The Patient Information Sub-Committee is responsible for developing patient friendly information for broad dissemination to the general public.
Chair
Ms Sarah M. Cohen is a sonographer and research epidemiologist, presently working at the Research Lab of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Mt. Scopus campus in Jerusalem, Israel. Prior to training in OB/Gyn sonography, Sarah earned a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and worked as an English writer and editor in the public charitable sphere. Later she completed a Master’s degree in Public Health with a specialization in clinical epidemiology. Since joining the team at Hadassah-Mt. Scopus, she applies this hybrid education and experience to research epidemiology in ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis as well as other facets of obstetrics and gynecology, writing and editing hundreds of research and review articles and many book chapters for medical publications, and preparing didactic materials, in particular PowerPoint presentations, posters, and leaflets, for scientific and lay audiences. She has served on the Patient Information Task Force of ISUOG since 2018, and in 2022 became the Assistant Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Medicine / Obstetrics and Gynecology Section.
Country: Israel
Field: Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Epidemiology in the OB/Gyn space.
Specialties: OB/Gyn ultrasound, research epidemiology, scientific writing and editing, and preparation of didactic materials for professional and lay audiences.
Languages: English and Hebrew
Sub-Committee members
Honours Committee Member
Prof. Angela Ranzini is a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The MetroHealth System in Cleveland, Ohio, USA and full professor of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University. Her special interests include anomaly identification, prediction of prematurity, Twins, Teaching processes and Quality control. Angela completed her MD at Medical College of Virginia (VCU), her Ob/Gyn residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, NY and her Fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.
Angela is the Director of the Fetal Diagnostic Center at the MetroHealth System and the Program Director for the Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship at the MetroHealth/Case Western Reserve University joint fellowship with University Hospitals. She is a Fellow member of AIUM and is a reviewer for Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. She is currently the Chair of the Education Committee, the Project Lead for the Rwanda Outreach program and serves as the VISUOG Abdomen section editor. She has been involved in many Committees and Task Forces of ISUOG.
Country: USA
Field: Obstetrics; Imaging; Fetal Medicine
Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening; fetal biometry and wellbeing; aneuploidies; fetal anomalies; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; multiple pregnancy
Languages: English
Dr Cecilia Villalain is currently a consultant in the Fetal Medicine Department in the Obstetrics and Gynecology service of the 12 de Octubre University Hospital in Madrid. Her special interests are placental dysfunction including imaging technologies as well as biomarkers, Fetal congenital anomalies, Statistics and Teaching processes. Cecilia completed a PhD in Late-onset Fetal Growth Restriction with cum laude distinction (Complutense University – Madrid). She also completed a Masters Degree in “Investigation Methodology: Design and Statistical analysis in Health Sciences” (Autonoma University - Barcelona). She has a keen interest on research and education with more than 30 original research articles published on peer reviewed journals, closely working with medical students and residents and currently directing the research program of a doctoral candidate.
Cecilia is the Treasurer and Board Member of the World Association of Perinatal Medicine where she takes an active role on Education and Scientific outreach. She has also collaborated on Health-Education programs locally as well as participated in different volunteering programs in South-America, Africa and Asia.
Country: Spain
Field: Fetal Medicine; Obstetrics; Imaging
Specialties: Placental dysfunction; Preeclampsia; Fetal Growth; Fetal anomaly screening; Maternal and Fetal Doppler; Fetal interventional procedures
Languages: English; Spanish; French
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