This joint mission by ISUOG and FMF is dedicated to addressing the needs of healthcare professionals from low-resource countries and serving as an inclusive platform for knowledge exchange, skill enhancement, and improved healthcare outcomes in regions facing resource challenges. Renowned speakers from the field will contribute their expertise, further enriching the event's impact. Read more about these speakers below.
Course chairs:
Professor Tom Bourne
ISUOG President 2020 - 2022, Virtual World Congress Technical Congress Chair 2020 and 2021, 2022 World Congress Co-Chair, Executive Committee, Finance & Risk Committee, Nominations Committee
Professor Tom Bourne was ISUOG President between 2020 and 2022 and is curently Chair in Gynaecology at Imperial College London, Hon Consultant Gynaecologist at Queen Charlottes and Chelsea hospital and Visiting Professor at KU Leuven in Belgium. He is an authority on managing early pregnancy complications, emergency gynaecology and gynaecological ultrasonography. He trained in ultrasound at Kings College Hospital in London. He subsequently worked at the University of Göteborg, Sweden as Medical Research Council visiting scientist, Hamar in Norway, and Leuven in Belgium. He was appointed senior lecturer and consultant gynaecologist at St George's University Hospital London before moving to Imperial College. He has edited seven books and published over 400 papers. He sits on the management committee of the Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research. He is medical advisor and trustee of the patient group, the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust. He is immediate Past-President of the UK Association of Early Pregnancy Units. He is co-founder and CEO of the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) group and sits on the steering committees of several large multicentre international trials. He is founder member of the RCOG task force on “supporting our doctors”. He is honorary fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, honorary member of the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and honorary member of the Brazilian and Hungarian Ultrasound Societies.
His principal research interest is diagnostics in early pregnancy and gynaecology including the IOTA, IETA, IDEA and MUSA studies, microbiome, metabolomics, novel biomarkers, and AI. His interests include the psychology of pregnancy loss and physician welfare including studies with the BMA and RCOG.
Country: UK
Language: English
Field: Gynaecology
Specialties: Early Pregnancy Care, Emergency Gynaecology, Ultrasound in Oncology, Gynaecological Ultrasonography, Physician Wellbeing
Selected Notable Publications:
Sporadic miscarriage: evidence to provide effective care. Coomarasamy A, Gallos ID, Papadopoulou A, Dhillon-Smith RK, Al-Memar M, Brewin J, Christiansen OB, Stephenson MD, Oladapo OT, Wijeyaratne CN, Small R, Bennett PR, Regan L, Goddijn M, Devall AJ, Bourne T, Brosens JJ, Quenby S.
Lancet. 2021 May 1;397(10285):1668-1674. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00683-8. Epub 2021 Apr 27.
Van Calster B, Valentin L, Froyman W, Landolfo C, Ceusters J, Testa AC, Wynants L, Sladkevicius P, Van Holsbeke C, Domali E, Fruscio R, Epstein E, Franchi D, Kudla MJ, Chiappa V, Alcazar JL, Leone FPG, Buonomo F, Coccia ME, Guerriero S, Deo N, Jokubkiene L, Savelli L, Fischerová D, Czekierdowski A, Kaijser J, Coosemans A, Scambia G, Vergote I, Bourne T, Timmerman D.
BMJ. 2020 Jul 30;370:m2614. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m2614.
Farren J, Jalmbrant M, Falconieri N, Mitchell-Jones N, Bobdiwala S, Al-Memar M, Tapp S, Van Calster B, Wynants L, Timmerman D, Bourne T.
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Apr; 222(4):367.e1-367.e22. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2019.10.102.
Froyman W, Landolfo C, De Cock B, Wynants L, Sladkevicius P, Testa AC, Van Holsbeke C, Domali E, Fruscio R, Epstein E, Dos Santos Bernardo MJ, Franchi D, Kudla MJ, Chiappa V, Alcazar JL, Leone FPG, Buonomo F, Hochberg L, Coccia ME, Guerriero S, Deo N, Jokubkiene L, Kaijser J, Coosemans A, Vergote I, Verbakel JY, Bourne T, Van Calster B, Valentin L, Timmerman D.
Lancet Oncol. 2019 Mar; 20(3): 448-458. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30837-4.
Defining safe criteria to diagnose miscarriage: prospective observational multicentre study. Preisler J, Kopeika J, Ismail L, Vathanan V, Farren J, Abdallah Y, Battacharjee P, Van Holsbeke C, Bottomley C, Gould D, Johnson S, Stalder C, Van Calster B, Hamilton J, Timmerman D, Bourne T.
BMJ. 2015 Sep 23; 351:h4579. doi: 10.1136/bmj.h4579.
Evaluating the risk of ovarian cancer before surgery using the ADNEX model to differentiate between benign, borderline, early and advanced stage invasive, and secondary metastatic tumours: prospective multicentre diagnostic studies. Van Calster B, Van Hoorde K, Valentin L, Testa AC, Fischerova D, Van Holsbeke C, Savelli L, Franchi D, Epstein E, Kaijser J, Van Belle V, Czekierdowski A, Guerriero S, Fruscio R, Lanzani C, Scala F, Bourne T, Timmerman D; International Ovarian Tumour Analysis Group.
BMJ. 2014 Oct 15;349:g5920. doi: 10.1136/bmj.g5920.
Diagnostic criteria for nonviable pregnancy early in the first trimester. Doubilet PM, Benson CB, Bourne T, Blaivas M; Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound Multispecialty Panel on Early First Trimester Diagnosis of Miscarriage and Exclusion of a Viable Intrauterine Pregnancy, Barnhart KT, Benacerraf BR, Brown DL, Filly RA, Fox JC, Goldstein SR, Kendall JL, Lyons EA, Porter MB, Pretorius DH, Timor-Tritsch IE.
N Engl J Med. 2013 Oct 10; 369(15): 1443-51. doi: 10.1056/NEJMra1302417.
Limitations of current definitions of miscarriage using mean gestational sac diameter and crown-rump length measurements: a multicenter observational study. Abdallah Y, Daemen A, Kirk E, Pexsters A, Naji O, Stalder C, Gould D, Ahmed S, Guha S, Syed S, Bottomley C, Timmerman D, Bourne T.
Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Nov; 38(5): 497-502. doi: 10.1002/uog.10109.
He is President of the UK Association of Early Pregnancy Units (AEPU), Trustee of the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust and on the steering committee of the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) trial.
Faculty:
Honours Committee member
Maya Al-Memar is a Consultant Gynaecologist at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, with specialist clinical interests in complex benign gynaecology, acute diagnostic services including early pregnancy and acute gynaecology, rapid access for suspected gynaecological cancer, and paediatric & adolescent gynaecology. She completed her training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in North-West London including specialty training at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, and St Mary’s Hospital. Having worked in the largest gynaecology & reproductive medicine service in London at Imperial, she has experience in managing complex patients. Her focus is to provide the best possible care for women using high quality diagnostics ultrasound skills to streamline care. She graduated from Imperial College School of Medicine with first class honours in 2007, where she also completed her PhD and is now an honorary clinical lecturer. She is widely published in peer-reviewed journals. She currently has on-going research projects in the fields of early pregnancy, miscarriage, ovarian cysts and use of ultrasound to improve diagnosis of ovarian masses.
Country: UK
Field: Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Specialties: Early pregnancy and gynaecology imaging, adnexal masses, paediatric and adolescent gynaecology
Languages: English, Arabic
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Medicine and Surgery Society, and The FMF World Congress in Fetal Medicine. She has been an invited speaker and co-chair for the ISUOG FMF Ultrasound Essentials meeting, and is a panellist for the GE Healthcare Imperial College London Multidisciplinary Fetal Medicine Webinar Series.
For more than a decade, Professor Ehigha Enabudoso has been closing the distance between world-class obstetric ultrasound and the women who are least likely to receive it. An obstetrician-gynaecologist, implementation scientist and Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Benin, Nigeria, he has built his career on a single conviction: that expertise in fetal medicine belongs in low- and middle-income countries as much as anywhere else, and that the way to get it there is to train the people who will stay.
Building capacity where it is needed most
In 2014, Professor Enabudoso founded the Fetal Diagnostic and Ultrasound Centre in Benin City and launched the ISUOG-endorsed Fetal Medicine and OBGYN Ultrasound Workshop, the first international-standard obstetric ultrasound training programme of its kind in the region. Since then, the workshop has trained hundreds of clinicians from across West Africa and has brought ISUOG courses to Nigerian audiences through livestreaming. His training model, built around capacity-building, task-shifting and scalable diagnostic innovation, has since taken him to Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Liberia, and as a master trainer for the GE Healthcare and USAID HealthyMagination Mother and Child Initiative (HMCI), he equipped community midwives in rural Nigeria with basic obstetric scanning skills.
A career shaped by ISUOG
Professor Enabudoso's relationship with ISUOG began as a travel grant recipient. He went on to serve as ISUOG Ambassador to Anglophone West Africa, then as Vice Chair and subsequently Chair of the ISUOG Outreach Committee. Along the way he has mentored many ISUOG travel grant winners, championed livestreaming of ISUOG courses in Nigeria and worked steadily to grow ISUOG membership in the country, turning a personal opportunity into a pipeline for others.
Research at the frontier of ultrasound in low-resource settings
He currently leads the research team for the Gates Foundation-supported “Pathway for AI-Enabled Point-of-Care Ultrasound (AI POCUS) Introduction in Nigeria,” a project exploring how artificial intelligence can extend high-quality obstetric imaging to frontline health workers. His implementation science portfolio includes multi-centre collaborations on maternal mortality, early detection of obstetric complications and AI-assisted fetal surveillance, and he has contributed to landmark trials aimed at improving Nigeria's maternal and neonatal outcomes, including E-MOTIVE and AZIN-V. His current work focuses on tools for competence assessment in basic ultrasound. Some publications capture the foundations of this work among others:
Enabudoso E, Adams OH. An international standard fetal ultrasound training programme organized in a low resource setting: The ISUOG-Benin City experience. Trop J Obstet Gynaecol. 2016;33(3):292–296.
Enabudoso E, Adams OH. Organizing an international-standard obstetric ultrasound training program in a low-resource setting. Int J Gynecol Obstet. 2017;136(1):102–104.
Enabudoso E, Awowole I, Thompson O, & Okoror C. Despite the Long Learning Curve for Ultrasound, How Beneficial Is A 5-Day Basic Obstetric Ultrasound Training for Foetal Biometry. AJFMED. 2024. 3(1), 20–25.
Anya C, Enabudoso E, Awarute F, Idemudia O, Oshiomhole C. Introduction of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Primary Healthcare in Edo State, Nigeria: Achievements, Barriers, and Implementation Realities. Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 2025. 13(5), 87-96. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.jgo.20251305.12
Training and credentials
Professor Enabudoso trained in medicine and completed his residency at the University of Benin and the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, before undertaking training in fetal medicine and OBGYN ultrasound at Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He holds Fetal Medicine Foundation certifications in fetal ultrasound and obstetric Doppler, and is a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons and of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, where he also serves as an examiner and member of the Faculty Board. In 2019 he served as Associate Clinical Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, within the World Bank collaborative programme at the Liberia-Japanese Friendship Hospital in Monrovia.
A vision for outreach
Professor Enabudoso is a firm believer in home-grown solutions to the challenges facing low- and middle-income countries, and in strong local leadership as the surest route to closing the global gap in healthcare. He brings that conviction, together with his experience across West Africa and beyond, to the task of expanding the reach and ambition of ISUOG's outreach programme, so that the next generation of clinicians in LMICs can offer their patients the standard of care that every woman deserves.
Country: Nigeria
Field: Obstetrics
Specialties: Fetal ultrasound, Obstetric Dopplers; Ultrasound education.
Language: English
UOG Editorial Board
Prof. Daniela Fischerova is specialized in O&G (1st and 2nd degree, 2000, 2004), clinical oncology (2005), and gynecological oncology (2011). She hold a PhD in experimental surgery (2008). She works as a professor at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University (2012). Since 2016, she serves as a Board member of the International Society of Ultrasound in O&G (ISUOG) and since 2021 she also becomes a Board member of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO). At a national level, she serves as the Vice President of the Czech Ultrasound Society in O&G and Board member of Czech Gynecologic Oncology society. She is academically very active in ultrasound imaging of gynecological cancer and passionate about promoting implementation of ultrasound in cancer staging, particularly by teaching and international research cooperation. She established Scientific and Educational Ultrasound Centre at Charles University. Twice a year she organises International Workshop on Ultrasound in Gynecologic Oncology (IWUGO) in Prague.
Country: Czech Republic
Field: Gynecology
Specialties: Gynecological oncology, gynecological ultrasound
Languages: English; Czech; German
Dr Enrique Gil-Guevara is a senior consultant in the Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal in Lima and an associate professor at San Marcos University.
His special interests are imaging technologies, fetal health, twins, fetal therapy, teaching processes and public health in Obstetrics. Enrique completed a MSc in Medical Sciences with distinction at the University of San Martin de Porres in Lima, Peru. He completed an international fellowship in Fetal Surgery at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, USA; and also obtained the Diploma in Fetal Medicine in London, UK, after three years of direct training with Professor Kypros Nicolaides.
Enrique is the director of the Peruvian Institute of Fetal Medicine, the main institution in the field in the Peruvian private setting. He is recognized as one of the main researchers in Fetal Medicine in the country by CONCYTEC (Peruvian public institution devoted to science and technology) and he has also been awarded the Diploma of Honor by the Parliament of Peru in recognition for his work as the main pioneer in Fetal Surgery in the country.
Country: Peru
Field: Obstetrics; Imaging; Fetal Medicine; Fetal Surgery
Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening; Fetal biometry and wellbeing; Aneuploidies; Fetal anomalies; Fetal growth restriction; Maternal and fetal Doppler; Multiple pregnancy; Fetal surgery
Languages: English; Spanish
Dr Tessa Homfray studied medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital, University of London, qualifying in 1983. She then undertook various posts in paediatric and adult medicine before specialising in genetics, firstly at Great Ormond Street Hospital and then St George’s University Hospital, London.
She has clinical experience in all areas of clinical genetics, but has special interest in the genetics of cardiac disease and fetal medicine. She also has an interest in the genetics of cardiomyopathy and arrhythmias in childhood, as well as how new technologies are introduced to identifying genetic diseases.
Dr Homfray has a very busy clinical practice, not only working at the Trust, but also St George’s University Hospital and The Harris Birthright Unit, Kings College Hospital London.
She runs weekly cardiac and prenatal clinics to keep a patient centred focus on care, and holds regular MDT clinics so that all team members can understand the patient pathway and also keep up to date with any advances in this field.
Professor Davor Jurkovic is a professor of gynaecology and director of the gynaecology diagnostic and outpatient treatment unit at University College Hospital, London. He is an internationally recognised expert in gynaecological and early pregnancy ultrasound. He has published extensively on these topics and has edited five books. He has helped to develop and run the RCOG training programmes in gynaecological ultrasound, acute gynaecology and early pregnancy. He is also a founding member of the educational charity Focus on Gynaecology. In 2020 he was awarded Ian Donald Gold Medal by the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology for his contribution to the advancement of diagnostic ultrasound through research and innovation.
Country: UK
Specialties: Gynaecology and Gynaecology diagnostic and treatment unit and Early pregnancy unit
Languages: English; Croatian
Outreach Committee
Chiara Landolfo, MD, PhD, is a Consultant Gynecologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. She has a special interest in gynecologic ultrasonography, working in fields of rapid access for suspected gynecologic cancer, complex benign gynecology, acute gynecology and gynecology oncology. She worked in tertiary oncology referral centers in Italy (Policlinico Sant’Orsola Malpighi in Bologna and Gemelli Hospital in Rome) and United Kingdom (Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital in London). She joined the IOTA group during her PhD at KU Leuven and since then she has been active in IOTA research on gynecologic ultrasound, translational analyses and artificial intelligence/radiomics on ovarian tumors. She also contributed to the International Endometrial Tumour Analysis (IETA) and the Morphological Uterus Sonographic Assessment (MUSA) studies.
She worked for the ISUOG Basic Training Task Force (2020-2026) and for the ISUOG Clinical Standards Committee to deliver guidelines for the use of diagnostic imaging in gynecology. Chiara also collaborates to VISUOG projects and worked as a member of the ISUOG Next Generation group.
She regularly takes part in education, scientific presentations and courses on gynecologic ultrasonography at national and international conferences.
Field: Obstetrics
Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T2; fetal biometry and wellbeing; aneuploidies; fetal anomalies; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; preeclampsia; safety of ultrasound
Language: 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
Prof. Hisham Mirghani Mubarak is a Consultant and Chair of Fetal Medicine Services at NMC Royal Hospitals in the United Arab Emirates. He has more than 35 years of experience in obstetrics, gynaecology, and fetal medicine. He previously served as Professor and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at United Arab Emirates University and as Chief of the Fetal Medicine Unit at Tawam Hospital in Al Ain, UAE. He also led Fetal Medicine and Academic Affairs at Danat Al Emarat Hospital and helped establish the first fetal medicine units in the UAE and Sudan.
He earned his medical degree from Cairo University, a master’s degree in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the University of Khartoum, a Maternal–Fetal Medicine Fellowship from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Health Professions Education from Maastricht University. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and holds RCOG/RCR certification in advanced obstetric ultrasound. His contributions to ISUOG include serving as Ambassador to the Middle East, Chair of the Outreach Committee, and a member of the International Faculty. He also led the ISUOG Sudan Outreach Project, delivering and supporting structured ultrasound training for local obstetric and gynaecology practitioners. As a former President of the Emirates Perinatal Society, he continues to contribute to regional ultrasound education and research on fetal growth, maternal fasting, diabetes in pregnancy, and maternal morbidity.
Country: United Arab Emirates
Field: Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Maternal–Fetal Medicine; Prenatal Ultrasound
Specialties: First- and second-trimester fetal anomaly and aneuploidy screening; fetal biometry and growth restriction; fetal cardiac assessment; maternal and fetal Doppler; multiple pregnancy; early pregnancy; and invasive fetal procedures, including chorionic villus sampling, amniocentesis, and intrauterine fetal blood transfusion.
Languages: Arabic; English
Prof. Mohamed Momtaz has been Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cairo University since 2000. He founded the Fetal Medicine Unit in 2006 and was appointed Director of the unit from 2008 - 2011. He is Currently the Chairman of the department. He has been elected vice president of the Egyptian Society for Maternal and Fetal Medicine and Vice president of the Egyptian Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Country: Egypt
Field: Gynecology; Obstetrics
Specialties: Fetal biomety and wellbeing; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; 3D & 4D ultrasound; gynecological ultrasound; gynecological oncology; reproductive medicine
Language: English; Arabic
Dr Francesca Moro is an Italian gynaecologist and clinical researcher. She completed her advanced medical education and clinical training in Italy, cultivating a deep specialisation in gynaecological ultrasound and oncology. Over her career, she has built a reputation for her precision in evaluating complex pelvic masses and refining pre-operative staging for gynaecological cancers.
Currently, Dr Moro serves as an Associate Professor at UniCamillus – International Medical University in Rome, where she helps train the next generation of medical professionals. Alongside her academic responsibilities, she maintains an active clinical practice as a Consultant Gynaecologist within the Department of Women, Children, and Public Health Sciences at the prestigious Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, also located in Rome.
As a researcher, Dr Moro has made substantial contributions to her field, authoring more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles in prominent international journals. Her expertise makes her a frequent speaker and organizer at medical congresses globally. She also lends her knowledge to the wider scientific community by serving as an editor and reviewer for leading medical publications, including the journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Outreach Committee
Theodora Pepera was born in Ghana.
She began her medical career in London, qualifying from the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in Hampstead. She undertook basic and higher training at Teaching hospitals, mainly in London and was then appointed a Consultant Gynaecologist and Colposcopist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
At the end of 2013, Dr Pepera stepped down from full-time NHS employment and has been involved in teaching in Volunteer programmes Ghana, particularly in the field of cervical cancer prevention and women’s ultrasound.
She has been an ISUOG Outreach Volunteer Trainer since 2015, serving on Programmes in Ghana and Rwanda, and as an Observer in Oman.
She is an accredited member and trainer of the British Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, and developing Colposcopy Training Courses for Ghanaian Doctors and Nurses.
Notable Publications:
Garshasbi M, Wang Y, Hantoosh Zadeh S, Giti S, Piri S, Reza Hekmat M (2020). Clinical Application of Cell-Free DNA Sequencing-Based Noninvasive Prenatal Testing for Trisomies 21, 18, 13 and Sex Chromosome Aneuploidy in a Mixed-Risk Population in Iran. Fetal Diagn Ther. 2020;47(3):220-227. doi: 10.1159/000501014. Epub 2019 Sep 5. PMID: 31487708.
S. Piri, L. Nezamabadi Farahani, N. Samiei (2019). P17.06: Comparing fetal frontonasal angle in the 18–20 week scan in pregnant women with prosthetic heart valves using low-dose warfarin with a control group, 30 September 2019, UOG, https://doi.org/10.1002/uog.21045
Sina A, Kajbafzadeh AM, Elahi E, Sina A, Sabetkish S, and Piri S (2019). Prenatal Diagnosis of Concomitant Accessory Scrotum and Diphallia in the Accessory Tissues: Case Report // Urology, 134, 217-220
Poon LC, Stratieva V, Piras S, Piri S, and Nicolaides KH (2010). Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy: Combined Screening by Uterine Artery Doppler Blood Pressure and Serum PAPP-A at 11-13 Weeks. // Prenatal diagnosis: Published in Affiliation with the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis, 30(3), 216-223
Country: Iran
Executive Committee, Finance & Risk Committee, Nominations Committee, Scientific Comittee, China Task Force, UOG Editorial Board
Professor Liona Poon is an Academic Subspecialist in Maternal Fetal Medicine, devoted in improving maternal and fetal health. She has had a prolific research output throughout her clinical and research posts, including over 130 peer-reviewed publications in high impact international journals. In the last 10 years she has focused her research on establishing a programme for effective early prediction and prevention of preeclampsia, a major cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. With her success in developing a first-trimester prediction model for preeclampsia using maternal risk factors, ultrasound, blood pressure and biochemical markers, and on Aspirin prophylaxis against preeclampsia, her goal in the next 10 years is to improve obstetric care worldwide, through clinical research and education.
Notable Publications:
Aspire trial: incidence of preterm preeclampsia in patients fulfulling ACOG and NICE criteria according to risk by the FMF algorithm. Poon LC, Rolnik DL, Tan MY, Delgado JL, Tsokaki T, Akolekar R, Singh M, Andrade W, Efeturk T, Jani JC, Plasencia W, Papaioannou G, Blazquez AR, Carbone IF, Wright D, Nikolaides KH.
Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2018 Jan 30. doi: 10.1002/uog.19019 [Epub ahead of print]
Aspirin versus Placebo in Pregnancies at High Risk of Preterm Preeclampsia. Rolnik DL, Wright D, Poon LC, O'Gorman N, Syngelaki A, de Paco Matallana C, Akolekar R, Cicero S, Janga D, Singh M, Molina FS, Persico N, Jani JC, Plasencia W, Papaioannou G, Tennebaum Gavish K, Meiri H, Gizurarson S, Maclagan K, Nicolaides K.H.
New England Journal Medicine 2017, 2017 Jun 28. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1704559. [Epub ahead of print]
Country: China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Field: Obstetrics
Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening 1st trimester and 2nd trimester; fetal biometry and wellbeing; fetal anomalies screening; aneuploidy screening; fetal anomalies; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; multiple pregnancy; preeclampsia; preterm delivery; fetal growth; detection of fetal and neonatal growth abnormalities; ultrasound on the labour ward
Languages: English; Chinese (Mandarin); Chinese (Cantonese)
Prof. Inessa Safonova is a sonologist with a clinical background in obstetrics and gynecology and more than 25 years of experience in obstetric and gynecological ultrasound. She is a Senior Consultant Sonologist at a tertiary-level obstetrics and gynecology center in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and Professor of Radiology at the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”. Her special interests are gynecological ultrasound, including reproductive and emergency gynecology, gynecologic oncology, adnexal masses and endometriosis, as well as fetal medicine, fetal cardiology and high-risk pregnancy.
Inessa is an ISUOG Ambassador to Eastern Europe and is actively involved in international ultrasound education. She is the founder and director of UZSCHOOL, an international educational platform for obstetric and gynecological ultrasound. Her teaching focuses on case-based learning, pattern recognition and integration of ultrasound with clinical, surgical and perinatal findings. She is the author of more than 170 scientific publications and four textbooks on ultrasound in obstetrics.
Country: Ukraine
Field: Ultrasound Imaging in Obstetrics; Gynecology; Fetal Medicine
Specialties: Gynecological ultrasound; reproductive and emergency gynecology; gynecologic oncology; adnexal masses; endometriosis; fetal anomaly screening; fetal cardiology; high-risk pregnancy; fetal growth; maternal and fetal Doppler
Languages: Ukrainian; Russian; English
Dr Srdjan Saso is a Gynaecological (Cancer) Surgeon at Imperial College NHS Trust and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London. He is a great believer in translational clinical and academic work and projects that have the potential for ‘cross-fertilisation’ between medical and non-medical specialties. His main academic and clinical interest lies in gynaecological surgery (cancer and non-cancer), primarily cytoreductive surgery for ovarian cancer including germ cell, management of gestational trophoblastic tumours and use of ultrasound in diagnosis of gynaecological pathology. In particular, a focus on fertility-sparing surgery and oncofertility in general, and therefore, the management of gynaecological issues in women who have not started or completed their families. His other main research themes focus on the growing influence of Artificial Intelligence (and technology in general) in gynaecology.
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Gynaecological Surgery and Oncology, Ultrasound Diagnostics
Specialties: Gynaecological Surgery, Gynaecological Cancers, Oncofertility, Fertility-sparing Surgery, IOTA, Ultrasound Diagnostics
Languages: English, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, French
Dr. Ahmad Sayasneh is a senior consultant in the Department of Surgical Oncology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and an Asst professor in Women’s Health at King’s College London. His special interests are advanced cancer surgery, gynaecological laparoscopic and robotic surgery, gynaecological ultrasound, gynaecological cancer diagnostics, statistics, and education. Ahmad completed an MD(Res) in Ovarian Masses Ultrasound scan characterisation (Imperial College London. He was also awarded a fellowship in higher education while teaching at King’s College London.
Ahmad has a strong commitment to academic and clinical education and has supervised and mentored doctors, trainees and researchers from the UK and overseas, supporting their academic development, research and advanced clinical training. He is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education at King’s College London and contributes to national and international teaching, training and professional development initiatives. Ahmad is also President of FAGOS International, the international liaison group of the Federation of Arab Gynecology Obstetric Societies (FAGOS), supporting international collaboration, medical education, scientific exchange and professional development in women’s health.
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Gynaecology;Imaging;Gynaecological oncology
Specialties: Advanced gynaecological cancer surgery; laparoscopic and robotic gynaecological surgery; gynaecological ultrasound; gynaecological cancer diagnostics; complex pelvic surgery; clinical research and statistics; medical education and training.
Languages: English; Arabic
Executive Committee, Finance & Risk Committee
Prof. Suresh Seshadri is the Director of MediScan systems Diagnostic Ultrasound, Fetal Medicine and training Centre in Chennai, Tamil Nadu INDIA. The Centre was started in 1982 and is a tertiary referral centre for Prenatal diagnosis and Fetal Therapy.
He is also a Professor of Practice at the department of Medical Science, IIT Madras. His special interests include Fetal interventions, teaching ultrasound and Fetal Medicine, Device development for use in ultrasound training, developing fetal databases for ultrasound reporting including Birth defects registry and artificial intelligence. He is a visiting Professor in Perinatology in the Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research in Chennai and The PSG institute of Higher Education Coimbatore. He is actively working for standardization of Obstetric Ultrasound through implementation of the ISUOG basic training across the country. Dr Suresh also is the CEO of the Voluntary Health Services Multispecialty Hospital, a public charity where he actively strives to provide affordable health care to the community. He is a Trustee of the Fetal Care Research Foundation, which helps the underprivileged and provides preventive, supportive and curative care for birth defects and rare disorders. He strongly believes that the best of medical technology should be available for the common man. His other interests include Nature and wildlife photography and Amateur radio.
Country: India
Field: Fetal Medicine
Specialties: Early diagnosis of fetal anomalies, Ultrasound autopsy correlation of anomalies, Fetal Interventions, Multiple pregnancy, Ultrasound training and simulation
Languages: English, Tamil
Scientific Committee
Dr. Mala Sibal is a consultant in Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecological Ultrasound at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, and the Director of Gynecology Academy, an online platform that has trained doctors from 59 countries in gynecological ultrasound, fetal medicine, maternal medicine, and infertility management.
She is the author of the book Ultrasound in Gynecology: An Atlas and Guide (Springer, 2017), which has achieved over 53,000 downloads and provides comprehensive insights into gynecological ultrasound. With over 23 years of experience in the field, Dr. Sibal has also mentored numerous practitioners and medical students.
Dr. Sibal has delivered over 700 lectures in 24 countries including 73 cities and published in leading journals, including the American Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine and Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology (UOG). She is a principal investigator in the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) research program and has conducted 27 IOTA certification courses, training nearly 1,800 doctors.
She serves as a Board Member and Scientific Committee Member of ISUOG (The International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology). Additionally, she is an International Faculty Member of ISUOG and an IOTA ambassador, contributing significantly to the advancement of gynecological ultrasound education and research globally.
Dr. Sibal holds a postgraduate degree in Obstetrics and Gynecology. During her medical studies, she stood first in Gynecology and received the ‘Best Outgoing Female Student’ award.
Country: India
Field: Obstetrician and Gynecologist specializing in Fetal Medicine and Obstetric & Gynecological Ultrasound
Specialties: Gynecological ultrasound, 3D/4D Ultrasound, Gynecological oncology, Endometriosis
Languages: English, Hindi, Persian
Prof. Lil Valentin is a Swedish Senior Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Lund University and the former Head of the Ultrasound Unit at Skåne University Hospital Malmö. She is globally recognized as a leading authority on gynaecological ultrasound, specifically for her pioneering research in the non-invasive discrimination between benign and malignant ovarian tumors. She earned her medical degree from Lund University in 1974, completed her specialization in obstetrics and gynaecology in 1980, and was awarded a full professorship at her alma mater in 2002.
Prof. Valentin has co-founded major international research networks that have transformed clinical practice. In 1997, she co-founded the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) collaboration, which now spans over 40 global centres to improve the pre-operative diagnosis of adnexal masses. In 2008, she also co-founded the International Endometrial Tumor Analysis (IETA) group to standardize the ultrasound evaluation of endometrial pathology. Beyond her work in oncology, she has served as the main coordinator for Swedish multicenter studies examining cervical length to predict and prevent preterm births.
Her extensive academic contributions include over 250 peer-reviewed scientific publications and a tenure as an editor for the journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology (UOG). In recognition of her exceptional impact on the field, the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) awarded her the prestigious Ian Donald Gold Medal for lifetime achievement in 2019. Additionally, she holds honorary fellowships with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (UK) and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), and she has taught at more than 140 clinical ultrasound training courses worldwide.
Honours Committee member
Prof. Thierry Van den Bosch defended his PhD in 2007 on the diagnosis of endometrial disease. His clinical research focuses on the diagnosis of endometrial and myometrial pathology, endometriosis and fertility exploration. He has published over 150 papers and has been over 100 times invited speaker at international conferences in English, Dutch and French.
He completed his residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the KU Leuven (Belgium) and at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). In 1992 he was appointed consultant at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Unit of Gynecologic Oncology, of the University of Stellenbosch and Tygerberg Hospital (South-Africa). In 1994 he moved back to Belgium. He worked as gynecologist at the Regional Hospital RZ Tienen, consultant UZ Leuven and KU Leuven and became the Head of department in RZ Tienen.
He currently works at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital UZ Leuven, at the Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, and is Senior Clinical Investigator of the Scientific Research Fund (FWO) Flanders, Belgium.
Country: Belgium
Field: Gynecology
Specialties: Gynecological ultrasound
Languages: English; French; Dutch
Professor Yves Ville is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at Necker-Enfants-Malades Hospital at the Paris Descartes University. He is the Chair and lead clinician in the largest fetal medicine and therapy unit in France. He has pursued a platform of work that has allowed clinical and academic progress of the subspecialty of fetal medicine, both nationally and internationally.
Country: France
Field: Obstetrics; Fetal Medicine
Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T1; fetal anomalies; fetal brain; fetal growth restriction; fetal interventional procedures; multiple pregnancy; preterm delivery; genetics
Languages: English; French
Emeritus professor Obstetrics and former head of department Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology and former vice-dean of medical faculty, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Member and past chair FIGO Committee Safe Motherhood Newborn Health. Former chair of the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and former president of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine. Honorary Fellow of the Flemish, South African, Royal (British; fellow ad eudem) and Romanian Colleges of O&G and of the German Perinatal Society. Awarded the Maternity price of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine in 2016. Awarded the title ‘’Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau’’ by the Queen of the Netherlands.
Research interests: fetal (neurological) development, fetal monitoring, fetal growth restriction, corticosteroids and preterm birth, diabetes and pregnancy, Cesarean sections. Over 470 PubMed articles, which have been cited more than 31.000 times according to Google Scholar (Hirsch Index 86); supervisor of 73 completed PhD projects.
Country: The Netherlands
Field: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Specialties: Obstretrics; Perinatology
Prof. Sikolia Wanyonyi is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at the Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a Master of Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and is a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG) of the United Kingdom.
He undertook his fellowship in fetal medicine at the University of Oxford Hospitals, NHS UK. He holds an international Master in Maternal and Fetal Medicine from the University of Barcelona and a Diploma in fetal medicine from Fetal Medicine Foundation-Barcelona.
He has over 80 publications and several chapters in peer-reviewed journals and is a principal investigator for various research projects. He sits on editorial boards of various major peer-reviewed journals.
His interests are in prenatal diagnosis, fetal growth and fetal echocardiography.
Notable Publications:
Wanyonyi SZ, Orwa J, Ozelle H, Martinez J, Atsali E, Sudhir V, Temmerman M, Figueras F. Routine third trimester ultrasound for the detection of small-for- gestational-age in low-risk pregnancies (ROTTUS) study: a randomized controlled trial. DOI:10.1002/uog.23618 PMID: 33619823
Wanyonyi SZ, Napolitano R, Ohuma EO, Salomon LJ, Papageorghiou AT. Image scoring for crown rump length measurements. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2014 Mar 27. doi: 10.1002/uog.13376. [Epub ahead of print]
Wanyonyi ZS and Mutiso S. Monitoring fetal growth in settings with limited ultrasound resources. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 2018 Mar 14. pii: S1521-6934(18)30042-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2018.02.001.
Wanyonyi SZ, Mariara CM, Vinayak S, Stones W. Opportunities and challenges in realizing universal access to obstetric ultrasound in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ultrasound International Open 2017; 03(02): E2 –E59 DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-103948
Country: Kenya
Field: Obstetrics
Specialties: Fetal Medicine and quality control in obstetric ultrasound
Languages: English; Swahili
