Professor Giovanni Cerri
President
World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Professor Cerri is the current president of the World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, having had a long and distinguished involvement with this organisation and the Latin American Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology.

Professor Cerri is Professor of Radiology, at the Radiology Department, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil.

Professor Masatoshi Kudo MD PhD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology
Kinki University School of Medicine
Osaka-Sayama City, Japan

Dr Masatoshi Kudo is currently President-Elect, Asian Federation for Societies of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (AFSUMB); Vice-President 1, World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) and an Executive Council Member and Chair of International Affairs Committee, Japan Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (JSUM).

Professor Gebhard Mathis MD
Internal Medicine Practitioner
Rankweil, Austria

Prof Mathis received his medical degree from the Medical University of Vienna in 1977. He always worked using the ultrasound probe like a stethoscope – next step after clinical examination.

During the past two decades he showed a lot of US applications and interventions in pulmonary and bowel diseases. His publications include more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, two books in four languages and, most recently, “Chest Ultrasound” published by Springer (2nd Ed, 2007).

In addition to his clinical work, Prof Mathis spends much of his time on ultrasound education in hands-on courses in central Europe. Currently Prof Mathis is President of the Austrian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and Member of the Education and Professional Standards Committee in EFSUMB.

Professor Chander Vanjani
AFSUMB 2010 Congress President
PD Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Research Centre
Bombay, India

Professor Chander Vanjani is Senior Cardiologist and Director of the Echocardiography and Vascular Lab at PD Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre Bombay, India. Apart from emergency echo work, he has a special interest in Carotid evaluation for early atherosclerosis and its regression and flow mediated dilatation of brachial arteries in various disease states and evaluation of deep venous system in critical care patients.

He has lectured at many national and international echo and ultrasound meetings and contributed to many monograms on the subject. He is active at international ultrasound educational meetings and workshops.

Professor Vanjani is the recipient of the “Pioneer Award” of WFUMB and AIUM for pioneering work in promoting Ultrasound as a speciality in India. He is Past President of the Indian federation of Ultrasound in Medicine (IFUMB) and Founder Dean of the Indian College of Medical Ultrasound. He is also Cardiac Editor of the Indian Journal of Medical Ultrasound and is currently Vice President of the Asian Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (AFSUMB) and Convenor of the next AFSUMB Conference to be held in India in 2010.