It is with honor and great pleasure that DUDS announces recent individual achievements
and contributions to the science and application of ultrasound in medicine.
Young Investigator First-Place Award
Young Investigator First-Place Award
DUDS congratulates Dr. Rune Wilkens with the New Investigator First-Place Award at
the AIUM / WFUMB Convention, Florida, USA, March 2015 for the presentation of clinical
ultrasound with the title „Impact of Ultrasound on Classification and Management of
Crohn‘s Disease Patients With Inconclusive Colonoscopy“.
Scientific Award
DUDS congratulates Dr. Flemming Forsberg, PhD, who received the Joseph H. Holmes Basic
Science Pioneer Award by AIUM (American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology).
Dr. Forsberg is currently Professor in Radiology and head of research for the Jefferson
Ultrasound Institute at Thomas Jefferson University.
Doctoral thesis
DUDS congratulates DMSci Søren Rafael Rafaelsen with his successful defence of his
doctoral thesis with the title ”Diagnostic Ultrasound in Colorecteral Cancer”. Søren
is assistant professor at the Institute of Regional Health, University of Southern
Denmark and consultant radiologist at the Department of Radiology, Vejle Hospital,
Denmark.
