Place

Who

Prize

1st

Luis Guillermo Diaz Guerrero (Venezuela)
Luis is just an incredible guy… he answered 19 of the 24 cases, and contributed 4 cases (for which he could not compete !). So he got 19/20 answers correct which is just spectacular. Luis is also a good human being, as I have noted from his emails. He will certainly be a mentor for many people.

Sonocubic 3D US software,

Digital camera

Fetal Echo

2nd

Graziella Secchi (Italy)

Graziella is quite a gem…
As a brand new graduate (only one year) she is one of the most studious responder. She is so good, I dreaded the few times I had to reject one of her diagnoses. She got an incredible 18 cases correct. When she missed her first case (#24; she actually provided the correct answer as her 4^th diagnosis) I was so sad…  In spite of her timidity she is also a warm host. She loves her native Sardinia.

Sonocubic 3D US software,

Digital camera

Fetal Echo

2nd

Jose Luis Bartha Rasero (Spain)
Jose Luis is a pure marvel. He too got 18 cases correct, and he has a lot of humor. One somber day when Graziella was ahead of him in the list he send me an email saying: “When I grow up I want to be as good as Graziella”. Well they are both as good. Jose Luis is also a humanist with broad interests and we have often discussed the paintings of Velasquez.

Sonocubic 3D US software,

Digital camera

Fetal Echo

3rd

Carlos Alberto Mejia Escobar (Colombia)

Carlos is another superstar (16 cases correct). He works with his 3 partners in a group that must be the intellectual envy of most. He was actually studying in England and Italy for several months this year and was not able to log-on so he might actually have had even more correct answers. Another person with a good sense of humor !

Sonocubic 3D US software,

Digital camera

Fetal Echo

3rd

Gloria Valero de Madrid (Mexico)

Most of you are probably familiar with Gloria who has contributed many videos on the site. Her husband Juan (an Ob-Gyn) asked her a few years ago to learn ultrasound and she has done an astonishing job at it (16 correct cases). Gloria is a methodical student who leaves no references unturned before answering, sometimes just minutes before the deadline. She is another warm person who proudly tells me of her daughters’ successes.

Sonocubic 3D US software,

Digital camera

Fetal Echo

4th

Luc Gourand (France)
Luc is a brilliant and modest person, one who likes to learn and teach, a humanist like so few are at his level and a perfectionist. He has become also a good friend with his open humor and uplifting comments. The type of person I would have wanted as a mentor when I was a student. He is also co-author of an impressive work on the psychological aspect of prenatal ultrasound (a subject too often eschewed in our busy world). (15 correct cases)

Sonocubic 3D US software,

Digital camera 

Fetal Echo

5th

Jaime Gomez Diaz (Colombia)
Jaime is part of the same group as Carlos Alberto.  

Sonocubic 3D US software,

Fetal Echo

6th

  13 correct answers

Nicolette den Hollander (Netherlands)

Nicolette is a shy but excellent rising star. In the rare cases when she writes more then just the correct answer, it is so nice to learn about and from her. She just got a new baby and we wish her very well.

Sonocubic 3D US software,

Fetal Echo

6th

 13 correct answers

Claudio Luna Arévalo (Venezuela)

Claudio is also a conscientious student, and he always kindly shares his though process on how he gets his results (using OMIM, Medline…). This is neat, since even when the correct answer is not obtained, the process to attempt the answer is a great education. Claudio is the opposite of the “shoot from the hip” diagnostician and I am sure his patients benefit greatly from this methodical and careful approach. He has also impressed me by his efforts at communicating in English. Another good man I am glad to have met !

Sonocubic 3D US software,

Fetal Echo

7th

12 correct answers

Julio Navarro (El Salvador)

Julio was one of the early one who impressed me with his will to improve his digital images.

Fetal Echo

8th

11 correct answers

Lech Dudarewicz (Poland) Also a scholar of history !

Miguel Merino (El Salvador) Good and short answers !

Alberto Sosa Olavarria (Venezuela) A wonderful contributor of cases with an apparently endless collection! His pupil Luis Guillermo says of him: "When you can see far, you are standing on the shoulder of a giant". Could not say it better ! He also won a Digital camera for having submitted the most number of cases of the week.

Fetal Echo

9th

10 correct answers

Waldo Sepulveda (Chile) With all his publications Waldo should almost be out of contest, but since he lectures and travels so much he cannot get to the web as often as he would like !

Carlos Orellana (Venezuela) Another short-and-to-the-point person !

Gelsy Giugni Chalbaud (Venezuela)

Fetal Echo

10th

9 correct answers

Alberto Bermudez (Venezuela)

Fetal Echo

11th

8 correct answers

Antonio J. Brise?o (Mexico)

Jaime Gomez Diaz (Colombia)

Latha Natarajan (India)

Ruggero Trevisan (Italy)

Fetal Echo

1st

Mary C. Scarboro (USA)

Mary is just unbelievably good ! Actually she is so good my sonographers though for a long time she was actually Beryl Benacerraf answering under a pseudonym. If you remember she was already the winner of 1999. 12 correct answers

Digital camera Fetal Echo

2nd

Donna Hale (USA)

Donna is another dedicated student and she is doing so well, and on top of that, believe it or not, she just started doing ultrasound ! Until a few weeks ago she was working in MRI/CT: Impressive person (also a great human being!) (10 correct answers)

Digital camera Fetal Echo

3rd

 6 correct answers

Cyrethia McShane (USA) 

Fetal Echo

 Unique

Sharon Shaw (USA) Although Sharon only has one correct answer, I was so impressed that she got a case right: She is a STUDENT sonographer. Talk about a dedicated student !

Fetal Echo