Copenhagen, Denmark August 2010 – EFSUMB’s Publications Committee Report to the Board of Directors

 

The committee members 2009–2011 are

Dr. Torben Lorentzen (Denmark) Prof. Lucas Greiner (Germany) Ass. Prof. Jean-Yves Meuwly (Switzerland) Dr. Paul Sidhu (UK), co-opted member Prof. Adrian Saftoiu (Romania), co-opted member Prof. Christoph Dietrich (Germany), ex-officio member Prof. Michael Bachmann Nielsen (Denmark), committee chair

The committee held a short meeting during the last Euroson congress in Edinburgh in December. A meeting was held in April in Copenhagen (although the Icelandic volcano eruption did its best to prevent this) and the committee will meet again in August during Euroson 2010.

The EFSUMB Newsletter continues to bring interviews with delegates or presidents of the national societies, papers on current topics and new technology and information from all committees of EFSUMB. In addition we welcome to advertise for all Euroson congresses and Euroson schools. The first issue each year is an extended issue (being sent to all members of EFSUMB) containing reports from the executive bureau and committees. The newsletter also brings report from EUROSON congresses and reports of young investigators awards. The upgrade in pages available for the newsletter has been very welcomed.

The EFSUMB web page www.efsumb.org continues to receive a large number of hits, 71,000 for the last 3 months period. The top countries assessing the website are UK, Germany, Italy and China in that order. Dr. Torben Lorentzen (Denmark) is now in charge of updating the front page.

The Case of the Month has been maintained by Christoph Dietrich for a long time, and this has now been passed on to Paul Sidhu (UK). The case of the month also receives a large number of hits and under consideration is translation of the text into other European languages.

The EFSUMB Course Book is described in detail in the report from the Honorary Secretary.

The Educational Portal is to be launched soon at www.efsumb.org.

A Scientific Corner is also under development and will hopefully appear soon on the website. It will be a place where you can post your ideas and get response from colleagues all over the world and present strange or typical cases.

Michael Bachmann Nielsen
Chairman EFSUMB’s Publication Committee
Editor EFSUMB Newsletter

Michael Bachmann Nielsen