Shannon Boswell, BS, RDMS, RDCS, FSDMS

Shannon Boswell, BS, RDMS, RDCS, RVT, FSDMS, is the Immediate Past President of the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (SDMS). Shannon is currently the Radiology Performance Improvement Manager and Ultrasound Department Manager at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington.

How did you become interested in the field of sonography?

I began my college years [...]

Pamela M. Foy, BS, RDMS, FSDMS

Pamela M. Foy, BS, RDMS, was a 2009 inductee as a Fellow of the SDMS. Currently, she is a Training Coordinator at The Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. She also has an appointment as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Allied Medical Professions at OSU, where she teaches in the [...]

Bob DeJong, RDMS, RDCS, RVT, FSDMS

Bob De Jong, RDMS, RDCS, RVT, was inducted as a Fellow of SDMS in 2009. Currently, Bob is Radiology Technical Manager, Ultrasound, with the Johns Hopkins Medical Systems in Baltimore, Maryland; he is also an active participant in both AIUM and SDMS.
How did you become interested in the field of sonography?
When I was in x-ray [...]

Siemens Retools Healthcare Division

German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG on April 30 announced changes in the organization of its Siemens Healthcare division that include creating separate divisions for advanced imaging modalities and less complex radiology systems.
Effective May 1, the Erlangen, Germany-based Healthcare division will still consist of three divisions: Imaging and Therapy Systems, Clinical Products and Diagnostics. Imaging and [...]

ALOKA Ultrasound’s Pro Sound Alpha 6 Wins International Design Award

ALOKA Ultrasound recently announced that its newly released full featured compact ultrasound system, the ProSound Alpha 6, won a 2010 International Forum (iF) product design award in the Medicines and Healthcare category. The iF Product Design Award is one of the prestigious awards worldwide and is granted by the International Forum Design in Germany. The [...]

ZONARE Installs 11 Ultrasound Systems at Decatur Vein Clinic Sites

Decatur Vein Clinic, a provider of chronic venous insufficiency healthcare services, announced it has installed 11 additional ultrasound systems from ZONARE Medical Systems, bringing their total number of z.one ultrasound systems to 24. The systems are spread over clinics in Indiana, Michigan and Colorado. The z.one ultrasound platform’s software-based architecture allows its performance to continue [...]

Toshiba Names New Executives

Toshiba America Medical Systems has promoted Senior Vice President Satoshi Tsunakawa to President and CEO. Additionally, Toshiba has named Tomo Hasegawa as the new director of its ultrasound unit, and has promoted Marketing Services Director Catherine Wolfe to Senior Director of Corporate and Strategic Communications. www.healthimaging.com

B-K Medical’s Flex Focus Mobile Ultrasound Scanner Wins Red Dot Product Design Award

The Flex Focus™ mobile ultrasound scanner, designed by B-K Medical, has received a 2010 Red Dot Product Design Award. The Red Dot Award, given by Germany’s Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, is one of the largest and most renowned product design awards in the world. This year, an expert panel of jurors evaluated 4252 entries based [...]

GE Targets Ultrasound Energy Reduction

GE Healthcare is joining with other medical device manufacturers to commit to a 25% reduction in average energy consumption of new ultrasound products by 2012.
With support from the European Commission, GE and a group of 10 other medical device firms within the European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical, and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR) have [...]

SonoSite Begins $50M Stock Repurchase Program

SonoSite, a provider of point-of-care ultrasound systems, has begun a stock repurchase program under which the company may purchase up to $50 million of its common stock over the next 12 months.
Since February 2010, SonoSite has repurchased a total of approximately three million shares of its common stock through a modified “Dutch Auction” tender offer [...]

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