Courses Sub-Committee

Country: Sweden

Field: Gynecology; Obstetrics

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

Languages: English; Swedish; Russian

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

Dr Carol B. Benson is Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and was Chief of the Division of Ultrasound and Co-Director of High-Risk Obstetrical Ultrasound at Brigham and Women's Hospital until July 2020. She is a radiologist who specializes in ultrasound. Her clinical and research work spans topics in diagnostic ultrasound and Doppler, with special focus on obstetrical and gynecologic ultrasound and fetal interventions. She is a charter member of ISUOG and active in other national and international radiology and ultrasound societies. She is an elected fellow in the American College of Radiology, the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound, and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Carol played a key role in establishing the inter-disciplinary fetal cardiac intervention program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. The team has performed more than 200 aortic balloon valvuloplasty in fetuses with critical aortic stenosis developing hypoplastic left heart and more than 50 other cardiac interventions including valvuloplasty for pulmonic atresia. In addition, she and her maternal-fetal medicine and neurointerventional radiology colleagues developed a technique for in utero embolization of vein of Galen malformation. Their team performed the first successful embolization procedure in North America in March 2023.

Country: USA   

Field: Radiology, Ultrasound

Specialties: Obstetrical and gynecologic ultrasound, Fetal interventions

Languages: English

Dr Conrado Milani Coutinho is currently a senior consultant in Maternal Fetal Medicine in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Clinics Hospital, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. His special interests are related to the use of ultrasound during pregnancy for prediction, prevention and diagnosis of fetal and placental anomalies and the great obstetrics syndromes. Conrado completed MSc and PhD degrees in Tocogynecology (Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, University of São Paulo) and a post-doctoral fellowship in Fetal Medicine in St. George’s University Hospital.

Conrado is currently involved in various academic and associative activities. He is currently a postgraduate supervisor at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, member of the perinatology committee at the Brazilian Federation of ObGyn (FEBRASGO), associate editor of RBGO Gynecology and Obstetrics and member of ISUOG Educational Courses Task Force.

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

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

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

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

You can follow her on twitter @ProfAsmaKhalil

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

Country: UK

Field: Obstetrics; Fetal Medicine

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

Languages: English; Arabic

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

Dr Meetan Preet, is currently working as a Fetal Imaging specialist and consultant Fetal medicine at Prime Diagnostics center, Chandigarh, India. She has obtained her post doctoral fellowship from Mediscans in Chennai, India under Prof. S. Suresh.

Meetan is also working as a Consultant and Advisor to Medgenome Genetic Labs, India.

She has been a gold medalist during her graduation. She has several publications in national and international journals.

Her special interests include the fetal face and 3D, 4D in field of fetal medicine.

Country: India

Field:  Ultrasound; Obstetrics; Fetal Medicine

Specialties: First trimester screening for Anomalies, Fetal biometry and wellbeing; Second trimester Anomaly scan; 3D and 4D in obstetrics; Materno-fetal Dopplers and fetal growth restriction.

Languages: English; Hindi

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

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

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

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

Country: Brazil / Switzerland

Field: Obstetrics; Maternal Fetal Medicine

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

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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

Country: Australia   

Field: Obstetrics, Maternal Fetal Medicine 

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

Languages: English, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin)