Outreach Committee

For more than a decade, Professor Ehigha Enabudoso has been closing the distance between world-class obstetric ultrasound and the women who are least likely to receive it. An obstetrician-gynaecologist, implementation scientist and Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Benin, Nigeria, he has built his career on a single conviction: that expertise in fetal medicine belongs in low- and middle-income countries as much as anywhere else, and that the way to get it there is to train the people who will stay.

Building capacity where it is needed most

In 2014, Professor Enabudoso founded the Fetal Diagnostic and Ultrasound Centre in Benin City and launched the ISUOG-endorsed Fetal Medicine and OBGYN Ultrasound Workshop, the first international-standard obstetric ultrasound training programme of its kind in the region. Since then, the workshop has trained hundreds of clinicians from across West Africa and has brought ISUOG courses to Nigerian audiences through livestreaming. His training model, built around capacity-building, task-shifting and scalable diagnostic innovation, has since taken him to Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Liberia, and as a master trainer for the GE Healthcare and USAID HealthyMagination Mother and Child Initiative (HMCI), he equipped community midwives in rural Nigeria with basic obstetric scanning skills.

A career shaped by ISUOG

Professor Enabudoso's relationship with ISUOG began as a travel grant recipient. He went on to serve as ISUOG Ambassador to Anglophone West Africa, then as Vice Chair and subsequently Chair of the ISUOG Outreach Committee. Along the way he has mentored many ISUOG travel grant winners, championed livestreaming of ISUOG courses in Nigeria and worked steadily to grow ISUOG membership in the country, turning a personal opportunity into a pipeline for others.

Research at the frontier of ultrasound in low-resource settings

He currently leads the research team for the Gates Foundation-supported “Pathway for AI-Enabled Point-of-Care Ultrasound (AI POCUS) Introduction in Nigeria,” a project exploring how artificial intelligence can extend high-quality obstetric imaging to frontline health workers. His implementation science portfolio includes multi-centre collaborations on maternal mortality, early detection of obstetric complications and AI-assisted fetal surveillance, and he has contributed to landmark trials aimed at improving Nigeria's maternal and neonatal outcomes, including E-MOTIVE and AZIN-V. His current work focuses on tools for competence assessment in basic ultrasound. Some publications capture the foundations of this work among others:

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.

Enabudoso E, Adams OH. Organizing an international-standard obstetric ultrasound training program in a low-resource setting. Int J Gynecol Obstet. 2017;136(1):102–104.

Enabudoso E, Awowole I, Thompson O, & Okoror C. Despite the Long Learning Curve for Ultrasound, How Beneficial Is A 5-Day Basic Obstetric Ultrasound Training for Foetal Biometry. AJFMED. 2024. 3(1), 20–25.

Anya C, Enabudoso E, Awarute F, Idemudia O, Oshiomhole C. Introduction of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Primary Healthcare in Edo State, Nigeria: Achievements, Barriers, and Implementation Realities. Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 2025. 13(5), 87-96. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.jgo.20251305.12

Training and credentials

Professor Enabudoso trained in medicine and completed his residency at the University of Benin and the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, before undertaking training in fetal medicine and OBGYN ultrasound at Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He holds Fetal Medicine Foundation certifications in fetal ultrasound and obstetric Doppler, and is a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons and of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, where he also serves as an examiner and member of the Faculty Board. In 2019 he served as Associate Clinical Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, within the World Bank collaborative programme at the Liberia-Japanese Friendship Hospital in Monrovia.

A vision for outreach

Professor Enabudoso is a firm believer in home-grown solutions to the challenges facing low- and middle-income countries, and in strong local leadership as the surest route to closing the global gap in healthcare. He brings that conviction, together with his experience across West Africa and beyond, to the task of expanding the reach and ambition of ISUOG's outreach programme, so that the next generation of clinicians in LMICs can offer their patients the standard of care that every woman deserves.

Country: Nigeria

Field: Obstetrics

Specialties: Fetal ultrasound, Obstetric Dopplers; Ultrasound education.

Language: English

Dr. Mouza Al Salmani is a Senior Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine and Head of the Fetal Medicine Unit at the Royal Hospital, Muscat. She previously served as Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Royal Hospital from 2016 to August 2021.

She earned her medical degree from Sultan Qaboos University in 1999 and completed her residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Royal Hospital. In 2006, she obtained her MRCOG from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (London). She later pursued advanced training in fetal medicine, completing a Diploma and Fellowship at the Harris Birthright Research Centre, King’s College Hospital, London, in 2011, and was awarded the FRCOG in June 2019.

Dr. Mouza has played a pioneering role in advancing fetal medicine in Oman. She was the first to introduce therapeutic in-utero procedures in the country, including fetal blood transfusion and fetoscopic laser surgery. She has also contributed extensively to clinical research, with several publications focusing on high-risk pregnancies and fetal medicine.

Her leadership extends to education and training. She has served as a senior clinical trainer at the Oman Medical Specialty Board (OMSB) and was the local organizer of the MRCOG examinations in Oman from 2012 to 2018. She is the founder and current chair of the Oman Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (OSUOG) and has been instrumental in organizing the annual national ultrasound workshops.

Her contributions have earned wide recognition, including official commendations from the Royal Hospital (2015) and the Ministry of Health (2016) for outstanding performance. She is actively engaged in multiple hospital, national, and regional committees, including the National Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Committee and the Higher Medical Committee as a technical scientific expert for medico-legal investigations.

Internationally, Dr. Mouza is a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and a member of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG). She played a central role in bringing the ISUOG outreach training program to Oman (2017–2021) and, in 2023, was appointed ISUOG Ambassador to the Middle East as well as a member of the ISUOG Outreach Committee.

Professor Eric Jauniaux, MD, PhD, FRCOG, is Professor in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, EGA Institute for Women’s Health (IfWH), Faculty of Life Sciences, University College London (UCL), UK. He has worked for over 30 years on placental and fetal development and on the diagnosis and management of placental-related complications of pregnancy. He is an internationally renowned authority on the physiology of early pregnancy and the pathophysiology of miscarriage and accreta placentation. He is the author/co-author of over 500 peer-reviewed research, clinical, and basic science original articles and reviews, and editor/co-editor of 14 books and textbooks, including Embryonic Medicine & Therapy with Sir Bob Edwards (Nobel Prize in Medicine 2010). He has been the coordinator of the FIGO guidelines on the diagnosis and management of placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) disorders and classification (IJGO Mar 2018), and he is the lead developer of the 2019 and 2026 RCOG GTG27a on placenta praevia and placenta accreta and RCOG GTG27b on vasa praevia. He has been a member of the ISUOG Outreach Committee since 2024. In 2006, he co-founded Medical Aid Films (MAF), a UK-registered charity [no 1121578] to provide multi-media programs for education and training, including basic ultrasound examination for limited resource health care systems (www.medicalaidfilms.org).

Field: Obstetrics; Maternal-Fetal Medicine; Placentology.

Specialties: Screening and diagnosis of placental anomalies; maternal and fetal Doppler; fetal interventional procedures; early pregnancy complications.

Languages: English; French; Spanish

Dr. Lina Youssef is a specialist and postdoctoral researcher in Maternal Fetal Medicine in BCNatal – Fetal Medicine Research Center, IDIBAPS, Hospital Clinic and Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain. Her special interests are preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction focusing on Ultrasound, Doppler and biomarkers. She holds an International joint PhD degree with distinction from three European Universities (University of Barcelona, Lund University and Leuven University). She holds also a Diploma in biostatistics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. 
Lina is the scientific coordinator of the Master’s program in Maternal-Fetal Medicine in Fetal Medicine Barcelona Foundation in collaboration with the University of Barcelona. She has been involved in ISUOG activities since 2017 as a young ambassador, content reviewer and a member of Online Education Subcommittee. Lina also serves on a regular basis as an expert reviewer for the Spanish National Health Authority as well as for international research projects. She participates regularly as a speaker in international courses and congresses. 

Country: Spain
Field: Obstetrics; Imaging; Fetal Medicine
Specialties: Preeclampsia; fetal growth restriction; fetal biometry and wellbeing; maternal and fetal Doppler; fetal anomalies; prenatal screening; multiple pregnancy
Languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, Catalan, French