Editorial

 

Dear friends

Welcome to yet another year with your favourite ultrasound society - EFSUMB. As probably known by now the 2007 EUROSON meeting in Leipzig was very successful and we are now looking forward to another great experience in beautiful Timisoara in Romania and the EUROSON-2008 meeting.

Elections for all committees and the executive bureau take place every second year and the meeting in Leipzig brought several changes to all as you can see elsewhere in the Newsletter. Personally I have been in the Publications Committee for two terms serving under Dr. David Pilling who has now resigned as Editor of the Newsletter and Chairman of the Committee. I would like to take this opportunity to thank David very much for all the work he has put into the Newsletter and the committee. It has always been a pleasure to work with him. Additional two members are now leaving the committee, Juoko Pirhonen and Francesco Drudi, I wish you all the best.

So far it looks like I will be the one who takes over the responsibility of the Newsletter. I always enjoyed reading David's Editorials; one of the reasons was his beautiful English language. In comparison I must confess right away that my vocabulary in English is limited, but I hope you will not mind too much.

Because of the deadline to the publishers the new Publications Committee has not yet met at the moment of finishing this editorial. However, several new ideas have already been launched and you can see one of them in the current issue: the start of a new series where the Newsletter meets different ultrasound societies. I think this is a great opportunity for the members to learn about the other membership countries and I am very grateful that Romania and Sweden volunteered for the first issue. Hopefully there will be one or two interviews in each issue in the coming years.

The EFSUMB webpage now includes a case of the month, so please drop in regularly to check. If you do you will notice that www.efsumb.org has being completely redesigned and thoroughly updated.

Prof Francesco Drudi, Prof Lucas Greiner, Prof Christoph Dietrich, Prof M Bachmann Nielsen, Dr David Pilling