The Patient Information Sub-Committee is responsible for developing patient friendly information for broad dissemination to the general public.
Chair
Ms Sarah M. Cohen is a sonographer and research epidemiologist, presently working at the Research Lab of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Mt. Scopus campus in Jerusalem, Israel. Prior to training in OB/Gyn sonography, Sarah earned a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and worked as an English writer and editor in the public charitable sphere. Later she completed a Master’s degree in Public Health with a specialization in clinical epidemiology. Since joining the team at Hadassah-Mt. Scopus, she applies this hybrid education and experience to research epidemiology in ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis as well as other facets of obstetrics and gynecology, writing and editing hundreds of research and review articles and many book chapters for medical publications, and preparing didactic materials, in particular PowerPoint presentations, posters, and leaflets, for scientific and lay audiences. She has served on the Patient Information Task Force of ISUOG since 2018, and in 2022 became the Assistant Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Medicine / Obstetrics and Gynecology Section.
Country: Israel
Field: Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Epidemiology in the OB/Gyn space.
Specialties: OB/Gyn ultrasound, research epidemiology, scientific writing and editing, and preparation of didactic materials for professional and lay audiences.
Languages: English and Hebrew
Sub-Committee members
Maya Al-Memar is a Consultant Gynaecologist at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, with specialist clinical interests in complex benign gynaecology, acute diagnostic services including early pregnancy and acute gynaecology, rapid access for suspected gynaecological cancer, and paediatric & adolescent gynaecology. She completed her training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in North-West London including specialty training at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, and St Mary’s Hospital. Having worked in the largest gynaecology & reproductive medicine service in London at Imperial, she has experience in managing complex patients. Her focus is to provide the best possible care for women using high quality diagnostics ultrasound skills to streamline care. She graduated from Imperial College School of Medicine with first class honours in 2007, where she also completed her PhD and is now an honorary clinical lecturer. She is widely published in peer-reviewed journals. She currently has on-going research projects in the fields of early pregnancy, miscarriage, ovarian cysts and use of ultrasound to improve diagnosis of ovarian masses.
Country: UK
Field: Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Specialties: Early pregnancy and gynaecology imaging, adnexal masses, paediatric and adolescent gynaecology
Languages: English, Arabic
Iran and the UK. Dr Piri has been a member of ISUOG Outreach team for the phase 2 of Oman Outreach
program in 2019 and has continued to be ISUOG's virtual mentor for Oman and Egypt since then. Dr Piri has been the Director of ISUOG's Iranian Translation Team for COVID-19 resources and ISUOG Practice Guidelines, which have had over 40,000 reads. At the moment she is the Ambassador of ISUOG in Middle East and North Africa, and a member of basic training and patient information leaflets subcommittees of ISUOG. She has been the director of her Fetal Medicine Practice in Tehran since 2009.
Garshasbi M, Wang Y, Zadeh SH, Giti S, Piri S, and Hekmat MR (2000). Clinical Application of Cell-Free DNA Sequencing-Based Noninvasive Prenatal Testing for Trisomies 21, 18, 13 and Sex Chromosome Aneuploidy in a Mixed-Risk Population in Iran // Fetal diagnosis and therapy, 47(3), 220-227
Country: Iran
Field: Obstetrics, Fetal Medicine
Languages: English, Persian, Turkish, Portuguese
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