Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Clinical Prize

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ULTRASOUND

1985

0301-5629/85 $3.00 + .I!0 Pergamon Press Ltd.

IN MEDICINE

AND BIOLOGY

CLINICAL

PRIZE

The Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Clinical Prize, which is given annually to the authors of the clinical paper published in the preceding volume of the journal and judged by members of the Publication Committee of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology to be the most innovative and of the highest scientific quality has been made to Dr. Francis Weill for his paper in volume 9 entitled Migrations of Fluid of Pancreatic Origin: Ultrasonic and CT Study of 28 Cases (co-authored by Ph. Brun, P. Rohmer and A. Belloir). Dr. Weill’s biography is given below.

Dr. Francis Weill BIOGRAPHICAL

NOTE

years later he organised the first French Congress in medical ultrasound. He was elected President of the French Society for Ultrasound from 1978 to 198 1, became a Councillor of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology in 1980 and was elected President of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology in 1984. He has authored several books on diagnostic abdominal ultrasonography.

Weill graduated from the School of Medicine of Strasbourg in 1957 and three years later achieved his specialist qualifications as a radiologist. He moved to the School of Medicine of Besancon in 1966 and became Chief of the Department of Radiology in 1978. He first became involved in the use of ultrasound for diagnosis in the abdomen in 1969 and two

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