EFSUMB Newsletter Issue 1 2012

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EFSUMB Newsletter

EFSUMB Newsletter European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

EFSUMB Presidental Programme 2012 The Executive Bureau was partially changed, following the election by the Board of Directors during the EUROSON meeting in Vienna in August 2011 and is now made up, for the term 2011–2013, by Dr. Fabio Piscaglia (President), Prof. Christoph F Dietrich (President Elect), Dr. Christian Nolsoe (Past President), Prof. Odd Helge Gilja (Honorary Secretary) and Prof. Diana Gaitini (Honorary Treasurer). The Executive Bureau intends to continue ongoing activities set up by the ExB of the previous term (2009–2011) and also implement new original programs. A priority of the previous term was to promote Educational Activities. This will remain a priority also for the next term and will be centered on the following activities, developed in conjunction with the EFSUMB Education and Professional Standard Committee (EPSC), chaired by Ass. Prof. Dr J. Tuma. 1. Expansion of the content of the Educational webportal, freely accessible via the EFSUMB website (www.efsumb.org). This portal contains the “case of the month” series, a useful and intriguing education modality, currently coordinated by Dr. P.S. Sidhu, well suited to keep ultrasound operators freshly updated in different fields with usual and unusual imaging patterns. Since the beginning this section has remained among the most visited of EFSUMB web pages. All EFSUMB members are warmly invited to submit their interesting and well documented cases. We would like to take the occasion to remind you that these cases are presented in English as well as translated into other languages.

2. Completion of the EFSUMB Course Book, coordinated by Prof. C.F. Dietrich, whose first chapters are already available online. The chapters making the core of an ultrasound examination will also be printed in a regular book form in 2012 (copies could be ordered online or purchased through booksellers or at EFSUMB Congresses). 3. Postgraduate residential courses in the forms of international Euroson Schools, run on different topics, including Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound, Ultrasound in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Interventional Ultrasound and others, which are listed in the EFSUMB webpage. From 2012 there will be also the opportunity to attend on a national level EFSUMB endorsed courses, also listed on the portal. 4. Creation of an online video course on CEUS applications derived from recorded lectures of international experts. This goes in line with the program to strengthen the role of e-learning, possibly also with formal recognition, which, in time of economical restrictions and concurrent extension of technology capabilities, might become of greater importance. Prof. O.H. Gilja started to lead this approach while chairman of the Education and Professional Standard Committee and will continue to coordinate it from within the Executive Bureau. 5. For the current term, the EFSUMB Executive Bureau would like to support the use of simple ultrasound scans at bedside in clinical wards. This approach does not replace conventional ultrasound, but may complement the diagnostic capabilities of

Contents ▶▶EFSUMB Presidental Programme 2012

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▶▶EFSUMB Officers and Committees 93

▶▶Summary of EFSUMB Reports to the Board of Directors at WFUMB 2011, Vienna, Austria

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▶▶Klazina Kooiman – Young Investigator Winner, WFUMB 2011: Abstract – Therapeutic Bubbles 95

▶▶EFSUMB Endorsed Course: EASL

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▶▶Euroson 2012, Madrid, Spain

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▶▶Invited Editorial – Sonoporation: Why Microbubbles Create Pores

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