The ISUOG Outreach Committee promotes the education, training and the availability of ultrasound in underserved communities around the world with the goal of enhancing maternal and perinatal health.
Improving obstetric health is a critical step towards the reduction of maternal and perinatal mortality. Maternal mortality related to pregnancy is the leading cause of mortality in women of child-bearing age and perinatal mortality stands at more than 6 million per year worldwide represents an increasingly high proportion of childhood deaths. Almost all of the maternal and perinatal deaths occur in the developing world.
Introducing ultrasound technology to prenatal care may have a significant impact on improving maternal and perinatal health in the developing world by identifying at-risk pregnancies and directing deliveries to hospital settings. Complications such as ectopic pregnancy, placenta previa, multiple pregnancy, fetal malposition and abnormal fetal growth are known to increase morbidity and mortality and are all simply diagnosed using ultrasound diagnosis.
ISUOG is ideally suited to providing the necessary training and support for the introduction of ultrasound services to women’s healthcare and hopes that by partnering with other organizations it may be able to do so effectively in underserved communities. The ISUOG Outreach Committee was thus created to promote the education, training and the availability of ultrasound in underserved communities around the world with the goal of enhancing maternal and perinatal health.
Committee membership:
Country: USA
Field: Obstetrics
Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T1 &T2; fetal biometry and wellbeing; aneuploidies; fetal interventional procedures; multiple pregnancy
Language: English
"ISUOG...empowered me to establish SANA Medical NGO in Lebanon."
ISUOG Committees and Working Groups: Bids Committee, CME Taskforce, Education Committee, Executive Committee, Finance Committee, Membership Development Committee, Outreach Committee
Country: USA
Field: Obstetrics
Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T1 & T2; aneuploidies; fetal heart; fetal interventional procedures
Language: English
Josh Copel is Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine. He is currently President of ISUOG and in addition, he is an active member of the society having served as Treasurer from 2007 to 2011, and is a part of several ISUOG Committees. He is also Past President of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and Past President of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
Notable Publications:
Moore CL, Copel JA. Point-of-Care Ultrasonography. N Engl J Med 2011;364:749-757.
Werner EF, Han CS, Burd I, Lipkind HS, Copel JA, Bahtiyar MO, Thung SF. Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of prenatal surgery for myelomeningoceles: a decision analysis. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2012 Apr 18. doi: 10.1002/uog.11176.
"I have been fortunate to be part of nine ISUOG training programs to Haiti, Ghana and Somaliland."
Country: USA
Field: Obstetrics; Gynecology
Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T2; Fetal biometry and wellbeing; Aneuploides; Fetal anomalies; Fetal Heart
Other specialties: Skeletal anomalies, Fetal Tumors, Pitfalls & artifacts, Vasa Previa, Placenta, Membranes, Cord, Amniotic fluid, Sonohysterography, How to solve difficult cases, facial clefts
Language: English; French
Country: Singapore
Field: Obstetrics
Specialties: Fetal Anomaly screening 1st trimester; Fetal Anomaly screening 2nd trimester; Fetal biometry and wellbeing; Aneuploidies; Fetal heart; Fetal growth restriction; Multiple pregnancy; 3D and 4D ultrasound
Languages: English; Chinese (Mandarin)
Secretariat Liaison:
Email address
gbaez@isuog.org
Telephone number
+44 (0)20 74719955
Email address
sjohnson@isuog.org
Telephone number
+44 (0)20 74719955
Links:
More about the Outreach Program
Outreach Committee Basecamp (access to committee members only)