ISUOG Basic Training Course: Full Theoretical Program

Join us on for our ISUOG Basic Training Full Theoretical Program in Erode, India. Please note that this course has been postponed until further notice.

As responsible caring organisations, the safety of the ISUOG members, delegates and staff, as well as all physicians and the patients they serve, are the highest priority. Minimising risk and the challenges presented by the emerging COVID-19 pandemic means that we are taking decisions that ensure that our doctors stay close to their hospitals and healthcare centres.

Lotus Fetal Medicine Centre, Mediscan and ISUOGhave made the decision to responsibly postpone this Basic Training Course until further notice. New dates are being discussed and will be announced as soon as possible.

To find out more about how you and your unit can prepare for coronavirus please watch our webinar.

Join us for the second webinar in the ISUOG COVID-19 webseries, moderated by Prof. Tom Bourne and Prof. Christoph Lees, Tuesday 24th March 2020 at 11:00-12:30 GMT.

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This course will be delivered in partnership with the Lotus Fetal Medicine Centre Erode.

This four-day course will cover the entire ISUOG Basic Training theoretical curriculum, including lectures and live demonstrations on Obstetrical and Gynecological ultrasounds. Lectures for this course include the principles of Doppler ultrasound, evaluating fetal anatomy, and the basics of a gynecological ultrasound. This course is suitable for those new to ultrasound in Ob/Gyn who want to build on their foundational knowledge, and complete the ISUOG theoretical program.

Completing the theoretical program is the first step to obtaining a Basic Training Certificate of Completion. The presentations will be followed by a theoretical test, which will assess participants' knowledge of the curriculum. Those who pass with a score of 70% or higher will receive a certificate of completion for the theoretical program.

Program

Please note that this course will be delivered entirely in English.

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Erode program

Attend Onsite

This course will be held at the Lotus Hospital, Erode, India.

Please note this course will be delivered entirely in English

Key Speakers

Dr. Titia Cohen-Overbeek (Netherlands)

Titia Cohen-Overbeek has worked as a physician in Fetal Medicine at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Erasmus University Medical Centre since 1987. Prior to that she obtained her training in prenatal diagnosis during a 5-year period at Kings College Hospital in London under the guidance of professor Stuart Campbell. During that period, she was the first to visualize the blood flow in the uterine artery by Doppler ultrasound.

The early collaboration with many pediatric specialists resulted in numerous scientific papers on prenatal diagnosis of congenital anomalies, their postnatal outcome and the long term follow up of these children. Her thesis “Detection of congenital anomalies before or after birth; does it make a difference?” was published in 2008. Following the introduction in the Netherlands in 2007 of the fetal anomaly scan as part of the national prenatal screening program she established an widely attended ultrasound training program for obstetricians. Since 2015 she became member of the national quality committee geared towards assessing the quality of the various prenatal screening tests available within the national prenatal screening program

She has been member of the ISUOG outreach committee from 2012-2018, participated in the outreach project in Somaliland in 2012 and has been the leader of the outreach project in Oman from 2017 onwards. She was a member of the ISUOG Basic Training Taskforce since 2016 and was particularly involved with the formation of the Basic Training theoretical curriculum. In a collaboration of Medical Aid Films with ISUOG she was part of the team that made the two Basic Training instruction films “The principles of ultrasound” and “The Basic Steps of an Obstetric Ultrasound Examination” which are free available on the ISUOG website.

Country: The Netherlands

Field: Obstetrics, MFM

Languages: English, Dutch

Specialties: Congenital anomalies, Doppler, teaching methods, audit methods.

Dr Suresh Seshadri (India) Outreach Committee member

Dr S.Suresh is the Managing Director of Mediscan Systems a tertiary referral centre for Fetal Medicine in India. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of O&G London (honoriscausa) and is actively involved in training over 4000 physicians from India and other countries in Ultrasound and Fetal Medicine for over 35 years. He has several publications to his credit and is involved in various Research projects in Fetal Medicine. He has set up the Birth Defects Registry of India which is recognized as a subnational registry by the WHO. He is the managing Trustee of Fetal Care Research Foundation a Charity organisation that aims to provide access to treatment options for the underprivileged. He is a recipient of several awards and was one of the earliest to set up a Fetoscopic surgical service in India.

He is a visiting Prof in Perinatology at the Sri Ramachandra Medical University and the Chief functionary of the Voluntary Health Services, a charitable hospital in Chennai which aims to achieve affordable quality health care for all .

Notable publications:

Radio frequency ablation in Complicated Monochorionic Pregnancy : Initial Experience DOI: 10; 1007/s/40556-017-0145 Journal of Fetal Medicine, 2017 Nov PP 1-6. Pm;ome [in;ocatopm 30th Nov 2017]

Suresh Seshadri; Down Syndrome Screening in India, Are we there yet? Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology India; 2017 Dec 17. 67(6) ; 393-399, Epub 2017 August 17 DOI : 10. 1007/S12098-017-2528-5

Country: India

Field: Fetal medicine

Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening 1st trimester and 2nd trimester; fetal biometry and wellbeing; fetal anomalies screening; aneuploidy screening; fetal anomalies; fetal heart; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; multiple pregnancy; 3D & 4D ultrasound; fetal intervention procedure; early pregnancy; fetal growth.

Languages: English

Dr G Nithyakalyani Consultant

Dr G Nithyakalyani graduated from Madras Medical College. She is a faculty member at the MGR University and Annamalai University as well as a consultant at MediScan for past 2 decades. Dr G Nithyakalyani is the treasurer at the IFUMB Madras Chapter.

Dr Mala Sibal (India) Scientific Committee member

ISUOG International Faculty Member

Dr Mala Sibal is presently a consultant physician at the department of Fetal Medicine and Obstetric and Gynecological Ultrasound, Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. She is also the course director and faculty member of the Gynecological Ultrasound online learning portal ‘’Gynecology Academy’’ (www.gynac.org).

She is the author of the book “Ultrasound in Gynecology: An Atlas and Guide” published by Springer in February 2017.

She is authorised by the IOTA steering committee to conduct IOTA certification programs both nationally and internationally. She is especially interested in Gynecological Ultrasound and has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences on this subject.

She has authored peer-reviewed journal articles on novel diagnostic ultrasound techniques in the American Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. She is also a principal investigator in the ongoing International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA 5 & 7) International Research Program.

Notable publications

Mala Sibal (2017). Ultrasound in Gynecology: An Atlas and Guide, Springer Verlag, Singapore. The book has over 49,000 downloads.

Follicular Ring Sign: A Simple Sonographic Sign for Early Diagnosis of Ovarian Torsion; Sibal M; J Ultrasound Med. 2012 Nov;31(11):1803-9

Country: India

Field: Obstetrician and Gynecologist doing exclusive Fetal Medicine and Obstetric & Gynecological Ultrasound

Specialties: 3D/4D Ultrasound, Gynecological ultrasound, Gynecological oncology

Languages: English

Dr Sudarshan Suresh (India) Consultant Fetal Medicine

M.B.B.S:P.S.G IMSR (Coimbatore)

DNB (O & G): Southern Railway Headquarters Hospital (Chennai)

Fellowship in Fetal Medicine: Mediscan Systems (MGR Medical University)

Trainer and Faculty – Workshops, Lectures, Conferences
Co investigator ‘Fetal Size Charts’ DBT funded project

Dr Sudarshan Suresh clinical focus is first trimester USG/screening, high risk multiple pregnancies and invasive procedures.

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