanceCriteria {
 
                     const promise = OHIF.studylist.retrieveStudyMetadata(studyInstanceUid);
                     promise.then(study => {
-                        let studyMetadata = study;
-                        if (!(study instanceof OHIF.viewerbase.metadata.StudyMetadata)) {
-                            studyMetadata = new OHIF.metadata.StudyMetadata(study, study.studyInstanceUid);
-                        }
+                        const studyMetadata = OHIF.viewerbase.getStudyMetadata(study);
 
                         data[measurementType].push({
                             measurement,
diff --git a/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/components/viewer/studyTimepointBrowser/studyTimepointStudy.html b/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/components/viewer/studyTimepointBrowser/studyTimepointStudy.html
index 0bd75204a..56dfa4575 100644
--- a/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/components/viewer/studyTimepointBrowser/studyTimepointStudy.html
+++ b/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/components/viewer/studyTimepointBrowser/studyTimepointStudy.html
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
                 <div class="studyModality">
                     <div class="studyModalityBox">
                         <div class="studyModalityText" style="{{modalityStyle}}">
-                            {{#if this.study.modalities}}
+                            {{#if instance.modalities}}
                                 {{modalities}}
                             {{else}}
                                 UN
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
                         </div>
                     </div>
                     <div class="studyText">
-                        <div class="studyDate">{{formatDA this.study.studyDate 'D-MMM-YYYY'}}</div>
-                        <div class="studyDescription">{{this.study.studyDescription}}</div>
+                        <div class="studyDate">{{formatDA instance.studyDate 'D-MMM-YYYY'}}</div>
+                        <div class="studyDescription">{{instance.studyDescription}}</div>
                     </div>
                 </div>
             </div>
diff --git a/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/components/viewer/studyTimepointBrowser/studyTimepointStudy.js b/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/components/viewer/studyTimepointBrowser/studyTimepointStudy.js
index 35ff98a3e..701e81408 100644
--- a/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/components/viewer/studyTimepointBrowser/studyTimepointStudy.js
+++ b/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/components/viewer/studyTimepointBrowser/studyTimepointStudy.js
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ Template.studyTimepointStudy.onCreated(() => {
 
     instance.loading = new ReactiveVar(false);
 
+    const studyMetadata = OHIF.viewerbase.getStudyMetadata(instance.data.study);
+    const firstInstance = studyMetadata.getFirstInstance();
+    if (firstInstance) {
+        instance.modalities = firstInstance.getRawValue('x00080060');
+        instance.studyDescription = firstInstance.getRawValue('x00081030');
+        instance.studyDate = firstInstance.getRawValue('x00080020');
+    }
+
     // Get the current study element
     instance.getStudyElement = (isGlobal=false) => {
         const studyInstanceUid = instance.data.study.studyInstanceUid;
@@ -144,7 +152,7 @@ Template.studyTimepointStudy.helpers({
 
     modalities() {
         const instance = Template.instance();
-        let modalities = instance.data.study.modalities;
+        const modalities = instance.modalities || 'UN';
 
         // Replace backslashes with spaces
         return modalities.replace(/\\/g, ' ');
@@ -154,20 +162,18 @@ Template.studyTimepointStudy.helpers({
         // Responsively styles the Modality Acronyms for studies
         // with more than one modality
         const instance = Template.instance();
-        const modalities = instance.data.study.modalities || 'UN';
+        const modalities = instance.modalities || 'UN';
         const numModalities = modalities.split(/\\/g).length;
 
         if (numModalities === 1) {
-            // If we have only one modality, it should take up the whole
-            // div.
+            // If we have only one modality, it should take up the whole div.
             return 'font-size: 1vw';
         } else if (numModalities === 2) {
             // If we have two, let them sit side-by-side
             return 'font-size: 0.75vw';
         } else {
-            // If we have more than two modalities, change the line
-            // height to display multiple rows, depending on the number
-            // of modalities we need to display.
+            // If we have more than two modalities, change the line height to display multiple rows,
+            // depending on the number of modalities we need to display.
             const lineHeight = Math.ceil(numModalities / 2) * 1.2;
             return 'line-height: ' + lineHeight + 'vh';
         }
diff --git a/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/index.js b/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/index.js
index c58655b72..3b75c1baf 100644
--- a/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/index.js
+++ b/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/index.js
@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ Viewerbase.setInstanceClassDefaultViewportFunction = setInstanceClassDefaultView
 import { displayReferenceLines } from './lib/displayReferenceLines';
 Viewerbase.displayReferenceLines = displayReferenceLines;
 
+// getStudyMetadata
+import { getStudyMetadata } from './lib/getStudyMetadata';
+Viewerbase.getStudyMetadata = getStudyMetadata;
+
 /**
  * Exported Namespaces (sub-namespaces)
  */
diff --git a/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/lib/classes/StudyPrefetcher.js b/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/lib/classes/StudyPrefetcher.js
index f48ad537f..8bdb27fde 100644
--- a/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/lib/classes/StudyPrefetcher.js
+++ b/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/lib/classes/StudyPrefetcher.js
@@ -167,11 +167,9 @@ export class StudyPrefetcher {
 
     getSeries(study, image) {
         const seriesMetadata = cornerstoneTools.metaData.get('series', image.imageId);
-        if (!(study instanceof OHIF.viewerbase.metadata.StudyMetadata)) {
-            study = new OHIF.metadata.StudyMetadata(study, study.studyInstanceUid);
-        }
+        const studyMetadata = OHIF.viewerbase.getStudyMetadata(study);
 
-        return study.getSeriesByUID(seriesMetadata.seriesInstanceUid);
+        return studyMetadata.getSeriesByUID(seriesMetadata.seriesInstanceUid);
     }
 
     getInstance(series, image) {
diff --git a/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/lib/getImageIdForImagePath.js b/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/lib/getImageIdForImagePath.js
index ffb97f963..4c02c7cbd 100644
--- a/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/lib/getImageIdForImagePath.js
+++ b/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/lib/getImageIdForImagePath.js
@@ -9,12 +9,9 @@ import { OHIF } from 'meteor/ohif:core';
 
 export const getImageIdForImagePath = (imagePath, thumbnail=false) => {
     const [studyInstanceUid, seriesInstanceUid, sopInstanceUid, frameIndex] = imagePath.split('_');
-    let study = OHIF.viewer.Studies.findBy({ studyInstanceUid });
-    if (!(study instanceof OHIF.viewerbase.metadata.StudyMetadata)) {
-        study = new OHIF.metadata.StudyMetadata(study, study.studyInstanceUid);
-    }
-
-    const series = study.getSeriesByUID(seriesInstanceUid);
+    const study = OHIF.viewer.Studies.findBy({ studyInstanceUid });
+    const studyMetadata = OHIF.viewerbase.getStudyMetadata(study);
+    const series = studyMetadata.getSeriesByUID(seriesInstanceUid);
     const instance = series.getInstanceByUID(sopInstanceUid);
     const imageId = OHIF.viewerbase.getImageId(instance, frameIndex, thumbnail);
     return imageId;
diff --git a/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/lib/getStudyMetadata.js b/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/lib/getStudyMetadata.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5419bc179
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Packages/ohif-viewerbase/client/lib/getStudyMetadata.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import { OHIF } from 'meteor/ohif:core';
+
+const getStudyMetadata = study => {
+    let studyMetadata = study;
+    if (study && !(studyMetadata instanceof OHIF.viewerbase.metadata.StudyMetadata)) {
+        studyMetadata = new OHIF.metadata.StudyMetadata(study, study.studyInstanceUid);
+    }
+
+    return studyMetadata;
+};
+
+export { getStudyMetadata };