SVU Presents Two Poster Awards to Jenilee B. Thornton at Annual Conference

LANHAM, MD, June 14, 2006 -- The Society for Vascular Ultrasound (SVU) announces two poster awards presented at SVU's 29th Annual Conference, June 1-3, 2006 in Philadelphia, PA.

Jenilee B. Thornton, Karmody Vascular Lab, The Vascular Group, Albany, NY, was presented with two poster awards. Both the Excellence in a Scientific Poster Presentation Award and the Best Student Poster Presentation Award were given to her for her poster on "Anatomic Distribution of the Carotid Bulb as Determined by Duplex Ultrasound." Both these awards were sponsored by DataStar Systems, Inc. of Crystal Lake, IL.

SVU encourages all Vascular Ultrasound Students to submit abstracts for both oral and poster presentations at its 2007 Annual Conference in Baltimore. Congratulations to Jenilee B. Thornton for a job well-done. Complete coverage of the SVU 2006 Annual Conference can be found in the July issue of e-Spectrum, the SVU's online newsletter on its website. SVU looks forward with great anticipation to next year's 30th Anniversary SVU Annual Conference on June 7-9, 2007 in Baltimore, MD. For more information on the 2007 Call for Papers, or about SVU and its educational meetings, see www.svunet.org.