SVU Presents Two Scientific Awards at Annual Conference

LANHAM, MD, June 13, 2008 -- The Society for Vascular Ultrasound (SVU) announces two Scientific Awards presented at its Annual Conference, June 5-7, 2008, in San Diego, CA.

The recipient of the 2008 Excellence in Case Study Poster Presentation is Kari Olmsted, RVT of the D.E. Strandness Vascular Laboratory at the University of Washington Medical Center, for her poster on "Iliac Endofibrosis in Athletes: A Case Study", which was done along with Watson Smith, RDMS, RVT, and R. Eugene Zierler, MD. DataStar sponsored this award.

There was a tie for the Oral Clinical Presentation Award between Joseph P. Hughes, RVT RVS FSVU, et al of Navix Diagnostix, Inc., Taunton, MA, and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY., for his presentation on "Risk Focused Screening for Vascular Disease: One University Hospital's Experience", and R. Patrick DeMuth, ThM RVT of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, for his presentation on "Hypo-Acoustic Luminal Outline (HALO) Sign: An Adjunct Diagnostic Ultrasound Feature of Late Graft Infection”. Navix Diagnostix, Inc. sponsored this award.

SVU looks forward to next year's SVU Annual Conference on June 11-13, 2009 in Denver, CO. For more information on SVU, visit www.svunet.org.