This course takes place on 14th of December 2019 in Harbin, China. The course will be delivered in English/Chinese. The organising institution is the 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University and it will focus on fetal development and malformation diagnosis.
The following members of the ISUOG International Faculty will be speaking at this course:
UOG Editorial Board, China Task Force, AI Special Interest Group Chair
Aris Papageorghiou is Professor of Fetal Medicine. He splits his time between providing clinical services to the National Health Service at St George’s Hospital in London and academic work at the University of Oxford.
His clinical interests are in maternal and fetal medicine, in particular fetal diagnosis and therapy. On the academic front he is research director of the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute and leads research in maternal, fetal and perinatal health using diverse methods. This includes several large global projects in low resource settings using ultrasound, biomarkers and interventions to improve phenotyping and outcomes. One major research line is in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in imaging, which led to him founding the Oxford spin-out, Intelligent Ultrasound. Committed to globally accessible education, he founded www.scan.academy during the pandemic.
Aris is a prolific academic with over 450 original articles and an h-index of 86. He has received many honours, including a prestigious Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Athens; Honorary Fellow Award of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine; and Fellowship of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is a Visiting Professor at Capital Medical University, Beijing; and the Chair of the Expert Working Group in OBGYN for NHS Digital, UK. In 2022 he was appointed as Editor-in-Chief for the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Country: UK
Field: Obstetrics
Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T1 & T2; fetal biometry and wellbeing; aneuploidies; fetal anomalies; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; multiple pregnancy; preeclampsia; preterm delivery
Language: English, German, Greek Spanish
Prof. Qingqing Wu is a chief physician and vice President of Beijing Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Capital Medical University and Director of Ultrasound Department. She is a professor and doctoral Supervisor of Capital Medical University. She is also an expert of the National Health Commission's National Prenatal Diagnosis Expert Group.
She has been engaged in clinical and prenatal ultrasound diagnosis in obstetrics and gynecology for 30 years, trained more than 60 master's and doctoral students and published about 200 related articles. She has published more than 10 articles related with ISUOG in Chinese, 4 articles in ISUOG’s Journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
She is ISUOG Ambassador to China. She also serves as Executive Director of ISUOG China Task Force, ISUOG International Faculty and Member of ISUOG Advisory Group.
Country: China
Field: ObGyn ultrasound; Fetal Medicine
Specialties: Consultation on fetal anomaly screening and gynecologic ultrasound diagnosis and new technology application; early pregnancy fetal screening ;prenatal fetal structural abnormalities diagnosis consultation; fetal echocardiography examination; uterine and ovarian diseases ultrasound diagnosis consultation.
Languages: Chinese, English
Dr Simon Meagher is a consultant sonologist in the Perinatal Department at Mercy Hospital for Women in Melbourne and Medical Director of Monash Ultrasound for Women, where he leads a multidisciplinary team of around 50 sonologists, sonographers, genetic counsellors, phlebotomists and administrative staff delivering tertiary-level ultrasound services across south-eastern Melbourne.
He currently serves as a Trustee of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG), contributing to the governance and strategic direction of the Society alongside his role on its Board.
Over more than 30 years in this role, he has made a substantial contribution to education and training in obstetric and gynaecological ultrasound, both in Australia and internationally, delivering over 800 lectures across 43 cities in 17 countries. In 2015, the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM) named him Sonologist of the Year, recognising his teaching, his commitment to hands-on clinical training at Mercy Hospital for Women, and his long service to the Society.
His clinical research centres on early-pregnancy ultrasound, fetal development and prenatal imaging. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and described five original sonographic fetal markers used in the first and second trimesters, and his current research interests include embryonic development between seven and ten weeks' gestation and advances in prenatal ultrasound assessment.
Dr Meagher has held a number of leadership roles across his career, including Chair of ASUM's Standards of Practice Committee, examiner and Executive Board member for the Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound, member of ASUM Council, and Chair of the Victorian Obstetric Sonologists Group, alongside contributions to several committees and subcommittees of ISUOG. He has also authored multiple textbook chapters in obstetrics and gynaecology, and wrote the ISUOG Fetal Cardiac Imaging Handbook, a freely downloadable resource produced as part of ISUOG's Every Little Heart Matters campaign.
Field: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Specialties: Prenatal Diagnosis. First and Second Trimester Fetal anomaly screening. Aneuploidy screening and diagnosis. NIPT and prenatal Exome sequencing. Maternal and Fetal Doppler Ultrasound. Invasive Prenatal Procedures. Ultrasound and Infertility. Tubal Patency Testing.
Languages: English