Fåhraeus medal presentation 2007

Abstract

We are going to the most important part of our meeting. The European Society of Clinical Hemorheology has been entrusted with the FAHRAEUS MEDAL AWARD to be awarded to an outstanding leading scientist in the field of Clinical Hemorheology. All the members of the Council and of the Advisory Committee of the European Society of Clinical Hemorheology and the previous recipients of the Award have been entitled to vote. Every one of them has been invited to vote at the procedure, provided by us during the first and the second ballot. The nomination of the candidates and the election has resulted from two secret postal ballots. All the collected anonymous closed envelopes have been opened in an official way at the presence of all the members of the Bulgarian Society of Biorheology and the names of the candidates, receiving the greatest number of nominations have been calculated during the first and the second ballot. It is my pleasure and a great honor to present you the name of the winner and the eleventh Fahraeus Medalist who is Professor Sandro Forconi – the President of the European Society of Clinical Hemorheology. Saying this I would like to invite Professor Jean-Francois Stoltz for laudatio.