Scientific Committee

Vice-chair of the Medical Council at the University Hospitals Leuven. Senior Clinical Investigator of the Scientific Research Fund (FWO) Flanders.

He is coordinator of the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) collaborative group including more than 50 centers for ovarian cancer diagnosis throughout the world. The IOTA group aims to develop new algorithms and liquid biopsies to diagnose and detect ovarian cancer and for optimal care of adnexal tumors (included patients n>22,500). InBev Baillet-Latour Prize for Clinical Research 2014 at the Royal Academy of Medicine, Belgium. Fellowship ad eundem from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG, London, 2014). William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award from the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine  2016 at AIUM Annual Convention, New York.

Aris Papageorghiou holds the following positions within ISUOG's Board and committee's

• Trustee and Board member
• Honorary Secretary 
• Chair, ISUOG Bids Committee
• Vice Chair, ISUOG Scientific Committee
• Member of the ISUOG Executive Committee
• Member of the Finance Committee
• Member of the UOG Editorial Board
• Member of the Basic Training Task Force

Tom Bourne is Adjunct Professor and research team lead at Imperial College and Consultant Gynaecologist at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital London. He is visiting Professor and consultant at KU Leuven in Belgium. He has a specialist interest in the management of early pregnancy complications, and the use of ultrasound for the assessment of gynaecological disorders. He is a medical advisor and trustee of the UK patient group, the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust. He is on the steering committee of the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) and International Endometrial Tumor Analysis (IETA) trials as well as a number of other trials in the UK.

Country: Austria

Field: Obstetrics/Gynecology/Reproductive Medicine

Specialties: Fetal biometry and wellbeing; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; gynecological ultrasound; early pregnancy; reproductive medicine; safety of ultrasound

Languages: English; French; Italian; Dutch

Christoph Brezinka is an associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the reproductive medicine department of Innsbruck Medical University. He has an active interest in Doppler in Perinatal and periconceptional medicine since 1986. Christoph was secretary of the International Perinatal Doppler Society and organised this society's merger with ISUOG in 2002.

Notable Publications:

Brezinka C (2012). "Rare but typical" - a review of extrauterine dislocations of IUD's. J Gyn Endokrinol 6:12-17.

Brezinka C and Spitzer D (2012). Ultraschall in der Reproduktionsmedizin [ultrasound in reproductive medicine]. In: Gembruch U, Hecher K, and Steiner H, editors. Ultraschall in Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe (in press). Berlin: Springer.

Country: Australia

Field: Obstetrics
 

Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T1 & T2; fetal biometry and wellbeing; aneuploidies; fetal anomalies; fetal heart; fetal brain; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; fetal interventional procedures; multiple pregnancy; preeclampsia; preterm delivery; genetics

Language: English

Jon Hyett trained in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and sub-specialized in Maternal and Fetal Medicine in the UK. He is currently Joint Head of the Discipline of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonataology, University of Sydney. He is involved nationally with the Nuchal Translucency Accreditation Program of RANZCR / RANZCOG and internationally with the obstetric ultrasound accreditation programs run by the Fetal Medicine Foundation, UK and ISUOG. Jon is also involved in the Scientific Committee oversees the production and development of the scientific program for the ISUOG World Congress.

Country: UK

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

Christoph Lees is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine subspecialist, Consultant Obstetrician and Head of Fetal Medicine at Imperial College London where he is Clinical Reader. He is visiting Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium, was RCOG inaugural National Ultrasound Officer 2010-2013 and Vice Chairman, RCOG Subspecialty Committee 2011-2013. His research focuses on pre-eclampsia, cardiovascular adaptation, Doppler, intra-uterine growth restriction and non-invasive fetal surgery.

Country: Austria

Field: Obstetrics/Fetal Radiology

Specialties: Fetal anomalies; fetal brain

Languages: English; German

Daniela Prayer is Professor at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria (MUW), Head of the Department Neuroradiology and Musculoskeletal Radiology, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy. Board member of ISUOG, ESMRMB, and the Austrian Society of Perinatology, member of the European and Austrian Society of Neuroradiology, RSNA, International Society of prenatal Diagnosis, publication of more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers.

Prof Laurent J SALOMON, MD, PhD is a senior consultant in the Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at Necker-Enfants-Malades Hospital and full professor at Paris Descartes University.Laurent is an associate director of a Master Degree in Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal Medicine at Paris Descartes University. He is Editor of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Laurent also serves on a regular basis as an expert for the National Agency for Biomedicine, French Health Authority and National Security Agency in Health Products, as well as for international research projects.