From EFSUMB web-page:

EFSUMB NEW HONORARY MEMBER

Professor Hans Henrik Holm - Denmark

In spite of having his Doctor’s Degree in urology Hans Henrik Holm has managed to obtain a status as a pioneer in the field of ultrasound imaging. Hans Henrik Holm is a distinguished well-known member of the international community of ultrasonography. He has played a very important role in the development of both fundamental ultrasound technologies and different applications. With Hans Henrik Holm as president The Danish Society of Ultrasonography hosted WFUMB in 1991 in Copenhagen, and since 1979 he has been the president of eight International Congresses on Interventional Ultrasound. From the late 60’ties he entered the ultrasonography establishment. At the first WFUMB meeting in 1968 in Vienna he presented the first experimental model of a grey-scale scanner, and he was among the first to develop and present dynamic ultrasonography. Hans Henrik Holm is the founder of interventional ultrasound, e.g. ultrasound guided drainage, biopsies, and implantation of radioactive seeds. Being the first to combine transrectal scanning with interventional techniques, he showed the way to intraluminal scanning. Further he has invented ultrasound guided ESWL, developed a number of transducers for different applications, and experimented with micro-transducers. He has always demonstrated a positive attitude to ultrasound interested colleagues from all over the world, and consequently his hospitality has resulted in hundreds of visitors to the department. Therefore, the department has developed in an atmosphere of new ideas and different opinions on ultrasonography.