The Dr. Patricia Flach ISFRI Prize
Description:
An annual award to a trainee forensic pathologist, radiologist, anthropologist or imaging scientist to attend the annual scientific meeting of ISFRI and present a scientific paper. During the 2021 ISFRI Congress, the ISFRI Prize was renamed to The Dr. Patricia Flach ISFRI Prize to honor and memorialize of Dr. Flach’s efforts in establishing and promoting the society and the field of forensic imaging.
Documentation:
Applicants must provide documentation of their trainee status by way of a letter of support from their academic supervisor.
Requirements:
Candidates must submit an abstract of original scientific research in forensic imaging to the Congress scientific committee for consideration (stating that it is for ISFRI prize consideration). The scientific committee of each Annual Congress will prepare a short list of the best papers based on originality and scientific merit. From that short list, the current ISFRI Board Chairperson will make a final decision on the recipient.
Benefits:
The prize will consist of a subscription to the Annual Congress and €1000. The recipient will be expected to organize travel, accommodation and any additional expenses. The winning paper will be given as an oral presentation at the ISFRI Congress and will be acknowledged in a banner headline as the ISFRI prize winner in a written paper to be submitted to Forensic Imaging journal following the Congress.
Past Winners
Prizes annual meeting
2024 - Krakow, Poland
Clavicle bone radionomics for age estimation in forensic medicine
By Dimitrios Leventis from Greece
2023 - Toulouse, France
Micro Computed Tomography for Post Mortem Imaging
By Daniel Docter from The Netherlands
2022 - Tokyo, Japan
Relationship between temperature changes and postmortem liver CT values
By Rina Hayata from Japan
An Audit of Forensic Radiology Immersive Training & Education CT values
By Yi-Li Wong (Grace) from Malaysia
2019 - Berlin, Germany
Fatal Intracerebral Hemorrhage Complicated with and without Methamphetamine Poisoning; Can we tell the Differences on PMCT?
By Maiko Yoshida from Japan
2018 - Melbourne, Australia
Using Micro Computed Tomography to improve the diagnosis of strangulation deaths - Validation and initial case data
By Waltraud Baier from the United Kingdom
2016 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Best scientific presentation
Virtual animation of victim-specific 3D models obtained from CT scans for forensic crime scene reconstruction: living and dead subjects
By C. Villa from Denmark
Best poster presentation
Postmortem CT versus forensic autopsy: frequent discrepancies of tracheobronchial content findings
By L.P. Lombardo from Switzerland
2015 - Leicester, United Kingdom
1st prize
Common Post Mortem Computed Tomography Artifacts and their Remedies
By Daniel Sandoval from the USA
2nd prize
Imaging postmortem decomposition
By Willemijn Klein from the Netherlands
3rd prize
Modernizing the anatomy museum; MR and CT scans of the jarred fetuses to upgrade the didactic value
By Willemijn Klein from the Netherlands
