Dr.ir. Jan Somer was elected honorary member of the EFSUMB for his great contribution to the ultrasound community by inventing the phased array transducer and bringing it to clinical application.

At the 35th EUROSON meeting in Naples, the prize for the best published paper of the European Federation of Societies in Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology was awarded to dr.ing. Gert Weijers for his paper entitled “Noninvasive Staging of Hepatic Steatosis Using Calibrated 2D US with Liver Biopsy as the Reference Standard as published in Radiology.

Gabrielle Laloy-Borgna is the winner of the Young Investigator Award 2024 for her presentation entitled “Ultrasound imaging in bones: tissue characterization, anatomical images and blood flow measurements”. Congratulations from the entire NVMU!

Dr.ir. Jan Somer has been appointed as Honorary Member of the Dutch Society of Medical Ultrasound (NVMU) for his groundbreaking work and achievements in the early developments of the phased array transducer. The distinction was awarded to him by prof. Chris de Korte after giving an inspiring keynote lecture during the MEMEA conference in Eindhoven.

Dear all, this year’s EUROSON meeting will be held in Naples, November 9 – 11, 2024.

After the delightful meeting in Eindhoven last April, the NVMU will have their second 2023 meeting at the Radboudumc, NL. See ‘Meetings’ for more information

After a one year hiatus due to COVID-19 pandemic, the NVMU is resuming its scientific meetings. This year the first (spring) meeting will be hosted online. If you are not on the mailing list and want to participate, please send us an email!

The NVMU Autumn Meeting is cancelled due to the current COVID-19 situation in The Netherlands. We hope to have a meeting in Spring 2021, either online or (hopefully) in person.

Thomas van den Heuvel (Radboudumc, Nijmegen, NL) has won the 2020 EFSUMB Young Investigator Award for his presentation entitled “Introducing prenatal US screening in resource-limited settings using artificial intelligence”. Thomas, congratulations on behalf of the entire NVMU! 

Due to the current lockdown and COVID-19 situation in the Netherlands, the 2020 spring meeting is cancelled. We regret not meeting this semester and hope that everyone will stay safe and healthy.