Trainee Webinar

This free webinar has been crafted specifically for trainees within the field of obstetrics & gynecology and will cover the diagnosis of myometrial lesions and use of ultrasound in the delivery room. Register to attend on Wednesday 5 July 2023.

ISUOG presents an informative afternoon featuring two insightful presentations, led by experts in the field of obgyn. Chaired by Dr. Srdjan Saso, Chairman of the NGen Committee, Prof. Antonia Testa will take a closer look at ‘Differential Diagnosis of Myometrial Lesions’, followed by Prof. Christoph Lees who will discuss ‘Use of Intra-partum Ultrasound’.

Following each session, attendees will have the opportunity to actively participate in a panel debate and discussion, held by Dr Saso, along with other NGen committee members, as well as representatives from The World Association of Trainees in Obstetrics & Gynecology (WATOG) and The European Network of Trainees in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ENTOG).

Don't miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge and engage in fruitful discussions with leading experts.

Why attend?

Learning Objectives:

To learn the most frequent ultrasound characteristics of uterine sarcomas.
To learn the ongoing studies on ultrasound examination of the myometrial lesions.
Develop clinical knowledge relevant to real-time use of ultrasound.

Session 1: Differential diagnosis of myometrial lesions
Differential diagnosis of myometrial lesions is very challenging.

Various scenarios of myometrial lesions can present as benign pathology, STUMPs and invasive cancers, such as sarcoma myomas. Historically there has not been much data to help identify these different conditions during an ultrasound examination.

Using recent studies as a basis, Professor Testa will share some new ways in which you can improve your diagnosis of myometrial lesions.

Session 2: Use of Intra-partum ultrasound
Professor Lees will discuss the indications for, and use of ultrasound in the delivery room. Why it is important, what information can be obtained that cannot by clinical examination, and how it is possible to examine by ultrasound without examining internally.

This will include the use of highly portable hand-held devices, as well as conventional ultrasound equipment, relevant to low, middle, and high resource settings.

Program

ISUOG Trainee Webinar Program

*Program is subject to change

Program highlights:

Differential diagnosis of myometrial lesions	Prof. Antonia Testa
Use of Intra-partum ultrasound	Prof. Christoph Lees
Panel discussion – Live Q&A	All Speakers

Registration

The webinar has been recorded and will be available for on-demand for registered delegates until ISUOG's 33rd World Congress in Seoul. Delegates can still register to watch the recording of this webinar for free.

Key Speakers

Dr Srdjan Saso (UK) NGen Committee Chair

Dr Srdjan Saso is a Gynaecological (Cancer) Surgeon at Imperial College NHS Trust and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London. Dr Saso is a great believer in translational clinical and academic work and projects that have the potential for ‘cross-fertilisation’ between medical and non-medical specialties. His main academic and clinical interest lies in gynaecological surgery (cancer and non-cancer) and the diagnostic application of ultrasound, with a particular focus on fertility-sparing surgery and oncofertility in general. Hence, the management of gynaecological issues in women who have not started or completed their families.

His other main research themes focus on the growing influence of Artificial Intelligence (and technology in general) in gynaecology. He is currently a PI on a machine learning and ovarian cancer diagnosis project. In addition, he is co-Principal Investigator on a point-of-care ovarian cancer diagnostic tool project and a co-Investigator on a project developing biomaterials strategies for preventing endometrial fibrosis and promoting endometrial regeneration.

Country: United Kingdom

Field: Gynaecological Surgery and Oncology, Ultrasound Diagnostics

Specialties: Gynaecological Surgery, Gynaecological Cancers, Oncofertility, Fertility-sparing Surgery, IOTA, Ultrasound Diagnostics

Languages: English, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, French

Prof. Antonia Testa (Italy) Stuart Campbell Award, 2024; ISUOG Fellowship, 2019

Prof. Antonia Carla Testa is currently Associate Professor of the Institute of Obstetric and Gynecological Clinics at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy and Director of Nursing and Midwifery Sciences School at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart-Claudiana University, Bolzano, Italy. She is the Director of the Departmental Operational Unit of Outpatient Gynecology and Director of the Center for Ultrasound in Gynecological Oncology “Class Ultrasound” at the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital Foundation, IRCCS.

Her main scientific areas of interest are ultrasound diagnosis of gynecological tumors, ultrasound assessment of pelvic anatomy, innovation in ultrasound. She was medical consultant for leading companies (Samsung, Esaote, GE, Canon and Philips) in the development of ultrasound equipment to improve their ability to diagnose and recognize pelvic tumor masses.

She has published over 250 papers in international Medline-indexed journals (H-index of 49 on Scopus, 8,730 citations), authored 20 international book chapters, and has given 350 invited lectures over the past ten years at international scientific meetings. She was Associate Editor of “Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology” 2006-2015. She chaired the 26th World Congress on Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Rome, Italy (ISUOG), 2016 with over 3,000 delegates. Since 2014, she has organized the Oncological Gynecology Ultrasound Advanced National Courses, attended by more than 3,500 gynecologists.

She was a Board Member of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG), 2011-2019 and she was the Vice President of the “Società Italiana di ecografia in Ginecologia e Ostetricia”, 2008-2010. She is a member of the ISUOG Education Committee (since 2019) and Chair of the ISUOG Visual Encyclopedia (VISUOG) Gynecology Project (since 2013). She is currently the Editor of the Glown (FIGO Global Women’s Medicine) Textbook of Ultrasound in Gynecology.

As a member of the Steering Committee of the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) collaborative group (since 1999), she participated in the research protocols with the enrollment of over 35,000 patients from 35 centers globally. She organized the IOTA6 study involving more 21 centers in Italy. Through the courses she has organized in Italy, nearly 3,000 gynecologists have achieved IOTA accreditation.

She participated in the preparation of the National Guidelines for uterine sarcomas (SIGO, 2019), in the revision of the Italian Guidelines on ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology (SIEOG, 2022), in the development of the International Consensus on preoperative diagnosis of ovarian tumors (ESGO/ISUOG/IOTA/ESGE, 2021), and in the development of Guidelines for the fertility-sparing treatment and follow-up in gynaecological cancers (ESGO/ESHRE/ESGE, 2024)

Country: Italy

Field: Gynecology

Specialties: Gynecological oncology, gynecological ultrasound

Languages: Italian, English

Prof. Christoph Lees (UK) Safety Committee member, ISUOG Fellowship 2023

Perinatal Doppler and Vascular Focus Group (Chair), UOG Editorial Board

Christoph Lees is Professor of Obstetrics as Imperial College London; Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Head of Specialty for Fetal Medicine at the Centre for Fetal Care, Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Clinical Director for Fetal Medicine for North West London and Visiting Professor KU Leuven (Belgium). His research interest is on fetal assessment and in particular the use of Doppler ultrasound to assess the health of the baby, scanning in labour, and non-invasive fetal surgery. He is the Chief Investigator of The Trial of Umbilical and Fetal Flow in Europe (TRUFFLE), a Collaboration of 51 Centres across Europe; co-founder of the International Working Group of Maternal Haemodynamics and Intrapartum ultrasound ISLANDs group. He was awarded £2.2m grant from the Medical Research Council for first in human studies of high-intensity focused ultrasound in 2017, a £2.5m grant from the NIHR in 2019 to undertake the TRUFFLE 2 RCT and a £2.1M grant from the NIHR for a study on ultrasound of breech pregnancy at 36 weeks in 2023.

Country: UK

Field: Obstetrics

Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T2; fetal biometry and wellbeing; aneuploidies; fetal anomalies; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; preeclampsia; safety of ultrasound

Language: English

Trainee Support

ISUOG proudly supports international trainees beginning their careers in ultrasound for obstetrics and gynecology. Find out more about free trainee ISUOG membership facilitated through your institution.

Visit our trainee hub for more information and beginer educational resources tailored to trainees and newly qualified clinicians in the ultrasound, obstetrics, and gynecology fields.

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Key Speakers

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Uterine sarcomas

Uterine sarcoma

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