The Bioeffects and Safety Committee is involved in the investigation of issues relating to the bioeffects and safety of ultrasound, as well as the provision of education and information within this field.
View ISUOG's Safety Statements.
Committee membership
Dr Federico Prefumo, MD, PhD, is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist at the University Hospital of Brescia, Italy. Dr Prefumo has previously worked at the Giannina Gaslini Institute in Genova, Italy and in the Fetal Medicine Unit at St. George's Hospital, London, UK. His main interests are in the field of high-risk obstetrics, maternal-fetal medicine, fetal therapy and prenatal diagnosis. He has also worked on endometriosis and gynecological imaging. Dr Prefumo is an Editor of BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. For the years 2011-2012 and 2015-2017, he has been elected Vice-President of the Italian Society for Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (SIEOG).
Country: Italy
Field: Obstetrics
Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T1 & T2; fetal biometry and wellbeing; aneuploidies; fetal anomalies; fetal heart; fetal brain; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; fetal interventional procedures; multiple pregnancy; preeclampsia; preterm delivery; ultrasound on the labour ward
Languages: English; French; Italian
Dr Stefania Carlucci is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine subspecialist currently Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the University Hospital of Foggia, Italy. She graduated and completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Foggia, Italy. She was a Research Fellow at the Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine at King’s College where she has been involved actively in ASPRE Study as medical professional who helped in the re-cruitment and follow-up of participants. She holds the II Level Master degrees in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at University of Torino and she worked as Fetal Medicine specialist at Fetal Medicine and Prenatal Diagnosis Unit Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo Trieste. She is currently member of the Safety Committeea and of the Second Trimester Committee of the Italian Society on Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (SIEOG).
Country: Italy
Field: Obstetrics, Fetal Medicine & advanced imaging, Maternal medicine
Specialties: fetal anomaly assessment in the first and second trimester, maternal and fetal Doppler; preeclampsia; fetal growth, fetal anomalies, fetal echocardiography.
Languages: Italian, English
Dr. Piero Miloro is a Senior Delivery Manager at the National Physical Laboratory, UK. He received his MSc in Aerospace Engineering from University of Pisa and his Ph.D. in Biorobotics from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa. He joined the National Physical Laboratory (London, UK) in 2015 in the Ultrasound and Underwater Acoustics group. He manages the medical ultrasound calibration services in agreement with relevant IEC/BSI standards, which include hydrophone calibration, power measurements, field and acoustic properties characterization, for a total turnaround in excess of £600,000. All services follow ISO17025 standards and a part of them is externally accredited to it. He manages a team of 8 people, and the relevant facilities to perform the measurements. He is responsible for the Health and Safety and Quality management of the measurement services. He is author of more than 30 peer reviewed manuscripts, totaling more than 600 citations. He is a member of the British Medical Ultrasound Society and the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology for which he is involved in the Safety Committees. He is member of the BSI EPL/87 and of the IEC TC87 for the United Kingdom.
Country: UK
Field: Physics and Engineering
Specialties: Safety of Medical Ultrasound
Languages: English, Italian
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
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