Imaging conference in Lviv attended by 600 specialists (12/06/98)

Imaging conference in Lviv attended by 600 specialists

LVIV - An international faculty held an imaging conference here on September 21-23. The conference, held at the Center for the Performing Arts of Children and Youth of Halychyna, was attended by 600 medical imagers from Ukraine. The vast majority were attending physicians - approximately 70 percent of whom were ultrasonographers.

While the majority of attendees were from western Ukraine, many came from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Crimea. The following topics were covered by the conference: ultrasound, MRI, CT, and nuclear medicine. The co-chairmen of the course were Leo J. Wolansky, chief of MRI and associate professor of radiology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and Yuri Ivaniv, director of post-graduate education in medical imaging for the Lviv Oblast.

The faculty consisted of Larissa T. Bilaniuk, professor of radiology, University of Pennsylvania (who gave a large portion of the lectures); Ariadne Bach, assistant professor of radiology, Cornell University School of Medicine; Leon D. Prockop, chairman and professor of neurology, University of South Florida Medical School in Tampa; Thomas Herman, associate professor of radiology, Mallinckrott Institute of Radiology in St. Louis; Kornylo Chorny, instructor of radiology, Harvard Medical School; Ihor George Zubal, associate professor of radiology, at Yale University School of Medicine; as well as Drs. Wolansky and Ivaniv.

The conference was very well received and was the subject of two television news programs as well as newspaper articles. The entire conference was conducted in Ukrainian, thanks to tutoring and translations by Volodymyr Pavliuk. Admission was free thanks to several sponsors: Acuson, Philips, RADMIR and the Greater New York Chapter of the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America.

Drs. Ivaniv and Pavliuk and their colleagues also used this opportunity to present their new book: the first contemporary diagnostic imaging textbook in the Ukrainian language - their translation of Barry Goldberg's "Ultrasound." Ten of the textbooks were given away daily via raffle. For more information contact Dr. Wolansky (e-mail, [email protected]; fax, 908-464-9593).

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