Fetal medicine and obstetric ultrasound workshop 2023

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