The Clinical Standards Committee (CSC) aims to improve and standardise medical practice guidelines for the use of diagnostic imaging procedures in obstetrics and gynecology.
The CSC also has the responsibility to provide guidance for individuals and sub-committees regarding the development of Guidelines or Consensus Statements on behalf of ISUOG. Therefore, members who are planning to develop such documents must submit a CSC Proposal Form at a very early stage of the process to minimize potential problems that may arise from late review of a nearly completed document that may not fully comply with either the expectations or best interests of the Society. Find out how to submit a proposal here.
Committee members
Dr Gábor Szabó is a senior consultant and Head of the Ultrasound Unit in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Semmelweis University, Budapest. Gábor completed a PhD in Medicine with distinction at the Semmelweis University in 2013.
His main areas of expertise and interest are clinical research, endometriosis, gynecologic oncology and ultrasound in gynecology. Gábor is an advanced gynecologic sonologist and surgeon. He introduced a new field of gynecologic ultrasonography called pelveoneurosonography - examination of the pelvic nerves.
Dr. Szabó is a postgraduate supervisor and chief supervisor of medical students at his institution, board member at the Hungarian Society Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (HSUOG), member of the IDEA Steering Committee, Advisory Board member of European Endometriosis League and serves on the ISUOG Clinical Standards Committee and Educational Courses Subcommittee.
Country: Hungary
Field: Obstetrics and Gynecology, Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery
Specialties: Endometriosis, Gynecologic Oncology, Pelveoneurosonography, Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Transvaginal ultrasound
Languages: English, German, Hungarian
Raffaele is a consultant in fetal medicine at University College London. He is part of the ISUOG CSC and took part in guidelines writing and review for the society. He works in the Preterm Birth Clinic at UCLH where he is performing studies on CS scar and risk of preterm birth and studies on different cerclages techniques. He published in more than 40 journals mostly on fetal growth and neurosonography and he is committed to education and training. He leads the Master Programme in Obstetric Ultrasound and Fetal Medicine at UCL.
Dr Valentina Chiappa is a Senior Staff Clinician Scientist in the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT) in Milan, Italy. Her main clinical and research interests include gynecologic ultrasound, characterization of adnexal masses and the application of artificial intelligence to gynecologic oncology.
She undertook dedicated fellowships in gynecologic oncology ultrasound at Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli in Rome and at Charles University and General Faculty Hospital in Prague.
She is actively involved in national and international scientific societies. Within ISUOG, she chairs the Practice Guidelines on Ultrasound in Adnexal Pathology (ongoing), the Practice Guidelines on Ultrasound in Uterine Pathology and rare conditions (ongoing), she represents ISUOG in the ACR O-RADS Working Group, and has contributed to the ISUOG Patient Information Task Force.
She is Treasurer of SIEOG (Società Italiana di Ecografia Ostetrica e Ginecologica e Metodologie Biofisiche) and Chair of its Gynecologic Working Group, and has been an active contributing investigator of the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) group since 2011.
Valentina is also actively involved in education and research, including the scientific direction of advanced courses in gynecologic ultrasound. Her research focuses particularly on ultrasound-based diagnosis, artificial intelligence and radiomics, and she has authored and co-authored more than 140 peer-reviewed publications.
Country: Italy
Field: Gynecology; Gynecologic Oncology; Ultrasound Imaging
Specialties: Adnexal mass characterization; ovarian cancer diagnosis & management; gynecologic ultrasound; ultrasound in gynecologic oncology; artificial intelligence
Languages: Italian; English
Twins & Multiple Pregnancy Special Interest Group Member
Prof Conrado Milani Coutinho is Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a senior consultant in Maternal Fetal Medicine. His special interests are in the use of ultrasound for the prediction, prevention, and diagnosis of fetal and placental anomalies, as well as major obstetric syndromes. Prof Coutinho holds MSc and PhD degrees in Tocogynecology from the University of São Paulo and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Fetal Medicine at St. George’s University Hospital, London, UK.
Prof Conrado is a postgraduate supervisor at his institution, president of the Perinatology Committee at the Brazilian Federation of ObGyn (FEBRASGO), associate editor of RBGO Gynecology and Obstetrics, and serves on the ISUOG Clinical Standards Committee and Educational Courses Subcommittee.
Country: Brazil
Field: Obstetrics; Ultrasound; Maternal Fetal Medicine
Specialties: Fetal biometry and wellbeing; Maternal and fetal Doppler; Fetal anomaly screening and management; Fetal growth restriction; Multiple pregnancy; Preterm birth prediction and prevention; Placenta accreta spectrum disorders; Infections in pregnancy.
Languages: English; Portuguese; Spanish
Link to social media profile: X: @CoutinhoConrado
Prof. Simone Ferrero is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Genova. He graduated from the University of Genova in Northern Italy and obtained his Ph.D. in the Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom with a thesis entitled “Protein and cellular studies on the peritoneal fluid of women with endometriosis”. Prof. Simone Ferrero has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and edited several international books on endometriosis, uterine fibroids and endometrial cancer.
The main areas of his research are endometriosis and uterine fibroids. Prof. Simone Ferrero has extensive experience in the ultrasonographic diagnosis of gynecological conditions, in the hormonal and the laparoscopic treatment of endometriosis and fibroids.
Country: Italy
Field: Gynaecology; Imaging; Reproductive Medicine
Specialties: endometriosis; uterine fibroids; endometrial cancer; ovarian cancer
Languages: English; Italian; French
Prof. Dr. med. Karl Oliver Kagan (MHBA) is Head of the Department of Prenatal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, at University Hospital Tübingen, Germany. He trained at the University Hospitals of Tübingen and Essen, completed his MD thesis at the University of Tübingen in 2004, and undertook a research fellowship at King's College Hospital, London, under Prof. Kypros Nicolaides, where he earned a Diploma in Fetal Medicine from the Fetal Medicine Foundation. He became a Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2009, the same year he completed his Habilitation (PhD) on first-trimester screening algorithms for trisomy 21, 18 and 13. He holds DEGUM-level III certification, the highest degree of ultrasound expertise in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and a Master of Business Health Administration. In 2019, he was appointed Full Professor for Prenatal Medicine at the University of Tübingen.
His research, documented in more than 230 PubMed publications, centers on screening for chromosomal defects and genetic anomalies as well as cytomegalovirus infection in pregnancy. Since September 2026, he has been Editor-in-Chief of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, having previously served as Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He is also Treasurer of DEGUM (the German Society of Ultrasound in Medicine) and a member of the national Gene Diagnostic Committee.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Women and Children’s Health, School of Life Course & Population Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London
Dr Ioannis Papastefanou is an Obstetrician & Gynecologist, Sub-specialist in Fetal and Maternal Medicine and a Visiting Senior Lecturer, Department of Women and Children’s Health, School of Life Course & Population Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London. He is Editor for Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, ISUOG and a member of the ISUOG Safety Committee. On the clinical front his active clinical special interests include all aspects of fetal - maternal medicine and ultrasound scanning; prenatal diagnosis of genetic conditions and fetal anomalies; prediction and management of fetal growth restriction; prediction and prevention of stillbirth; prediction, prevention and management pre-eclampsia; non-invasive and invasive prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy.
He studied medicine at the University of Patras Greece; he holds two Master degrees; he obtained his PhD on the role of the 3D ultrasound scan for the prediction of pre-eclampsia and growth restriction from the Medical School at the University of Athens, Greece; he was a Research Fellow at the Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine at King’s College; he has been involved in a number of research projects in collaboration with the Fetal Medicine Foundation and the Fetal Medicine Research Institute, King’s College Hospital, London, UK.
Ioannis has authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals in the field of maternal and fetal medicine. His research output involves, preterm birth, prenatal diagnosis, gestational diabetes, placental disease, pre-eclampsia, fetal growth restriction, prediction models for pregnancy complications and precision medicine applied in obstetrics. Committed to the effort for improving obstetric care, he currently collaborates with the Fetal Medicine Foundation to develop person-oriented care that prevents neonatal mortality and morbidity. Ioannis is devoted in improving maternal and fetal health, through applied clinical research, educational programs and individual advocacy.
Country: Greece
Field: Fetal and Maternal Medicine; Advanced Fetal Imaging; Obstetrics
Specialties: Fetal assessment first, second and third trimesters; Fetal biometry and wellbeing; Fetal anomalies screening; Aneuploidy screening; Intrauterine and fetal interventional procedures; Fetal cardiac scanning; Early fetal cardiac assessment; Fetal neurosonography; Fetal MRI; Fetal growth restriction; Maternal and fetal Doppler; Multiple pregnancy; Preeclampsia; Preterm delivery; Fetal and neonatal growth abnormalities;
Languages: English; Greek
Prof. Giuseppe Rizzo is full Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Università di Roma Tor Vergata and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Fondazione Policlinico Tor Vergata. Rome Italy and President Italian Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (SIEOG) 2015-2017 as well as founding member of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG).
Prof. Rizzo has authored 388 peer reviewed articles and has published as editor 19 books on obstetrical ultrasound. His H index is 52 with 9406 citations according to Scopus (22/10/2023).
He is honorary member of the Sociedad Chilena de Ultrasonografia en Medicna & Biologia, honorary member of the Spanish society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology and honorary member of the Russian Academy of Perinatal Medicine.
His fields of interest have included prenatal diagnosis of congenital anomalies, imaging of the fetus, fetal echocardiography, Doppler ultrasonography, fetal growth restriction, invasive and non-invasive prenatal diagnosis preterm labor, ultrasound in labor.
Prof. Rizzo serves as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine and is member of the Editorial Board of 14 medical journals.
Country: Italy
Field: Obstetrics, Imaging, Maternal Fetal medicine
Specialties: Fetal echocardiography, Fetal neurosonography, Doppler in obstetrics, ultrasound in labor, fetal growth restriction
Languages: English, Italian
Clinical Standards Committee, Nominations Committee, UOG Editor
Prof. Alexandros Sotiriadis is a consultant in Obstetrics and Gynecology – Maternal and Fetal Medicine in the Second Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hippokrateio Hospital and a full Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His special interests include prenatal diagnosis and genomics, maternal and fetal complications and Evidence-Based Medicine. Alex completed a PhD in Medicine on recurrent pregnancy loss and was trained in Fetal Medicine under Prof. Kypros Nicolaides.
Alex is the director of a Master Degree Program in Applied Prenatal Diagnosis at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is currently the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology and served as a member in the ISUOG Clinical Standards Committee and the EFSUMB Publication Committee. He is also President Elect of the Hellenic Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Country: Greece
Field: Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Imaging, Evidence-Based Medicine
Specialties: fetal growth restriction, Doppler, maternal complication in pregnancy, fetal anomalies and genomics, evidence-based medicine
Languages: English, Greek, German
Prof. Boaz Weisz is the head of the Obstetrical and Gynecological Imaging Institute in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Sheba Medical Center and a Professor at Tel-Aviv University. He is also a former Chair of the Israeli Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. His special interests include Fetal Medicine, Fetal Surgery, Twins, IUGR, fetal anomalies, and fetal infections.
Country: Israel
Field: Obstetrics; Imaging; Fetal Medicine
Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening; fetal biometry and wellbeing; aneuploidies; fetal anomalies; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; fetal interventional procedures; multiple pregnancy
Languages: English; Hebrew; Romanian
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