New Year's resolutions are often centered around personal ambitions like shedding a few pounds, reducing stress or getting more exercise (or all three). While these are all perfectly fine--and, if accomplished, will improve an individual’s health and quality of life--there is another activity that has the potential to have a greater, more ...

The 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) took place in Chicago last week. This is by-far the largest medical imaging meeting in the world with attendees coming from all parts of the globe. The exhibit hall alone covered 456,525 sq. ft. and featured 706 vendors. Although I did not attend ...

The Society of  Diagnostic Medical Sonography's Annual Conference kicked into high gear this weekend with sessions and events designed for inspiring, learning, shopping, honoring and entertaining.  Inspiring After the official welcoming address from outgoing SDMS President Shannon Boswell, Victoria Labalme took the ...

The SDMS took some time Friday evening to honor the achievements and contributions of its professional members as well as up-and-coming sonography students. Following is a list of the major awards and honors presented at the SDMS Awards Dinner: 2009 Fellow Designations Robert DeJong, RDMS, RDCS, RVT, FSDMS Pamela Foy, BS, RDMS, FSDMS Stephen ...

Known for the sounds of country music that have earned it the well-deserved moniker of ''Music City, USA,'' Nashville is playing host to sounds of a different sort this week as it welcomes more than 1,100 sonographers and sonography students to the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography's Annual Conference. The SDMS event, being ...

As you may know, October is Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month. This is our opportunity to increase the public's awareness of the importance of the modality and our profession. It boggles my mind that many people still think that sonography is only used to evaluate pregnancies. However, we know that there are many other important clinical ...

As summer winds down, the school year rapidly approaches. Hopefully you've taken a vacation that gave you time to replenish your batteries and approach the rest of the year with new-found vigor. With the fall season comes a large number of educational conferences for sonography professionals. In addition to providing continuing medical education ...