The four-day course will be held in Shenzhen city from the 21st to the 24th of March 2019, and will be conducted in Chinese.
The following members of the ISUOG International faculty will be speaking at the course:
Dr Tze Kin ("TK") Lau is a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, subspecialised in prenatal diagnosis and fetal medicine. Dr Lau joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a clinical academic staff in 1994. Before he left the department in 2011 to start his private practice, he was a Professor and the Chief-of-service of the department, and the Head of the Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit.
He currently holds the following professional positions:
- Chairman, The Chinese Fetal Medicine Foundation
- Board Member, The Fetus As A Patient International Society
- Academic Editor, PLoS Medicine
- Editorial Board member, BJOG
- Editorial Board member, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
- International Editorial Review Board member, Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Editorial Board member, Chinese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
- Associate Editor, Chinese Journal of Prenatal Diagnosis
Country: China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Field: Obstetrics
Specialties: Fetal Anomaly screening 1st trimester; Fetal Anomaly screening 2nd trimester; Fetal biometry and wellbeing; Aneuploidies; Fetal anomalies; Fetal heart; Fetal brain; Fetal growth restriction; Maternal and Fetal Doppler; Fetal interventional procedures; Multiple pregnancy; Genetics
Languages: English; Chinese
Country: China
Field: Obstetrics
Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T1 & T2; aneuploidies; fetal anomalies
Languages: English; Chinese (Mandarin)
Prof. Fang Yang is Professor and Director of Fetal Medicine Center of NanFang Hospital in China. She is a subspecialist in Maternal and Fetal Medicine. She gained her PhD degree in Maternal & Fetal Medicine from the University of Hong Kong. She was trained in the subspecialty of fetal medicine in Fetal Medicine Centre, Birmingham Women's Hospital in UK. She is the official Chinese interpreter for ISUOG guidelines translation.
Notable publications:
3D birth weight prediction by fractional thigh volume at term gestation in a Chinese population
Authors: F. Yang, K.Y.Leung, Y. W.Hou, Y. Yuan, M.H.Tang. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2011;38:425-433
Traditional karyotyping versus copy number variation sequencing for detection of chromosomal abnormalities associated with spontaneous miscarriage
Authors: Lui S, Song L, Cram DS, Xiong L, Wang K, Wu R, Liu J, Deng K, Jia B, Zhong M, Yang F *(correspond author).Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2015;46: 472–477
Country: China
Field: MFM
Specialties: Fetal anomalies, fetal growth restriction, fetal interventional procedure, multiple pregnancy
Languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, English