This two-day course will be held in Xiamen City in China on the 27th and 28th July 2019. The course director is Dr Xiaohong Zhong, and will be conducted in Chinese with English translation for international speakers.
The following members of the ISUOG International faculty will be speaking at the course:
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
Prof. Fang Yang is Professor and Director of Fetal Medicine Center of NanFang Hospital in China. She is a subspecialist in Maternal and Fetal Medicine. She gained her PhD degree in Maternal & Fetal Medicine from the University of Hong Kong. She was trained in the subspecialty of fetal medicine in Fetal Medicine Centre, Birmingham Women's Hospital in UK. She is the official Chinese interpreter for ISUOG guidelines translation.
Notable publications:
3D birth weight prediction by fractional thigh volume at term gestation in a Chinese population
Authors: F. Yang, K.Y.Leung, Y. W.Hou, Y. Yuan, M.H.Tang. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2011;38:425-433
Traditional karyotyping versus copy number variation sequencing for detection of chromosomal abnormalities associated with spontaneous miscarriage
Authors: Lui S, Song L, Cram DS, Xiong L, Wang K, Wu R, Liu J, Deng K, Jia B, Zhong M, Yang F *(correspond author).Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2015;46: 472–477
Country: China
Field: MFM
Specialties: Fetal anomalies, fetal growth restriction, fetal interventional procedure, multiple pregnancy
Languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, English