Overview

Prof. Asma Khalil is a Professor of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine at St George’s University Hospital (University of London). She is a subspecialist in Maternal and Fetal Medicine, specialising in scanning women and babies with complications in pregnancy. She is the lead for the Multiple Pregnancy service at St George’s Hospital, the referral unit for the South West London region, but also cares for women with low risk pregnancies.

Prof. Khalil gained her MD at the University of London in 2009 following two years’ research into pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure in pregnancy). She also has a Masters degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and an MRC scholarship. She has published more than 45 peer reviewed research papers in medical journals, and many review articles and book chapters. She has been awarded many research prizes, at both national and international meetings.

Her research interests include hypertensive disease in pregnancy, multiple pregnancy, and other complications of pregnancy.

You can follow her on twitter @ProfAsmaKhalil

Notable publications: She has published more than 45 peer reviewed research papers in medical journals, and many review articles and book chapters. Read more.

Country: UK

Field: Obstetrics; Fetal Medicine

Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T1 & T2; fetal biometry and wellbeing; aneuploidies; fetal anomalies; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; multiple pregnancy; preeclampsia; prenatal diagnosis; fetal therapy; interventional procedures during pregnancy.

Languages: English; Arabic

"I am committed to supporting ISUOG’s membership growth and providing educational opportunities in underrepresented regions of the world. I have contributed to the Society’s scientific program, speaking at their Intensive education courses and even running two Approved courses of my own, which have become popular in their own right. One of these courses takes place in Egypt, the other in the UK, where there is a shortage in opportunities for basic training in the field. Through these initiatives I have introduced more than 70 new members to the Society in the last year alone and strive to continue delivering ISUOG’s resources in areas where there is most in need."

Prof. Angela Ranzini is a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The MetroHealth System in Cleveland, Ohio, USA and full professor of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University. Her special interests include anomaly identification, prediction of prematurity, Twins, Teaching processes and Quality control. Angela completed her MD at Medical College of Virginia (VCU), her Ob/Gyn residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, NY and her Fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA. 

Angela is the Director of the Fetal Diagnostic Center at the MetroHealth System and the  Program Director for the Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship at the MetroHealth/Case Western Reserve University joint fellowship with University Hospitals. She is a Fellow member of AIUM and is a  reviewer for Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. She is currently the Chair of the Education Committee, the Project Lead for the Rwanda Outreach program and serves as the VISUOG Abdomen section editor. She has been involved in many Committees and Task Forces of ISUOG.

Country: USA

Field: Obstetrics; Imaging; Fetal Medicine

Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening; fetal biometry and wellbeing; aneuploidies; fetal anomalies; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; multiple pregnancy

Languages: English

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

Country: Sweden

Field: Gynecology; Obstetrics

Specialties: 3D & 4D ultrasound; gynecological ultrasound; gynecological oncology; early pregnancy; reproductive medicine

Languages: English; Swedish; Russian

Dr Trigo is an Ob/Gyn who graduated at the University of Campinas, Brazil in 2015. He also specialized in women's ultrasound and obtained a master in sciences degree (MSc) from 2016 to 2017. 

From 2018 to 2021, he lived in Barcelona for his PhD in fetal medicine and fetal surgery at the University of Barcelona and KU Leuven with an Erasmus Mundus scholarship. He's currently in the process of defending his thesis. 

In 2021, he moved to Switzerland, where he currently finishes the validation of his Ob/Gyn specialisation.

Since medical school, Dr Trigo was always interested in research and teaching activities. He first joined ISUOG as a task-force member for the Intermedium curriculum, and is currently an official member of the Educational Courses Subcommittee.

Country: Brazil / Switzerland

Field: Obstetrics; Maternal Fetal Medicine

Main interests: Fetal surgery, Open spina bifida, Multiple pregnancies, Neurosonography, Fetal Growth Restriction, Intrapartum ultrasound

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Dr. Carman Lai received her training in Maternal Fetal Medicine in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. She has worked as an Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Lai is currently a Maternal Fetal Medicine consultant at Gold Coast University Hospital, where she and her team have established a high-risk obstetric clinic. Her research interests include assessing placental function and using digital technology to improve obstetric outcomes.

Country: Australia   

Field: Obstetrics, Maternal Fetal Medicine 

Specialties: Fetal anomalies, fetal growth restriction, fetal wellbeing assessment, high risk obstetrics

Languages: English, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin)

Valentina De Robertis is currently a consultant in Fetal Medicine at Di Venere Hospital, Bari, Italy. 
She has completed a postgraduate master’s degree in Congenital Heart Disease. 
From 2021 to 2024, she served as the President of the Italian Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (SIEOG). 
She is the President-Elect of the World Association of Perinatal Medicine (WAPM). 
Dr. De Robertis has published over 50 original papers in high-impact peer-reviewed journals and has led or been involved in numerous training courses and congresses worldwide. 

Country: Italy 
Field: Obstetrics 
Specialties: First trimester scan, fetal anomalies, fetal heart and brain, 3D/4D ultrasound 
Languages: English, Italian 

Jérôme Cornette  is a senior consultant in Maternal and Fetal Medicine at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam (the Netherlands).

He followed his medical and specialty training in Obstetrics and Gynecology  (1999-2004) at the University of Antwerp. During his specialty training he worked at the University hospital (UZA) and Sint-Augustinus hospital in Antwerp and the Kalafong Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa. In South Africa, he focused on both maternal and fetal ultrasound and compared maternal echocardiography with right heart catheterization in severely pre-eclamptic women. He subspecialized in Maternal and Fetal Medicine (2004-2006) at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) where he defended his PhD thesis on hemodynamic profiling in complicated pregnancies in 2016.

His main areas of expertise and research are fetal and maternal echocardiography, maternal hemodynamics, cardiac disease in pregnancy, obstetric critical care, placenta accreta spectrum and abdominal cerclages. He accounts for numerous international publications in these fields and is a member of the International Working Group on Maternal Hemodynamics, IS-PAS, Dutch maternal mortality commission, Lowland abdominal cerclage working group and MOET instructor. Through his work he aims to promote the role of maternal echocardiography and maternal POCUS into obstetric care and women’s health. By his involvement in fetal and maternal (congenital) heart disease, he forms a link between pediatric and adult congenital cardiologist at the Erasmus MC congenital heart center. He supports a life-cycle approach (from fetus to elderly women) to women’s cardiovascular health and the role of ultrasound as a non-invasive tool for this purpose.    

Country: The Netherlands, Belgium

Field: Obstetrics, MFM

Languages: English, Dutch, French

Specialties: fetal echocardiography, maternal echocardiography, cardiac disease in pregnancy, maternal and fetal hemodynamics, POCUS. 

2020 Gold Medal Award article

Davor Jurkovic is a Consultant Gynaecologist and Director of Gynaecology Diagnostic and Outpatient Treatment Unit at University College Hospital London.  His main clinical and academic interest is the use of ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of early pregnancy and gynaecological abnormalities.  He has pioneered the use of colour Doppler in gynaecology and early pregnancy as well as the use of three-dimensional ultrasound for the diagnosis of congenital uterine anomalies. He has published more than 250 papers in the international peer review journals and has edited five books on gynaecological ultrasound. Read more.

Country: UK

Field: Gynecology

Specialties: Endometriosis, early pregancy complications, ultrasound in gynaecology, benign gyanecological conditions, diagnosis of uterine and ovarian cancer.