Program Outline

The Scientific Organising Committee is creating an innovative and unique program tailored to the needs of the ultrasound industry, medical users and scientist members. WFUMB 2009 in Sydney will be unique in that it will emphasize a wide range of opportunities from hands-on training at entry-level to specialist medical point-of-care procedures, such as Emergency Room and nerve block Anaesthetic monitoring. The program will also offer sessions on leading-edge technological developments, particularly in small portable scanning devices.

The WFUMB 2009 Organising Committee will prepare optimal programs and skills development workshops in all aspects of ultrasound imaging. The intention of the program will be to highlight the growth of the industry and emerging techniques.

As a fundamental aim of the WFUMB, this Congress is committed to providing assistance for education in the developing world, thereby helping to develop wider markets for the application of diagnostic ultrasound in medicine.

Some of the exciting program topics we hope to include are:

• Point of care
• cutting edge ultrasound practice and technology
• safety and quality assurance, medico-legal issues
• 3D and 4D ultrasound
• echocardiography
• ultrasound contrast
• therapeutic applications
• hands-on workshops and live-demonstration sessions
• pediatrics
• obstetrics and gynecology
• musculoskeletal
• emergency room and veterinary and other non-medical applications of ultrasound

Delegates will have ample opportunity to meet with exhibitors who will be displaying their new, innovative and technical diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, supplies and services.

Speakers

• Professor Anil T. Ahuja, Hong Kong
• Dr Beryl Benacerraf, USA
• Professor Peter Burns, Canada
• Professor David Cosgrove, United Kingdom
• Professor Giovanni Cerri, Brasil
• Dr Cheng-Wen Chiang, Taiwan
• Dr Byung Ihn Choi, South Korea
• Dr Michel Claudon, France
• Professor Joshua Copel, USA
• Professor Dr Christoph Dietrich, Germany
• Dr Mohamed El Fortia, Libya
• Professor David Evans, United Kingdom
• Dr Leandro Fernandez, Venezuela
• Dr Flemming Forsberg, USA
• Professor Morimichi Fukuda, Japan
• Professor Robert Gibson, Australia
• Professor Dr Odd Helge Gilja, Norway
• Professor Hassen Gharbi, Tunisia
• Dr Barry Goldberg, USA
• Dr Steven Goldstein, USA
• Professor Dr Norbert Gritzmann
• Dr Christy Holland, USA
• Mrs Janine Horton, Australia
• Dr Philippe Jeanty, USA
• Dr Michael Kawooya, Uganda
• Dr Seung Hyup Kim, South Korea
• Professor Masatoshi Kudo, Japan
• Dr George Kossoff AO, Australia
• Professor Ted Lyons, Canada
• Dr Daniel Makes, Indonesia
• Dr Carlo Martinoli, Italy
• Dr Hernan Muñoz, Chile
• Professor Michael Bachmann Nielsen, Denmark
• Dr Philip Njemanze, Nigeria
• Dr Christian Nolsøe, Denmark
• Dr Lawrence Platt, USA
• Professor Joseph Polak, USA
• Dr Jonathan Rubin, USA
• Dr Pedro Unshelm, Spain
• Professor Chander Vanjani, India
• Dr Marcos Antonio Velasco, Mexico
• Professor Hiroki Watanabe, Japan
• Dr Gary Whitman, USA

Professor Anil T. Ahuja

Professor Anil T. Ahuja is the Chairman of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. After obtaining his Radiology training in India (Seth G.S Medical College, K.E.M Hospital & B.Y.L Nair Hospital, Mumbai) and England, he began his academic career at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1988.

Dr. Ahuja has a keen interest in the imaging of Head and Neck diseases. His research is focused on ultrasound of neck masses, lymph nodes, thyroid, parathyroid and salivary gland tumors. His other areas of interest include Head & Neck CT, MR & Neuroradiology.

Dr. Ahuja has authored over two hundred articles in peer reviewed medical journals, frequently lectured in international conferences, held hands-on workshops and is Assistant Editor for Clinical Radiology. He has edited six books in Radiology and authored numerous book chapters.

Dr Byung Ihn Choi

Born in Korea, Dr Choi received his medical degree in 1974 from the College of Medicine at Seoul National University. After stints as a visiting radiologist and visiting professor at universities from Tokyo to Texas, he was appointed to a professorship at his alma mater in 1994.

Many of Dr Choi's opportunities to foster global alliances in ultrasound application and research have come from participation and leadership in numerous subspecialty societies.

Dr Choi previously served as president of the Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine and also was president of the organizing committee of the 11^th Congress of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. Dr Choi is currently president of the Korean Radiological Society and Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology and is currently serving as president of the 12^th Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology.

Dr Choi is a prolific researcher and educator. Among the dozens of international awards he has received are honorary fellowship from the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and honorary membership from Radiological Society of North America and Australasian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Professor David Evans

Dr Evans is Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Leicester, England, and an honorary Consultant at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. He holds a PhD from the University of Leicester, and a DSc from the University of Surrey. His principal research interests are in Doppler ultrasound, particularly applied to the cerebral circulation. He is the principle co-author of two textbooks on Doppler ultrasound and has published nearly 200 peer reviewed papers. He has served as President of the British Medical Ultrasound Society, and President of European Federation for Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB). He is currently the EFSUMB representative on the WFUMB Administative Council.

Dr Leandro Fernandez

Dr Leandro Fernandez completed his Post Graduate Internship in Cardiology and Internal Medicine in 1982 and MSc in Internal Medicine in 1986 at Universidad Central de Venezuela and has been involved with Ultrasound since 1985.

Dr Fernandez is Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Sonography at Instituto Medico La Floresta in Caracas and Professor of Physics and Clinical Applications of Doppler Ultrasound at SonoImagen-JUREI, which is affiliated to Jefferson Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA.

He has been a Keynote Speaker presenting more than 200 lectures and facilitating numerous meetings around the world. Dr Fernandez became one of pioneers of the 3-D sonography in Latin America and has been working with 3DUS since 1997 with special dedication to non-Ob/Gyn applications, focused on Abdomen, Small Parts and Vascular.

Dr Fernandez has been the recipient of important awards and recognitions such as Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and Honorary Membership from the Societies of Ultrasound of Chile, Ecuador and Peru.

Presently, Dr Fernandez is Vice President 2 of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology WFUMB, Chairman of the WFUMB Latin American Education Project and Director of the WFUMB-Venezuela Center of Excellence.

Professor Dr Christoph Dietrich

Professor Dr Christoph F. Dietrich is the chief of the medical department 2 (Caritas - Krankenhaus Bad Mergentheim, Germany). He graduated from the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH). His medical education included studies in New York, USA, Montpellier, France and Sevilla, Spain. He is specialized in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology (Fellow of the European Board of Gastroenterology) and Pneumology.

Dr Dietrich has keen interest in gastrointestinal and liver diseases (including interventional endoscopic ultrasound) and published more than 100 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals and more than 150 book contributions. He is also editor of several medical textbooks and Associate Editor of Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie. Actually he is the Honorary Secretary of EFSUMB.

Dr Mohamed El Fortia

Dr Mohamed El Fortia was born in Misurata - Libya and received his medical degree in 1980 from the College of Medicine at the University of Benghazi. He is an active member in numerous ultrasound societies in the Mediterranean and Africa and founder of Libyan Society of Ultrasound [LSUMB]. Dr El Fortia is serving as an international relations committee member of the ECR.

Professor Robert Gibson

Robert Gibson is Professor and Deputy Chairman, in the Department of Radiology at The University of Melbourne, and staff radiologist at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. His main clinical and research interests are in ultrasound and gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary radiology, both diagnostic and interventional. He led the development of a new radiology curriculum for medical students at The University of Melbourne, which forms the basis of the CD "Medical Imaging". He has been Secretary of the Australasian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine, Chairman of its Education Board, and was foundation editor of its journal. He serves on the editorial board of several international journals.

Dr Steven Goldstein

Steven R. Goldstein, MD is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Colgate University with a Baccalaureate degree in Biology. He graduated from the New York University School of Medicine in 1975 and did an internship in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas in 1975-1976. He did a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York University Affiliated Hospitals/ Bellevue Hospital Center from 1976 to 1980. In 1980 he joined the Faculty of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York University School of Medicine, rising to his current rank of Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a tenured full time academic position. However, in this capacity he maintains a half time private practice as a generalist in Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Faculty Practice suites at New York University.

His longstanding interests in Ob/Gyn ultrasound have led him to his current position as Director of Gynecologic Ultrasound at New York University Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and is currently 1^st Vice President of this National organization. He is on the Board of Trustees of the North American Menopause Society. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers having prepared the test and administered policy for the certification of over 40,000 sonographers nationwide. He is a past Chairman of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York Section. He was author of their Technical Bulletin "Ultrasound in Gynecology" as well as the author of their practice guidelines on SERMs (Selective Estrogen Receptor Moderators). He serves as the liaison physician from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology to the Women's Health Imaging Panel of the American College of Radiology. He is an examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

His pioneering work in menopausal and perimenopausal ultrasound led him into design of uterine safety studies for several Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators. In addition he is the CoDirector of the Bone Densitometry Unit at NYU Medical Center. Clinically his practice has evolved into issues of menopausal and perimenopausal medicine with particular interest in ultrasound applications both for adnexal masses and abnormal bleeding.

Dr Christy Holland

Christy K. Holland attended Wellesley College where she majored in Physics and Music. Thereafter she completed an M.S., M.Phil. and Ph.D. at Yale University in Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Holland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Colleges of Medicine and Engineering. She is a fellow of both the Acoustical Society of America and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. She assumed the editorship of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, the official Journal of WFUMB, in July 2006. Dr. Holland is actively involved in teaching biomedical engineering and medical imaging in both undergraduate and graduate curriculum. She serves as both a mentor and advisor to students within and outside of the UCBME educational programs. Christy Holland's research interests include ultrasound-enhanced thrombolysis for stroke therapy, ultrasound-mediated drug delivery, bioeffects of diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound, and acoustic cavitation.

Dr Carlo Martinoli

Carlo Martinoli was born on october 24, 1961 in Genoa - Italy, received medical degree in 1986 and became specialist in Radiology in 1889 at the University of Genoa. Staff radiologist (1989-1999) at the Department of Radiology of the University of Genoa, he became Assistant Professor of Radiology in 1999 and Associate Professor of Radiology at the same University in 2004. Since 1989, his practice involved ultrasound and imaging of the musculoskeletal system. He has held 196 lectures as invited speaker at international Courses or Congresses of Radiology. He has written or co-authored a total of 102 full papers on international medical journals (English literature) in which manuscript decisions are based on peer review. He was member of the Executive Committee (2004-2005) and Chairman for Ultrasound (2005-2007) of the "European Society of MusculoSkeletal Radiology - ESSR".

Professor Masatoshi Kudo

Dr. Masatoshi Kudo, MD, PhD is currently a Professor and Chairman at the Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Kinki University School of Medicine since 1999. He received his PhD degree in Diagnostic Radiology from Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in 1986.

Dr. Kudo is a pioneer of contrast-enhanced US for liver tumors; he published contrast-enhanced US during intraarterial carbon dioxide (CO2) microbubbles in Radiology in 1991, 8 years before commercial-based ultrasound agent, Levovist, is available in routine clinical use. This is the first clinical report of contrast-enhanced US for liver tumors in the world.

His research interest is "Contrast-enhanced US for GI diseases" and "Diagnosis and Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma." He published "Contrast-enhanced US in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Tumors" from Springer-Verlag in 2003.

He is currently serving as an executive council member and chair of International Affairs Committee of JSUM, President-Elect of AFSUMB and Vice-President 1 of WFUMB.

Dr Philip Njemanze

Prince Dr Philip C. Njemanze MD graduated in 1986 in Rostov-on-Don Russia. Postgraduate at University of Munich, University of London and Fellowship in Neurosonology at Bowman Gray School of Medicine NC, USA; research associate St Louis University, St Louis MO. Pioneering research in TCD ultrasound applications in functional transcranial Doppler (Brain & Language 1991;41:367-380); cerebral hemodynamics (Stroke 1991;22:721-726;); syncope (Aviat Space and Environ Med. 1991; 62:569-72; Can J Cardiology 1993,9:238-242; Stroke 1992; 23:1743-1747). Dr Njemanze was a National Aeronautic and Space Administration Investigator on NASA Neurolab Project to Study the Brain in Space. He pioneered the use of TCD in Space simulation studies (Aviat Space Environ Med 2004,75:800-805; and Journal of Gravitational Physiology 2005,12:33-41). In 2007, he and his coworkers were first to introduce high frequency ultrasound duodenography and colonography for imaging in parasitology published in J Gastrol Hepatol. Dr Njemanze has published over 120 papers and holds two dozen United States ultrasound patents including functional transcranial Doppler Spectroscopy (Laterality 2007;12:31-49).

Dr Christian Nolsøe

Christian Nolsøe is the President-Elect of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) and the Past President of the Danish Society of Diagnostic Ultrasound (DSDU). He was the honorary secretary of the 6^th WFUMB world congress in Copenhagen, Denmark 1991. He is a radiologist with subspecialty in ultrasound and a PhD in image guided tissue ablation. He is head of Ultrasound Division at Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Køge Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His fields of interest include interventional and surgical US, Doppler, tissue ablation, US contrast, musculoskeletal US, 3D and new techniques. He is proudly honorary member of ASUM since 2006.

He is married on the 28^th year to Hanne, who is a pediatric nurse and together, they have 3 children. He inveterately enjoys all kind of sports fishing and soccer.

Dr George Kossoff

George Kossoff started research into medical ultrasound in 1959. In 1969 he attended the first WFUMB Congress held in Vienna and was elected there member of a committee set up to write the Federation's Constitution. He was President of WFUMB from 1982-1985, and of the WFUMB 85 Congress held in Sydney in 1985. He is also Foundation President of ASUM which was established in 1969.

As Foundation Director of the Ultrasonics Institute, George Kossoff led a team of thirty scientists who undertook research and liaised with academia and industry to provide services into diagnostic, surgical and biological ultrasound. This research was undertaken in collaboration with a number of medical specialists and hospitals in Sydney. His achievements include development of grey scale echography, advances in transducer design and pioneering imaging of soft tissue detail particularly in obstetrics and of the breast. In 1999 the Australian Government elected him Officer of the Order of Australia.

Dr Seung Hyup Kim

Dr Kim attended the Seoul National University; He received his medical degree in 1979, his master degree in 1982, and his PhD in 1988. He completed his internship and residency at the Seoul National University Hospital, where he is a board-certified radiologist. In 1987, he became an instructor in radiology at the Seoul National University, spent 1 year as visiting radiologist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and advanced through the academic standings to become a professor of radiology and a professor of urology.

Dr Kim was the secretary general of the 11^th WFUMB held in Seoul in 2006. Dr Kim currently is the chair of the Board of Directors, Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine, and is also the councilor and treasurer of the Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology.

Dr Kim is the editor of two books on genitourinary radiology and has more than 280 publications.

Professor Michael Bachmann Nielsen

Michael Bachmann Nielsen is Professor in Radiology at the Danish National University Hospital (Rigshospitalet) in Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds a PhD and a DMSc from the Faculty of Health Science at the University of Copenhagen.

Michael has served as President of the Danish Society of Diagnostic Ultrasound and is currently the Chairman of EFSUMB´s Publication Committee, Editor of EFSUMB Newsletter, Delegate to EFSUMB Board of Directors and Editor of Ultraschall in der Medicine/European Journal of Ultrasound.He is also Chairman of the Scientific Committee for EUROSON 2010, to be held in Copenhagen 21-25 August 2010.

Michael is also currently the President of the Danish Society of Radiology, and President of the Nordic Society of Medical Radiology.

His research is focussed on clinical aspects of new technologies in ultrasound (image fusion, 3D, contrast agents, vector Doppler techniques) and musculoskeletal ultrasound.

Professor Joseph Polak

Dr Polak is a Professor of Radiology at Tufts University School, Director of the Ultrasound Reading Center, Vice-Chair of Radiology at Tufts Medical Center and Chief of Radiology at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Boston. He is a graduate of McGill School of Medicine (MDCM) and of the Harvard School of Public Health (MPH). He has co-authored more than 200 peer review articles, more than 80 various articles and chapters as well written a textbook in Doppler ultrasound peripheral vascular imaging. He has done original research in the use of color Doppler for peripheral vascular and carotid artery diagnosis. He has used ultrasound to develop carotid IMT as a phenotypic marker of atherosclerosis that can be used to study the effects of risk factors such as cholesterol and blood pressure. He is currently collaborating in efforts at linking IMT to genomics and to develop IMT as a clinical tool.

Professor Chander Vanjani

Professor Chander Vanjani is Senior Cardiologist and Director of Echocardiography and Vascular Lab at P. D. Hinduja hospital and Medical Research Centre at Bombay, India. Apart from emergency echo work, he has special interest in evaluation for cardiac source of emboli in young patients with stroke, Diastolic function of heart, Valvular heart disease and timing of surgery and Cardiac haemodynamics. He has special interest in carotid examination for progression and regression of Atherosclerosis.

He has lectured at many National and International Ultrasound meetings and contributed to many monograms on the subject. He is active at International Ultrasound educational meetings and workshops.

He is recipient of Pioneer Award of WFUMB and AIUM for pioneering work in promoting Ultrasound in India. He is past president of Indian federation of Ultrasound in Medicine (IFUMB) and Founder Dean of Indian College of Medical Ultrasound. He is cardiac editor of Indian Journal of Medical Ultrasound. He is currently Vice president of Asian Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (AFSUMB) and Chairman of next AFSUMB conference in India in 2010.

Dr Gary Whitman

Dr Gary J. Whitman is an Associate Professor of Radiology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, where he serves as medical director of the mobile mammography program.

Dr Whitman is an experienced breast imager with special expertise in breast sonography and has written and lectured extensively on all components of breast ultrasound. Dr Whitman has been an AIUM member for nearly 20 years, and he has been active in the AIUM program, continuing medical education, regional course, executive, and finance committees.