Las clases magistrales regionales de la ISUOG precederán al Congreso Nacional de obstetricia y ginecología de la FECOLSOG y tendrán lugar el 22 de mayo de 2024 en el Hotel Las Américas, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
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Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Children's Hospital Pavilion for Women, Houston, USA
Dr. Magdalena Sanz Cortes is a specialist in high-risk pregnancies with a subspecialty in fetal surgery including different conditions that can benefit from in utero therapies. She utilizes evidence-based practices, including the assessment, evaluation and treatment of pregnancies diagnosed with fetal spina bifida, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, twin anemia polycytemia sequence, selective fetal growth restriction, lower urinary tract obstruction, fetal anemia, among other conditions. She offers comprehensive care to patients with these conditions, from evaluation to delivery.
Dr. Magdalena Sanz Cortes also has wide experience in the evaluation and assessment of different fetal brain conditions and runs a neurosonology clinic at Texas Children's Hospital. Her role in this clinic includes the evaluation of the fetal brain by combining a unique transabdominal and transvaginal ultrasound approach, in order to have a three-dimensional evaluation of the fetal brain. She is able to identify subtle and complex conditions. At times, her neurosonology scan is the first step in the management and evaluation of pregnancies that require other specialists (radiology, pediatric neurology, genetics, or pediatric neurosurgery, etc.) and guide these families in this journey.
In addition to her clinical duties, she maintains an active research agenda and teaching schedule. Dr. Sanz Cortes is a world-renown lecturer and presenter in different international and national meetings on the field. She has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and has received multiple awards and distinctions. She is also a member of the editorial boards and scientific committees of some of the most prestigious journals and societies in her field.
Country: USA
Field: Obstetrics
Specialties: Fetal anomalies; fetal brain; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; fetal therapy and intervention
Languages: English; Spanish
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Subspecialist in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and holds a PhD in Fetal Medicine from the Fetal I&D Medicine Research Center and the FetalMed-PhD program- the only worldwide consortium developed across three leading European institutions in fetal and perinatal care: Barcelona (Spain), Leuven (Belgium) and Lund (Sweden). He currently serves as Associate Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Cartagena, in Colombia.
Dr. Miranda has extensive experience in translational research, with emphasis on biomarkers on several pregnancy complications, such as preterm labor, placental dysfunction, and conditions that contribute to maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Fetal surgery and in-utero interventions are among his principal academic interests.
He has authored more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and is actively engaged in advancing maternal health globally. He was a member of the Next Generation (N-Gen) Committee and the Symposium Advisory Group LATAM 2022. Dr. Miranda also serves as a scientific reviewer for leading international journals in Gynecology and Obstetrics.
In addition, he is currently serving as a technical advisor to the United Nations on matters related to women's health, supporting strategies aimed at improving equity and access to respectful and evidence-based maternity care in low- and middle-income countries.
Professor of Fetal Medicine, St George’s Hospital, University of London, Director of Fetal Medicine Unit Liverpool Women’s Hospital and Vice-President of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynae, UK
Prof. Asma Khalil is a Professor of Fetal Medicine. She is the Obstetric Lead at the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA). She gained her MD at the University of London in 2008.
Prof. Asma Khalil has published more than 500 peer-reviewed papers, and many published review articles and chapters. She was awarded many research prizes, both at national and international meetings. She was awarded the 2021 FIGO Women's Awards: Recognising Female Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Her research interests include twin pregnancy, congenital infections, fetal growth restriction and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy.
She had a fellowship with the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE). committed to the implementation of clinical guidelines in practice. She is the Lead author of the ISUOG guideline on the role of ultrasound in twins and congenital infections. She also led the guideline team developing the FIGO guideline on twin pregnancies. She was a member of the NICE Guideline Committee updating the Twin and Multiple Pregnancy guidance.
Advanced gynecologic surgeon and sonologist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hamilton Health Sciences
Dr. Mathew Leonardi is an advanced gynecologic surgeon and sonologist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hamilton Health Sciences and assistant professor at McMaster University. His special interests are imaging technologies including transvaginal ultrasound, endometriosis, advanced gynecologic surgery, innovation in diagnosis, and research. Mathew is completing a PhD in Medicine (University of Sydney, Australia), focusing on the utility of ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of endometriosis. He completed his MD and residency at the University of Toronto and fellowship at the University of Sydney.
Mathew is an early career researcher, co-supervisor of a fellowship in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery, and appointee in the Medical Sciences department at McMaster University. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology and an Associate Editor for Reproduction & Fertility. He is involved in with the VISUOG Gynecology endeavour. Mathew is committee member of EndoAct Canada and contributing the latest clinical practice guidelines on endometriosis in Canada. He is leading a research program locally and contributing to international research studies.
Country: Canada
Field: Gynecology; Imaging; Surgery
Specialties: Endometriosis; adenomyosis; intracavitary pathology; ovarian masses; intra-abdominal adhesions; advanced gynecologic surgery; transvaginal ultrasound; transrectal ultrasound
Languages: English
Dr Jessica Preisler is Obstetrician and Gynecologist at Clínica Alemana Santiago and Hospital Clínico University de Chile, Chile as well as 2012 Clinical Research Fellow in early pregnancy and acute gynecology Imperial College London, and recently part of the ISUOG Next Generation Group. During her fellowship, she worked on research projects about Ultrasound diagnosis of miscarriage and IOTA studies. In 2013, she relocated back to Chile where she has focused her work on the Gynecological Ultrasound Unit where she also teaches OBGYN residents. In the non-clinical area, she has been the IOTA Ambassador for South America since 2017, a role that has taken her to multiple countries within the Continent where she ran IOTA training courses. She is also a member of the Chilean Ultrasound Society where she actively organises courses, lectures and teaching sessions. In January 2021, she became part of the Board of the Chilean Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (SOCHUMB). Her special interest includes education in gynecological ultrasound and early pregnancy and gynecological ultrasound training and research. During 2020, Dr Preisler was part of the Next Generation Group and collaborated with ISUOG promoting COVID webinars in Spanish. She also translated ISUOG COVID guidelines in gynecology and early pregnancy.
Country: Chile
Field: Gynecology, Early Pregnancy
Specialties: Gynecological ultrasound with special interest in adnexal masses, early pregnancy.
Languages: Spanish, English, German
Miguel Parra-Saavedra, MD, Ph.D. is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist at Clinica General del Norte, and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, at Universidad Libre, Medical School (Barranquilla, Colombia). He is Chief of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Obstetric Director of the Multidisciplinary Fetal Care Program.
Dr. Parra-Saavedra completed a research fellowship at Universidad de Barcelona (Hospital clinic) [Barcelona (Spain), PhD in Fetal and perinatal medicine, applied to fetal growth restriction, and its correlation with Doppler, the placenta and neurodevelopment outcome. Dr. Parra-Saavedra sees women for ultrasound, prenatal diagnosis, fetal surgery procedures and MFM consultation as well as caring for women on Labor and Delivery and the Antepartum Service at Clinica General del Norte.
Dr. Parra-Saavedra’s research has focused on:
-Pioneering work on the evaluation of the cervical consistency index in the Prediction of Preterm Birth (UOG 2011)
-Correlation between Doppler, placenta, perinatal outcome and neurodevelopmental outcome (doctoral thesis with 6 articles published in first quartile journals)
- In association with important international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control of Atlanta (CDC) and the Texas Children's Hospital has published work on the characterization of the Congenital Zika síndrome.
- Psychological effects of covid-19 in pregnancy
-The management of pregnancy complications such as twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, diaphragmatic hernia and Fetoscopic repair of spina bífida.
As a result of this research, he has published more than 24 articles in recognized international journals in obstetrics and gynaecology.
Country: Colombia
Field: Obstetrics; Imaging; Fetal Medicine
Specialties: Prediction of preterm birth, Fetal growth restriction, fetal interventional procedures, Congenital Zika síndrome
Languages: Spanish; English
Placenta accreta spectrum clinic, Fundación Valle de Lili, Colombia, South America.
Dr. Michael A. Belfort is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas, and Obstetrician and Gynecologist-in-Chief at Texas Children’s Hospital, in Houston, Texas.
Dr. Belfort did his graduate education at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, earning his Basic Medical Degree (MBBCH: Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) in 1981. After his internship, he spent 2 years in the military where he was lucky enough to spend time in cardiovascular surgery and emergency room medicine. He then did some anesthesia training and earned a Diploma in Anesthesia before beginning his first residency in Ob/Gyn at the University of Cape Town, which he completed in 1989. He has a Post Graduate Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Cape Town awarded in 1990 for his thesis on Neonatal Brain Blood flow. He completed his second OB/Gyn residency at Baylor College of Medicine from 1989 – 1993 and then did an MFM Fellowship from 1993-1995 at Baylor College of Medicine. After completing his MFM Fellowship, he did research in brain blood flow and autoregulation in pregnancy and in 2002 was awarded a PhD from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
Dr. Belfort has more than 475 peer-reviewed publications in his areas of interest and holds two patents - one for a drain used in the management of malignant ascites in ovarian cancer, and a US Patent for a tamponade balloon system used in the management of postpartum hemorrhage.
For fun, Dr. Belfort enjoys aviation and holds a fixed-wing commercial pilot’s license and a private pilot helicopter license.
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