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Speakers

Dr Jason Abbott, Royal Hospital for Women, Australia

Dr Jason Abbott is currently a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales and senior clinician and stream leader of the Department of Gynaecology, Royal Hospital for Women. He completed his PhD in 2003 and has published in many areas of benign gynaecology with diverse research interests including endometriosis, pelvic pain, quality of life following hysterectomy, Asherman's syndrome, health economics and ultrasound in women's health. Dr Abbott has published 55 peer reviewed papers and continues to research and teach in the area of gynaecological surgery. He is the Chairman of NSW RANZCOG training and accreditation committee, is on the Curriculum Development program for Obstetrics and Gynaecology and is a member of the NSW Department of Health Vocational Training committee.

Dr Jacques Abramowics, USA

Dr. Jacques S. Abramowicz is the Frances T. and Lester B. Knight Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Rush University in Chicago. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. His training included a residency in Ob/Gyn, a fellowship in ultrasound at King's College Hospital in London, UK, under Professor Stuart Campbell and a special fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) and the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society (AGOS). He was on the Board of Governors of AIUM until 2006 and is the past Chair of its Bioeffects Committee. He is Chair of the Bioeffects and Safety Committee of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) and vice-chair of the Illinois section of ACOG. He is Director of Ob/Gyn Ultrasound and Co-Director of the Rush Fetal and Neonatal Medicine program at Rush University Medical Center. He is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed and 250 other articles, books, book chapters and presentations.

Dr Dalya Alhamdan, Australia

Dr. Dalya Alhamdan is currently a Clinical Research Fellow in the Early Pregnancy and Advanced Endosurgery Unit at the Nepean Hospital, Sydney. She studied her MD in Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. She hold Arab Board Specialisation in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Her main interests are Advanced Gynaecology Laparoscopy, Ultrasound, endometriosis and early pregnancy complications. She is co-author of several papers in international journals and she had contributed to book chapters.

Mr Richard Allan, Australia

Richard is currently Head Sonographer in the Division of Medical Imaging at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia; a position he has held since 2002.
He trained in ultrasound in New Zealand and has worked in NZ, the UK and Australia.
He is a Past President of the Ultrasonographers Group of ASUM and Past Secretary and Chairperson of the NZ Branch of ASUM.
Clinical interests include hepatobiliary and obstetric ultrasound.
Current research interests include chronic liver disease, occupational health and safety issues for sonographers and evidence based practice in sonography.
Richard has co-authored 13 papers in peer-reviewed journals (primarily on obstetric or hepatobiliary topics) and presented many times at state and national level.

Professor Anil T. Ahuja, Hong Kong

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.

Ms Jennifer Alphonse, Sydney Ultrasound for Women, Australia

Jennifer Alphonse began her career in allied health as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist and has a Degree in Medical Radiation Science. She has been working in ultrasound for 17 years and obtained her Post Graduate Diploma in Ultrasonography from Sydney University.

Jennifer has worked in many areas of ultrasound including general, cardiac and paediatrics. Since joining SUFW as a senior sonographer, she has specialized in obstetrics and gynaecology. She has a particular interest in the developing role and application of 3D/4D sonography in ultrasound diagnosis.

Jennifer has always been interested in research and further education. She is a mentor at SUFW and lectures to sonographers both in-house and externally. She has been a student assessor for Sydney University. She has participated in research projects while at SUFW and has presented at national meetings. In 2008 she began a Masters by Research under the faculty of health science at Sydney University.

Ms Bonita Anderson, Australia

Bonita Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in Cardiac Ultrasound at the Queensland University of Technology where she is the course coordinator of the Graduate Diploma in Cardiac Ultrasound and the Master of Cardiac Ultrasound. Bonita also works as the Echocardiography Educator at The Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane.

Bonita is an Accredited Medical Sonographer with a career in echocardiography spanning more 20 years.

She holds a Diploma in Medical Ultrasonography (Cardiac) and a Master of Applied Science (Medical Ultrasound). Bonita is also the author of "Echocardiography: The Normal Examination and Echocardiographic Measurements".

Dr Matthew Andrews, Australia

Matthew Andrews is a general radiologist with a special interest in ultrasound. He is currently director of Medical Imaging at Cabrini Brighton in Melbourne. He trained in radiology at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne followed by an Abdominal Imaging Fellowship at the University of California, Davis. He is the immediate Past President of ASUM and is currently a Councillor of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. He has chaired the College Ultrasound Committee for several years and is a founding member of the College Standards of Practice and Accreditation Committee.

Dr Paul Atkinson, UK

Dr Paul Atkinson is a Consultant Emergency Physician with a wide experience in the practice of Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care. His primary degrees are first class honours in physiology, and honours in medicine from The Queen's University of Belfast. His postgraduate training and higher specialist training in emergency medicine was completed in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Cambridge, England and Sydney, Australia. He currently holds a full time consultant post at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; a regional trauma centre and major teaching centre. He is Lead for Emergency Ultrasound. He is also an Associate Lecturer with the School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge University. He is involved in the development of the specialty of emergency medicine at local, regional and national levels. His areas of special interest include physiological scoring in trauma and critical illness, emergency paediatrics, clinical decision rules, the use of acute assessment tools including chest pain management pathways, and emergency ultrasound in trauma and shock. He is currently chair of the College of Emergency Medicine (UK) Ultrasound Certification Committee. He has published several papers in the field of Emergency Ultrasound practice and training.

Professor Kanu Bala, Bangladesh

Prof. Kanu Bala, MBBS, PhD, FRCP is the Professor and Director of the Bangladesh Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine & Research of the University of Science & Technology Chittagong.

Prof. Bala is a pioneer of Gastrointestinal Ultrasound, especially of Hydrocolonic Sonography. He is now working on ultrasound diagnosis of intestinal tuberculosis.

Prof. Bala has contributed significantly in the field of ultrasound education. For the first time, he proposed and practiced 2-step education in ultrasound for the developing countries in 1990. 8 years after this in 1998, World health Organization has recommended the same type of education in ultrasound for the developing countries.

In 2004, WFUMB has established its first 'Center of Excellence' in Dhaka under the leadership of Prof. Kanu Bala. After completing the first 3-year term, WFUMB has renewed the contract for another term. Doctors of Bangladesh and the neighboring countries are being trained from the centre.

Dr. Bala is currently serving as the Chairman of the Education Committee of the Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, President of the Bangladesh Society of Ultrasonography, and the Secretary of the WFUMB Center of Excellence. He is a recipient of the 'Leader of the Profession' award of the University of Science & Technology Chittagong, 'Lifetime Achievement' award of the Bangladesh Society of Ultrasonography, and 'Global Family Physician' award of the World Organization of Family Doctors.

Dr Jeffrey Bamber, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital, UK

Dr Bamber leads the Ultrasound and Optical Imaging Physics Team, and is Senior Tutor, at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, U.K. For 1994, he worked at the Medical Products Group, Hewlett-Packard, Andover, USA. He has a BSc in Physics, an MSc in Biophysics and Bioengineering, and a PhD in Biophysics. His research interests have included tissue acoustics, image analysis, speckle reduction, aberration, tissue motion, elasticity imaging, temperature imaging, ultrasound psychophysics, tumour blood flow, breast cancer, skin cancer, contrast agents, guidance of cancer treatment, ultrasound in radiation dosimetry, ultrasound gene delivery, optoacoustics and molecular imaging. He has supervised 25 PhD students and won more than 7 prizes amongst 144 papers, 13 book chapters and 4 patents. He is a member of the Institute of Physics, the British Medical Ultrasound Society (BMUS), and the International Society for Biophysics and Imaging of the Skin, being a past vice-president of the International Society for Skin Imaging, a past president of the International Association for Breast Ultrasound, and currently serving on the BMUS Council.

Dr Cheryl Bass, Victoria House Medical Imaging, Australia

Cheryl is in private practice at Victoria House Medical Imaging in Melbourne and the majority of her workload is musculoskeletal ultrasound. She is a hands on radiologists performing many cases and interventions herself as well as those assisted by the VHMI team. Cheryl is also a senior radiologist for Breast Screen Victoria.

Cheryl liaises closely with the local surgical and sports medicine community and has been involved with imaging for high level sports competitions such as Rugby World Cup, the Australian Tennis Open and the Commonwealth Games. These interactions enrich her understanding of the significance of ultrasound findings.

Aside from clinical work she is interested in research and teaching. She has published papers on the hip, groin and hamstrings as well as a pictorial essay on tennis elbow. She enjoys hosting the numerous national and international visitors who attend VHMI to observe, learn and share their experiences with us.

Dr Beryl Benacerraf, USA

Dr. Benacerraf is clinical professor in obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology and radiology. From 1991 through 1993, Dr. Benacerraf was codirector of high-risk obstetric ultrasound at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and from 1993 through 1999 she was director of the obstetrical ultrasound at Massachusetts General Hospital. Since 1982, Dr. Benacerraf has served as the medical director and president of Diagnostic Ultrasound Associates, PC. During that time, Dr. Benacerraf did the original research that linked nuchal thickening directly to an increased risk for fetal Down syndrome and developed the genetic sonogram. Dr. Benacerraf is an elected fellow of the American College of Radiology and the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound, treasurer of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, a committee member of the Radiological Society of North America and the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a member of the New England Roentgen Ray Society of Ultrasound in Medicine.

She has authored over 250 peer-reviewed articles reporting her original research on the detection and significance of fetal anomalies. Contributions include the development of the genetic sonogram scoring index to assign risk factors for fetal aneuploidy and the implementation of 3-dimensional ultrasound in both obstetrics and gynecology. She has contributed chapters to many textbooks in the field and is the sole author of Ultrasound of Fetal Syndromes, now in its second edition.
Dr. Benacerraf currently serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine and chair of the ultrasound Practice Accreditation Council of the American Institute of Medicine. Dr. Benacerraf has lectured at educational institutions and professional societies and World congresses around the world and received many awards and recognitions for her pioneering contributions to fetal diagnosis and management.

Professor Ron Benzie, Australia

Professor Ron Benzie is an Aberdeen graduate who has worked in Obstetrics/Gynecology and Ultrasound in University hospitals in UK Canada and Australia. He is widely published. His current interest is in 3D ultrasound in prenatal diagnosis. He was an ASUM Bulletin editor and is President of ASUM.

Dr Wilaiporn Bhothisuwan, Thailand

Dr Wilaiporn Bhothisuwan graduated from Siriraj Medical School in Bangkok, Thailand and had further her studies in CT and US in many leading institutes in England and USA (1981-1982), MRI in Australia (1988) and Breast imaging in The Netherlands (1986), USA and England (1994). She was appointed as a full lecturer since she was a second year resident, in 1973, head of Medical Imaging, president of Siriraj Cancer Center and chief of Bangkok Breast Imaging Center.

She is the pioneer in her oversea training fields and had carried on many new innovations in her country. She had conducted many training programmes, scientific courses, hand-on workshops and medical congresses, locally in her country, as well as in neighbouring countries. She was involved in setting up many Clinical Practice Guidelines for practicing in her country, which was based on her researches and statistics collected or analyzed by her from her medical school, Siriraj Hospital, a hospital with 2,800 in-patient beds. She had numerous researches, papers, books and was an invited lecturer to many local and international medical congresses.

She was one of the 5 founders who set up The Medical Ultrasonic Society of Thailand (MUST), in 1986 and is now, the president of the society. She has contributed to royal colleges, societies and other medical bodies in her country. She was recently the president of the organizing committee for AFSUMBThailand (Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology), arranged in Bangkok, Thailand in 2007.

Dr Tommaso Bignardi, University of Sydney, Italy

Dr. Tommaso Bignardi is an Associate Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Nepean Clinical School, University of Sydney. He studied at the University of Milan in Italy and currently works as a Clinical Research Fellow in the Early Pregnancy and Advanced Endosurgery Unit at the Nepean Hospital, Sydney. He has a keen interest in gynaecological ultrasound, endometriosis and early pregnancy complications. He is author/co-author of several papers in international journals and he has contributed to book chapters.

Mr Stephen Bird, Australia

Stephen Bird is currently employed as the Charge Sonographer at Benson Radiology in Adelaide. Stephen began sonography in 1990, holds a General and a Vascular DMU and a Masters of Medical Sonography from the University of South Australia. He is currently a member of the ASUM Federal Council and member of the DMU Board of Examiners. Previously he has been Chairman of the ASAR, an ASA Federal Council member and recipient of the 2002 ASA Sonographer Achievement Award.

Dr Justin Bowra, Australia

Dr Justin Bowra is an emergency specialist physician based in Sydney. He is the lead author of Emergency Ultrasound Made Easy (Churchill Livingstone) and runs the ED ultrasound programs at St Vincent's, Sydney Adventist & Bankstown Hospitals. He is also a lead organizer for the 5^th World Congress on Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine & Critical Care [Sydney 2009] and a member of the ultrasound committee of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

Ms Sue Bradley, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia

I have a BSc(Hons) in Physiology from the University of New England Armidale and I am an accredited Medical sonographer with ASAR.
I have had 27 years of performing both adult and paediatric echocardiography.

My career in Cardiac Sonography started in 1982 at St Vincent's Hospital Darlinghurst Sydney where I worked as the Chief Cardiac Sonographer for 12years.
I started working in the field of Adult Echocardiography at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney.

In 1993 I was employed at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Camperdown in 1993 where I began my career in Paediatric echocardiography. The Royal Alexander Hospital for Children in Camperdown later moved and became The Children's Hospital at Westmead, where I have been the only Cardiac sonographer. I have 15 years experience in both Paediatric and Adult congenital heart disease."

Dr Bill Breidahl, Perth Radiological Clinic, Australia

Bill Breidahl is a WA Medical and Radiological graduate who obtained an MRCP in London prior to undertaking radiology training through the WA interhospital radiology training scheme. He was awarded the H R Sear prize in his final radiological exams as recognition for the most outstanding performance in these exams Australia wide. Subsequently he received the Thomas Baker study fellowship to assist in his Musculoskeletal imaging fellowship at the University of Michigan. Upon completion of the fellowship at the University of Michigan he was the radiologist in the polyclinic in the athletes village at the Atlanta Olympic games. On returning to Australia he undertook clinical practice at Perth Radiological Clinic and Royal Perth Hospital, where he still practices. His primary interest is musculoskeletal radiology, including musculoskeletal ultrasound and MR. As well as the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and he has provided imaging services at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, and the 2003 World Cup rugby games held in Perth. In 2007 he was elected president of the Australasian Musculoskeletal Imaging Group. He has been an invited speaker at national and international meetings and has co -authored over 30 scientific publications.

Mrs Lisa Briggs, Philips Medical Systems, Australia

I first began MSK ultrasound in 1993, Macquarie st, Sydney. Over the years my interest in MSK scanning and research has increased dramatically. After spending 10yrs in Macquarie st I relocated to Canberra where I was the MSK specialist for the Canberra Imaging Group. Presently I am working with Professor George Murrell, a shoulder orthopaedic surgeon, at St.George, in Sydney. My interest here is in research and pre and post surgical appraisals of shoulders with the use of ultrasound. I am also on the MSK faculty for ASMI (Australian School of Medical Imaging) located in Hornsby, Sydney. I have been actively involved with teaching and lecturing of MSK ultrasound for ASA and ASUM alike. I have presented at both national and international meetings and will continue to do so as this is very enjoyable and rewarding.

Dr Frank Burke, Victoria House Medical Imaging, Australia

Dr Frank Burke is a Monash University graduate and diagnostic radiologist who specializes in musculoskeletal ultrasound.
He is in private practice at Victoria House in Prahran.
All Victorian based AFL teams, Melbourne Storm, Melbourne Victory, Australian Tennis Open, Australian cricket team and all visiting international rugby teams use his services. He was Imaging Co-ordinator for the 2006 Commonwealth Games and an attending radiologist at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

Professor Peter Burns, Canada

Professor and Chairman of Medical Biophysics and Professor of Radiology at the University of Toronto, Senior Scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto.

First class honours in Theoretical Physics. Trained at University of Bristol (UK), faculty positions in Radiology at Yale University & Thomas Jefferson University in the USA, at University of Toronto since 1991.

More than 120 peer-reviewed papers, 3 books and 5 patents in medical ultrasound imaging, including:

• 1980: Reported first detection of Doppler flow signals from tumours
• 1991: Developed and patented first harmonic greyscale and Doppler images, now found on most clinical ultrasound systems.
• 1994: Showed first harmonic power Doppler images using microbubble detection to demonstrate microvessels.
• 1999: Developed and patented pulse inversion imaging and Doppler, creating first real time perfusion images of the heart's microcirculation with ultrasound.

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Clinical Prize; World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Pioneer Award; Bronze medal of the Canadian Association of Radiologists; Ian Donald Gold Medal for Technical Achievement; Innovation and Excellence Trophy (Société Canadienne-Francaise de Radiologie); 2005 Euroson Lecturer; 2006 Donald McVicar Brown Lecturer; 2007 William Fry Memorial Award, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine; 2008 IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

Dr Elisabetta Buscarini, Italy

• Degree in Medicine and Surgery 1983 with 110/110 with laudation
• Post-graduate Specialization in Sonography for Internal Medicine in 1984
• Post-graduate Specialization in Internal Medicine in 1989
• Post-graduate Specialization in Gastroenterology and Endoscopy in 1993
• Professor of Gastroenterology School of Pavia University from 1999 to 2001

She is in charge of the Rare Disease Center of Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, which belongs to the National Network of Rare Diseases. She has been involved in the care of patients with hereditary hemorrhagic teleangiectasia since 1990.

Mrs Yvonne Butcher, Mater Hospital, Australia

My original training was in diagnostic radiography. I worked in Brisbane, in England, and on the Gold Coast before commencing training in medical ultrasound. I completed my medical DMU in 1985.

I began working in vascular ultrasound in 1993 and completed my Diploma of Applied Science in Diagnostic Ultrasound in 1994 my DMU Vascular in 1995.

I am currently employed at Queensland Vascular Diagnostics at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane and have been working there for the past twelve years. In 2006 I completed a Masters in Applied Science in Diagnostic Ultrasonography.

Mr Craig Cairns, Australia

Craig graduated from Diagnostic Radiography in 1992 and then completed his Post Graduate diploma in Medical Ultrasound in 1998.

Craig's primary interest is in musculoskeletal ultrasound and sports medicine but also has a keen interest in vascular and obstetric ultrasound.

Craig is a Sonographer at Xradiology Australia, which is located in Brisbane, Australia.
Craig has presented and performed workshops at the ASA Special Interest Group conferences on MSK ultrasound for the last 3 years and co-convened last years conference.

Professor Alan Cameron, Queen Mother's Maternity Hospital, Scotland

Alan Cameron has been a consultant obstetrician at the Queen Mother's Hospital, Glasgow for 16 years. He undertook his subspeciality training in Maternal Fetal Medicine in the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. After this he was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Glasgow. He has retained an active research profile and he was rewarded with an Honorary Professorship from the Unversity of Glasgow in 2007. His main research interests are in prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy. He was Scottish Members representative on RCOG Council from 1996-2002, and currently chairs the RCR/RCOG Committee on Ultrasound. He was President of the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society from 2005-08. In 2008 he was elected as the Scottish Fellows representative on RCOG Council.

Dr Susan Campbell Westerway

Sue is an accredited medical sonographer who holds a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney. With a major interest in obstetrics, her research work has included formulating the fetal biometry charts for an Australian population, which were adopted by ASUM in 2001.

Involved in ultrasound for 34 years, Sue has seen many changes in technology since 1975 when she began scanning on a Picker B-Mode system with eight shades of grey.
In 1981 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship, which allowed her to study echocardiography at the Mayo Clinic and the University of California Medical Centre as well as at the National Heart Hospital, the Brompton Hospital and St Georges Hospital in London. On her return she became one of Australia's first applications specialists, travelling extensively to teach all streams of ultrasound to those new to the field.

Clinical involvement now includes O&G scanning with Northern Women's Ultrasound in Sydney as well as the occasional general scanning session. With a passion for teaching Sue is a tutor and examiner for many Australian universities as well as the O&G co-ordinator for the Australian School of Medical Imaging (ASMI).

The author of numerous journal articles Sue has presented extensively both nationally & internationally with her first WFUM presentation being in Sydney in 1985.

Professor Tiesheng Cao, Tangdu Hospital, China

Professor in Medicine, Department of Ultrasound Diagnostics, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
Dr. Cao graduated Fourth Military Medical University in 1968. From 1979 - 1982, he spent three-year post - doctoral fellow there. One year at Brigham and Woman's hospital, Harvard Medical School, and four-year at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center as visiting scholar. Research interests: cardiac ultrasonography, Noninvasive cardiac function measurement, Mechanistic principle of heart-lung interaction. He published 4 textbooks,10 book chapters and 270 scientific articles, on diagnostic ultrasound. He has been the Chairman of The Ultrasound Medical Association of PLA since 2000.

Ms Ann Carrigan, Australia

Ann is a senior sonographer currently working at the Sydney Adventist Hospital and Northern Womens Imaging.

She began her career in ultrasound 17 years ago training at Royal Prince Alfred, Sydney. From there she has traveled extensively working in Orange NSW, Brunei and Canada.

Most recently she has spent 2 years working at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada where she developed her interest in paediatrics.

Ann has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Medical Radiation) and a Post Graduate Diploma of Applied Science (Medical Ultrasound).
She has been a clinical supervisor for the University of Sydney and has recently been tutoring with ASMI.

Ann has given presentations and shown posters at local, national and international meetings and has published two papers. She is a past committee member for the NSW division of the Australian Sonographers Association (ASA) and is currently an editor for Sound Effects, the publication for the ASA.

Professor Giovanni Cerri, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil

Current president of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology - WFUMB (2006-2009)

Former president of the Federación Latino Americana de Ultra-sonografía and of the Colégio Brasileiro de Radiologia (Brazilian College of Radiology)

Member of the Board of the International Society of Radiology andFull Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiology - Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (FMUSP)

Chairman of the Directive Board of the Institute of Radiology of the "Hospital das Clínicas" (FMUSP).

Former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo and Chairman of the Council of the "Hospital das Clínicas" (FMUSP).

Professor Cerri has about 190 published papers and 22 edited books.

Dr Lewis Chan, Australia

Lewis Chan is a urologist at Concord Repatriation General Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at University of Sydney. His subspecialty interests are voiding dysfunction, urinary incontinence and urological imaging. He obtained the Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound in 2002 and together with his colleagues at Concord has developed an ultrasound course for Urological Trainees. His current research projects include non-invasive assessment of voiding dysfunction using ultrasound and 3D structural/functional correlation studies of the urinary sphincter in patients with incontinence post radical prostatectomy.

Dr YaoLung Chang, Chang Gung University College of Medicine Taiwan

Dr. Chang was born in Taiwan in 1966. He graduated from Chang Gung Medical College 1995. His major research interests are monochorionic twin including twin-twin transfusion sndrome and monochorionic twin with selective intrauterine growth restriction. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in internationally renowned journals. His current positions are Assistant Professor, obstetric, Chang Gung Meorial Hospital & Chang Gung University. He had been trained by Dr Ruin A Quintero for the fetocopic guide laser therapy for twin-twin transfusion sndrome and had perform about 30 such surgeries at Taiwan.

Dr Nitin Chaubal, Jaslok Hospital, India

Dr Nitin Chaubal is an MD Radiologist from Mumbai, India and holds Fellowships with the AIUM(USA); ICR and ICMU (India)

He is currently a Consultant in Ultrasound at the Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, Director at the Thane Ultrasound Centre and visiting faculty at Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai.

He has held several key positions in Ultrasound organizations and scientific committees of several national and international meetings. He has to his credit numerous publications in indexed journals and books. He has been invited as an orator and guest speaker in several international meets and is on the editorial board of leading journals.
He has trained many radiologists from all over the world.

Professor Min-Hua Chen, China

Professor Min-Hua Chen is a Chief expert at the Department of Ultrasound, Peking University School of Oncology

Major Committee Assignments

• Vice-chief , Society of Ultrasound in Medicine, Chinese medical association
• Vice-chief, Committee of Tumor Imaging Diagnosis, Chinese Anti-Cancer Association
• Standing Committee, Minimally Invasive Therapy Committee of Oncology,
• Chinese Anti-Cancer Association
• Vice-chief editor ,Chinese Journal of Ultrasonography
• Vice-chief editor, Chinese Medical Journal of Ultrasound

Major Research Areas:
1. Early and staging diagnosis of solid tumor in thorax and abdomen by ultrasound
2. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound diagnosis of digestive diseases
3. Interventional ultrasound, including biopsy of thoracic and abdominal diseases, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of liver tumors

Professor Cheng-Wen Chiang, Taiwan

Prof. Chiang was born in Taiwan in 1943. He graduated from Medical College of Taiwan National University in 1971. His major research interests are echocardiography and interventional cardiology. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in internationally renowned journals and has received Best Physician Award from Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Cheng-Hsin Medical Award from Taiwan Medical Association and Long Ting Award from Taiwan Society of Cardiology. His current positions are Professor, Cardiology, Cathay General Hospital, & Taipei Medical University; President-elect, Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology; Secretary General, College of Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology; President, Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology; and Councilor, World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Dr Byung Ihn Choi, South Korea

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.

Dr Yi-Hong Chou,Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan

Dr. Yi-Hong Chou is chief of Ultrasound Section at Taipei Veterans General Hospital and Professor of Radiology at National Yang Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
He is the former president of Society of Ultrasound in Medicine, ROC (SUMROC), the former Chairman of Education Committee of the Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (AFSUMB) and the former Associate Editor of the Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (the official journal of World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, WFUMB). He is currently the President of the Radiological Society of the ROC , Treasurer of the AFSUMB, Chairman of Education Committee of the SUMROC , the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Medical Ultrasound (JMU, the official journal of the AFSUMB)..

Dr. Chou has been active in scientific and teaching programmes nationally and internationally, and has organized a number of international congresses, workshops, and symposia, particularly on ultrasound and Imaging of the Breast and Emergency and Critical Care.

He has expertise in all imaging modalities of abdominal and breast diseases, and emergency medicine and critical care. His scientific interests include ultrasound image analysis, computer-aided diagnosis and detection, and ultrasound-guided minimally invasive techniques. He has strong commitments to the teaching of clinical ultrasound, and all topics relating to ultrasound diagnosis, interventional procedures, and Doppler techniques. He devotes himself to promote the medical ultrasound education in the developing countries. He is one of the faculty of International Breast Ultrasound School (IBUS), the honorary fellow of American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), and is also the Secretary General of the International Association for Breast Ultrasound.
Dr. Chou has published more than 320 articles and book chapters and has co-edited one book on imaging of acute abdomen. His current researches include clinical and experimental studies on various aspects of tumor vascularity with regard to color Doppler techniques and microbubble contrast agents, and interventional techniques in tumor ablation.

Dr Michel Claudon, France

Dr Claudon is a Professor of Radiology and Chief of Department in the Children's Hospital at the University of Nancy.

He was past President of the European Federation of the Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) and President Elect of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB)

His fields of interest include technical advances in ultrasound (contrast, 3D-4D), uroradiology and pediatric radiology.

Miss Debbie Anne Coghlan, Queensland Vascular Diagnosis, Australia

Deb Coghlan is a Senior Vascular Technologist, currently working in Queensland at Queensland Vascular Diagnostics and formally of the Camperdown Vascular Laboratory in Sydney.
Deb has over 20 years experience in ultrasound and 17 years performing vascular studies and has a keen interest in education and training. Deb Coghlan is experienced in many areas such as upper and lower extremity disorders including TOS and AV fistulas, chronic venous insufficiency and advanced abdominal imaging, including endoluminal stent and other grafts, kidney and liver transplants, renal and mesenteric imaging as well as more common vascular studies.

Mrs Margaret Condon, Australia

Margaret has been a sonographer for 20 years, and has a keen interest in sonographer education. Margaret is currently an Ultrasound Coordinator with MIA Victoria, based at Werribee Mercy Hospital in Victoria, Australia. She has worked for MIA for 16 of her 20 years of ultrasound.Margaret began her medical imaging career as a Nuclear Medicine technologist, but realized early on that the challenge of ultrasound would be of more interest to her. She began her ultrasound career at Prince Henry's Hospital in Melbourne in 1988, and when this hospital closed in 1992, she moved on to her current employer. She obtained her DMU in 1997, and since obtaining her DMU, she has been heavily involved in both the ASA and ASUM. She has been a member of the ASA federal council, still involved with the ASA education committee and a member of the very active ASA Victorian branch. Margaret is currently an ASUM councilor and the Chair of the DMU board of examiners. Margaret has a keen interest in all areas of general ultrasound, but particularly loves obstetric and gynaecology ultrasound, with the ever evolving field of musculoskeletal also an area of interest.

Associate Professor George Condous, Nepean Hospital, Australia

George Condous is Consultant Gynaecologist at Nepean Hospital. He is Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Nepean Clinical School, University of Sydney and specialist in Gynaecological Ultrasound and Advanced Endosurgery. He runs the Acute Gynaecology Service which sees women with emergency gynaecological as well as early pregnancy complications (miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy). He is also responsible for the One-Stop Ultrasound based diagnostic clinics; which review women with abnormal uterine bleeding, chronic pelvic pain, adnexal pathology (ovarian cysts) as well as post-menopausal bleeding. He performs Advanced Endosurgery procedures for women who need intervention for pelvic masses, frozen pelvis, endometriosis or hysterectomy.

Having completed his undergraduate degree with the University of Adelaide, he left Australia in 1993 and moved to London where he completed his training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. From 2001 - 2003 he worked as a Senior Research Fellow to Tom Bourne at St George's Hospital, London. At St George's he set up the Acute Gynaecology Unit, the first in the United Kingdom, which used ultrasound at the point of the initial consultation to evaluate women with gynaecological problems. It was also during this position that he developed his great interest in Early Pregnancy and especially the management of pregnancies of unknown location (PULs). He has developed many mathematical models for the prediction of outcome of PULs which have featured in peer review journals. In 2005, he returned to Australia where he completed his Laparoscopic Fellowship at the world recognised Centre for Advanced Reproductive Endosurgery, Royal North Shore, Sydney.

He was appointed as a Consultant Gynaecologist and Senior Lecturer at Nepean Hospital in 2006 and soon was made Associate Professor.

Mr Peter Coombs, Monash Medical Centre, Australia

Mr Peter Coombs is the Sonographer In Charge for Southern Health and a Senior Lecturer in Ultrasound at Monash University. For many years he has been an active contributor to local and national ultrasound education in Australia. He was the editor of Sound Effects doing its foundation years and was a recipient of the ASA achievement award for this work. His current interests include fetal neurosonography, and the evaluation of hepatic fibrosis.

Dr Joshua Copel, USA

Dr. Copel is Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and of Pediatrics at Yale University, where is currently Vice Chair for Obstetrics. He is the editor of 2 textbooks, "Doppler Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology" (Raven, 1995), and "Medical Complications During Pregnancy" (Elsevier, 2004). He is the author of over 150 peer-reviewed publications, and 95 invited chapters, reviews and editorials. The majority of his scholarly output has been in the field of prenatal diagnosis with ultrasound.

Dr. Copel is currently President of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, which is a 7500 member multi-disciplinary organization dedicated to advancing the safe and effective use of ultrasound in medicine through professional and public education, research, development of guidelines, and accreditation. He recently completed a term on the Board of Directors of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and is Treasurer of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is also one of 6 Administrative Councilors of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, which represents over 50,000 physicians in over 80 countries.

Professor David Cosgrove, UK

My three main themes of academic activity are:
1. Advancing the clinical role of "radiological" (i.e. non-obstetric) ultrasound;
2. Furthering understanding of the basic mechanisms of the ultrasound image-forming process and of Doppler;
3. Applications of microbubble echo-enhancing (“contrast”) agents for ultrasound.
4. Application of Elastography to clinical diagnosis.

The first is exemplified by several first reports of clinically significant ultrasound findings, e.g. the features of biliary tree dilatation, pneumobilia, hæmangiomas, abdominal tumours of various types, thyroid diseases, fatty changes in the liver, the use of Doppler in breast diagnosis and transit time analysis of microbubbles in tumours.

The second has resulted in a series of reports on the mechanisms of ultrasound appearances (e.g. artefacts, such as transdiaphragmatic echoes) and on exploring novel means to extract hitherto unavailable information from the ultrasound signals. Doppler studies have focused on the clinical evaluation and introduction of new techniques such as colour and power Doppler.

The recently introduced echo enhancing (“contrast”) agents have become a major focus of study with the establishment of a research team to investigate this unique opportunity both from fundamental and clinical points of view. Fundamental studies include non-linear imaging and quantification of the change in echogenicity with microbubble concentration leading to functional indices and imaging. Clinical studies include phase III trials with a range of microbubble agents (especially in the liver and in tumours) and functional studies (especially in diffuse and focal liver diseases and in tumours).

Elastography, a recently introduced method of imaging and quantifying tissue stiffness, is undergoing clinical trials and is in early clinical use. I have been instrumental in several early and more recent stages in this process.

Ms Amanda Crow, Australia

Amanda Crow has been a Senior Sonographer at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia, for 20 years. She has a Bachelor degree in Applied Science, a Masters degree in Health Sciences (Medical Sonography) and a Certificate of Specialisation in Paediatric Sonography, from the University of Sydney.

Amanda has been a guest lecturer in the graduate diploma course in medical sonography at Sydney University for 10 years and has been the ultrasound clinical advisor on the School of Medical Radiation Sciences External Advisory Committee at Sydney University.

Amanda has presented lectures and posters at local, national and international meetings, and has been involved in many paediatric workshops.

The Children's Hospital at Westmead has been part of the National Liver Transplant Unit for more than 20 years. This area of work is a particular interest for Amanda. She is currently involved in research into predictors of complications in patients with long-standing Type 1 Diabetes.

Mr Rommel Cruzado, Australia

Rommel Cruzado is a sonographer, working at The Children's Hospital, Westmead. He has over 20 years experience in diagnostic medical imaging, the majority of which has been in paediatrics.

Some of his key achievements include:

• Authored the Paediatric module and conducted assessments for the Ultrasound Course. He has contributed to the learning modules and conducted assessments for the Advanced Radiographic Pathology - Post Graduate subject at the University of Sydney.
• Presented workshops and lectures at numerous international conferences and meetings.
• Presented as a guest lecturer on paediatric sonography at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Science.
• Clinical supervisor and student co-ordinator for the Medical Imaging Department of The Children's Hospital, Westmead.

He holds a Graduate Diploma of Applied Science (Medical Ultrasound) and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Medical Radiation Technology) from the University of Sydney.

He is a Registered Sonographer (ASAR) and a member of ASUM.

Dr Alan Daneman, USA

Dr. Daneman is a Pediatric Radiologist at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto and was Radiologist-in-Chief from 1988 to 1995. He attended Medical School at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg; interned at the University of Connecticut, USA: trained in Radiology at Hospitals of the University of Sydney and was a Fellow at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He is an Honorary Member of the European and the Latin American Societies for Pediatric Radiology, the Chilean, Israeli and Hungarian Radiological Societies, Brazilian College of Radiology and Faculty of Radiology, College of Surgeons, Ireland. He is a Life Member of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists and in 2003 was the Invited Kodak Visiting Professor. In 2006 he received the Gold Medal of the Brazilian College of Radiology. His main interests are sonography and neonatal and gastrointestinal imaging. He has over 180 publications; has been an Invited Guest Lecturer at International and National Conferences more than 100 times and has given several named lectures including the "Caffey Memorial Lecture" and the "Kirkpatrick Memorial Lecture". In 2005 he received the "Jack O. Haller Award for Excellence in Teaching" from the Society for Pediatric Radiology.

Mrs Sue Davies, Australia

Sue is the Program Director and co-founder of the Australian Institute of Ultrasound; the foremost practical ultrasound education facility in the Asia-Pacific region and she is an Honorary Fellow of ASUM. A highly experienced and passionate teacher, Sue has been involved in ultrasound education both in Australia and Internationally for over 35 years and she has been teaching point of care ultrasound to physicians of many specialties for more than 15 years.

Dr Philippa Depree, Australia

Dr Philippa Depree is a graduate of the Otago University Medical School. She worked in several clinical areas including paediatrics and obstetrics, obtaining Diplomas in Child Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology before going on to complete Radiology training in Perth in 2004. She undertook advanced training in Women's Imaging in Perth, followed by a 12 month Fellowship position in Paediatric Radiology at The Childrens Hospital at Westmead in Sydney. She now works as a Staff Specialist at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, as well as for BreastScreen NSW, and also does general radiology in private practice in Sydney.

Dr Richard De Villiers, South Africa

Partner Drs.Van Wageningen and Partners radiology group in Somerset West, South Africa. They practice at the Somerset West and Stellenbosch Mediclinics and at the SA Sports Science Institute in Cape Town.

Pregraduate training: Qualified with an M.B.Ch.B at the University of Stellenbosch, S.A in 1990.
Postgraduate training: radiology specialist training Master of Medicine (M.Med) Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Stellenbosch, S.A in 1990.

Multiple articles (23) on musculoskeletal radiology and sports injury imaging. These include

Imaging of sports injuries in children, osteochondritis dessicans in the adolescent elbow, patellar tendon imaging, fracture of the greater tuberosity , shoulder impingement, navicular fractures , Cyclops lesion of the Knee, sports radiology for the GP,stroke in the young, scapular stress fracture in a professional cricketer and a review of the literature, HAGL lesion of the shoulder, cystic adventitial disease in a triathlete , Chondral fracture of the femoral trochlea .

Remains an active participant and driver of furthering the subspeciality of musculoskeletal radiology in South Africa.

Dr Greggory R. DeVore, America

Dr. DeVore is an expert in fetal ultrasound who has pioneered work in the identification of congenital heart defects using 2D, 3D, 4D, and color Doppler ultrasound. As a result of Dr. DeVore's research, he has published numerous studies in the peer-reviewed medical literature describing the use of fetal echocardiography to detect fetuses with Down syndrome and other chromosomal defects. Dr. DeVore has the highest detection rate reported in the medical literature for the detection of Down syndrome using Genetic Ultrasound.

Dr. DeVore's clinical training began at Yale University where he completed an internship in Internal Medicine, followed by a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology in which he received the prestigious Meehan-Miller award. Dr. DeVore then spent an additional two years as a Fellow in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Yale University where he was the recipient of a research grant from the Thrasher Research Fund that allowed him to do pioneering research in the ultrasound evaluation of the fetal heart.

Although he left academic medicine to work full-time in the community, Dr. DeVore has continued to publish research findings and has authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers, contributed to over 30 textbooks of medicine, and speaks at national and international medical meetings where he is actively involved in teaching and training his colleagues.

Professor Dr Christoph Dietrich, Germany

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.

Professor Hans Peter Dietz, Australia

Associate Professor Hans Peter Dietz graduated from Heidelberg University, Germany, in 1988, obtaining an MD in O/G ultrasound imaging at that University in 1989. After eight years of O/G training in New Zealand and Germany he arrived in Australia in 1997 and completed his Fellowship training in Brisbane in 1998. Between 1999 and 2002, he undertook urogynaecology subspeciality training in Sydney and obtained a PhD with the University of New South Wales, investigating lower urinary tract function in pregnancy and puerperium. Since 2004 he is Associate Professor in O/G at the Nepean Clinical School, University of Sydney. He is Editor of ANZCJ, member of the Editorial Board of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and has recently been appointed Associate Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Dr Mirko D'Onofrio, Italy

He was born on October 19^th 1972 in Manfredonia Italy.
He is Assistant Professor at the University of Verona from 2004 working as Radiologist at G. B. Rossi University Hospital, referral center specialized on pancreatic pathology.
He is SIRM (Italian Society of Medical Radiology) and AISP (Italian Association for the Study of the Pancreas) associate from 2002. He is a member of the Faculty IBISCUS (International Bracco Imaging School for Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound) from 2003. He is associate SIUMB (Italian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology) and EFSUMB (European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology). He is a member of ESGAR (European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Imaging) and ESR (European Society of Radiology). He is the chairman for pancreatic applications of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the EFSUMB guidelines and good clinical practice recommendation in contrast enhanced ultrasound meetings update 2007.
He is author of 35 original papers and 9 book chapters.
He is a reviewer for numerous international medical journal: Pancreas, Radiology, American Journal of Roentgenology-AJR, Canadian Medical Association Journal-CMAJ, BMC Cancer, European Radiology, Journal of European Radiology, La Radiologia Medica.
He is a member of the editorial board of "La Radiologia medica" and "Journal of Ultrasound".

Dr Paul Dubbins, UK

Consultant Radiologist Plymouth General Hospital
2003-5 Dean and Vice President Royal College of Radiologists
1996 - date Consultant Advisor Clinical Radiology to the Royal Navy

Course organizer and lead "Gynaecological ultrasound" Biannual hands on course for SpR's in Gynaecology and radiology

1992 - Date Member of Education and Training Committee RCR
March 1998 Course Leader, Obstetrics & Gynaecological Ultrasound: An Introductory Course, Nepal.

Editorial Board

• European Journal of Ultrasound
• Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Responsible College Officer throughout the development The Radiology Integrated Training Initiative - A new training programme based predominantly on an e learning delivery strategy
Other Committees

8^th Barry B Goldberg lecturer Euroson Jerusalem Israel

Over 150 invited lectures nationally and internationally
Over 60 peer reviewed papers, over 40 presentations and posters, over 35 chapters and 4 books on imaging (predominantly ultrasound) topics

Professor Enzo Durante, Italy

Enzo Durante, M.D., born in 1945, is Full Professor of General Surgery at the University of Ferrara, Italy, School of Medicine and Head of the II^nd General Surgery Unit, Coordinator of Breast Multidisciplinar Team. Professor Durante's professional career has been centered in this city. Prof. Durante started his research into ultrasonic imaging in 1973 and in 1974 He has been co-founder of the first Italian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. Professor Durante started to perform U.S. guided interventional procedures in 1974. He is also co-Founder and Member of Educational and Administrative Board of International Breast Ultrasound School. Major field of his research work has been the breast diagnosis and breast surgery that He has been performing from many years by personal technique under U.S. guide reaching excellent cosmetic results and the lowest rate of recurrences in the literature that is 1%. Professor Durante's bibliography consists of 209 papers published in professional journals (143 in Italian, 61 in English, 5 in Spanish). He has written chapters for 8 books and is author or editor of 5 books. Professor Durante has been invited speaker in 85 Congresses (52 in Italy, 33 in all the World), lecturer in 96 Post-Graduate Courses or Seminars (67 in Italy, 29 in all the World), and He has been Director of 5 days Intensive Course on Breast Cancer.

Dr Simon Elliot, Freeman Hospital, UK

Simon Elliott is a Consultant Radiologist and Clinical Lead in Ultrasound at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. With 30 years experience in diagnostic and interventional ultrasound, he is particularly interested in emerging ultrasound technologies and their potential benefits to everyday practice. Specialist areas include vascular, abdominal and small parts imaging. He is currently involved in developing equipment and protocols to increase the applications of 3-D ultrasound in general imaging.

He has given over 130 invited lectures at national and international accredited meetings; he serves on the Council of the British Medical Ultrasound Society, on the National Ultrasound Steering Group (England), and is an Honorary Member of the Society for Vascular Technology of GB & Ireland.

Professor David Evans, UK

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.

Mrs Sue Farnan, Dr Jones and Partners, Australia

I am a senior sonographer with Dr Jones & Partners in Adelaide,South Australia. I completed my ultrasound training in 1985, and developed a keen interest in musculoskeletal ultrasound in the late 1980's working alongside Dr Neil Simmons.
I have presented numerous papers and workshops at both ASUM and ASA national and local meetings. I have also developed and convened 3 dedicated musculoskeletal conferences for the I-Med Network (Dr Jones & Partners is a member company) in 2006, 2007 and 2008. I was a volunteer in the medical imaging team for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, and I am co-convener for the 2009 ASA National conference in Adelaide.

Whilst continuing to develop my knowledge within this field, I am interested in looking beyond imaging to consider the dynamic nature of the structures we investigate and how we can utilize clinical interpretation and dynamic motion to improve diagnosis.

Dr Leandro Fernandez, Venezuela

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.

Prof Mathias Fink, France

Mathias Fink received a Ph.D. degree in solid state physics in 1970 from Paris University. Then he moved to medical imaging and received the Doctorat es-Sciences degree in the area of ultrasonic focusing for real-time medical imaging. He was a Professor at Strasbourg University, at Irvine University (USA) and at Paris University (Denis Diderot). He is now a Professor of Physics at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris where he founded in 1990 the Laboratory Ondes et Acoustique. He was elected at the French Academy of Science in 2003 and at the French Academy of Engineering. Recently, he was elected Professor at the College de France (2008).

He pioneered the development of time-reversal mirrors and he developed many applications of this concept from ultrasound therapy, medical imaging, non-destructive testing, underwater acoustics, to electromagnetic telecommunications.

He also pioneered innovative medical imaging methods: transient elastography, supersonic shear imaging and multi-wave imaging that are now implemented by several companies. 4 companies with close to 170 employees have been created from his research (Echosens, Sensitive Object, Supersonic Imagine and Time Reversal Communications)

Professor Nick Fisk, University of Qld Centre for Clinical Research, Australia

Nick Fisk PhD MBA is Director of the University of Queensland's Centre for Clinical Research, a new $70M research institute on Australia's largest biomedical research campus. Clinically he practises as a fetal medicine specialist at Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital. Between 1992-2007 he was Professor of Obstetrics at Imperial College and Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London, where the Centre for Fetal Care and Experimental Fetal Medicine Research Group he developed achieved an international reputation in fetal diagnosis and therapy. His current research focuses on monochorionic multiple pregnancy and human fetal mesenchymal stem cell biology. His Hirsch index is 42, he has authored c.400 publications, and is a past President of the International Fetal Medicine & Surgery Society.

Mrs Jane Fonda, Australia

Jane Fonda has been involved in ultrasound for quite a while. An early interest in research began at the Ultrasonics Institute, which was eventually to become a part of the CSIRO. St Margaret's Hospital in Sydney is where her career as a Sonographer began in 1977. learning her craft, on the Octoson scanner, at the Royal Women's Hospital in Paddington. .
Research and clinical work over the years has led to a particular passion for obstetric ultrasound and a dedication to teaching and professional involvement.
Jane's educational contributions began as a Lecturer at Sydney TAFE, the Assistant Course Co-ordinator for the Ultrasonics Institute and the Royal Women's Hospital Ultrasound Course. Jane has also had a long involvement with ASUM, which began as Secretary of the DMU Board and continued as a Federal Councillor, Secretary NSW Branch and various education roles for the DMU.
During all of this she began a career as Lecturer and Clinical Co-ordinator for the ultrasound program at Sydney University. Her position at the university entailed lecturing and tutoring, as well as co-ordinating the clinical subjects for the Graduate Diploma in Medical Ultrasound
Jane continues to work as a clinical tutor consultant She enjoys teaching as it gives her the opportunity to share her experiences as a Sonographer

Professor Stuart Foster, Univeristy of Toronto, Canada

F Stuart Foster is currently Professor and Canada Research Chair in Ultrasound Imaging, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto. His current research centres on the development of high frequency clinical and preclinical imaging systems, array technology, intravascular imaging, and molecular imaging. Stuart is a fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. In 1999 he founded VisualSonics, a Company aimed at preclinical imaging and remains its Chief Scientific Officer. Dr Foster co-founded the Mouse Imaging Centre (MICe) at the Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics. He has served on the Board of directors of the National Cancer Institute of Canada and as Chairman of its Committee on Research (ACOR). He has recently been the recipient of the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, the Manning Award of Distinction for Canadian Innovation and the Ontario Premier's Discovery Award. He serves on numerous advisory bodies and is currently on the editorial boards of Ultrasonic Imaging and Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology.

Dr Flemming Forsberg, USA

Flemming Forsberg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 20, 1961. He received an M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark in 1987 and 1990, respectively.

From 1987 to 1990 he worked on Doppler ultrasound signal processing at the Electronics Institute, Technical University of Denmark before becoming a post-doctoral research fellow at King's College, London, England (1990-91). After a year in private industry, developing an intravascular imaging system, Dr. Forsberg went to the department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA where he is currently a Professor of Radiology. His research focuses on ultrasound contrast agents and elastography.

Dr. Forsberg is a member of the IEEE and a fellow of the AIUM as well as the AIMBE. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology and Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Professor Morimichi Fukuda, Japan

Professor, emeritus. Department of Diagnostic Ultrasound, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Graduated Hokkaido University, Faculty of Medicine, in 1953, finished Medical Internship in Sapporo Medical College Hospital. From 1958 - 60, he spent 2 years of post - doctoral fellow research in UCLA. Returned from USA, he started studies on medical ultrasound researches especially for diagnoses of digestive diseases, HCC and pancreatic malignancies. He attended the very first WFUMB Congress in San Francisco and was elected as one of the councillors of WFUMB in Brighton Congress, 1982. He invented the radial endoscopic sonography equipment in collaboration with Olympus Co in Tokyo Japan in 1980.

Since 1982, he served as Councillor, Vice President, and President of WFUMB from 1991 - 94. Also he served as secretary of AFSUMB.
He received several awards as such the pioneer award of EUS, Hokkaido Governor Award for Medical Ultrasound Researches. Published 7 textbooks on diagnostic ultrasound, 40 book chapters, 167 scientific articles in diagnostic ultrasound.
Research interests are US of abdominal organs, cancer screening by US, endoscopic ultrasound, and accuracy assessment of imaging diagnosis.

Mr Roger Gent, Australia

Roger Gent is the Chief Sonographer in the Paediatric Ultrasound Unit at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia. His involvement with diagnostic ultrasound spans 30 years, with particular interest in paediatric sonography and also in the physics and technology aspects, for which he has written a 400-page textbook. He has been an invited speaker at more than forty national and international meetings and regularly presents lectures and workshops at ultrasound courses in Australia, on paediatric and technical topics. He is the author or co-author of more than thirty articles, has received several awards from professional ultrasound bodies, is an Honorary Fellow of ASUM and is also a long-standing member of the ASUM DMU Board of Examiners. He was made a Member of The Order of Australia in 2009, for services to paediatric sonography.

Professor Robert Gibson, Australia

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 integrated radiology curriculum for medical students at The University of Melbourne, which forms the basis of a new text “Essential Medical Imaging” published by Cambridge University Press. 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.

Professor Hassen Gharbi, Tunisia

Born in Tunisia, Dr Gharbi is Professor of Radiology and Professor in medical Biophysics, graduated in Paris University.

He is involved in several teaching and research programs mainly in ultrasound and in Pediatric Radiology.

He was the founder in 1986 and the first President of the MASU, Mediterranean and African Society of Ultrasound. MASU became member of the World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology since 1992

Under the auspices of WHO at the beginning and now under the auspices of WHO, MASU and WFUMB, he directed several international courses around the world, since 1980, in developing countries mainly : Tunisia, Algeria, Libya , Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania, Tchad, Uganda, Yemen, Cyprus , Syria, Pakistan, Cameroon, Afghanistan , ….

He created since 1970, the first paediatric radiology department, in Tunisia and in the North African area, as independent and efficient body.

His other main interest and original publications were dedicated to Hydatid diseases (imaging, epidemiological and treatment study). His imaging US classification of the Hydatid cyst appearance published in Radiology in 1981, is still used around the world.

He is Honorary President of the Tunisian Society of Radiology, Honorary member of the, SFR , the French Society of Radiology, Paris 1997, Honorary member of the AIUM , American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, Montreal 2003, Honorary member of The SPR, Society for Pediatric Radiology, Scottsdale 2008.

Ms Taryn Gilbertson, Australia

Taryn is a Sonographer with Southern Health and Melbourne Health in Melbourne. She enjoys the variety of experience she gains from being involved with two of Melbourne's busiest and diverse tertiary referral hospitals.

Taryn has a strong interest in Obstetric Sonography enjoying the time she spends working with the Fetal Diagnostic Unit at Monash Medical Centre. Her Current interests include the use of 3D volume imaging in detection, diagnosis and ongoing management of fetal pathology, and sonographic classification of dysplastic fetal chest masses.

Professor Dr Odd Helge Gilja, Norway

Odd Helge Gilja, born 1962 in Bergen, Norway. Present positions: Professor, Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen and Consultant, National Centre for Ultrasound in Gastroenterology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.

M.D. at University of Bergen in 1990. Ph.D. at University of Bergen 1997. Specialist in internal medicine since 2001 and in gastroenterology since 2002. Consultant, Department of Medicine, Haukeland Hospital from 2001. Associate Professor at Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen from 2001 and professor from 2002. Board member, Scandinavian Association for Gastrointestinal Motility, 1995-2001. President of the Norwegian Society for Diagnostic Ultrasound in Medicine 2001-2007. Advisory Board member of European Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology from 2001. Chairman of EFSUMB's Education and Professional Standards Committee from 2007. Editorial Board in Neurogastroenterology and Motility 2001-2006 and in European J Ultrasound from 2005. Advisory Board in SonoWorld Europe from 2006. Editor of 3 books and author of about 100 scientific papers.

Dr Barry B. Goldberg, USA

Barry B. Goldberg, Professor of Radiology, is Director of the Jefferson Ultrasound Research and Education Institute at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Goldberg has written 96 chapters, 28 books, and 314 peer-reviewed papers and has received 145 grants from government, foundations and industry. He is a Past President of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. In 1965 Dr. Goldberg delivered the first paper on ultrasound ever given at a meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). In 1999 he delivered the first oration on ultrasound at the RSNA. The RSNA recognized Dr. Goldberg's research accomplishments when they granted him the Outstanding Researcher award in 1998, and his educational achievements when they granted him the Outstanding Educator award in 2001. He has received numerous honorary professorships, memberships and fellowships, as well as several honorary medical degrees from around the world.

Dr Steven Goldstein, USA

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 Lucas Greiner, Denmark

Born in 1946; father MD, too. Graduated in Giessen University, Germany, in 1971. Doctor-thesis in "Spondylitis subsequently to lumbar laminectomy" in 1973.

Internist since 1978, Gastroenterologist since 1982 Professor-thesis on "Interventional Ultrasonography in Gastroenterology" 1983

Professor of Internal Medicine since 1990 at Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Honorary Secretary of The European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology from 2002-2007

Director of Medical Clinic 2, Klinikum Wuppertal, since 1986.

Married to Gunvor Greiner (born in Norway 1947) since 1970; three sons - Lasse, Helge, and Arne, and three grandchildren - Michel, Bosse, and Jarne.

To end up I may say, that I am proud of the privilege to work as a medical doctor.

Mrs Le-Anne Grimshaw, Mater Imaging, Australia

Le-Anne was educated in Queensland with degrees from the Queensland University of Technology.
She has had a varied career as applications specialist for ATL Ultrasound, Tutor Sonographer for both Victorian Imaging Group and Mayne Health, and as the Professional Development Co-ordinator for Sonic Healthcare in Perth.
Le-Anne has a passion for teaching and has presented at many local and national meetings on musculoskeletal related topics and in 2007 authored the musculoskeletal section of the Curtin University ultrasound course.
Le-Anne is currently employed as a senior sonographer at Mater Imaging, North Sydney.

Professor Dr Norbert Gritzmann, Austria

Born 13.04.1959 in Vienna, Austria
School and medical school Vienna Austria
1982: Degree M.D. Vienna medical school
1988: Degree radiologist Vienna medical school
1989: Habilitation in Radiology
1990:Head of the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine in hospital
of the Brothers of St. John Salzburg Austria
1999: Degree nuclear medicine
2000: Professor of Radiology
President EFSUMB 2007-2009
Scientific work concerning ultrasound:
110 peer reviewed publications in journals with impact factor (especially Small Parts and GI ultrasound)
Editor/Author in 15 text books .
Organisation of more than 100 US courses,seminars and congresses.
ÖGUM and DEGUM level 3 in abdominal ultrasound.
More than 500 scientific and educational presentations.

Mrs Elvie Haluszkiewicz, Australia

Elvie developed an interest in vascular ultrasound from a background in radiography and angiography at Royal Perth Hospital and she has a DMU (Vascular). Currently she is the Vascular Supervising Sonographer at RPH.

Elvie has been involved with vascular research projects with haematology and renal departments at RPH, she was pivotal in the establishment of the TCD service in WA, has published and prepared technical material for teaching purposes and has presented widely on vascular topics.

Radiologist reporting practices and attitudes toward Doppler were surveyed and are presented here, together with results of an audit.

Dr Azza Hammou, Tunis

Graduated from Tunis Medical School in Tunisia in 1975, and had further training by fellowship in France and Belgium in CT, Pediatric radiology, MRI and interventional radiology from 0981 to 1986
Head of Tunisian National Radiation Protection Centre - since June 2004
Head of Radiological Department in Children Hospital -Tunis 1995-2004
Member of Administrative comity of Tunisian Nuclear Technical and Scientific Centre since June 2004
Professor in Radiology Medical school of Tunis since 1996
Member of Radiological College Teachers of Tunis since 1995
Member of Technical comity of Equipment Department OF ministry of Health since 1995
I conducted many training and cooperation programs, scientific courses, hand-on workshops and medical congresses, in Tunisia Maghrebian, Middle East and other African countries. Invited lecturer to local and international medical congresses. Participated in numerous researches, papers book chapters. Founding member of many radiological associations in Tunisia and member of: Tunisian and French societies of radiology, pediatric and oncology Mediterranean an African Society of Ultrasound (MASU) Councillor member, then President

Mrs Lorna Hardiman, Australia

Lorna is a sonographer with 12 years experience mainly in paediatric ultrasound.
For 10 years she worked alongside Professor Albert Lam and other paediatric radiologists at Sydney Paediatric Radiology where she was involved with Westmead Hospital's newborn hip screening programme for infants at risk for DDH.
She enjoys teaching and regulary instructs other sonographers, radiology registrars and fellows the techniques of paediatric hip ultrasound.
She has presented workshops and posters at National meetings.
She currently works at the Sydney Adventist Hospital, Wahroonga and The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney.

Professor John Harris, Australia

Professor John Harris is a graduate of the University of Sydney and was appointed foundation Professor of Vascular Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney in 1998. He is Chairman, Division of Surgery at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

He is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Vascular Surgery and on the Editorial Board of the ANZ Journal of Surgery. He has served the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons as Councilor representing Vascular Surgery and as Senior Examiner in Vascular Surgery.

He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery in North America and an Honorary Member, Society for Vascular Surgery for Great Britain and Ireland. He was made a member of the Order of Australia in 2007.

Dr Christy Holland, USA

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 Peter CC Hsieh, Taiwan Society of Ultrasound in Medicine, Taiwan

Born in Taiwan, Dr. Peter Hsieh is associate professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, where was Chair for Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 2000 to 2007. He served as secretary general of the Taiwan Society of Ultrasound in Medicine from 2000 to 2002 and 2004 to 2006.

Dr. Hsieh is currently President of the Taiwan Society of Ultrasound in Medicine, which is multi-disciplinary organization dedicated to improving the quality control in using medical ultrasound through professional and public education, research, and accreditation in Taiwan. He is also currently served as Advisory Editorial Board of The Journal of Medical Ultrasound, which is the Official Journal of Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology and Taiwan Society of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Dr. Hsieh has been interested in prenatal diagnosis of cardiac anomalies by ultrasound and he has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles reporting his clinical research on the detection and significance of fetal anomalies.

Dr Jon Hyett, Australia

Jon Hyett is the Head of High Risk Obstetrics at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. He trained in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and sub-specialised in Maternal and Fetal Medicine in the UK. His primary research interests are prenatal diagnosis in the first trimester of pregnancy and the management of twin pregnancies. He is involved with the obstetric ultrasound accreditation programs run by the Fetal Medicine Foundation and with the Nuchal Translucency Accreditation Program of RANZCR / RANZCOG.

Dr Michael Grace Kawooya, Uganda

Born 09^th June 1958. Married. He is a Ugandan.
Associate Professor of Radiology, Makerere University.
Did undergraduate and residency training in Makerere University from 1978-1988. He has lectured and examined residents in Uganda, Kenya & Tanzania.
Some publications include:

• In VIVO and in Vitro Studies on the Sonographical Detection of Ascaris Lumbricoides Pediatr. Radiol (1997) 27: 226 - 229 1997
• Abdominal ultrasound findings in HIV patients, a pictorial review. Ultrasound 2008; 16(2):66-72
• Transabdominal Ultrasound of the alimentary tract in the tropics: accepted in April 2008, but in print in "Ultrasound".

He has delivered oral presentations at national & international congresses in over 10 countries plus giving a lecture in the first virtual congress of radiology organized by International Society of Radiology.
Positions of responsibility include: Editorial board to 2 peer reviewed journals "Ultrasound", and "African Health Sciences". He is Director WFUMB/WHO Ultrasound Centre of Excellence, Kampala and recently elected to represent MASU on the WFUMB Board.

Ms Alison Kelly, Australia

Alison is currently employed as the Senior Vascular Sonographer at Sydney Vascular Laboratory which is run by Sydney Endovascular Specialists. Alison comes from a nursing background and became a Vascular Technologist in 1983 in the days before Duplex scanning; she fondly remembers her first ultrasound unit the Diasonics DRF 400.

Alison holds a Vascular DMU and is a Registered Vascular Technologist (USA). She has contributed to the establishment of the Vascular DMU, and the science of vascular ultrasound. Previously Alison has been a committee member of the Ultrasonographers' Group and served on the DMU Board of Examiners as the secretary and vascular representative for many years.

Dr Greg Kesby, Australia

Dr Greg Kesby, Sydney Ultrasound for Women and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney.
Greg Kesby is an honours graduate in science and medicine from the University of New South Wales, and obtained his PhD in embryology from the University of Cambridge, England. Greg is a subspecialist in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Sydney Ultrasound for Women and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and has previously held appointments as Associate Professor in Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Head of High Risk Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney.

Greg is the current Chair of the Professionalism and Ethics Advisory Committee of the Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and a Member of the New South Wales Medical Board. He established Australia's first and only intrauterine fetal cardiac intervention group as a collaboration between high risk obstetricians at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and paediatric cardiologists at the Children's Hospital, Westmead. The Cardiac Group performed their first intrauterine procedure in 2006; a technically successful balloon aortic valvuloplasty on a 27 week fetus.

Mrs Jenifer Kidd, Australia

Jenifer Kidd has been practicing vascular ultrasound since 1983. Jenifer is a Registered Vascular Technologist (USA), an Accredited Medical Sonographer (ASAR) and holds the Vascular Diploma of Medical Ultrasound. She was recently awarded a Fellowship of the Society for Vascular Ultrasound and is their first international Fellow.

She was co-founder and long serving Technical Director of the Camperdown Vascular Laboratory in Sydney and is currently the Senior Sonographer at the Gosford Vascular Laboratory on the Central Coast.

Jenifer is well known in the vascular community and has had a long standing involvement with the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine having served on ASUM Council, involved in many ASUM scientific and educational meetings, and is a practical examiner for the DMU.

She has an ongoing commitment to sonographer education having published and presented at many local and international meetings.

Dr Seung Hyup Kim, South Korea

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 In-One Kim, Korea

In-one Kim has graduated with a masters degree and Ph.D from Seoul National University College of Medicine.

He is currently the President of the Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Professor Masatoshi Kudo, Japan

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.

Professor Albert Lam, Australia

Professor Albert Lam is Clinical Professor in Disciplines of Paediatrics and Radiology, University of Sydney, Senior Consultant and Head of the Ultrasound Unit at the Children's Hospital in Westmead, Sydney.

He is a Senior Member of the American Society of Ultrasound (AIUM) since 1984. He was the Inaugural UI/UL Plenary Award Lecturer in 2002; B Buttery Travel Fellowship in 2007 and was awarded with Honorary Fellowship by Australasian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM) in 2004.

Professor Lam has published 65 original articles,11 review articles and 82 abstracts in Australasian and International medical journals; and 25 lecture notes in teaching syllabus of Medical Refreshers Courses in Australasia, South East Asia and China. Professor Lam has also published 4 book chapters. He has given 30 invited lectures internationally and 29 nationally.

Dr Mirta Lanfranchi, Argentina

• GRADUATED as medical Doctor in Medicine, in the Universidad del Salvador , Buenos Aires, Argentina 1972
• PAST- PRESIDENT of the SAUMB (Argentine Society of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology) period 1998- 2000
• PROFESSOR of ultrasound in the FLAUS (Latin-American Federation of U.S. Societies)
• SAUMB( Argentine Society of ultrasound -
• SAEU-Argentine Society of echography
• SAR- Argentine Society of Radiology
• CIR- Interamerican Collegge of radiology

AUTHOR OF BOOKS Specialized in Ultrasound, Marbán Edithors, Madrid- España:

• Ecografía Mamaria ( in Spanish )
• Breast Ultrasound
• Ecografía de Tiroides ( in Spanish )
• AUTHOR OF CD - practical approach - Breast ultrasound - Part one ( year 2006 )

CHIEF of Department Breast Diagnosis and Interventionism of Dr. Abete Hospital-Buenos Aires- Argentina-

Ms Mary Langdale, Australia

Mary Langdale is a sonographer employed with MIA in Melbourne, Australia.
With particular interest and extensive experience in musculoskeletal ultrasound, the past ten years have involved presentations and teaching for ASA, ASUM and Monash University. Mary volunteered as a sonographer at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and worked at the 2006 and 2007 Australian Tennis Open. In 2006 Mary was the inaugural Australian recipient of the ASUM caduceus scholarship.

Dr Jeong Min Lee, Korea

Dr. Jeong Lee received his medical degree and residency training and felllowship training for abdominal imaging at the Chonbuk National University Medical School. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine. Dr. Lee's expertise is in the field of contrast enhanced ultrasound, abdominal imaging, and ultrasound-guided tumor ablation.
He has authored over 150 peer-reviewed articles reporting his original research on the hepatobiliary imaging and radiofrequency tumor ablation. In addition, he wrote 7 book chapters. Dr. Lee has given over 100 invited lectures at educational institutions and professional societies and received many awards.

Mrs Alison Lee-Tannock, Mater Mothers Hospital, Australia

Alison Lee-Tannock is the Chief Sonographer in Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Mater Mothers Hospital in Brisbane. She worked as a radiographer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital after arriving in Australia. In 1993 she moved to Townsville where she gained the DMU. After 3 years in Townsville she worked briefly in private practice in Geelong before obtaining her current position at the Mater in Brisbane as the first sonographer to be employed in the then newly established Maternal Fetal Medicine Department. She has held university positions at QUT and CSU and is on the DMU Board of ASUM as well as being a DMU examiner. She has extensive experience in tertiary obstetric ultrasound and fetal echocardiography.

Ms Joanne Lennox, Ultrasound Care, Australia

Jo is a senior obstetric sonographer at Ultrasound Care North Shore, and Sydney Adventist Hospital, Wahroonga. She has worked as a sonographer for 28 years, specializing in obstetrics and gynaecology for most of this time.

She has extensive experience in the ultrasound of high risk pregnancies, first trimester screening, fetal anomaly scanning and 3D ultrasound. She has a special interest in fetal cardiac ultrasound, working with fetal cardiologists at the SAN.

Professor Ping Liang, Chinese PLA General Hospital, China

Dr. Ping Liang, MD, PhD, born in 1963, is currently a Professor and Deputy Chairman at the Department of Ultrasound, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China. Her research interest is ultrasound-guided interventional treatment of cancer. Since 1994, she has carried out experimental and clinical studies on percutaneous microwave ablation of liver cancer. Her term developed two generations of microwave coagulator and antennae which was widely used across China and obtained promising therapeutic outcomes comparable to hepatectomy. More than 1300 liver cancer patients were treated by her team over the past 14 years which was the largest cohort study ever reported. She is one of the experts who wrote guidelines for treatment of liver cancer in China. She had published one book and 16 english articles on microwave ablation of cancer including Radiology.

Dr Jonathan Lindner, Portland

Dr. Lindner received his medical degree and residency training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, and received his cardiovascular training at the University of Virginia. He is currently a Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University and serves the Associate Chief for Education for the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr. Lindner's expertise is in the field of contrast echocardiography, molecular imaging, and microvascular physiology. His research laboratory is currently funded by several R01 grants from the NIH. Areas of research include: a) application of molecular imaging techniques to evaluate atherosclerosis, angiogenesis, ischemic injury and inflammation; b) abnormalities in microvascular function in diabetes, obesity and insulin resistance; c) novel methods for site-targeted gene and drug delivery with ultrasound; and d) microvascular responses to acute and chronic myocardial and limb ischemia.

Dr Torben Lorentzen, Copenhagen University Hospital at Herlev, Denmark

Dr. Torben Lorentzen graduated from Copenhagen University, Denmark, in 1985. Since 1990, he has been actively involved in various aspects of ultrasound mainly Doppler imaging and Interventional Ultrasound (biopsy, drainage and tissue ablation). His PhD thesis from 1998 is about Ultrasound guided RF ablation. He is the President-Elect of the Danish Society of Diagnostic Ultrasound (DSDU).
He has published more than 40 papers and presented more than 100 lectures at national or international causes or congresses of Radiology and Ultrasound. He is a reviewer for European Journal of Ultrasound and ACTA Radiologica.

Dr Ming-De Lu, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, China

He is the Professor of Sun Yat-Sen University in China, the Chief Expert of Department of Medical Ultrasonics and the Deputy Director of Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery in the the First Affiliated Hospital of the university.

His research interests are surgical treatment of hepatobiliary cancer, ultrasound guided percutaneous ablation of liver cancer and diagnostic ultrasound in hepatobiliary diseases.

He is the member of International Hepato-Pancreato- Biliary Association (IHPBA), International Liver Cancer Association (ILCA) and The Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine.

Dr Phil Lucas, PRP Diagnostic Imaging, Australia

Phil trained as an undergraduate at the University of Sydney with residency and radiology training at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney.

He did a fellowship in musculoskeletal radiology at the University of Virginia, USA, 1996. Phil is Clinical Lecturer in Sports Medicine Imaging at the University of NSW and Honorary Radiologist for the NSW Waratahs Super 14 Rugby, Australian Rugby, Manly Sea Eagles & the West Tigers Rugby League teams and Imaging director for the NSW Institute of Sport. He was Visiting Radiologist at the Sydney Olympics 2000.

His special interests are in musculoskeletal ultrasound and MRI and image guided injections and procedures.

Phil works in both private and public practice in Sydney. (www.prpimaging.com.au)

Dr Harald Lutz, Germany

Prof. Dr. med. habil. Harald T. Lutz completed his post graduate internship 1974 and received the degree as Professor for Internal Medicine 1983 from the University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He became the chief of the Dept. for Internal Medicine I in Bayreuth 1983 and was the Medical Director of the Klinikum from 1989 until his retirement 2003.
He started his work in ultrasound 1970 and became the chairman of the Ultrasound laboratory 1973. 1974 he initiated the Ultrasound School at the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg.
His main interests are ultrasound in internal medicine, interventional and endoscopic ultrasound. He was the President of the German Society for Ultrasound (DEGUM) 1983-1986, of the European Federation (EFSUMB) 1990-1993 and of the WFUMB 1997 - 2000. He is honorary member of the national Societies for Ultrasound of Brasil, Argentinia, Italy and Poland. His recent publications are "Ultrasound in the diagnosis of infectious and tropical diseases" (Ed) 2007, "Ultraschall in der Inneren Medizin" 2008 and "Manual of Diagnostic Ultrasound" (Ed.), in press. He is particularely interested in the promotion and education of ultrasound in emerging countries and initiated the project "African Partnership"of the WFUMB.

Ms Virginia Makeham, Australia

Virginia began her career in nursing, specialising in intensive care and later in vascular surgery. Her career in vascular ultrasound began in 1990 in the vascular laboratory at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, where she still works.

Virginia has convened and presented at local, national and international vascular ultrasound meetings. She is a guest lecturer for the Post Graduate Sonography Programme at the University of Sydney and a certified practical examiner for ASUM Diploma of Medical Ultrasound candidates

Dr Daniel Makes, Indonesia

Dr Daniel Makes currently is a Senior Consultant Radiologist and Chief of Superfisial Organ Imaging, Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine , University of Indonesia, Jakarta and Chairman of Continuing Professional Development of the same department.
He wrote two books, Atlas of Breast Ultrasound and Mammography and Nasopharyngeal
Carcinoma : Radiodiagnostic and Radiotheraphy Aspect , ( both in Indonesian language )
Currently he is the Founding President of the Asian Breast Diseases Association ( ABDA ) , the President of the Indonesian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine ( ISUM ) and also the President of the Indonesian Society of Oncology Imaging ( ISOI ). He has given 165 invited presentations in international, regional and national scientific meetings.
Currenty he is also the Editorial Member of Journal of Medical Ultrasound, the official journal of the ASIAN Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology ( AFSUMB ) and Director, Indonesian Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine ( INTIUM) which is affiliated to the Jefferson Ultrasound Research and Education Institute ( JUREI ), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA.

Assoc. Prof Carlo Martinoli, Italy

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".

Dr John McGahan, USA

Dr. McGahan obtained his undergraduate degree in engineering before completing medical school at the Oregon Health Sciences University. Dr. McGahan is Professor of Radiology, Vice Chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California. He has had a long career in Abdominal Imaging, in particular in ultrasound, close to 250 peer-reviewed articles as well as having been the editor of 6 separate books, and numerous book chapters. He has held various titles throughout his career and is responsible for organizing the American College of Radiology Ultrasound Accreditation Program. His publications deal with different facets of ultrasound from obstetrical ultrasound to interventional ultrasound. He has also been the developer of a number of different techniques including development of radiofrequency ablation of the liver. He has several technical innovations and patents in progress. He currently also serves as the Director of Thoracoabdominal Imaging and Ultrasound at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California.

Mr Rob McGregor, Australia

Rob McGregor has been involved in diagnostic imaging since 1981 and medical ultrasound since January 1987. During this time Rob has trained and worked in all aspects of sonography excluding Echocardiography.

Rob obtained undergraduate qualifications in Diagnostic Radiography and subsequently obtained the Diploma of Medical Ultrasound (General) and the Diploma of Medical Ultrasound (Vascular). He has a long history of guiding and tutoring those preparing for examinations and the various graduate diplomas in medical ultrasound.

In addition to these training activities Rob has had a number of significant roles as an advocate for the sonography profession. These roles have included; President of the Australian Sonographers Association and Chairperson of the Australasian Sonographer Accreditation Registry.

Rob has also provided advice on issues relating to medical ultrasound for the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.

Since 2000 Rob has turned his focus to establishing and administering the Canberra School of Sonography (CSS), in 2005 the CSS underwent an extensive development and the Australian School of Medical Imaging (ASMI) was founded.

Rob combines this extensive involvement in ultrasound with a true passion for the education of those involved with medical imaging.

Dr Andrew McLennan, Royal North Shore Hospital, Australia

Andrew is a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist whose particular interest is in prenatal diagnosis and ultrasound. He is a consultant to the Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney and a Partner at Sydney Ultrasound for Women.

He introduced Nuchal Translucency (NT) screening for Down syndrome to Australia, helping to revolutionise the way prenatal screening for chromosome abnormality is conducted. He is the current Chairman of the National Nuchal Translucency Education and Monitoring Program. Andrew has been extensively involved in first trimester screening education across Australia and Asia. He is the current RANZCOG Examinations Coordinator for the Ultrasound Subspecialty and is actively involved in research into early diagnosis of fetal abnormalities.

Dr Eugene McNally, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, UK

Dr Eugene McNally is Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, the Oxford Clinic for Special Surgery, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Oxford. He graduated from the medical school of University College Dublin in 1983 and trained in Radiology at Northwick Park Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London. He joined the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Oxford in 1993 and was Director of Musculoskeletal Radiology between 2001 and 2004. Dr McNally's special interests are the clinical application of musculoskeletal MRI and ultrasound. He has given over 200 invited lectures in national and international meetings in the last 10 years. Dr McNally is Editor of one of the leading textbooks in MSK ultrasound, Practical Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, is editor of the NHS and Royal College MSK electronic teaching program as well publishing numerous articles and book chapters. Dr McNally is a Director of the British Musculoskeletal Ultrasound course and is on the musculoskeletal ultrasound committee of the European Society of Skeletal Radiology.

Mr Sean McPeake, Australia

Sean is a sonographer and sonographer educator with nearly 20 years experience. Sean spent many years as the Tutor Sonographer in a large private radiology practice, overseeing the education needs of a large group of sonographers. He has also lectured in the post-graduate ultrasound program at the University of South Australia since 1996. Sean is a passionate and articulate presenter on ultrasound matters and an active member of the two professional ultrasound bodies in Australia. Sean has been involved from the early days at Signostics Medical, a company which has developed and recently launched the World's Smallest Portable Ultrasound Device for Point-of-Care use. His role is to assist development of new applications for the device and evolve and continuously improve training materials that support its use.

Dr Eberhard Merz, Denmark

Eberhard Merz is Professor and Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Krankenhaus Nordwest (Teaching Hospital University of Frankfurt), Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
He is author and co-author of over 200 scientific papers. He has published 5 ultrasound books in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 6 different languages.

He is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Ultrasound and Co-Editor of Donald School Journal of Ultrasoud in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

He was executive board member of the ISUOG and chaired the 3D Focus group. At present he is Board Member of the "World Association of Perinatal Medicine" and the International Society "The Fetus as a Patient".

Since 2002 he is President of the Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) Germany.
Between 2006 and 2008 he was President of the German Society for Ultrasoud in Medicine (DEGUM) and since 2008 he is Past President of the Society.
He organized 20 national and international congresses. In 1997 he hosted the First World Congress on 3D Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Mainz, Germany. In 2008 he was the host of the World Congress "The Fetus as a Patient" which took place in Frankfurt/Germany.

Dr Roberto Moncayo, Ecuador

• Medical Doctor graduated at Central University of Ecuador
• Attached Teacher of Post-Degree of Gyneco-Obstetrics at Catholic University of Quito
• Past-President of Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Ultrasonido en Medicina y Biología (Ecuadorian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology)
• Co-writer of the book "Uso de heparinas de bajo peso molecular en Gineco-Obstetricia" (Use of low molecular weight heparins in Gynecology and Obstetrics)
• President of Federación Latinoamericana de Sociedades de Ultrasonido en Medicina y Biología FLAUS (Latin American Federation of Ultrasound Societies) 2007-2009
• Founder member of the Ecuadorian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Assoc. Prof Woo Kyung Moon, Korea

Professor Woo Kyung Moon is Chief of the Breast Imaging Section, Department of Radiology at the Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul, Korea. He received the M.D. and PhD. degrees in medical science from Seoul National University, Korea, in 1989 and 1999. He was a Research Scientist at Harvard Medical School, USA, from 2001 to 2003. He is a member of the Korean Society of Academic Science and editor of The Journal of the Korean Society for Breast Screening. His research interests include breast imaging and intervention, computer-aided diagnosis, and molecular imaging. He has published more than 90 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals including 31 in Radiology. His benchmark studies on breast ultrasound published in journal Radiology include ultrasound of microcalcifications and ductal carcinoma in situ, preoperative ultrasound of bilateral breasts for breast cancer staging, and computer-aided diagnosis using 2D, 3D and strain ultrasound images. He recently authored a textbook on breast ultrasound.

Dr Fuminori Moriyasu, Tokyo

Professor Dr Fuminori Moriyasu is the Chairman & Professor of Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan). He graduated from the Kyoto University School of Medicine (Kyoto, Japan) in 1975. His medical education included studies in Kurashiki Central Hospital (Okayama, Japan), Tenri Hospital (Nara, Japan) and Kyoto University Hospital. He is specialized in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hapatology.
Dr Moriyasu has keen interest in gastroenterology and liver diseases including interventional radiology and interventional ultrasound for liver cancer and published more than 150 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals and more than 50 book contributions. He is also editor of several medical books and journals.
Dr Moriyasu has been working for development of contrast ultrasound and he was the main conducting Doctor of Sonazoid development in Japan. He has been Chairman of International Ultrasound Contrast Imaging for ten years and has hold annual symposium every years in Japan together with the Co-Chairman, Professor Shintaro Beppu.

Mr Martin Necas, Antegrade Ultrasound Solutions, New Zealand

Martin Necas is a senior general and vascular sonographer in Hamilton, New Zealand. Martin completed training in general and vascular ultrasound in Seattle, USA in 1996 and later attained a Master's Degree in Sonography through the University of South Australia. Martin has practiced diagnostic ultrasound in USA, New Zealand and Australia in a wide variety of clinical settings including tertiary teaching hospitals and private imaging centers. Martin is a true ultrasound enthusiast, keen clinical instructor, and lecturer. Martin has also been a prolific conference speaker, presenting nearly 100 papers in the last 10 years at ultrasound meetings in Australia and New Zealand. Martin serves on the Board of Examiners of ASUM.

Mrs Ann Needham, Vascular Diagnostic Services, USA

Ann started in the ultrasound field in 1975, meeting David Sumner, MD, who took her from nursing to vascular diagnostic testing in the surgery department at SIU School of Medicine. She obtained the Registered Vascular Technologist certification in 1983.

In 1985, she joined Dr. Robert Barnes, participating in the first fellowship program in the Department of Surgery at the University of Arkansas while directing the Vascular Lab. From 1989 until 1999, Ann was Director of the Neurovascular Department at Baptist Medical Center in Nashville, TN. Currently she is the Vascular Education Coordinator in University Surgical Associates, Chattanooga, TN. She has been on faculty at Wake Forest University, NC, for 25 years. Ann currently serves on the ARDMS Board as a member of the exam development task force for vascular technology.

Ann has published in topics such as statistics, dialysis fistulae, cold sensitivity, and endografts.

Mr Terry Needham, Erlanger Health System, USA

Terry started his vascular lab career via bioengineering at St. Mary's Hospital in London, UK, working with John Hobbs, Jimmy Yao and then Andrew Nicolaides. Helping to found the "Blood Flow Lab" there in 1962 started his interest in diagnosing venous disorders, particularly perforators. Terry emigrated to Columbus, Ohio in 1983 to direct a vascular lab with Bill Evans, then on New Jersey in 1990, to work with Bob Hobson. He has been Director of Vascular Services at Erlanger Health System, Chattanooga since 1998.

Terry is Chair of ARDMS Vascular Physics and serves on the Board of ICAVL. He has directed the Peripheral Vascular Ultrasound Course at Wake Forest, NC for more than 25 years. His major interest now is community education and carrying our peripheral vascular health screenings. He has one wife, two cars, three computers, four cameras and (with Ann) five grandchildren. Plus Jack, the vegetarian schnauzer

Professor Michael Bachmann Nielsen, Denmark "CADUCEUS Speaker"

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.

Ms Delwyn Nicholls, Australia

BA App Sc, Grad Dip Med US, DMU (vasc), Grad Cert Health Professional education.
Delwyn has been scanning for the last 19 years. Her background as a diagnostic radiographer lead her into ultrasound at North shore Radiology in 1989.Where she completed a Graduate Diploma in Medical ultrasound at Sydney university. Several years later Delwyn completed her DMU at the Camperdown Vascular Laboratory under the tutelage of Professor Harris and Jennifer Kids. In 1994 Delwyn commenced her interest in Sonographer education taking a part time lecturers position at Sydney University - where she worked in the ultrasound faculty for two years. Delwyn is now undertaking a mixed research/coursework masters in health science education at Monash University, Melbourne.
Delwyn has had experience in general, vascular, breast, MSK, vascular, ocular, paediatric and O&G ultrasound. Delwyn is currently working as a tutor sonographer, general and O&G sonographer. Key areas of interest include sonographer education, breast and obstetric ultrasound.

Dr Christian Nolsøe, Denmark

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.

Prof Dr Dieter Nurnberg, Germany

Dieter Nuernberg is born, living and working in Neuruppin, a small town north of Berlin, in east part of Germany. Study in Berlin at Humboldt university; education in internal medicine; 1992 specialisation in gastroenterology; in 1982 beginning with ultrasound; since 1990 course director of DEGUM; more than 100 us-courses. Since 1991 director of department of internal medicine. In 1994 habilitation at the Universität of Rostock about Gallstone epidemiology. In 1999 congress president of the 11.th Euroson-Congress in Berlin. Since 2000 board-member of DEGUM and since 2006 bord-member of EFSUMB. In 2008 new president of DEGUM (German Ultrasound Society). Professor of internal medicine at the Universität of Rostock. Organizer of more than 20 scientific congresses. Special hobby is Sonorun, created in Euroson 2007. He is also engaged in oncology, palliative medicine and hospice work. He is 56 years old, father of 3 children and already 2 times grand father.

Ms Jenny Parkes, Australia

Jenny Parkes has practiced as a sonographer for more than 25 years and has been actively involved in sonographer representation via the Australian Sonographers Association, having undertaken numerous roles, including secretary for 4 years, conference convenor ion 2004 and President from 1998-2000. In 2001, Jenny was the recipient of the ASA Sonographer Achievement Award, an award she is very proud of as was is voted for by her peers. Jenny Parkes currently works as an ultrasound coordinator and tutor sonographer with MIA Victoria, part of the I-Med Network and coordinates a unit in the Monash University Graduate Diploma of Medical Ultrasound course. She attained her Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education in 2007 and in 2008 completed her Masters in Medical Ultrasound also at Monash University.

Jenny will now present her findings from her Masters project that reviewed the current workplace protocols and practices within Australia of transvaginal ultrasound.

Dr Lucia Pemble, Griffith University, Australia

Lucia Pemble is Senior Lecturer and Program Convenor of the Master of Clinical Science, Clinical Physiology Program at Griffith University, Brisbane.
She is currently a sonographer councillor of ASUM and is an accredited medical sonographer with a PhD in vascular ultrasound and numerous years clinical experience in both vascular and cardiac ultrasound and non-invasive physiological diagnosis.

Mr Robert Phillips, Uscom Ltd, Australia

Rob has been a clinical sonographer and an active ultrasound researcher and educator for over 20 years. Rob has been a member of ASUM since 1986 and a member of the ASE since 1994, and is a Faculty member of the International Society of Cardiovascular Ultrasound.
He has been a Co-ordinator, Faculty member and Examiner for the ASUM DMU and Head of the Cardiac Faculty at the AIU.
Rob completed his MPhil thesis on high frame rate digital echocardiographic assessment of myocardial performance through the University of Queensland and is currently completing his PhD on digital Doppler ultrasound.
Rob is the author or co-author of approximately 19 peer reviewed publications and more than 30 international papers on circulation. He is also the author of approximately 30 international patent applications on cardiovascular measurement.
Rob was the Winner of the Global Entrepolis Award for innovative application of science, and was a finalist in the World Technology Awards for Medicine and Health in 2004.
Rob remains the Director of Clinical Science and Executive Chairman of USCOM Ltd, and a Director of Northern Cardiac Sonography.

Mrs Vanessa Pincham, Sydney Ultrasound for Women, Australia

Vanessa Pincham has been a sonographer at Sydney Ultrasound for Women for over 10 years. She obtained her post graduate ultrasound qualifications from the University of Sydney in 1997.

Her professional areas of interest include infertility investigation and first trimester screening which has led to research into areas such as first trimester abnormality detection rates and nasal bone assessment.

Vanessa is committed to sonographer education and has actively pursued a role in continuing education and professional development. She has been an invited speaker at many local and national ultrasound meetings .

Dr Lawrence Platt, USA

Dr. Platt is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is the Director of the Center for Fetal Medicine and Women’s Ultrasound in Los Angeles. He is Past President of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) and the 2008 recipient of the Ian Donald Gold Medal Award. He has authored more than 270 peer-reviewed publications, 52 chapters in medical books, and has 4 books to his credit. He is the current commissioning editor of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. In addition, he is on the editorial board of several other prestigious medical journals.

Dr. Platt has been elected to numerous prestigious professional organizations and has served in many leadership roles for such professional societies .He is a past president the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and continues to serve on numerous committees in the AIUM .He is past president of the Los Angeles OB-GYN Society, is the current and founding treasurer of the Maternal Fetal Medicine Foundation He also currently serves as AIUM’s administrative councilor to the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. His research interests include ultrasound in prenatal diagnosis, 2-, 3- and 4-D ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology, and the biophysical assessment of fetal condition.

Ms Liz Pluis, Australia

Elizabeth Pluis is the chief Sonographer at St Vincent’s Vascular laboratory in Sydney. Liz has been working at St Vincent’s for 15years and has extensive experience in both vascular and general ultrasound. Liz has given a number of presentations at local, national and international conferences and plays a vital role in the teaching of student Sonographers in both vascular and general ultrasound

Professor Joseph Polak, USA

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.

Ann Quinton, Sydney West Health Service, Australia

Ann Quinton is a Senior Sonographer with the Sydney West Area Health Service at Nepean Hospital. She has a special interest in obstetric and gynaecology ultrasound, especially third trimester ultrasound and the fetal heart. Ann has a master's degree in Health Science (Medical Ultrasonography) and is currently enrolled in a PhD in Medicine at the University of Sydney where she is researching endothelial function in pregnancy and pre-eclampsia using an ultrasound technique.

Dr Stefania Roberts, Australia

Dr Stefania Roberts graduated from Monash University in 1991. She works in private practice in Melbourne practicing as a Phlebologist. Dr Roberts has a keen interest in Endovenous laser ablation and Ultrasound guided sclerotherapy for the treatment of varicose veins. She performs sclerotherapy for the treatment of telangiectatic and reticular vessels of the legs and utilizes vascular lasers for the treatment of facial telangiectases. Dr Roberts is an active member of the Australasian College of Phlebology (ACP). She co-ordinates educational activities for the Victorian Faculty of the ACP. She has published in several journals. Dr Roberts has presented at both national and international conferences.

Associate Professor Nicholas Raine-Fenning, UK

Nick Raine-Fenning works as a consultant gynaecologist and associate professor of reproductive medicine and surgery at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, UK. Clinically he manages women with subfertility and benign gynaecological pathology and jointly runs the University of Nottingham's assisted conception unit, NURTURE (Nottingham University Research and Treatment Unit in Reproduction). Nick is a recognised expert in three-dimensional ultrasound and was awarded a PhD in 2004 for work relating to the quantification of pelvic blood flow. In 2005 he established the Academic Imaging Suite, a state of the art facility that provides a high quality clinical service and forms the base for this research team. The unit is also used for education and Nick and his team now offer theoretical and practical training in all aspects of gynaecological scanning tailored according to the individual's needs and interests. He is one of the founders of the recently formed British Society of Gynaecological Imaging (BSGI), whose aim is to ensure that all healthcare practitioners have access to quality training in gynaecological ultrasound.

Ms Meiri Robertson, Australia

Meiri Robertson is director of the Fetal Medicine Unit at the Canberra Hospital. A past directorship of a Thomas Jefferson (Philadelphia, USA) affiliated centre and a strong presence on behalf of ASUM in the ACT are proof of her commitment to the teaching of ultrasound. She is an ASUM board member for the CCPU (Certificate in Clinician Performed Ultrasound for Point of Care Limited Ultrasound Examination) program in Obstetrics & Gynaecology. She is also a journal referee for Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynaecology and The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Dr Jonathan M. Rubin, USA

Jonathan M. Rubin was born in May, 1947. He received a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Utah in 1969. He received his M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1974, and his Ph.D. in Biophysics and Theoretical Biology from the University of Chicago in 1977. From 1979-1984, Dr. Rubin was the director of the Section of Body Computed Tomography and Ultrasound Imaging in the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago. He has been at the University of Michigan since 1984 where he is now a Professor of Radiology and the Section Head for Ultrasound and Abdominal Interventional Radiology. His research interests include ultrasound contrast agents, ultrasound volume flow imaging, ultrasound perfusion imaging, ultrasound artifacts, elasticity imaging, and opticoacoustic imaging. He has over 180 peer-reviewed publications, over 100 invited presentations, and 8 patents.

Ms Loretta Scarborough, Australia

Loretta has been involved in diagnostic imaging since 1978 and medical ultrasound since 1987. She received an A.Sc. in Radiological Technology from Rhode Island Junior College in 1978 and graduated summa cum laude with a B.Sc. in Diagnostic Imaging from Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA in 1987.

She has worked as a Radiology supervisor, general ultrasound (RDMS) and vascular sonographer (RVT). In addition to her extensive clinical work, Loretta was a lecturer for the Vascular Ultrasound Dept. at TJU and assisted in the ongoing training of general imaging students.
In the early 1990's she worked as an application specialist for Acuson Corporation in Europe and Asia. She became the North Asia application manager for Acuson in 1995, providing management and organization for regional educational seminars as well as supporting field and regional distributor personnel.

Loretta is currently working at the Australian School of Medical Imaging, Hornsby, NSW as the GPMU (Graduate Program in Medical Ultrasound) Course Director. She brings her passion for ultrasound and extensive clinical/teaching skills to those committed to the expanding future of ultrasound.

Dr Fergus Scott, Australia

Fergus Scott graduated from Monash University. He trained as an obstetrician and gynaecologist with the Australasian College. He obtained the Diploma of diagnostic Ultrasound from ASUM. Subspecialty training was in Maternal Fetal Medicine and was in the first group to qualify by exam. He then also obtained the subspecialty of certification in Obstetric and Gynaecological Ultrasound (COGU). He currently works for Sydney Ultrasound for Women as one of the partners.

During his career he has been the convenor of an ASUM annual scientific meeting and is currently on the board of examiners for the Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound. He is alo the current chairman of the subspecialty of COGU and is part of their board of examiners. His main interests are in first trimester screening and 3/4D ultrasound.

Dr Shoichi Senda, Japan

Dr Senda is Vice Dean, Professor and Head, Department of Integrated Medicine, Kagawa University Faculty of Medicine

He has a PhD in Medical Science, Graduate School of Osaka University March, 1978.
He is a Board Certified Fellow of Jpn Soc of Internal Medicine, Circulation Soc, Soc of Ultrasonics in Medicine, Soc of Primary Care
Fellow of Jpn College of Cardiology

Professor Waldo Sepulveda, Chile

Waldo Sepulveda is Director of the Fetal Medicine Center, Clinica Las Condes and Professor of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at the University of Santiago de Chile. He received his training in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Chile, and in Fetal Medicine at Queen Charlotte's Hospital (Professor Nicholas Fisk) and King's College Hospital (Professor Kypros Nicolaides). He has published and co-authored 200 scientific publications on prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy. His main areas of interests include first-trimester sonographic screening, monochorionic twin pregnancies and fetal therapy.

Dr Neil Simmons, Australia

Neil Simmons has been in private practice for 26 years and has been performing musculoskeletal ultrasound for 19 years. He has spoken at numerous national, state and regional conferences and conducted many workshops. He was a plenary speaker at the ASUM annual scientific meeting in Cairns in September 2007. He is author/ co-author of 4 published papers with others in print. He is a member of A.S.U.M., A.M.S.I.G. and Sportsmedicine Australia. He has been involved in the Caduceus exchange program between Denmark and Australia and has been a Chris Kohlenberg travelling fellow. One of his career highlights was performing MSKUS at the Sydney Olympics imaging department. He works solely at The Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Centre of Excellence at Tynte St in North Adelaide.

Dr Sashi Siva, Australia

Sashi Siva is a graduate of the University of NSW. She obtained both her FRANZCOG and Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound in 2000 .

She has undertaken training at the Fetal Medicine Unit at Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH), Sydney Ultrasound for Women, and at the Ultrasound Department of the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne. Her training lead to the COGU sub-speciality certificate in 2003. At RNSH, her research interest involved 3D gynaecological ultrasound, and prenatal detection of fetal cells in maternal circulation. In Melbourne, her main research interest was into the investigation of female infertility with Hy-Co-Sy. Sashi introduced the use of HyCoSy procedures at the Sydney Adventist Hospital.

Sashi lectures at the University of Sydney Masters Course in Reproductive Health on Prenatal Diagnosis and Ultrasound. She also runs tutorials on gynaecological scanning for trainee sonographers at Sydney Ultrasound for Women, where she is a Partner. Sashi is Past President of the Australasian Society of Obstetric and Gynaecological Ultrasound (AAOGU). She was involved in the AGES Gynaecological ultrasound Workshop held in 2005, Sydney.

Sashi has a keen interest in 3D/4D techniques to assess the uterine cavity for congenital abnormalities. Currently she works in private practice performing all aspects of gynecological ultrasounds and procedures, as well as obstetric ultrasound and related invasive procedures.

She is also a VMO at the Fetal Medicine department of Royal North Shore Hospital, where she is actively involved in teaching medical students and registrars about ultrasound and related invasive procedures.

Sashi is on the ASUM O&G CCPU panel, and will be a DDU examiner soon.

Dr. Povilas Sladkevicius, Malmo University Hospital, Sweden

Dr. Povilas Sladkevicius, born in Lithuania, educated in Vilnius university, Medical faculty. Specialist obstetrician-gynecologist from 1982 in Vilnius University Hospital. 1989 defended the doctoral thesis in Lituania on the topic "Fetal-placental-maternal blood flow assessment using Doppler ultrasound in the normal and pathological third trimester of pregnancy". Between 1991 and 1994 he was working as research fellow in Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, Sweden. In 1994 he defended the western style PhD "Doppler ultrasound studies in gynecology". From 1996 to 2001 he was working in London University St. George's Hospital, London, in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology led by one of the obstetrical ultrasound pioneers Prof. Stuart Campbell. From 2001 he is working as Associate Professor (Docent) in Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, Sweden. His fields of interests are Diagnostical methods of ultrasound in obstetrics, perinatology and gynecology, Reproductive medicine and infertility. He is the authors of more than 70 scientifical papers and chapters. He is the member of Editorial boarder of three medical journals.

Dr Tim Spicer, Australia

Dr Tim Spicer is a senior staff renal physician in south-west Sydney, and senior lecturer at UNSW.

His PhD was in the immunobiology of glomerulonephritis, and he holds a general DDU.

His ultrasound interests are scanning of arteriovenous dialysis fistulae, interventional ultrasound, and ultrasound education, and he has run a 2-day annual ultrasound training course for nephrologists for the last five years.

Mr Chris Sykes, Australia

Christopher is a sonographer from Melbourne with extensive experience in vascular and musculoskeletal ultrasound. In conjunction with Siemens, he completed two educational CDs focussing on sonography of the upper limb. He has presented extensively in Australia and overseas and co-authored a number of papers.

Christopher has been a member of the ASUM Board of Examiners for a number of years and is currently chairman on the Australasian Sonographer Accreditation Registry.

In 2007 he completed a Juris Doctorate, and in April 2009 was admitted to practice as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of Victoria. In addition to his sonography commitments he works at Health Legal in Melbourne, a law firm providing legal services to the health industry.

Assoc. Prof Antonia Testa, Italy

Antonia Carla Testa, M.D., was born in Bergamo, Italy in 1965.
She studied medicine at the "Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore" in Rome and graduated in 1990. She did her residency in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the same university and in 1994 she received the certification in Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 1999 she obtained a Doctorate in fetal and pediatric cardiological sciences.
Since 1998 she has been employed as academic doctor with duties in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, of the "Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore" in Rome.
Since 2006 she is Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, of the "Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore" in Rome.
She is also currently employed as gynecologist in the Vatican City.
Since 1989 she has been interested in the field of ultrasound, at first in the use of Doppler velocimetry in pregnancy and then in the study of ovarian masses and oncological ultrasound.
At present she is in charge of the gyne-oncological ultrasound Service of the "Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore".
Since November 2007 she is in the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Mrs Kerry Thoirs, University of South Australia, Australia

I am a sonographer with over twenty years experience as a general sonographer. I completed the DMU in 1988 and a Master of Applied Science in 2000. In 2007 I was awarded a PhD for my thesis; " The role of high resolution ultrasound in the diagnosis of ulnar nerve entrapment at the elbow". I am currently have a dual role at the University of South Australia, as the Program Director for the Undergraduate Medical Radiations degree and also teaching into the Medical Sonography Graduate Diploma and Masters programs.

My research interests at the moment focus on sonographic measurements of skeletal muscle and teaching in Medical Radiation sciences.

Dr Ants Toi, Canada

Dr. Toi is a radiologist at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and is on the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He has been involved with obstetrical ultrasound and evaluation of fetal anomalies for over 30 years. He has written and has lectured extensively nationally and internationally in this area. His special interest is the fetal CNS.

Dr Kittipong Vairojanavong, Thailand

Graduated from Chulalongkorn Medical College in 1965, He then took post graduate training in the field of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in National Women's Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand and in Leicester Royal Maternity Hospital, Leicester, England during 1972 to 1976. He attended an ultrasound course at Manchester University Hospital, England in 1975 and training course at the Department of Radiology, Stanford University Hospital in San Hose, California, USA. He is the founder and former president of the Medical Ultrasonic Society of Thailand, as well as the executive board member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Thailand. More over he has served as President of Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (AFSUMB), Vice-president of WFUMB, He has been honoured to be the honorary member of ASUM, Honorary Fellow of AIUM, Honorary Life member of AFSUMB and Honorary member of PSUCMI.

Professor Chander Vanjani, India

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 Pedro Unshelm, Venezuela

Dr. Unshelm was born in Guasipati, Venezuela and received his Medical Degree from Universidad de Los Andes in 1983. He finished his Residence in Radiology in 1989 at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and he ended the specialty in Pediatrics Ultrasound in Bogota, Colombia at the Universidad Nacional, in 1992.
He is dedicated to Pediatrics Ultrasound since 1990 at La Florida Pediatrics Institute and La Floresta Medical Institute since 2006, in Caracas, Venezuela.
Dr. Unshelm is currently Professor of the Inter-American College of Radiology (CIR) and he is a frequent Invited Speaker all over Latin America. His principal field of interest is Abdominal Ultrasound and Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Unshelm has served as President of the Venezuelan Society of Ultrasound and currently is Treasurer of the Latin American Federation of Societies of Ultrasound, FLAUS, Delegate of the Inter-American College of Radiology (CIR) and President of the Venezuelan Society of Radiology. He has been privileged for his educational contributions with Honorary Memberships from the Ecuatorian, Colombian, Dominican and Bolivian Societies of Ultrasound.

Dr Talat Uppal, Australia

Dr Talat Uppal is a fulltime Obstetric & Gynaecology staff specialist with Northern Beaches Health service. The newly amalgamated maternity unit is currently based at Manly Hospital. Dr Talat Uppal is also the Clinical Director of Womens, Children's and Family Health at NBHS as well as a Clinical lecturer with University of Sydney. She has a passion for teaching and holds a general DDU. Her special interests include gynaecology scanning and research on post term pregnancies.

Dr Marcos Antonio Velasco, Mexico

Md ultrsaonografista
Prof. de f.l.a.u.s.
Prof. del instituto mexicano de diganostico por imagen mexico
Prog. genetic in facultad de medicina de la universidad autonoma de guerrero, mexico.investigador en malformaciones fetales de la secretaria de salud mexico.posgrado en malformaciones fetales por la u.a.g. mexico departamento de radiology hospital general de acapulco, mexico

Associate Professor Philip Walker, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Australia

Philip Walker is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Queensland. He is the Chairman of the Department of Vascular Surgery and the Director of the Vascular Laboratory at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. He is a founding director of Queensland Vascular Diagnostics. He is a past Secretary Treasurer of the ANZSVS and Chairman of the ANZSVS Vascular Ultrasound Committee. In these roles he chaired the Department of Health and Ageing's Vascular Ultrasound Project Team and served as a member of the DHA Diagnostic Imaging Services Table Coordinating and Advisory Group, the DHA Ultrasound Reference Group and the Australian Vascular Ultrasound Accreditation Board. He has had a long involvement in vascular ultrasound and in the past has convened a number of ANZSVS Vascular Imaging Symposia and ASUM Vascular Ultrasound Workshops. In addition to vascular imaging, his research and clinical interests are centered on the aetiology and management of aortic aneurysmal disease, endovascular therapy for aortic disease, exercise physiology in peripheral arterial disease, medical therapy for the vascular patient and the management of venous thromboembolic disease.

Prof Zhigang Wang, Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical Uni, China

Professor Zhigang Wang is the deputy director of ultrasound branch of Chinese Medical Association, vice-chairman of Chinese Association of Ultrasound in Medicine and Engineering, deputy director of Biomedical Committee of Chinese Acoustics Institute, deputy editor of Chinese Journal of Ultrasonogr, Chinese Journal of Ultrasound Medicine, Chinese Journal of Medical Imaging Technology and Journal of Ultrasound in Clinical Medicine.
He has been active in scientific and teaching programs nationally and internationally, and has organized several international congresses and symposia, particularly on new techniques in ultrasound field.
He has published more than 100 articles?7 SCI? and book chapters and has one edited book on echocardiography. His current researches include experimental studies on various aspects of molecular imaging and therapy, especially on ultrasound contrast agents carrying gene and drugs for imaging and therapy.

Professor Hiroki Watanabe, Kyoto Central Nursing School, Japan

Prof Hiroki Watanabe graduated from the Tohoku University School of Medicine in 1960.

In 1976 he was the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Urology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, and was Honorary Professor in 1998. In 1998 he was the Professor of the Meiji University of Oriental Medicine Graduate School and was Honorary Professor in 2007. In 2004, he was a Director at the University Hospital. In 2007, he became the Principal of the Kyoto Central Nursing School. Prof Watanabe held the position of President of JSUM (1994-1995), AFSUMB (1998-2001) and WFUMB (2000-2003). He is an Honorary Member of ASUM, AIUM, JSUM, AUA and many other organizations.

Dr Gary Whitman, USA

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.

Mr Andrew Wilmot, Dr Jones and Partners, Australia

Andrew graduated with a Diploma in Applied Science (Nuclear Medicine) at the University of South Australia in 1991 and began his ultrasound career in 1995. He became accredited as an AMS in 2001. Andrew has a keen interest in MSK ultrasound and works regularly at the Musculoskeletal "Centre of Excellence" in North Adelaide with Dr Neil Simmons. He has presented a number of papers on MSK topics, including Morton's neuroma, the Plantar Plates, Tarsal tunnel and medial ankle pain, Lateral Hip Tendons and Forefoot Pain.

Andrew has represented the ASA on the Australian Sonographer Accreditation Registry (ASAR) from 2005 to 2008. This representative position joins with the other ultrasound professional associations to monitor and regulate continuing education for accredited sonographers within Australia. The ASAR also accredits all post-graduate ultrasound training programs provided by Australian Universities and ASUM.

Andrew joined the Board of Directors of the Australian Sonographers Association (ASA) in 2004 and was elected as Vice President in 2005 and President in 2006, a position he has held for 3 years (to May 2009). The ASA has over 2200 members and organises an annually a National Conference and Special Interest Meeting, which between them attract over 1300 sonographers.

Professor Stephanie Wilson, Canada

Dr Wilson made Toronto her home for the duration of her professional life. In 2007, she relocated to Western Canada where she is Professor of Radiology,University of Calgary. Dr Wilson has invested her research, academic and practice pursuits on ultrasound imaging of the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas and liver. The investigation of microbubble contrast agents is a major focus.

Dr. Wilson has been the recipient of annual prestigious University of Toronto teaching awards including the Colin R. Woolf Award for Excellence in Continuing Education Teaching and the Wightman-Berris Academy Award for Individual Teaching Excellence. She has authored over 100 peer reviewed publications and many book chapters and is an editor of the highly successful two volume reference on ultrasound, entitled Diagnostic Ultrasound, referred to as the "Bible of Ultrasound". Dr Wilson served as the first woman president of the Canadian Association of Radiologists and was the recipient of their Gold Medal for her contribution to radiology.

Professor George Yeo, KK Women's and Childrens Hospital, Singapore

He is instrumental in developing prenatal screening programmes in Singpore, set up and is responsible for the screening ultrasound programme in KK hospital, which delivers a third of Singapore's births.

He is active in the teaching and training of obstetrics ultrasound related educational programmes in
Singapore, organised the 1^st International Scientific Meeting of ISUOG in 2004, and directs the
programmes at the ISUOG TTC in Singapore. He has particular interest in prenatal screening in Cardiac Malformations.

Dr Steve Zadow, Australia

Dr Steve Zadow is a principal radiologist at Dr Jones &Partners Medical Imaging in Adelaide, and a senior visiting medical officer at Flinders Medical Centre.

He graduated with honours from The University of Adelaide and undertook his radiology training in South Australia.

He subspecialises in musculoskeletal imaging, including ultrasound & MRI and completed a fellowship in the United Kingdom in 1999-2000.

He has co-authoured musculoskeletal imaging papers in international and Australasian journals and has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences and meetings.

Steve is a member of the Australian Musculoskeletal Imaging Group and the Australian Sports Medicine Association.

Prof Jing Zhang, Chinese PLA General Hospital, China

Dr. Jing Zhang MD, phD is currently a professor of Chinese PLA General Hospital since 2002 and director of ultrasound department of the first affiliated hospital Chinese PLA General Hospital since 2006. She is currently the chairman o f ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology of Chinese association of Ultrasound In Medicine and engineering, deputy director of Chinese Association of Ultrasound in Medicine and Engineering. She has been serving on the editorial boards of Chinese Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Chinese Journal of Ultrasonography and Chinese Journal of Perinatal Medicine.

She received her medical education at Jilin University and graduated in 1982, received an A.B. degree in 1982 and phD degree in 2000. Since 1986 she has been engaging on clinical diagnosis ultrasound, interventional ultrasound and ultrasound in Obstetrics and gynecology since 2000. Her research interests have focused on the applications of interventional ultrasound and contrast enhanced ultrasound for Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Marilyn Zelesco, Royal Perth Hospital, Australia

Marilyn Zelesco has been the Tutor Sonographer at Royal Perth Hospital for the past 12 years. Prior to this, Marilyn established the first formal federally funded ultrasound training program in WA for country MITs in 1992. Marilyn has been involved and professionally active in ultrasound for over 22 years. Marilyn has presented and published widely for the AIR, ASA and ASUM. Marilyn was awarded with a national sonography award from ASA in 2001, and for her long service with ASUM in 2007. She recently completed her Masters in Ultrasound by completing a thesis which studied the role of ultrasound on the International Space Station.

Marilyn is actively interested and engaged in research and education. Marilyn is currently involved in 3 formal research projects, including the study of contrast sonography in Crohn's disease, ultrasonic scoring of hepatic fibrosis and the relevance of resistive indices in transplant kidneys.

Dr R.Eugene Zierler, USA

Dr. Zierler received both his undergraduate and medical education at Johns Hopkins University, receiving an A.B. degree in 1973 and the M.D. degree in 1976. He joined the faculty at the University of Washington in 1984 as Chief of the Vascular Surgery Section at the Seattle Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He then moved to the University of Washington Medical Center in 1992 where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, and Medical Director of the Vascular Diagnostic Service.

Dr. Zierler's research interests have focused on the development and clinical applications of noninvasive diagnostic techniques for vascular disease, particularly duplex ultrasound. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) and is currently Chair of the RPVI credential committee. He is also a Past-President if the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories (ICAVL) and is on the Joint Review Committee for Education in Diagnostic Medical Sonography (JRC-DMS).