Call for Abstracts

Abstracts are invited for oral and poster presentations. If you wish to submit an abstract for consideration by the Scientific Committee you must also intend to register for the Congress. On-line submission is the only method of receipt of abstracts. Abstracts submitted via email or fax WILL NOT be accepted.
Please submit your abstracts on-line no later than Friday 28 November 2008.

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Prizes/Awards

PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS AND PRIZES
Papers submitted by registrants are generally eligible for a range of generous prizes offered by our sponsors. To be eligible for a poster prize a presenter must give permission for the content of the poster to be published in the ASUM Ultrasound Bulletin. An independent jury of sonographers and radiologists, grouped according to their expertise, will judge all scientific exhibits with regard to originality / educational value / scientific quality, visual impression and overall assessment.

The following prizes will be awarded at WFUMB 2009 Congress:

• Best Sonographer Research WFUMB2009 Presentation Award - US$2,000
• Best Medical Research WFUMB2009 Presentation Award - US$2,000
• Best Clinical WFUMB2009 Presentation Award - US$1,000
• Best Poster Presentation WFUMB2009 Award - US$1,000
• Best Poster Presentation Award - to an AFSUMB member -US$1,000
• Best Poster Presentation Award - to a MASU member - US$1,000
• Best Poster Presentation Award - to a FLAUS member US$1,000
• Best Poster Presentation Award - to a EFSUMB member US $1,000
• Best Poster Presentation Award - to an AIUM member US$1,000
• Best Poster Presentation Award - to an ASUM member US$1,000
• 50 Young Investigators scholarships total value US$500 each

Details of these prizes will be published in the ASUM Bulletin.

Prizes/Awards Application
Details of the application process will be available after abstract submission has closed and upon notification of your abstract acceptance email.

Program Outline

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

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

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

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

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

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

SPEAKERS

Professor Anil T. Ahuja

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.

Professor Kanu Bala

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 Beryl Benacerraf

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

Professor Ron Benzie is an Aberdeen graduate who has worked in Obsterics/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 elect of ASUM.

Mr Stephen Bird

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 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

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.

Professor Alan Cameron

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.

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.

Professor Cheng-Wen Chiang

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

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 Michel Claudon

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.

Mrs Margaret Condon

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

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

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

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

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.

Dr Alan Daneman

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.

Dr Richard De Villiers

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

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

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.

Associate Professor Hans Peter Dietz

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

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".

Professor Enzo Durante

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.

Professor David Evans

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

Dr Leandro Fernandez

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Katherine Fong

Dr. Katherine Fong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Imaging, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

She is the co-director of the Center of Excellence in Obstetrical Ultrasound, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

Dr. Fong has a special interest in high risk obstetrical ultrasound and gynecological imaging, including hysterosonography. She has published extensively in these areas; and has written several book chapters in Obstetrical and Fetal Sonography. Her current research projects include ultrasound detection of fetal anomalies in conjunction with first trimester nuchal translucency screening, and early fetal anatomic survey with three-dimensional volume sonography.

Dr. Fong is dedicated to education and CME activities. She has organized and moderated a number of symposia on obstetrical & gynecological imaging for the Canadian Association of Radiologists, in addition to being an invited speaker at many national and international meetings.

Dr Flemming Forsberg

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.

Dr Mohamed El Fortia

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

Professor Morimichi Fukuda

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.

Professor Robert Gibson

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

Professor Dr Odd Helge Gilja

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Christy Holland

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

Dr Michael Grace Kawooya

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.

Dr Seung Hyup Kim

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

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

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

Dr George Kossoff

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

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

Professor Masatoshi Kudo

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

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

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

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

Professor Albert Lam

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 Jonathan Lindner

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.

Professor Helmut Madjar

Professor Helmut Madjar is Head of the Department of Gynecology and the Breast Center at the German Diagnostic Clinic in Wiesbaden, Germany. He is specialized in gynecologic oncology and senology including breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. He has a large number of scientific publications, authored several books and has been very active in teaching in Germany as well as internationally. Dr Madjar's current research activities include ultrasonic features of breast pathology, Doppler techniques for diagnosis and treatment control, as well as evaluating new technologies which include contrast harmonic imaging and pulse inversion. He is recognized as a leading authority in breast ultrasound. Dr Madjar is Vice President of the International Breast Ultrasound School (IBUS), and his activities in national and international scientific boards are related to improving the quality of breast ultrasound.

Dr Daniel Makes

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

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

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.

Dr Ellen Mendelson

Dr. Ellen Mendelson is Professor of Radiology at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, and Section Chief and Fellowship Director in Breast and Women's Imaging at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Dr. Mendelson practiced for many years at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh, where she started the first Women's Imaging fellowship in the eastern half of the U.S. in 1986. Dr. Mendelson returned to Northwestern in 2001.
Dr. Mendelson is widely published and an invited speaker nationally and internationally on breast imaging and interventions. She is co-author with Dr. Helmut Madjar of a textbook, The Practice of Breast Ultrasound (Thieme, 2008). Each fall in Chicago, Dr. Mendelson and colleagues offer the state-of-the-art "International Breast Course." She is a member of the IBUS Advisory Board, committed to its goals, and delighted to be on its distinguished faculty.
Dr. Mendelson is active in the American College of Radiology where she is a member of the Breast Commission and chairs the committee that wrote BI-RADS: Ultrasound (2003), currently in wide use. Her major research interests are in ultrasound for breast cancer screening, advancing ultrasound technologies, minimally-invasive image-guided breast interventional procedures, and breast MRI.

Assoc. Prof Woo Kyung Moon

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 Roberto Moncayo

• 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

Professor Alexander Mundinger

Professor Alexander Mundinger became President of the International Breast Ultrasound School (IBUS) in October 2005. Professor Mundinger is head of the Department of Radiology at the Marienhospital Osnabrück since October 1995, where he earned a reputation in senology, general radiology and interventional radiology. The Marienhospital is an academic hospital of the University of Hanover and is part of the MKO holding, which is responsible for more than 1000 hospital beds including an operative and minimal invasive breast centre. Professor Mundinger is a member of various national and international societies, and is a founding member of DEGUM-level 3-breast ultrasound. Professor Alexander Mundinger has been active in scientific and teaching programmes nationally and internationally and contributed in the German S-3-guidelines for breast cancer screening and has expertise in all imaging modalities of modern breast diagnosis including MR-mammography, and his scientific interests include ultrasound guided minimal invasive techniques, especially vacuum- assisted-biopsies; ultrasound image analysis; breast cancer recurrence; BI-RADS teaching; and interdisciplinary concepts.

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

Dr Christian Nolsøe

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

Professor Michael Bachmann Nielsen

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

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

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

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

Dr Philip Njemanze

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

Dr Lawrence Platt

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.

Professor Joseph Polak

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

Professor 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.

Assoc. Prof Mary T Rickard

Mary Rickard has been involved in breast imaging since appointed as director of a Sydney mammography screening pilot project in 1987. As a radiologist, she has taken a keen interest in the quality of mammography and ultrasound techniques and interpretation, and in multidisciplinary correlative diagnosis of breast disease. Professor Rickard recently held the position of State Radiologist for BreastScreen NSW, and is now Chief Radiologist for the Sydney Breast Clinic. She is involved in activities with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR), National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC) and the Australasian Society for Breast Disease (ASBD). She is on the IBUS Executive Council and is also a member of the IBUS International Faculty, and has a long-standing commitment to teaching.

Dr Jonathan M. Rubin

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.

Dr Neil Simmons

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 Gail ter Haar, Institute of Cancer Research Royal Marsden Hospital, UK

Gail ter Haar has a PhD in Physics from the University of London (Guy's Hospital Medical School). Her research was on the biological effects of ultrasound. In 1998, Gail was awarded a DSc in clinical medicine by the University of Oxford for her work on the safety of ultrasonic imaging and her research into the therapeutic applications of ultrasound. She is currently head of therapeutic ultrasound at the Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK. Her interests are mainly in the development of therapeutic applications of ultrasound for use in the treatment of cancer (especially high intensity focused ultrasound, HIFU) and the safety of diagnostic ultrasound techniques. She has published more than 150 papers and 35 book chapters. Gail is Visiting Professor of Therapeutic Ultrasound in the Nuffield Department of Surgery, Oxford University. She was founder President of the International Society for Therapy Ultrasound (ISTU), and is chair of both the European Committee for Ultrasound Radiation Safety, and the Safety Committee of the British Medical Ultrasound Society. She is an honorary fellow of the American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine and a fellow of both the Acoustical Society of America and the Institute of Engineering and Physics in Medicine. Gail is the Associate Editor for Therapy Ultrasound for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology and Ultrasonics.

Assoc. Prof Antonia Testa

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

Dr Ants Toi

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 Pedro Unshelm

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.

Professor Chander Vanjani

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

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

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

Dr Gary Whitman

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

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

Professor Stephanie Wilson

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 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 Steve Zadow

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.

Dr R.Eugene Zierler

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).

Dr Marvin Ziskin

Marvin C. Ziskin received the A.B. and M.D. degrees from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Following an internship and some general medical practice, he received the M.S.Bm.E. degree in biomedical engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.

From 1965-1966, he was a Research Associate in Diagnostic Ultrasound at Hahneman Medical College. Since 1968 he has been at Temple University Medical School where he is Professor of Radiology and Medical Physics, and the Director of the Center for Biomedical Physics.

Within the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), Dr. Ziskin has served on numerous committees including the Technical Standards Committee and the Biological Effects Committee, and from 1982 to 1984, he was President. Within the World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB), he was Chairman of the Committee on Ultrasound Safety, and from 2003 to 2006 the President. Currently, he serves as Immediate Past-President of WFUMB.

He received the WFUMB Ultrasound Pioneer Award in 1988, the AIUM William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award in 1993, and the AIUM Joseph Holmes Basic Science Pioneer Award in 2003. He is the author or co-author of 7 books, and over 250 scientific publications. He has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Clinical Ultrasound , Clinical Diagnostic Ultrasound, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, and the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

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.