Editorial

Well, the winter is over and the conference season is upon us. Preparations for Euroson 2005 in Geneva are well advanced and the outline programme looks very comprehensive. All are to be encouraged to submit papers and posters. All the details are on the website and elsewhere in the newsletter.

But there are many more meetings to tempt us all before that. As regular readers will remember I have exhorted you to try the British meeting in December which attracts few visitors from Europe but I am lucky enough to have been invited to the Danish Society meeting in Copenhagen in April and so will have the opportunity to see for myself how another national society conducts its meeting. I am sure I will learn much about ultrasound, enjoy some hospitality and return refreshed. It seems to me that the more meetings there are the more difficult it is to choose but wherever I go I probably learn at least as much from chance conversations over a drink as I learn from formal presentations. Sometimes the question and answers after presentations are every bit as helpful as the presentations themselves but it does take someone to be brave enough to ask the right question.

As a further attempt to show readers what else is going on in other parts of Europe this newsletter contains a short contribution from Francesco Drudi, Editor of the Italian Ultrasound Journal. It is fascinating to see a different emphasis and different problems faced in a national journal compared with a multinational one. I hope to have future contributions from other Editors. At least one has already been promised and maybe more will be.