New RSSA committee.Dr Clive Sperryn has recently been voted in as President of the Radiological Society of Southern Africa (RSSA RSSA Royal Society of South Africa RSSA Radiological Society of South Africa RSSA Royal Scottish Society of Arts RSSA Regional Software Support Activity RSSA Random Single Switch Algorithm RSSA Radio Science Stability Analyzer RSSA Regional Supply Support Activity ). A former Head of School at Michaelhouse (1979), he won a Tongaat Hulett Group Scholarship to study medicine at UCT UCT University of Cape Town UCT Ukhta (Russia) UCT Underwater Construction Team UCT Upper Critical Temperature UCT Order of United Commercial Travelers of America UCT University Center Tower , and the Zwarenstein prize for the most outstanding student in his first year. He was a member (Business Manager) of the RAG Executive, the Medical Students Council Executive and the Mountain and Ski Club Committee, and was awarded the Sir Abe Bailey Travel Bursary bur·sa·ry n. pl. bur·sa·ries 1. A treasury, especially of a public institution or religious order. 2. Chiefly British A scholarship granted to a university student in need. in 1984. After internship at Edendale, he spent time in casualty, paediatrics, general practice (including diving medicine), neurosurgery and world travel, before commencing radiology at Groote Schuur in 1991. Studying initially under Professor Ronnie Kottler, he was subsequently appointed by Professor Steve Beningfield to head the Vascular and Interventional Unit. An unexpected phone call from Joel Bortz led to a partnership with Lake, Smit and Partners in Durban before a final return to Cape Town in 2000 to join Morton and Partners. The RSSA has been well served by Richard Tuft, who led the Society to the enviable position we find ourselves in today, and continues to be involved as Past President. Bates Alheit remains Executive Director, and Trevor Alnutt and Jako Calitz continue to run the Secretariat. We bid farewell to Jan Labuscagne and wish him well in his new role as Secretary-General of the ISR and with the founding of the African Society of Radiology in Marrakech this year. Jan has been replaced as Congress Chairman by Leon Janse van Rensburg, who has tackled this role with phenomenal enthusiasm. The new Vice-President is Sheldon Godinho, with Ralph Posner as Treasurer, Mark Velleman as Secretary, and Nigel Flint and Ashesh Ranchod completing the executive. Radiologists are a highly mobile, scarce resource and one of our challenges is to retain those who have been trained in South Africa. The RSSA supports academic radiology through journal sponsorship, publication of the SAJR (which is provided free to all members), moving to electronic format for greater access, organisation of congresses and workshops and, recently, the establishment of a prize for an outstanding lecture given by any junior member at an RSSA congress. We thank Dr Savvas Andronikou for his enormous contribution to the SAJR and welcome Jan Lotz as the new Editor-in-chief. We have recently been made an extremely generous offer of free corresponding membership of the European Society of Radiology European Society of Radiology (ESR) Founded in 2005, the European Society of Radiology (ESR) is dedicated to promoting and coordinating the scientific, philanthropic, intellectual and professional activities of radiology in all European countries. for all our members. Benefits include: * free electronic access to European Radiology, one of the most prestigious publications in the field of imaging * reduced registration rates for the European Congress of Radiology European Congress of Radiology (ECR) Founded in 1967, the European Congress of Radiology was first held every four years in different locations. However, the idea of developing a new type of congress became more intensively discussed as the quadrennial basis and the ever (ECR) from 2009 onwards * free electronic access to EURORAD, the largest peer-reviewed teaching database of radiology on the internet * free electronic access to EPOS[TM], the Electronic Presentation Online System which comprises more than 6 300 electronic presentations shown during ECR, ESCR ESCR Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights ESCR embryonic stem cell research ESCR Environmental Stress Cracking Resistance ESCR Electronic Social Care Records (UK) ESCR European Society of Cardiac Radiology ESCR Elementary Stream Clock Reference , ESGAR ESGAR European Society of Gastrointestinal Abdominal Radiology , ESMRMB ESMRMB European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology , SIR and CIRSE CIRSE Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe that can be viewed and downloaded * free electronic access to eECR, which contains over 350 recorded lectures that can be viewed from ECR, ESGAR or ESMRMB * free electronic access to EDIPS Download, ECR's digital preview system which enables one to download 1 099 Microsoft[R] Office PowerPoint presentations of ECR lectures throughout the year * all activities of the European School of Radiology (ESOR ESOR Emergency Standoff Range ) are offered exclusively to members of the ESR ESR - Eric S. Raymond * free access to the ESR online job forum. We invite all our members to take advantage of this opportunity by following the links in the news and views section of the RSSA website. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We also invite all radiologists to contribute to our journal, to consider lecturing at our congresses, and to join the RSSA and enjoy the benefits of membership, including the opportunity for free corresponding membership of the ECR. RSSA fees are nominal for those who are not in private practice. Patricia Trietsch is the RSSA secretary and is contactable at radsoc@ iafrica.com. |
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