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International Speakers
Dr Badreldeen Ahmed, Qatar
Professor Aris J. Antsaklis, Greece
Prof. Dr. Ana Bianchi, Uruguay
Stephen Chim
Kwong Wai Choy
Professor Vincenzo D'Addario, Italy
Professor Gian Carlo Di Renzo, Italy
Dr Mark Evans
Professor Zehra Nese Kavak
Tak Yeung Leung
Professor Malcolm Levene
Professor Eberhardt Merz, Germany
Professor Anton Mikhailov, Russia
Professor Giovanni Monni, Italy
Professor Giampaola Mandruzzato, Italy
Professor John Newnham, Australia
Professor Kypros Nicolaides
Professor Olav Peterson
Professor Rubin Quintero
Professor Andrew Shennan
Professor Liliana S. Voto, Argentina
Chi Chiu Wang
National Speakers
National Speakers
Dr Leonie Callaway
Dr Danny Challis
Dr Colleen-Marie Cook
Professor Caroline Crowther
Dr Lachlan De Crespigny
Dr Brad De Vries
Professor Gus Dekker
Dr Jan Dickinson
Dr Hans Peter Dietz
Dr Jodie Dodd
Professor David Ellwood
Dr Michelle Fink
Professor Nicholas Fisk
Dr Kieran Frawley
Dr Glenn Gardener
Professor AnneMarie Hennessey
Dr Jon Hyett
Dr Martin Kluckow
Dr Andreas Lee
Professor David McIntyre
Dr Simon Meagher
Professor Jonathan Morris
Professor John Newnham
Dr Robert Ogle
Dr Ricardo Palma Dias
Professor Michael Permeze
Mrs Ann Quinton
Professor William Rawlinson
Dr Ingrid Rieger
Dr Amanda Sampson
Dr Stephen Sinnott
Professor Brian Trudinger
Professor Alec Welsh
Dr Jane Woolcock
Pre-congress Workshops: Thursday 5 March
There will be six pre-congress courses held at the same venue on Thursday 5th March. The courses will provide an extra opportunity to hear presentations by international experts in these areas who are attending the main conference.
1. Nuchal translucency certification course
2. Obstetric ultrasound at the point of care
3. Imaging the fetal and neonatal brains (half day)
4. Advances in Nuchal Translucency assessment half day program combined with NT course
5. Fetal echocardiography (Coordinated by the Australian Sonographers Association)
6. Ultrasound Assessment of Pelvic Floor Trauma
1. Nuchal translucency certification course
RANZCR / RANZCOG training and accreditation program
Aims: A comprehensive review of screening and diagnosis of Down syndrome with ultrasound and biochemistry.
Suitable for: Sonographers / Genetics Counsellors / Obstetricians and Radiologists involved in first trimester screening.
This course is run by the Nuchal Translucency Ultrasound, Education and Monitoring Program located at RANZCOG, all participants will be able to register for the NT accreditation. RANZCOG Fellows will be able to claim PR&CRM points for the course.
Moderators: Dr Andrew McLennan / Mrs Ann Robertson
2. Obstetric ultrasound at the point of care
Aims: To provide an introduction to obstetric ultrasound and empower clinicians to use ultrasound equipment at the point of care whilst recognising their limitations.
This course would also be provide some background knowledge which can be built on through the main congress program.
Suitable for: Obstetric and Radiology Trainees and Staff Specialists.
Moderator: Glenn Gardener
3. Imaging the fetal and neonatal brains (half day)
Aims: To review current standards in fetal and neonatal CNS imaging, discuss findings and implications of common CNS anomalies and look at the application of MR imaging in this field.
Objective: An integrated program of fetal and neonatal topics to promote the extrapolation of neonatal concepts into the fetal period.
Suitable for: Sonographers, Obstetricians and Radiologists with an interest in fetal and paediatric neuroimaging.
Moderators: Stephen Sinnott & Kieran Frawley
4. Advances in Nuchal translucency assessment - Half Day Program
Joins with the Nuchal translucency Certification morning Program
Aims: A comprehensive review of screening and diagnosis of Down syndrome with ultrasound and biochemistry.
Suitable for: Sonographers / Genetics Counsellors / Obstetricians and Radiologists involved in first trimester screening.
This course is run by the RANZCOG / RANZCR NT accreditation program and participants will be able to register for the NT accreditation scheme.
Moderators: Dr Andrew McLennan / Mrs Anne Robertson
5. Fetal echocardiography (Coordinated by the Australian Sonographers Association)
Aims: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the newborn and infant population. Prenatal diagnosis of CHD improves outcomes and facilitates treatment options, surgical and medical care. However structural cardiac anomalies are often missed at prenatal ultrasound and published detection rates are quite low.
Detection rates can be optimised by performing a thorough ultrasound examination of the fetal heart. The fetal heart is a complex, dynamic, three dimensional structure that is difficult to examine prenatally with confidence. There are a number of sonographic views required to adequately assess this dynamic structure, along with a thorough understanding of the anatomy of the normal and abnormal fetal heart.
This course aims to help sonographers, radiologists and obstetricians develop a framework for the cardiac examination and report and to introduce them to some of the commoner anomalies that they may encounter. It will cover the normal sonographic views required for thorough fetal heart assessment. This full day, interactive, fetal heart workshop will provide the attendees with practical experience they can take back to their workplace.
Presenters: Lisa Clarke & Peter Coombs
6. Ultrasound Assessment of Pelvic Floor Trauma
Aims: Using ultrasound as a tool to assess the pelvic floor is a relatively recent development but is rapidly overtaking other imaging modalities in this field. This course describes the processes leading to damage of the pelvic floor in childbirth and how ultrasound can be used to assess this. Peter Dietz, the convener, is one of the leading authorities in this field and has been responsible for much innovation in this area.
Suitable for: Sonographers / Obstetricians / Radiologists and Gynaecologists that scan in the third trimester of pregnancy or have an interest in gynaecological imaging.
Chairs: Hans Peter Dietz
Professor Aris J. Antsaklis
Aris J. Antsaklis is Professor and Chairman of the 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
After graduating from medical school in 1969, Professor Antsaklis trained as an Obstetrician Gynaecologist and completed his PhD thesis at the University of Athens. He subsequently held positions as a Senior Registrar of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Deputy Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine Division at the University of Athens before accepting his current appointment. Professor Antsaklis is a member of several national scientific and medical associations. He is also the Vice President of the World Association of Perinatal Medicine and is a member of numerous other international societies. Professor Antsaklis has organised several National and International conferences and meetings on prenatal diagnosis. In addition, he has authored/co-authored more than 400 publications in International and Hellenic peer-reviewed journals as well as writing 24 chapters in medical books.
Prof. Dr. Ana Bianchi
Prof. Dr. Ana Bianchi graduated as PhD in medicine from the Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay, School of Medicine, in 1980. She also received training in the Latin American Centre in Perinatology and Human Development (CLAP), a technical Centre of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and World Health Organization (WHO).
She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Paris–France at the Antoine Béclère Hospital, with Prof. Emile Papiernick where she stayed until 1986. She was later Resident in Laennec Hospital with Prof. Jean Yves Neveux, and Laurent Fermont in the Echocardiology Service in Paris.
She has attended numerous training courses in Uruguay and abroad. She has lectured local and in international meetings and has organized national and international courses. She attended the Fetal Medicine Foundations programs in London Kings College, with Prof. Kypros Nicolaïdes in 1999.
From 1993 to 2000 she was nominated by the School of Medicine of Uruguay to create the Department of Ultrasound and Prenatal Diagnosis for the three Gynecology Services in Montevideo. She joined the School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in 1993, and in 2007 she became the Director of the Perinatal Service of the Montevideo University Hospital. In 2005 she became the Director of the Uruguay branch of the Ian Donald School.
At present, she is the Director of the Fetal Medicine Department in the two biggest private Maternities of the country: Asociación Española de Socorros Mutuos (Spanish Association of Mutual Aids), and CASMU (Assistance Center of the Medical Union of the Uruguay).
Prof. Bianchi's main contribution has been in the field of prenatal diagnosis of fetal malformations, echocardiography, and fetus-placentary Doppler. She has been co-author in several books and scientific publications. She is an active member of both national and international Scientific Societies.
Professor Robert Brent
Robert Brent received his MD with Honor, a Ph.D. in radiation biology, physics and embryology and an honorary D.Sc. from the University of Rochester. He joined the faculty of the Jefferson Medical College in 1957 and was Chairman of Pediatrics for almost 30 years (1965-1995). In 1988 he was appointed the third Distinguished Professor in Jefferson's 185 year history and also named the Louis and Bess Stein endowed Professor. His research has focused on the genetic and environmental causes of birth defects and cancer and the importance of nutrition in embryonic development. He described the "all or none phenomenon" of early embryonic development, that birth defects and mental retardation are threshold effects following embryonic radiation and chemical exposures and that protraction of radiation exposures to the embryo markedly reduced their toxic effects. The NIH and Department of Energy continuously funded his research during his entire academic career. He has received numerous awards for his research accomplishments and was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr Frank Chervenak
Frank Chervenak is the President of the International Society of the Fetus as a Patient. He is the current Given Foundation Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College, Cornell University. He has spent most of his career working in New York with the exception of his fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at Yale.
Professor Chervenak has published over 200 peer reviewed papers and co-authored or co-edited 25 textbooks. Research interests include ultrasound and ethics in obstetrics & gynecology and physician leadership. He has extensive links with many national and international perinatal societies and is the current President of the World Association of Perinatal Medicine. He serves on the March of Dimes Bioethics Advisory Committee and National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee.
Professor Vincenzo D'Addario
Vincenzo D'Addario graduated in Medicine in 1975 with highest marks and specialized in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1979.
He is Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the University of Bari, and head of the Fetal Medicine Unit in the Dept. of OB%GYN.
Honorary titles:
- Director of the Italian Branch of the Ian Donald School of Ultrasound in Ob. & Gyn.
- Past President of the Italian Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Ginecology..
- Member of the Board of the International Society "The Fetus as a Patient".
- Associate Fellow of the International Academy of Perinatal Medicine.
- Member of the Editorial Board of "The Journal of Perinatal Medicine"
Professor Gian Carlo Di Renzo
Professor Di Renzo is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Perinatal Medicine. He is Director of the Perinatal and Reproductive Center, Chairman of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and Dean of the Faculty of Obstetrics and Midwifery at the University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
After graduation cum laude at the Medical School of the University of Padova, Professor Di Renzo has been a research fellow at the Universities of Verona, Messina and Modena and has also been a research fellow at CHUV in Lausanne, Switzerland, UCH in London, England, the University of Texas, Dallas, USA and the Catholic University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. His many research interests include prostaglandins and parturition, preterm labour, fetal lung maturity, childbirth organization and gynecologic endocrinology. Professor Di Renzo is on the Editorial Board of several international journals and is currently Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine. He has been awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Athens, Greece and Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is a member of numerous professional societies and has organized several international congresses and courses. Professor Di Renzo has published more than 1100 papers (over 200 published in peer-reviewed international journals and 65 books).
Professor TK Lau
Professor TK Lau obtained his medical degree at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1988 and is currently Professor of maternal and Fetal Medicine in this institution. His main clinical and research interests are focused on Fetal Medicine and he has published 221 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has being instrumental in the introduction of first trimester screening in Hong Kong and has promoted training and quality assurance for Obstetric ultrasound internationally. He chairs the scientific committee for the annual Asia Pacific Congress in Maternal and Fetal Medicine.
Professor Kazuo Meada
Professor Kazuo Maeda has been involved with the Society for the Fetus as a Patient since its inception 25 years ago, holding one of the early meetings in Japan. His scientific interests include fetal physiology and medical engineering and his publications have focused around the development of ultrasound technologies within fetal medicine. Professor Maeda has been honored by many international societies for his formative work in obstetric ultrasound.
Professor Eberhardt Merz
Eberhard Merz is Professor and Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
He is author and co-author of over 200 scientific papers. He has published 5 ultrasound books in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 6 different languages.
He is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Ultrasound and Co-Editor of Donald School Journal of Ultrasoud in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
He was executive board member of the ISUOG and chaired the 3D Focus group. At present he is Board Member of the "World Association of Perinatal Medicine" and the International Society "The Fetus as a Patient".
Since 2002 he is President of the Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) Germany and since 2006 President of the German Society for Ultrasoud in Medicine (DEGUM).
He organized 20 national and international congresses. In 1997 he hosted the First World Congress on 3D Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Mainz, Germany. In 2008 he is the host of the World Congress "The Fetus as a Patient" which takes place in Frankfurt/Germany.
Professor Giovanni Monni
Giovanni Monni, MD, is a Director of Department Obstetrics/Gynecology, Prenatal and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, Fetal Therapy at the Ospedale Regionale per le Microcitemie, Cagliari, Italy, and Professor at the Post-Graduate Pediatric School, University of Cagliari.
He is a member of the Executive Board of International Fetoscopy Working Group since 1984, member of the Executive Board of International Society The Fetus as a Patient since 2000, member of International Council of World Association of Perinatal Medicine and member of EAPM Executive Board (2002/2006).
He was named Vice-President of MED-UOG (Mediterranean Society for Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology) (2003/2007) and President of the Italian Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (2000/2002) and currently he serves as President of The AOGOI (Italian Hospital Gynecologists Obstetrics Association) and as Vice-President of CIC (College of Italian Surgery).
He was Visiting Professor at many Universities and he serves as an International expert for operators evaluation on the Fetal Nuchal Translucency Practice.
He was AOGOI Course Director of Embryo-Fetal and Perinatal Medicine held in Villasimius (Cagliari) from 2001 to 2008. He is named referee for several international scientific journals. He was named as a Member of Honour of many Ultrasound and Perinatal Societies and he serves as a Member of Editorial Board of many national and international journals. He was invited Speaker and Chairman in many national and international meetings.
He has published more than 400 papers in national and international scientific journals and books.
In 2006 he was received the A.William Liley Prize from the International Society The Fetus as a Patient.
Dr. Monni is currently invited at the Italian Parliament and healthy Government as expert in Perinatology and ART.
Professor John Newnham
John Newnham is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Western Australia. He is Head of The School of Women's and Infants' Health based at King Edward Memorial Hospital.
Born in Western Australia, he graduated locally before pursuing postgraduate medical training in Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom and USA. Over the last 25 years he has published more than 170 original papers in international peer review science journals.
He heads a research group which involves extensive collaboration with several centres in USA, Canada, Germany and Australia. His research interests are based on the fetal origins of adult disease; preterm birth and fetal maturation; prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy.
Professor Ritsuko Pooh
Ritsuko Pooh is the Director of the Clinical Research Institute of Fetal Medicine PMC, Osaka, Japan. She studied law in Tokyo before graduating in medicine from Tokushima University and was previously the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine at Kagawa National Children's Hospital.
Her research interests include ultrasound of the central nervous system and 4D ultrasound, with a bias to the first trimester of pregnancy. She was the visiting Professor to Cornell University in New York in 2006. Professor Pooh is a member of the editorial board of several international journals.
Professor Waldo Sepulveda
Waldo Sepulveda is Director of the Fetal Medicine Center, Clinica Las Condes and Professor of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at the University of Santiago de Chile. He received his training in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Chile, and in Fetal Medicine at Queen Charlotte's Hospital (Professor Nicholas Fisk) and King's College Hospital (Professor Kypros Nicolaides). He has published and co-authored 200 scientific publications on prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy. His main areas of interests include first-trimester sonographic screening, monochorionic twin pregnancies and fetal therapy.
Professor Yves Ville
Graduated in Paris, trained in fetal medicine in paris and london. Professor of Obs& Gyne at Descartes University in Paris and head of dept at Necker hospital for sick children. Editor in chief of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology.
Professor Liliana S. Voto
Prof. Liliana S. Voto graduated from the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine in 1973 and obtained her PhD in medicine from the same university in 1984. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1979 and five year later she joined the faculty of the Buenos Aires University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor. In 1992 she became a specialist in Public Health (Salvador University). Prof. Voto was appointed as Associate Professor of Obstetrics at Buenos Aires University in 1991 and promoted to Full Professor in 1997. She was also made Full Professor of Obstetrics at Barceló University in Buenos Aires in 1996.
Recently, she became an Associate Member of the International Academy Of Perinatal Medicine (President: Prof. Erich Saling) at Cornell University, New York (2008)
Dr Hung Winn
Hung N. Winn, MD, JD, MBA, completed a Doctor of Medicine from University of Illinois College of Medicine and fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. In 1992, Dr. Winn co-founded The Journal of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, with his mentor and friend, Ray H. Petrie M.D., Sc.D. He was a co-editor of Clinical Maternal-Fetal Medicine, published in 2000 and co-editor of Cardiovascular Diseases in Women, published in 2006. Dr. Winn serves on the Board of Directors for both the International Society of Fetus as a Patient and the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is currently the David G. Hall Professor and Chairman for the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine in Columbia, Missouri. Dr. Winn also serves as the Chairman of University Physicians, a faculty group practice of more than 400 physicians, at University of Missouri School of Medicine.
Dr Corazon Yabes-Almirante
Founding Chairman of the Perinatal Center at the Philippine Children's Medical Center 1988 to 2004 and head of the Perinatology Division
Established a Perinatal Center in a Children's Hospital in the Philippines in 1987, one of the first in the World
Established the first Ultrasound society in clinical medicine in the Philippines in 1997 (Philippine Society of Ultrasound in Clinical Medicine) and was accredited by WFUMB and AFSUMB; Senior member AIUM 1994
Established the Fetus as a Patient Institute Philippines in 1988 and held the first Postgraduate Course on"Fetus as a Patient" in 1989 and conducted postgraduate courses in ultrasound in perinatal medicine annually
WHO Scholar in Perinatal Medicine in 1987 at the Beth Israel Hospital inBoston USA; Ultrasound Course, Masters and Doctorate Degrees at the University of Zagreb, 1989, 1992, 2000.
Dr George SH Yeo
Dr Yeo set up and is responsible for the prenatal screening programme in KK hospital, which delivers a third of Singapore's births. He is also instrumental in the development of prenatal thalassaemia screening in Singapore,
He has been instrumental in the introduction and development of prenatal diagnosis and management in KK hospital in the last 15 years. This has led to the recognition of Maternal Fetal Medicine as a well-defined sub-specialty in Singapore.
He is active in the teaching and training programmes for obstetrics ultrasound in Singapore, organised the 1st International Scientific Meeting of ISUOG in 2004, and directs the education programmes at the ISUOG Teaching and Training Centre in Singapore. He has particular interest in prenatal screening of Cardiac Malformations.
Professor Ivica Zalud
Dr Ivica Zalud graduated from the University of Zagreb School of Medicine in his native Croatia. He completed residency at the Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, New York and fellowship in maternal fetal medicine at the Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in general OB/GYN and maternal fetal medicine. He is elected fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. Currently, he is a professor of OB/GYN and Imaging Division chief at the John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii in Honolulu. Dr. Zalud is a director of the Ian Donald Inter-University School of Medical Ultrasound, Hawaii branch, co-editor in the Donald School Journal of Ultrasound in OB/GYN and a board member of "The Fetus as a Patient" International Society. He has published 214 peer reviewed papers, book chapters and abstracts. His clinical and research interests include Doppler ultrasound, prenatal diagnosis and ultrasound applications in postmenopausal patients.