Top first time winners - physicians
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Ilone de Bruijn,
Netherlands
23 solved cases

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Ilone has been working at the Ob/Gyn ultrasound section of the Eindhoven Diagnostic Centre for two years. Before these years she worked as physician in infant health care (public health), later as physician at the department of pathology (hospital Utrecht), and finally the department of gynecology. In spite of these multiple career she is only 38! She says: “I love my work, my garden, birds, travelling and last but not least my husband and my 2 sons of 4 and 8 years old. I am the handyman in the house and fortunately my husband (who is urologist) loves the cooking. Sometimes it"s a pity a day has only 24 hours...”
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Melek Avci,
Turkey

23 solved cases
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Melek also has steadily improved her results during the past 2 years, and this year she made it to the top. This in spite of getting married this year (Congratulations!). Melek is also a Radiologist! Yeah! I though no one was still doing Ob-Gyn as a Radiologist!
Melek adores her niece with whom she practices her maternal skills. She likes walking in nature and along the sea, reading book (philosophy), going to movies and listening to music and especially sound-tracks. She likes to travel and prefers natural and interesting historical place and especially like silence.
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Irina Glazkova,
Ukraine

22 solved cases
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Irina is a shy person that always underestimates her qualities, but as the results shows she is very knowledgeable and a very hard worker. She works in the excellent Genetic center of Donetsk. A soft-spoken person she is also a great guide to her city. She lives with her big family (two sons, husband and mother-in-low). She says: “I am fond of my job but as it occupies a lot of time, all free time I spend exclusively with the family. And a little bit on thefetus.net.” She would love to visit the US if the opportunity arises.
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Andres Arencibia Molina Spain
22 solved cases

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Andres works as a ob/gyn physician in Gran Canaria (Spain). His wife is a teacher and they have a daughter and a son. Andres likes cooking for his family during weekends (“enyesque”, “queso de Guia”, “caldo pescao con gofio escaldao”, “sancocho de cherne con mojo picón”…) and he even thought about opening a restaurant. He finds relaxation in growing of potatoes and maize, and in Sunday"s walking in the country watching the beautiful scenery of the Canary Islands. Of course he finds time to solve our cases and this year he managed to send us 22 correct answers. Congratulations!
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Natalya Miheeva,
Belarus
22 solved cases

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Natalya is in charge of the prenatal diagnosis center of the Maternity Hospital in Minsk. Natalya is only shy when trying to speak English, but in Russian she is a very funny and a great conversationalist. A very knowledgeable physician she has other great skill: don’t try bowling against her! She also draws, skates, and collects Teddy Bear (fan club: feel free to send her a Teddy Bear from your country!). She is a sweet mom to her teenage son. Natalya is eagerly learning English and her emails reflect her dramatic progresses.
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Ebubekir Unlu,
Turkey
21 solved cases

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Ebubekir is always one of the first to send his tentative answers. He starts with a good description of the findings and then discusses his first diagnosis. Then readjust his suggestion in case he missed. A very positive mind he always has a nice thing to say and I love to learn about little events in his life or his beaming about his son through little sentences interspersed in his emails.
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Eduardo Turcios,
El Salvador
19 solved cases

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Eduardo works in the Primero de Mayo Maternity hospital in El Salvador. He likes hiking in mountains and walks with his dog Justin. This year he sent us 19 correct answers (Justin is very proud of him:-)). Congratulations Eduardo!
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Juan Enrique Van Der Velde,
Argentina
19 solved cases
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Eti Zetounie,
Israel
19 solved cases

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Eti is working at the Gola Meir hospital in Kfar Saba, Israel at the Ob-Gyn ultrasound department, a work he enjoys very much and finds very fulfilling. He has one kid, and enjoys reading, computer games and sports.
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Andrew Averianov,
Ukraine
17 solved cases

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Andrew is also a quiet and delightful correspondent. His emails are always so gentle and polite I feel terrible when I have to respond: “Good idea but not correctL” which fortunately does not happen often. Like Irina (above) he works in Donetsk in the team of the excellent professor Svetlana Arbusova.
Outside of work he loves to be with his lovely wife and daughter and enjoys classical music.
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Victor Armando Pinto Baron,
Colombia
17 solved cases
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Victor is one of the heroes this year. He started answering cases last year and had 2 correct answers. This year he worked very hard and got among the top winners! Congratulations to him!
Victor is an Ob-Gyn who recently finished his training in Maternal Fetal Medicine. He works near to Bogota, Colombia. He says: “My hobby is surfing in internet for search all information about Fetal Medicine, Sonography, Perinatology, High Risk Pregnancy, Prenatal Diagnosis etc. My second hobby is watch sci-fi movies”. He has 2 daughters who criticize his dedication for the case of the week.
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Faryal Ayub Khan,
Saudi Arabia
17 solved cases
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I do not know much about Faryal. Probably very timid! She is a Canadian working in Saudi Arabia. She waits a few days after reviewing the case then sends her 3 answers in one email, then quit until the next case!
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Aasia Qurban,
Pakistan
17 solved cases

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The first email I got from Aasia when, long ago, she solved her first case, was: “Wow I will show this to my dad”. Her Dad had been worried about Aasia branching of to a private clinic. Well, today, Aasia you can show your dad that you are doing VERY well. Aasia (her dad is a diplomat who obviously likes to represent Asia) is married to a radiologist and I met them both 2 years ago in India.
Aasia has sent us 17 correct answers this year. Congratulations!
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Antonio J. Briseno Sainz, Mexico
17 solved cases

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Antonio is a gynecologist specialized in perinatology. He has been working for 21 years, doing ultrasound studies and Prenatal Diagnosis. He opened a practice center: Sonofetal (www.sonofetal.com.mx).
He works with wife, Patricia (a neonatologist). They have one son and a (lovely) daughter, Antonio Gabriel and Adriana. Antonio is studying medicine and Adriana architecture.
Antonio is also a cyclist and he enjoy reading and listening to music when he is not answering cases. He also likes cooking and I would like to open a small restaurant some day (I have the same fantasy but not the energy and since there is already a Philippe Jeanty as a cook I can vicariously do it through him).
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Radu Sendroiu,
Romania
17 solved cases

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Radu is 34 years old, married, with 2 kids. He is also a quite responder with little information perspiring about him. He used to go trekking and playing basketball but now spends more time with his family. He enjoys solving the cases.
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Kostas Tassis,
Greece
17 solved cases

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Kostas is 51 years old. He works at Laso Maternity Hospital, Fetal Medicine Department, Athens, Greece. Kostas has been steadily improving his scores over the years! He has two boys, 23 and 14 years old.
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