This joint mission by ISUOG and FMF is dedicated to addressing the needs of healthcare professionals from low-resource countries and serving as an inclusive platform for knowledge exchange, skill enhancement, and improved healthcare outcomes in regions facing resource challenges. Renowned speakers from the field will contribute their expertise, further enriching the event's impact. Read more about these speakers below.

Course chairs: 

Professor Tom Bourne

ISUOG President 2020 - 2022, Virtual World Congress Technical Congress Chair 2020 and 2021, 2022 World Congress Co-Chair, Executive Committee, Finance & Risk Committee, Nominations Committee

Professor Tom Bourne was ISUOG President between 2020 and 2022 and is curently Chair in Gynaecology at Imperial College London, Hon Consultant Gynaecologist at Queen Charlottes and Chelsea hospital and Visiting Professor at KU Leuven in Belgium. He is an authority on managing early pregnancy complications, emergency gynaecology and gynaecological ultrasonography. He trained in ultrasound at Kings College Hospital in London. He subsequently worked at the University of Göteborg, Sweden as Medical Research Council visiting scientist, Hamar in Norway, and Leuven in Belgium. He was appointed senior lecturer and consultant gynaecologist at St George's University Hospital London before moving to Imperial College. He has edited seven books and published over 400 papers. He sits on the management committee of the Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research. He is medical advisor and trustee of the patient group, the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust. He is immediate Past-President of the UK Association of Early Pregnancy Units. He is co-founder and CEO of the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) group and sits on the steering committees of several large multicentre international trials. He is founder member of the RCOG task force on “supporting our doctors”. He is honorary fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, honorary member of the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and honorary member of the Brazilian and Hungarian Ultrasound Societies.

His principal research interest is diagnostics in early pregnancy and gynaecology including the IOTA, IETA, IDEA and MUSA studies, microbiome, metabolomics, novel biomarkers, and AI. His interests include the psychology of pregnancy loss and physician welfare including studies with the BMA and RCOG.

Country: UK

Language: English

Field: Gynaecology

Specialties: Early Pregnancy Care, Emergency Gynaecology, Ultrasound in Oncology, Gynaecological Ultrasonography, Physician Wellbeing

Selected Notable Publications:

Sporadic miscarriage: evidence to provide effective care. Coomarasamy A, Gallos ID, Papadopoulou A, Dhillon-Smith RK, Al-Memar M, Brewin J, Christiansen OB, Stephenson MD, Oladapo OT, Wijeyaratne CN, Small R, Bennett PR, Regan L, Goddijn M, Devall AJ, Bourne T, Brosens JJ, Quenby S.

Lancet. 2021 May 1;397(10285):1668-1674. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00683-8. Epub 2021 Apr 27.

Validation of models to diagnose ovarian cancer in patients managed surgically or conservatively: multicentre cohort study.

Van Calster B, Valentin L, Froyman W, Landolfo C, Ceusters J, Testa AC, Wynants L, Sladkevicius P, Van Holsbeke C, Domali E, Fruscio R, Epstein E, Franchi D, Kudla MJ, Chiappa V, Alcazar JL, Leone FPG, Buonomo F, Coccia ME, Guerriero S, Deo N, Jokubkiene L, Savelli L, Fischerová D, Czekierdowski A, Kaijser J, Coosemans A, Scambia G, Vergote I, Bourne T, Timmerman D.

BMJ. 2020 Jul 30;370:m2614. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m2614.

Posttraumatic stress, anxiety and depression following miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy: a multicenter, prospective, cohort study.

Farren J, Jalmbrant M, Falconieri N, Mitchell-Jones N, Bobdiwala S, Al-Memar M, Tapp S, Van Calster B, Wynants L, Timmerman D, Bourne T.

Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Apr; 222(4):367.e1-367.e22. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2019.10.102.

Risk of complications in patients with conservatively managed ovarian tumours (IOTA5): a 2-year interim analysis of a multicentre, prospective, cohort study.

Froyman W, Landolfo C, De Cock B, Wynants L, Sladkevicius P, Testa AC, Van Holsbeke C, Domali E, Fruscio R, Epstein E, Dos Santos Bernardo MJ, Franchi D, Kudla MJ, Chiappa V, Alcazar JL, Leone FPG, Buonomo F, Hochberg L, Coccia ME, Guerriero S, Deo N, Jokubkiene L, Kaijser J, Coosemans A, Vergote I, Verbakel JY, Bourne T, Van Calster B, Valentin L, Timmerman D.

Lancet Oncol. 2019 Mar; 20(3): 448-458. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30837-4.

Defining safe criteria to diagnose miscarriage: prospective observational multicentre study. Preisler J, Kopeika J, Ismail L, Vathanan V, Farren J, Abdallah Y, Battacharjee P, Van Holsbeke C, Bottomley C, Gould D, Johnson S, Stalder C, Van Calster B, Hamilton J, Timmerman D, Bourne T.

BMJ. 2015 Sep 23; 351:h4579. doi: 10.1136/bmj.h4579.

Evaluating the risk of ovarian cancer before surgery using the ADNEX model to differentiate between benign, borderline, early and advanced stage invasive, and secondary metastatic tumours: prospective multicentre diagnostic studies. Van Calster B, Van Hoorde K, Valentin L, Testa AC, Fischerova D, Van Holsbeke C, Savelli L, Franchi D, Epstein E, Kaijser J, Van Belle V, Czekierdowski A, Guerriero S, Fruscio R, Lanzani C, Scala F, Bourne T, Timmerman D; International Ovarian Tumour Analysis Group.

BMJ. 2014 Oct 15;349:g5920. doi: 10.1136/bmj.g5920.

Diagnostic criteria for nonviable pregnancy early in the first trimester. Doubilet PM, Benson CB, Bourne T, Blaivas M; Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound Multispecialty Panel on Early First Trimester Diagnosis of Miscarriage and Exclusion of a Viable Intrauterine Pregnancy, Barnhart KT, Benacerraf BR, Brown DL, Filly RA, Fox JC, Goldstein SR, Kendall JL, Lyons EA, Porter MB, Pretorius DH, Timor-Tritsch IE.

N Engl J Med. 2013 Oct 10; 369(15): 1443-51. doi: 10.1056/NEJMra1302417.

Limitations of current definitions of miscarriage using mean gestational sac diameter and crown-rump length measurements: a multicenter observational study. Abdallah Y, Daemen A, Kirk E, Pexsters A, Naji O, Stalder C, Gould D, Ahmed S, Guha S, Syed S, Bottomley C, Timmerman D, Bourne T.

Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Nov; 38(5): 497-502. doi: 10.1002/uog.10109.

He is President of the UK Association of Early Pregnancy Units (AEPU), Trustee of the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust and on the steering committee of the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) trial.

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1999 Gold Medal Award article

Prof. Kypros Nicolaides is Professor of Fetal Medicine at King’s College Hospital, London. He was born in Cyprus and studied medicine at Kings, training in obstetrics and gynecology and specialising in fetal medicine. He has carried out extensive research in many aspects of fetal diagnosis and therapy leading to the publication of more than 1400 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals. His research publications on imaging and prenatal diagnosis have transformed ultrasound practice and his work to implement quality control for nuchal translucency has led to this technique becoming an established screening test of Down's syndrome and other genetic conditions. He was awarded the ISUOG Ian Donald Gold Medal in 1999 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field.

He has provided training in fetal medicine to more than 500 doctors from 50 countries and has supervised more than 50 doctors to undertake research leading to PhDs and MDs. In 1995 he founded the charity The Fetal Medicine Foundation, which has donated more than £45 million to promote research and training in fetal medicine throughout the world.

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Faculty:

• Chair of Women’s Services, Head of IVF and Reproductive Medicine for 4 years
• Consultant Gynaecologist in NHS, GMC accredited in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery for 5 years (CCT UK)
• RCOG accredited Subspecialty Programme in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery
• PhD Imperial College London
• Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London
• Former Academic Fellow at Oxford University
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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

 

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Dr Guillermo Azumendi is originally from Bilbao, Spain, and he moved to Málaga to attend Medical School. He then specialized in Ob-Gyn Residency at the Hospital Regional Carlos Haya in Málaga. He got the Expert degree in Ob-Gyne ultrasound by the Spanish Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology.  Dr Azumendi is Chair of the Ultrasound and Fetal Medicine Unit of Centro Gutenberg in Málaga, and was one of the pioneers in introducing 3D prenatal ultrasound in Spain in the late 90´s. He became professor in Spanish Obs-Gyne Ultrasound School and in the International 3D Ultrsound School, Madrid (MISUS). He was vicepresident of the Spanish Prenatal Diagnosis Association (AEDP) and vicepresident of the Obs-Gyne Association in Málaga (AGOM). In his extense academic activity he imparted more than 40 courses on 3D Ultrasound in Obs and Gyne and wrote more than 30 chapters in medical books and several papers published in international journals. Dr Azumendi´s main interests are 3D ultrasound and neurosonography. He has been giving lectures for the past decades in both national and international meetings
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Dr Jen Barcroft is a clinical research fellow and specialist Obstetrics and Gynaecology registrar based at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust with clinical interests in gynaecological ultrasound within early pregnancy, rapid access, and reproductive medicine. 
 
Alongside clinical training, she is currently doing a PhD at Imperial College London, exploring the applications of machine learning within gynaecology diagnostics. Her research is focused on the development of machine learning-based models to support the classification of adnexal masses on ultrasound and the use of online search data to identify individuals at risk of disease.   
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Dr Olivia Barigye is a Fetal Maternal Medicine Specialist, Obstetrician Gynaecologist. Of East African origin but based in South Africa, she sees a variety of high-risk international and locallyreferred patients at her private clinic, The Olive Tree Centre for Fetal Care, in Hyde Park, Johannesburg.
 
After graduating from The University of Cape Town Medical School, Olivia moved to London and undertook UK-specialist training with The London Deanery and The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), with advanced RCOG-accredited training in Fetal Maternal Medicine, and further Fetal Medicine experience as a Clinical Research Fellow at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital. Subsequently, as an appointed Consultant Fetal Specialist Obstetrician Gynaecologist for Barts Health NHS Trust, Olivia led Fetal Medicine Multidisciplinary Management meetings and Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality review for Newham University Hospital’s high-risk 
population.
 
Olivia is a Fellow of The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, a member of The International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecologists (ISUOG), and accredited by The Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF). She has published in international peer-reviewed journals, and presented at numerous international symposia including The British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society, The MacDonald’s Obstetric Medicine Society Meeting, The International Fetal 
Medicine and Surgery Society, and The FMF World Congress in Fetal Medicine. She has been an invited speaker and co-chair for the ISUOG FMF Ultrasound Essentials meeting, and is a panellist for the GE Healthcare Imperial College London Multidisciplinary Fetal Medicine Webinar Series.
 
Committed to education and training, Olivia has been a Faculty Member in Obstetric Ultrasound training at University College London and The Royal London Hospitals, and lectured at King’s College and Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry. She was also an invited speaker for the launch of the first ECSACOG meeting in Rwanda, and in South Africa she has provided practical training and lectured at Fetal Medicine Meetings for Wits and Stellenbosch Universities.
 
Olivia has been a vocal advocate, sensitizing donors, investors, and health ministries to the urgencies around African Maternal and Perinatal Health. In 2017, hosted by Boundless Impact Research & Analytics at Goodwin Procter in New York, Olivia gave a keynote address and was an expert panellist on impact investment in African healthcare systems. She is driven towards building strategic global partnerships for improved Maternal and Perinatal outcomes, particularly in developing regions, and considers high-standard Obstetric Ultrasound a key cornerstone.
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Consultant Gynaecologist at Nepean Hospital and Director of OMNI Gynaecological Care, Centre for Women’s Ultrasound.
 
He is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sydney Medical School, Nepean, University of Sydney and specialist in Gynaecological Ultrasound and Advanced Endosurgery. He set up the first and only Acute Gynaecology Unit in Australia which utilises ultrasound at the first point of contact for women with emergency gynaecological as well as early pregnancy complications (miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy). He is also responsible for the One-Stop Ultrasound based diagnostic clinics; which review women with abnormal uterine bleeding, chronic pelvic pain (endometriosis), adnexal pathology (ovarian cysts) as well as post-menopausal bleeding. He performs Advanced Endosurgery procedures for women who need intervention for pelvic masses, adnexal pathology, severe endometriosis or hysterectomy. He also runs ‘Hands on’ Live Sheep Laparoscopic Workshops for gynaecologists at Camden Veterinarian School.
 
Country: Australia
 
Field: Gynecology
 
Specialties: Gynecological ultrasound; early pregnancy
 
Language: English

 

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Professor Cathy Cluver founded and continues to lead the Preeclampsia Research Unit at Stellenbosch University (www.preeclampsiaresearch.org). This Research Unit is a multidisciplinary multinational research collaboration focussing on understanding and treating preeclampsia. Cathy is currently running her third double blind interventional treatment trial for preterm preeclampsia (PI3 trial), a multicentre preeclampsia prevention trial (APPLE PIE) and studies investigating novel therapeutics to treat preeclampsia (DM199). She is also supervising PhD projects in fetal growth restriction and preterm birth.
 
Cathy obtained her MMed in 2011 cum laude and was awarded both the Daubenton Medal for outstanding results in the Fellowship examination of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the medal for the Best Postgraduate Student for a Structures Masters Qualification at Stellenbosch University. In 2013 she undertook a Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship at Mercy Hospital for Women, in Melbourne Australia. She then completed her subspecialist training in South Africa in 2016. After completing her PhD in 2019, she was appointed as an associate professor. In 2023 she was appointed as a full professor at Stellenbosch University. She is the youngest appointed professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. In 2023 she was awarded the Women in Research Award by Stellenbosch University.
 
She has over 100 publications including publications in the Lancet, BMJ, Lancet Global and Cochrane Library. She has published extensively in leading Obstetrics and Gynaecological journals including the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gyneacology. She has also presented invited plenary sessions at many international and national conferences.
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Dr. Lorraine Dugoff is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Chief of the Reproductive Genetics Division at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is triple boarded in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Clinical Genetics. Dr. Dugoff  currently serves on the Professional Practice and Guidelines Committee for the American College of Medical Genetics, the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Foundation Board of Directors and the SMFM Document Committee. She is the alternate PI for the University of Pennsylvania Maternal Fetal Medicine Units Network site. Her research is primarily focused on the prediction of adverse obstetric outcomes including preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction and the application of emerging genetic technologies to clinical care.  
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Dr Ehigha Enabudoso obtained his medical degree and had his residency training at the University of Benin and the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria respectively. He had his training in Fetal Medicine and OBGYN Ultrasound at the Tygerberg Academic Hospital, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons and the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. He is an examiner and a member of the Faculty Board of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. He has certifications from the Fetal Medicine Foundation in various aspects of Fetal Ultrasound and Obstetric Doppler Ultrasound.

Through the Fetal Diagnostic and Ultrasound Center in Nigeria and collaborating with other organizations, Dr Enabudoso has run the ISUOG endorsed Fetal Medicine and OBGYN Ultrasound workshop since 2014. This has trained hundreds of healthcare practitioners in and around West Africa and has also facilitated livestreaming of many ISUOG courses in Nigeria. He has also been involved in the HealthyMagination Mother and Child Initiative (HMCI) of the GE Healthcare and USAID as master trainer to train Community Midwives on limited basic ultrasound scan for healthcare service in rural Nigeria.

His more recent research area is in advancing ultrasound in LMICs. He is presently working on tools for competence assessment in basic ultrasound. Two recent related publications include:

  • Enabudoso E, Adams OH. An international standard fetal ultrasound training programme organized in a low resource setting: The ISUOG‑Benin City experience. Trop J Obstet Gynaecol. 2016: 33(3); 292-296
  • Ehigha Enabudoso, Osikhueme H Adams. Organizing an international-standard obstetric ultrasound training program in a low-resource setting. IJGO. 2017: 136(1); 102-104.

Dr Enabudoso has been involved in various medical outreach programmes mainly in West Africa. He works presently as Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of Benin and the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria. He worked recently too as Associate Clinical Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA in the World Bank collaborative programme at the Liberia-Japanese Friendship Hospital, Monrovia-Liberia (2019). He hopes to use his interest, passion and experience to assist in furthering the growth and scope of the ISUOG outreach programme in LMICs.

Country: Nigeria

Field: Obstetrics

Specialties: Fetal ultrasound, Obstetric Dopplers; Ultrasound education.

Language: English

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UOG Editorial Board, Nominations Committee

Prof. Daniela Fischerova is specialized in O&G (1st and 2nd degree, 2000, 2004), clinical oncology (2005), and gynecological oncology (2011). She hold a PhD in experimental surgery (2008). She works as a professor at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University (2012). Since 2016, she serves as a Board member of the International Society of Ultrasound in O&G (ISUOG) and since 2021 she also becomes a Board member of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO). At a national level, she serves as the Vice President of the Czech Ultrasound Society in O&G and Board member of Czech Gynecologic Oncology society. She is academically very active in ultrasound imaging of gynecological cancer and passionate about promoting implementation of ultrasound in cancer staging, particularly by teaching and international research cooperation. She established Scientific and Educational Ultrasound Centre at Charles University. Twice a year she organises International Workshop on Ultrasound in Gynecologic Oncology (IWUGO) in Prague.

Country: Czech Republic

Field: Gynecology

Specialties: Gynecological oncology, gynecological ultrasound

Languages: English; Czech; German

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Prof Galadanci is the founding Director of ACEPHAP, a World Bank funded Africa Center of Excellence to strengthen inter-disciplinary evidence-informed policy development in West and Central Africa. she has established a research network and delivered over 20 studies with WHO, Mac Arthur Foundation, FIGO, MRC, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
 
She has trained and mentored over 600 medical students, residents, and postgraduate students and has published over 90 articles in peer reviewed journals. She has extensive experience in working and conducting projects with WHO, USAID, UNICEF, UNFPA and MNCH2.
 
She is an inspiring model for women, particularly women clinical academics, being the first female obstetrician to be trained in the Kano region and has won multiple awards for her leading work in maternal health in Nigeria.
 She has served as a member in several initiatives and working groups including the TETFUND NRF and RDSC committee.
 
She has a Bachelor’s in Medicine and Surgery from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, a Masters in Reproductive Health and Sexual Health Research from University College London and a Diploma from the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. A Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons and Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology United Kingdom.
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Dr Enrique Gil-Guevara is a senior consultant in the Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal in Lima and an associate professor at San Marcos University. 

His special interests are imaging technologies, fetal health, twins, fetal therapy, teaching processes and public health in Obstetrics. Enrique completed a MSc in Medical Sciences with distinction at the University of San Martin de Porres in Lima, Peru. He completed an international fellowship in Fetal Surgery at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, USA; and also obtained the Diploma in Fetal Medicine in London, UK, after three years of direct training with Professor Kypros Nicolaides.

Enrique is the director of the Peruvian Institute of Fetal Medicine, the main institution in the field in the Peruvian private setting. He is recognized as one of the main researchers in Fetal Medicine in the country by CONCYTEC (Peruvian public institution devoted to science and technology) and he has also been awarded the Diploma of Honor by the Parliament of Peru in recognition for his work as the main pioneer in Fetal Surgery in the country.

Country: Peru

Field: Obstetrics; Imaging; Fetal Medicine; Fetal Surgery

Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening; Fetal biometry and wellbeing; Aneuploidies; Fetal anomalies; Fetal growth restriction; Maternal and fetal Doppler; Multiple pregnancy; Fetal surgery

Languages: English; Spanish

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Congress Plenary Lecture: Caesarean section: should we be scared?
 
Professor Huirne is a Gynaecologist and senior researcher at the Amsterdam University Medical Center (VUmc), Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She leads the Uterine Repair Center (URC) at the VUmc. This center serves women suffering non-cancerous gynaecological disorders, such as myomas, adenomyosis, niches or congenital uterine abnormalities.
 
She specialises in minimally invasive treatments of uterine abnormalities. She has been involved in the development of various new diagnostic techniques and treatments for uterine abnormalities, and founded the European expert group on uterine abnormalities.
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Dr Tessa Homfray studied medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital, University of London, qualifying in 1983. She then undertook various posts in paediatric and adult medicine before specialising in genetics, firstly at Great Ormond Street Hospital and then St George’s University Hospital, London. 

She has clinical experience in all areas of clinical genetics, but has special interest in the genetics of cardiac disease and fetal medicine. She also has an interest in the genetics of cardiomyopathy and arrhythmias in childhood, as well as how new technologies are introduced to identifying genetic diseases. 

Dr Homfray has a very busy clinical practice, not only working at the Trust, but also St George’s University Hospital and The Harris Birthright Unit, Kings College Hospital London. 

She runs weekly cardiac and prenatal clinics to keep a patient centred focus on care, and holds regular MDT clinics so that all team members can understand the patient pathway and also keep up to date with any advances in this field. 

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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.

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Outreach Committee

Asma trained in obstetrics and gynaecology specialising in gynae USS, before switching career paths to work in international health development after a Masters' at London School of Economics. Through roles at MS Reproductive Choices, RCOG and WHO she has developed expertise in setting up and running clinical services in LMICs, developing and maintaining quality assurance systems and constructing complex training programmes. Asma has a special interest in organisational governance and how this affects clinical services. She has worked in Executive and Non-Executive roles in a range of public and not-for-profit organisations.
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Emma Kirk is a Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Royal Free Hospital, London.   She is the clinical lead for Early Pregnancy and Emergency Gynaecology. She has published on many aspects of early pregnancy and has published a book on scanning in early pregnancy. Her special interests are pregnancies of unknown location and ectopic pregnancies.  She organises the RCOG ATSM course in Early Pregnancy and Acute Gynaecology, regularly lectures both nationally and internationally,  is an executive committee member of the Association of Early Pregnancy Units and is a past coordinator of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology Special Interest Group in Implantation and Early Pregnancy.  
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Chiara Landolfo, Italian MD and PhD, French and English-speaking, is a consultant Gynaecological Oncologist Surgeon at Imperial College London. She completed her training at Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy), combining her education at Policlinico Sant’Orsola Malpighi (Bologna) by also working at CHU Saint-Pierre in Brussels and KU Leuven (Belgium). With a special interest in gynaecologic ultrasonography, she joined the International Ovarian Tumour Analysis group (IOTA), one of the largest multicentric diagnostic trials on ovarian tumours in the world. She worked together with Prof D. Timmerman at KU Leuven, Prof T. Bourne at Imperial College London and Prof A. Testa at Gemelli Hospital in Rome. She is active in research on gynaecologic ultrasound, translational analyses and artificial intelligence. She also contributes to the International Endometrial Tumour Analysis (IETA) and the Morphological Uterus Sonographic Assessment (MUSA) studies. She is member of ISUOG, SIEOG (Italian Society of Ultrasound in Gynaecology and Obstetrics), and ESGO (European Society of Gynaecological Oncology). Chiara is an active member of the ISUOG Clinical Standards Committee and of the ISUOG Task Force for the Basic Training in Gynaecology. She also collaborates to VISUOG project , and worked as a member of the ISUOG Next Generation group. She regularly takes part in education, scientific presentations and courses on gynaecologic ultrasound at national and international conferences.
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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
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​​Liesbeth Lewi is a fetal medicine specialist at UZ Leuven, Belgium and associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine of KU Leuven, Belgium. Her clinical work and research focus on complications in monochorionic twin pregnancies and their placentas.​ 
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Dr Simon Meagher is consultant sonologist at the Perinatal department, Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne. He also serves as Medical Director of Monash Ultrasound for Women where he oversees a team of 50 sonologists, sonographers, genetic counsellors, phlebotomists and administrative staff in delivering a tertiary level ultrasound service across south east Melbourne. Dr Meagher has dedicated 30  years of his term as Medical Director, teaching and lecturing in obstetric and gynaecological ultrasound both locally and overseas. He has delivered over 800 lectures, across 17 countries, and 43 cities worldwide. In 2015, he was awarded ‘Sonologist of The Year’ by the Australian society of Ultrasound in medicine (ASUM) in recognition  of his teaching skills and his commitment to  hands on training within the hospital setting at the Mercy Hospital for Women and for  his commitment and contributions to ASUM.

His interest in clinical research has focussed on early pregnancy screening and diagnosis he has published over 100  articles in peer review journals, including 15 articles  in the last 3 years focusing on first trimester  pregnancy screening and diagnosis. Dr Meagher has described five original sonographic fetal markers during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy. He is now focusing his interest on aneuploidy and embryo development from  seven to 10 weeks as we approach the dawn of a new era of genetic screening via free fetal DNA analysis.  

Dr Meagher has taken on multiple leadership positions - early in his career as the Chair of the Standards of Practice Committee at ASUM, examiner and executive board member for the ASUM Diploma of diagnostic ultrasound and later as council member of ASUM. Thereafter he served as Chairman of the Victoria Obstetric Sonologists group and on several  ISUOG Sub-Committees  at the  International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetric and Gynaecological Ultrasound.

Country: Australia

Field: Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Specialties: Prenatal Diagnosis. First and Second Trimester Fetal anomaly screening. Aneuploidy screening and diagnosis. NIPT and prenatal Exome sequencing. Maternal and Fetal Doppler Ultrasound. Invasive Prenatal Procedures.  Ultrasound and Infertility. Tubal Patency Testing. 

Languages: English

 

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Prof. Hisham Mirghani did his fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine in Toronto, Canada in 1999. He received his Master in Health Professionas Education and is currently Professor of OB/GYN at United Arab Emirates University. He is also ISUOG's Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East.

Notable publications:

Begam MA, Alsafi W, Bekdache GN, Chedid F, Al-Gazali L, Mirghani HM. Stuve-Wiedemann syndrome: a skeletal dysplasia characterized by bowed long bones.  Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2011;38(5):553-8.

Mirghani H, Begam M, Bekdache G, Khan F. Specialised fetal and maternal service: outcome of pre-gestational diabetes. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 2012;32(5):426-9.

Country: United Arab Emirates

Field: Obstetrics

Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening 1st trimester and 2nd trimester; fetal biometry; fetal anomalies screening; aneuploidy screening; fetal anomalies; fetal heart; fetal growth restrictions; maternal and fetal Doppler; multiple pregnancy; early pregnancy; detection of fetal and neonatal growth abnormalities.

Languages: English; Arabic

"It gives me great pleasure to accept the invitation to become an ISUOG Ambassador. I hope I will be able to contribute to ISUOG training, educational, and research activities in my region. I believe that the potentials for ISUOG in the region and other parts of the world with similar backgrounds are huge."

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Dr. Nuruddin is an Associate Professor and Fetal Medicine Consultant at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Karachi, Pakistan where he has also served as the Director of Research and the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Unit. 
 
Dr. Nuruddin obtained his medical degree and postgraduate training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at AKUH, Karachi. He furthered his expertise by completing Clinical Fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the National University Hospital, Singapore. He holds a Master of Science (Clinical Sciences) and a PhD in Fetal Medicine from the National University of Singapore. Additionally, he earned a Diploma in Advanced Obstetric Ultrasound from the Joint Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists/Radiologists, UK. Dr. Nuruddin also pursued Postdoctoral Research and Clinical Fellowship in Fetal Cardiology at the Fetal Medicine Foundation, Barcelona, Spain. 
 
Dr. Nuruddin’s clinical expertise spans a wide range of areas, including first-trimester screening for aneuploidy and preeclampsia, multiple pregnancies, genetic sonography, fetal echocardiography, multi-vessel Doppler studies, and quality control in obstetric imaging. His commitment to advancing healthcare in low- and middle-income countries is evident through his dedication to developing affordable preeclampsia screening solutions and training healthcare professionals in obstetric ultrasound. 
His research interest is in the field of preeclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus, fetal growth restriction, and fetal origins of health and disease. He serves as the Executive Secretary of the International Society for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) and as the Founding President of the Pakistan Society for DOHaD. He is an active collaborator with the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) and serves as an ISUOG Ambassador to Asia for advancing maternal and fetal health in the region.  
 
In acknowledgment of his exceptional dedication and achievements in women’s healthcare, Dr. Nuruddin has been awarded Honorary Fellowship (FRCOG ad eundem) by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, UK.   
 
Country: Pakistan  
 
Field: Fetal Medicine
 
Specialties: First trimester screening for aneuploidies; First and second trimester screening for preeclampsia; Genetic sonography; Fetal Echocardiography; Fetal growth and well-being; Maternal and Fetal Doppler studies; Multiple Pregnancy
 
Languages: English; Urdu
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Prof. Mohamed Momtaz has been Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cairo University since 2000. He founded the Fetal Medicine Unit in 2006 and was appointed Director of the unit from 2008 - 2011. He is Currently the Chairman of the department. He has been elected vice president of the Egyptian Society for Maternal and Fetal Medicine and Vice president of the Egyptian Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics.

Country: Egypt

Field: Gynecology; Obstetrics

Specialties: Fetal biomety and wellbeing; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; 3D & 4D ultrasound; gynecological ultrasound; gynecological oncology; reproductive medicine

Language: English; Arabic

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Francesca Moro, MD, PhD is a gynecologist at Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, IRCCS, in Rome. She is a specialist in clinical research/a clinical researcher in the field of ultrasound and gynecologic oncology.
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Alinane Linda Nyondo-Mipando (ALNM) is a Registered Nurse Midwife, an Associate Professor of Health Systems and Policy at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi and  Tenure Track Fellow at the University of Liverpool UK.  She has a Ph.D in Health Systems and policy .Her research interests are in Health Systems and Implementation Science Research with a focus on health service delivery including quality management.  She is keen on redesigning of health services with end-users, health care workers and policy makers to ensure optimal delivery of health services. Her areas of interest are HIV and AIDS across different populations, Malaria, and Maternal and Newborn Health.  Linda has vast experience in health systems strengthening including improving delivery of health services and application of quality management techniques.  She has published over 82 peer reviewed articles and chapters in  books on health systems in Malawi . She is currently co-leading a programme on improving quality of antenatal care services in Malawi and Zambia, a co-investigator on  a project titled Innovative Management PRactices to Enhance hoSpital quality and Save lives in Malawi (IMPRESS)  where she is leading the codesigning, policy interface and qualitative works in the project and is also a lead Malawi Investigator in the programme on adolescent health and wellbeing and  leading the conduct of a  comprehensive political economy analysis of adolescent health in Malawi to better understand the local policy landscape and the political and economic factors that influence health outcomes among adolescents in the country. 
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Dr. Lisa Noguchi is a nurse-midwife and infectious disease epidemiologist. Her 25+ years of experience includes clinical practice in rural and urban hospital settings, clinical and implementation research, and health systems support in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. She obtained her PhD in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and MSN from University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Noguchi serves as Director for Maternal Newborn Health at Jhpiego, the global health implementation arm of JHU. She served as Zika Response Team Lead for USAID's flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program, where she co-led a five-country assessment of obstetric ultrasound capacity. She is Research Director for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ARC network, supporting implementation research on point-of-care antenatal ultrasound in Malawi, and clinical lead for the LDS-sponsored Manucare point-of-care ultrasound training program in Ghana. Dr. Noguchi has served on the WHO Antenatal Care Guideline Development Group and WHO Perinatal Guidelines Executive Steering Group. She was primary author of the WHO Technical Brief: Imaging Ultrasound Before 24 Weeks of Pregnancy. She has published research and commentary in a range of journals, including Birth Defects Research, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Malaria Journal, AJOG, Journal of Infectious Diseases, The Lancet HIV, The Lancet, and New England Journal of Medicine. 
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Dr Alex Novak is a Clinical Research Fellow working at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He has taken time out of Obstetrics and Gynaecology training to focus on ultrasound and research, concentrating on early pregnancy and uterine niche. He is working under the supervision of Professor Tom Bourne, chair in Gynaecology at Imperial College London.
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Dr Regina Rosario Panlilio-Vitriolo is an Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines, College of Medicine and attending consultant at the UP-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) the premier medical school  and national university hospital in the Philippines respectively. She is a graduate of the UP College of Medicine and had her residency training in obstetrics and gynecology and her fellowship training in obstetrics and gynecological  ultrasound   at the UP-PGH. She was Chief of the Division of Ultrasound of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UP-PGH from 2007 to 2020. Prior to this, she also served as the division’s training officer for 7 years. Her expertise is on gynecologic ultrasound with special interest in oncology and female genital tract tuberculosis. She is currently the president of the Philippine Society of Gynecologic and Interventional Ultrasound Inc, an ultrasound society she established with 9 other gynecologic ultrasound experts that is focused on advanced gynecologic ultrasound and ultrasound guided gynecologic interventional procedures. She is also currently chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Marikina Valley Medical Center. She also had training in high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) at Chongquing and Suinning , China and at Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
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Outreach Committee

Theodora Pepera was born in Ghana.

She began her medical career in London, qualifying from the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in Hampstead. She undertook basic and higher training at Teaching hospitals, mainly in London and was then appointed a Consultant Gynaecologist and Colposcopist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

At the end of 2013, Dr Pepera stepped down from full-time NHS employment and has been involved in teaching in Volunteer programmes Ghana, particularly in the field of cervical cancer prevention and women’s ultrasound.

She has been an ISUOG Outreach Volunteer Trainer since 2015, serving on Programmes in Ghana and Rwanda, and as an Observer in Oman.

She is an accredited member and trainer of the British Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, and developing Colposcopy Training Courses for Ghanaian Doctors and Nurses.

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Dr Solmaz Piri is an Obstetrician, Gynecologist and a holder of FMF Diploma in Fetal Medicine. She has been the Director of International Affairs at the National Association of Iranian Gynecologists and Obstetricians (NAIGO) since 2010. She has organized and participated in over 80 fetal ultrasound workshops in Iran, Dubai and Istanbul. She won NAIGO's Exemplary Physician Award in 2016 and is a registered doctor in both 
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.
 
Notable Publications:
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 
 
Sina A, Kajbafzadeh AM, Elahi E, Sina A, Sabetkish S, and Piri S (2019). Prenatal Diagnosis of Concomitant Accessory Scrotum and Diphallia in the Accessory Tissues: Case Report // Urology, 134, 217-220
 
Poon LC, Stratieva V, Piras S, Piri S, and Nicolaides KH (2010). Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy: Combined Screening by Uterine Artery Doppler Blood Pressure and Serum PAPP-A at 11-13 Weeks. // Prenatal diagnosis: Published in Affiliation with the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis, 30(3), 216-223

Country: Iran
Field: Obstetrics, Fetal Medicine 
Languages: English, Persian, Turkish, Portuguese
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Executive Committee, Finance & Risk Committee, Nominations Committee, China Task Force, UOG Editorial Board

Professor Liona Poon is an Academic Subspecialist in Maternal Fetal Medicine, devoted in improving maternal and fetal health. She has had a prolific research output throughout her clinical and research posts, including over 130 peer-reviewed publications in high impact international journals. In the last 10 years she has focused her research on establishing a programme for effective early prediction and prevention of preeclampsia, a major cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. With her success in developing a first-trimester prediction model for preeclampsia using maternal risk factors, ultrasound, blood pressure and biochemical markers, and on Aspirin prophylaxis against preeclampsia, her goal in the next 10 years is to improve obstetric care worldwide, through clinical research and education. 

Notable Publications:
Aspire trial: incidence of preterm preeclampsia in patients fulfulling ACOG and NICE criteria according to risk by the FMF algorithm. Poon LC, Rolnik DL, Tan MY, Delgado JL, Tsokaki T, Akolekar R, Singh M, Andrade W, Efeturk T, Jani JC, Plasencia W, Papaioannou G, Blazquez AR, Carbone IF, Wright D, Nikolaides KH.
Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2018 Jan 30. doi: 10.1002/uog.19019 [Epub ahead of print]

Aspirin versus Placebo in Pregnancies at High Risk of Preterm Preeclampsia. Rolnik DL, Wright D, Poon LC, O'Gorman N, Syngelaki A, de Paco Matallana C, Akolekar R, Cicero S, Janga D, Singh M, Molina FS, Persico N, Jani JC, Plasencia W, Papaioannou G, Tennebaum Gavish K, Meiri H, Gizurarson S, Maclagan K, Nicolaides K.H.
New England Journal Medicine 2017, 2017 Jun 28. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1704559. [Epub ahead of print]

Country: China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Field: Obstetrics

Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening 1st trimester and 2nd trimester; fetal biometry and wellbeing; fetal anomalies screening; aneuploidy screening; fetal anomalies; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; multiple pregnancy; preeclampsia; preterm delivery; fetal growth; detection of fetal and neonatal growth abnormalities; ultrasound on the labour ward

Languages: English; Chinese (Mandarin); Chinese (Cantonese)

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  • 25 years of experience in ultrasound in obstetrics, perinatology, fetal cardiology, gynecology and oncogynecology
  • Senior consultant-sonologist in Kharkiv Regional Clinical Hospital with Regional Perinatal Centre and Department of Gynecology 
  • ISUOG Ambassador in Eastern Europe
  • Founder of the Ultrasound School and training center UZSCHOOL with participants from more than 20 countries
  • An author of 150 publications in the Ob&Gyn ultrasound, including 4 textbooks
 

Notable Publications:

Safonova I, Ultrasound Examination of the Uterine Scar after Cesarean Section: Isthmocele, Scar Pregnancy, Niche of Myometrium, and Low Uterine Segment Thickness. // Donald School J Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2020; 14(2):85-91 

Lesovoy V, Parashchuk Y, Shchukin D, Safonov R, Didenkova K, Safonova I. Fetus in the Bladder: Rare Complication of Vesicouterine Fistula. // Case Reports in Medicine, vol 2016, Article ID 5750710, 4 pages, 2016

Safonova I OC26.05. The predominance of the fetal right heart chambers in the second and third trimester // https://doi.org/10.1002/uog.19381

Country: Ukraine

Field: Obstetrics, Gynecology, Perinatology, Oncogynecology

Languages: Russian, Ukranian, English

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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

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Ahmad Sayasneh completed his training in gynaecological oncology at the Hammersmith Hospital, London Deanery. Having completed his MD (Res), he was appointed as an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the Imperial College London in 2015.
 
In 2007 he joined the national training programme in obstetrics and gynaecology in the Eastern Deanery, UK and completed the advanced training modules accredited by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG).
 
Ahmad was accredited as a colposcopist by the British Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (BSCCP) in 2010.
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Prof. Suresh Seshadri is the Director of MediScan systems Diagnostic Ultrasound, Fetal Medicine and training Centre in Chennai, Tamil Nadu INDIA. The Centre was started in 1982 and is a tertiary referral centre for Prenatal diagnosis and Fetal Therapy.

He is also a Professor of Practice at the department of Medical Science, IIT Madras. His special interests include Fetal interventions, teaching ultrasound and Fetal Medicine, Device development for use in ultrasound training, developing fetal databases for ultrasound reporting including Birth defects registry and artificial intelligence. He is a visiting Professor in Perinatology in the Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research in Chennai and The PSG institute of Higher Education Coimbatore. He is actively working for standardization of Obstetric Ultrasound through implementation of the ISUOG basic training across the country. Dr Suresh also is the CEO of the Voluntary Health Services Multispecialty Hospital, a public charity where he actively strives to provide affordable health care to the community. He is a Trustee of the Fetal Care Research Foundation, which helps the underprivileged and provides preventive, supportive and curative care for birth defects and rare disorders. He strongly believes that the best of medical technology should be available for the common man. His other interests include Nature and wildlife photography and Amateur radio.

Country: India

Field: Fetal Medicine

Specialties: Early diagnosis of fetal anomalies, Ultrasound autopsy correlation of anomalies, Fetal Interventions, Multiple pregnancy, Ultrasound training and simulation

Languages: English, Tamil

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ISUOG International Faculty Member

Dr. Mala Sibal is a consultant in Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecological Ultrasound at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, and the Director of Gynecology Academy, an online platform that has trained doctors from 56 countries in gynecological ultrasound, fetal medicine, maternal medicine, and infertility management. 
 
She is the author of the book Ultrasound in Gynecology: An Atlas and Guide (Springer, 2017), which has achieved over 51,000 downloads and provides comprehensive insights into gynecological ultrasound. With over 22 years of experience in the field, Dr. Sibal has also mentored numerous practitioners and medical students. 
 
Dr. Sibal has delivered over 500 lectures in 22 countries and published in leading journals, including the American Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine and Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology (UOG). She is a principal investigator in the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) research program and has conducted 25 IOTA certification courses, training nearly 1,700 doctors. 
 
She serves as a Board Member and Scientific Committee Member of ISUOG (The International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology). Additionally, she is an International Faculty Member of ISUOG and an IOTA ambassador, contributing significantly to the advancement of gynecological ultrasound education and research globally. 
 
Dr. Sibal holds a postgraduate degree in Obstetrics and Gynecology. During her medical studies, she stood first in Gynecology and received the ‘Best Outgoing Female Student’ award. 
 

Country: India 

Field: Obstetrician and Gynecologist specializing in Fetal Medicine and Obstetric & Gynecological Ultrasound 

Specialties: Gynecological ultrasound, 3D/4D Ultrasound, Gynecological oncology, Endometriosis 

Languages: English, Hindi, Persian

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Mark S. Sklansky, M.D. is Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, Founder and Medical Director of the UCLA Children’s Heart Center, Director of the UCLA Fetal Cardiology Program, Program Director of the Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship, Co-Director of the UCLA Congenital/Pediatric Heart Program, and Professor of Pediatrics within the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. 
 
Dr. Sklansky received his B.A. degree in biomedical ethics from Brown University in 1984, and his medical degree from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine in 1987. Dr. Sklansky then completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (1987-1990), followed by a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston (1990-1993). During this time, Dr. Sklansky pursued specialized, fetal cardiology training in Philadelphia, under the supervision of Dr. James Huhta. 
 
After a year of private practice in Sacramento, Dr. Sklansky joined the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of California, San Diego (1994-2002), where he pursued his passion for the prenatal detection and evaluation of the fetal heart. During this time he developed an international reputation for his pioneering work with three-dimensional fetal cardiac imaging. In 2002, Dr. Sklansky returned to Los Angeles as director of the Fetal Cardiology Program at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. In 2010, Dr. Sklansky joined the Department of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Sklansky has been board-certified in pediatric cardiology by the American Board of Pediatrics since 1994. 
 
Dr. Sklansky’s primary focus during his 30+ year clinical and academic career has been fetal cardiology, with a focus on prenatal detection and evaluation of congenital heart disease. For over 3 decades, he has lectured frequently at academic meetings and workshops around the globe on all aspects of fetal cardiology and fetal cardiac imaging, and he has directed/participated in countless hand-on teaching workshops dedicated to teaching how to perform fetal cardiac screening and fetal echocardiography. Dr. Sklansky has published over 100 articles in his fields of interest, including fetal cardiology, general pediatric cardiology, biomedical ethics, and veterinary cardiology—including pioneering work in the field of transesophageal and fetal echocardiographic evaluation of the bottlenose dolphin. He has served as Chair of the Section of Fetal Echocardiography in the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and has authored the chapter on fetal cardiac malformations and arrhythmias for the 4 most recent editions of Creasy & Resnik’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine: Principles and Practice. Dr. Sklansky directs a highly successful, annual fetal echocardiography symposium at UCLA that attracts hundreds of attendees annually from across the country and around the globe.  
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UOG Editorial Board, Courses Task Force

 
Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lund University, Sweden 2002 -2015
Senior Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lund University, Sweden since 2016
Major research interest: Obstetric and Gynecologic Ultrasound 
More than 200 scientific publications, h- index 61
Invited speaker at more than 150 scientific meetings since 2005 
Teacher at more than 100 national and international courses in obstetrics and gynecology (mainly 
ultrasound courses)
Course organizer of more than 40 postgraduate courses in ultrasound
Editor of the journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2005 – 2011
Honorary officer of numerous scientific associations and committees over the years, for example of
ISUOG board 2004 – 2007, of ISUOG standards committee 2007-2015, the safety committee (ECMUS) of 
the European Federation of Ultrasound Societies in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) 2002-2012, and 
chairperson of the educational committee of EFSUMB 2002-2006, secretary (1994 to 2000) and 
chairperson (2000 to 2003) of the Swedish Society for Ultrasound in Medicine.
One of the founders of the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) and International Endometrial 
Tumor Analyses (IETA) collaborations.
Fellow ad eundum of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (UK)
Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) 2022
 
Country: Sweden

Field: Gynecology

Specialties: Gynecological ultrasound; gynecological oncology; early pregnancy; safety of ultrasound

Languages: English; Swedish
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Prof. Thierry Van den Bosch defended his PhD in 2007 on the diagnosis of endometrial disease. His clinical research focuses on the diagnosis of endometrial and myometrial pathology, endometriosis and fertility exploration. He has published over 150 papers and has been over 100 times invited speaker at international conferences in English, Dutch and French.

He completed his residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the KU Leuven (Belgium) and at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). In 1992 he was appointed consultant at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Unit of Gynecologic Oncology, of the University of Stellenbosch and Tygerberg Hospital (South-Africa). In 1994 he moved back to Belgium. He worked as gynecologist at the Regional Hospital RZ Tienen, consultant UZ Leuven and KU Leuven and became the Head of department in RZ Tienen.

He currently works at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital UZ Leuven, at the Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, and is Senior Clinical Investigator of the Scientific Research Fund (FWO) Flanders, Belgium. 

Notable Publications

Country: Belgium

Field: Gynecology

Specialties: Gynecological ultrasound

Languages: English; French; Dutch

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Professor Yves Ville is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at Necker-Enfants-Malades Hospital at the Paris Descartes University. He is the Chair and lead clinician in the largest fetal medicine and therapy unit in France. He has pursued a platform of work that has allowed clinical and academic progress of the subspecialty of fetal medicine, both nationally and internationally.

Country: France

Field: Obstetrics; Fetal Medicine

Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T1; fetal anomalies; fetal brain; fetal growth restriction; fetal interventional procedures; multiple pregnancy; preterm delivery; genetics

Languages: English; French

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Emeritus professor Obstetrics and former head of department Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology and former vice-dean of medical faculty, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Member and past chair FIGO Committee Safe Motherhood Newborn Health. Former chair of the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and former president of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine. Honorary Fellow of the Flemish, South African, Royal (British; fellow ad eudem) and Romanian Colleges of O&G and of the German Perinatal Society. Awarded the Maternity price of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine in 2016. Awarded the title ‘’Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau’’ by the Queen of the Netherlands.

Research interests: fetal (neurological) development, fetal monitoring, fetal growth restriction, corticosteroids and preterm birth, diabetes and pregnancy, Cesarean sections. Over 470 PubMed articles, which have been cited more than 31.000 times according to Google Scholar (Hirsch Index 86); supervisor of 73 completed PhD projects.

Country: The Netherlands

Field: Obstetrics and Gynecology

Specialties: Obstretrics; Perinatology

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Dr Sikolia Wanyonyi is an assistant professor of obstetrics and fetal medicine based at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. He is lead of fetal medicine services at the hospital.  He is also the interim president of the Kenya Maternal Fetal Medicine society. He holds a Master of Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from Aga Khan University and membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of the United Kingdom.  Dr Sikolia also undertook a clinical research fellowship in fetal medicine at the University of Oxford Hospitals prior to re-joining the Aga Khan University Hospital in 2014 where he has been keen on introducing fetal medicine services in the region. He also holds an international Master in Maternal and Fetal Medicine from the University of Barcelona, Spain and a Diploma in fetal medicine from Fetal Medicine Foundation-Barcelona. His main interests are in high-risk pregnancy, fetal growth, fetal echocardiography and intrapartum management.

Notable Publications:

Wanyonyi SZ, Orwa J, Ozelle H, Martinez J, Atsali E, Sudhir V, Temmerman M, Figueras F. Routine third trimester ultrasound for the detection of small-for- gestational-age in low-risk pregnancies (ROTTUS) study: a randomized controlled trial. DOI:10.1002/uog.23618 PMID: 33619823 

Wanyonyi SZ, Napolitano R, Ohuma EO, Salomon LJ, Papageorghiou AT. Image scoring for crown rump length measurements. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2014 Mar 27. doi: 10.1002/uog.13376. [Epub ahead of print]

Wanyonyi ZS and Mutiso S. Monitoring fetal growth in settings with limited ultrasound resources. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 2018 Mar 14. pii: S1521-6934(18)30042-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2018.02.001.

Wanyonyi SZ, Mariara CM, Vinayak S, Stones W. Opportunities and challenges in realizing universal access to obstetric ultrasound in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ultrasound International Open 2017; 03(02): E2 –E59 DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-103948

Country: Kenya

Field: Obstetrics

Specialties: Fetal Medicine and quality control in obstetric ultrasound

Languages: English; Swahili

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Joseph Yazbek is a Consultant Gynaecologist and a Gynaecological Oncology Surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust and an honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College London. He promotes the one stop approach in the management of women with various gynaecological problems including benign and malignant conditions. His multitude of skills, including expertise in gynaecological ultrasound, colposcopy and complex open and minimally invasive surgery for malignant and benign gynaecological conditions have enabled him to provide comprehensive and individualised high-quality care to his patients. He leads a research programme, which investigate the role of gynaecological ultrasound in the management of women with ovarian tumours, the management of borderline ovarian tumours, fertility preservation and restoration. He has promoted the use of intraoperative ultrasound for various gynaecological procedures especially in the case of recurrent borderline ovarian tumours in patients requiring fertility preservation. He regularly lectures about these subjects nationally and internationally.
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More faculty members will be confirmed in due course.

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