Join us for this ISUOG Basic Training webinar on the 20th of November 2024.
ISUOG Basic Training is pleased to announce that chair Gihad Chalouhi will lead a series of theoretical lectures for this 2 hour webinar, alongside other expert speakers from the ISUOG Basic Training Committee.
This webinar is free for all delegates and can be live-streamed individually from anywhere in the world. Find out more, and see the full program for further details.
This webinar will provide a theoretical introduction to Basic Training, providing a comprehensive introduction to the essential topics in ultrasound for obstetrics and gynecology, supporting trainees in gaining the knowledge and skills needed to perform an unsupervised ultrasound scan, and confidently knowing when to refer a patient.
'Basic Training's vision is that every ultrasound scan provider globally is competent and that the diagnosis of obstetric and gynecologic conditions is effective so that women’s health outcomes improve.'
Date: Wednesday 20th November 2024
Time: 12:00 - 14:00 GMT (UTC+0)
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The course will be recorded. Recordings are available on-demand for registered delegates two months after the webinar on the live streaming website.
Specialist in fetal medicine and surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon
Dr Gihad CHALOUHI is the co-founder of SFFERe Centers (Spécialistes Fœtus Femme Enceinte et Reproduction) specialized centers in women’s Health. He is a senior consultant in the Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at Necker-Enfants-Malades Hospital in Paris. His special interests are fetal surgery and imaging technologies including, prenatal ultrasound, fetal MRI, Twins, ultrasound education and the use of simulation in the latest. Gihad completed a PhD in feto-placental functional MRI with distinction (Paris Descartes University – Paris).
He created the first regional fetal surgery center in Lebanon (Middle-East), and successfully performed the first fetoscopic treatment of congenital diaphragmatic hernia and for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome and other fetal pathologies, in the region.
Gihad is an ISUOG international faculty and has been involved in many committees and task forces of ISUOG. He recently was the chair of ISUOG’s Basic Training subcommittee for six years and contributed to finalizing its theoretical (lectures and online) and practical program as well as its certification. Gihad also serves on a regular basis as an expert in the French ultrasound College (CFEF; collège Français d’échographie Fœtale) and for the National Agency for Biomedicine, as well as for international research projects.
Country: France
Field: Obstetrics; Imaging; Fetal Medicine; Fetal Surgery
Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T1 & T2; Fetal surgery; fetal anomalies; fetal interventional procedures; multiple pregnancy; ultrasound education; simulation in ultrasound training
Languages: English; French; Arabic
Finance & Risk Committee Chair, Executive Committee
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
Subspecialist Trainee in Reproductive Medicine, Southampton, UK
Romain Corroenne, MD, PhD, is a Maternal–Fetal Medicine specialist at Lille University Hospital, France, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, USA.
He trained in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Fetal Medicine in France and completed a research fellowship at Texas Children's Hospital. His main clinical and research interests include fetal therapy and fetal imaging.
He joined the ISUOG Basic Training Sub-Committee in 2023 and is particularly involved in the development of the ISUOG Residency Curriculum. He also joined Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology as a Trainee Editor in 2026.
Country: USA
Field: Obstetrics, Imaging, Fetal Medicine & Surgery, Education
Specialities: fetal brain and anomaly screening, fetal MRI, spina bifida
Languages: French, English
Outreach Committee member
Dr Divya Singh is a Consultant Radiologist at Mirchias Diagnostics in Chandigarh, India. Her special interests are imaging technologies including ObGyn and breast ultrasonography, deep prenatal phenotyping using ultrasound, imparting ultrasound education and training in limited resource setting. Divya did her Masters in Radio-diagnosis with distinction from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. She completed a fellowship in Advanced ObGyn Ultrasonography from Mediscan Systems in Chennai. She has also completed a training course in Medical genetics from Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute for Research in Reproductive and Child Health (ICMR NIRRCH) Mumbai, India.
Divya is a member of the Outreach Committee and CME subcommittee of ISUOG. She is actively involved in various Working Groups in subcommittees of ISUOG. She has worked as an ISUOG ultrasound educator and trainer in Oman and Egypt and been a faculty in Basic Training Courses organised in India and Oman. Divya provides free voluntary ultrasound service to underprivileged expectant mothers in Chandigarh for which she has been awarded by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
Country: India
Field: Imaging; ObGyn Ultrasonography; Fetal medicine; Breast ultrasound
Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T1 & T2; fetal biometry and wellbeing; aneuploidies; fetal anomalies; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; ObGyn ultrasound training and education
Languages: English; Hindi
