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International Keynote Speakers Include:

Local Keynote Speakers Include:

Prizes

Nuchal Translucency Course

Social Program

ASUM ASM 2006 Photographic Competition

International Keynote Speakers Include:

Dr Grant Baxter
ASUM BMUS Presidential Exchange
Consultant Radiologist, Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Professor Yuxin Jiang, MD
ASUM Meets China
Director of the Department of Diagnostic Ultrasound, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China; Professor of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China; President of the SUM/CMA Society for Ultrasound in Medicine Chinese Medical Association

Professor Charles Kleinman
Director, Fetal Cardiology, Children's Hospital of New York, USA

Professor John McGahan, MD
Director of Abdominal Imaging and Ultrasound, University of California, United States

Professor Gregory Moneta
Professor of Surgery, Oregon Health Services University, Portand, United States

Dr Christian Nolsøe
ASUM Denmark CADUCEUS
President of the Danish Society of Diagnostic Ultrasound (DSDU), Denmark; Associate Professor, Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Professor Sharlene Teefey
Director of Ultrasound, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, United States

Professor Dirk Timmerman
Professor Faculty of Medicine, UZ Gasthuisberg, Belgium

Professor Kittipong Vairojanavong
WFUMB Invited Lecturer Sponsored by ASUM
Past President Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (AFSUMB), Rajavithi Hospital, Thailand

Professor Marvin C Ziskin
WFUMB Invited Lecturer Sponsored by ASUM
President of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Professor of Radiology and Medical Physics, Temple University Medical School, United States

Local Keynote Speakers Include:

Dr Michael Bethune
Consultant Sonologist, Melbourne Ultrasound for Women, Mercy Hospital for Women, The Royal Women's Hospital, Australia

Mr Cain Brockley
Chief Sonographer, Medical Imaging Department, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Associate Professor Lachlan de Crespigny
Honorary Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Principle Fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Australia

Professor David E Ellwood
UI/UL Plenary Award Lecturer
Associate Dean and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Canberra Clinical School of University of Sydney & ANU; Director of the Fetal Medicine Unit at The Canberra Hospital, Australia"

Ms Mary Langdale
Senior Sonographer, Victoria House Imaging, Melbourne, Australia

Dr Simon Meagher
Obstetrician, Gynaecologist and Sonologist; Director , Monash Ultrasound for Women, Monash IVF Melbourne, Australia

Dr Amanda Sampson
Clinical Director of Ultrasound, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Director, Women's Imaging Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Prizes

Papers submitted by registrants are generally eligible for a range of generous prizes offered by our sponsors. To be eligible for a poster prize a presenter must give permission for the content of the poster to be published in the ASUM Ultrasound Bulletin. An independent jury of sonographers and radiologists, grouped according to their expertise, will judge all scientific exhibits with regard to originality / educational value / scientific quality, visual impression and overall assessment. The following prizes will be awarded at ASUM ASM 2006.

Best Sonographer Research Presentation Award

Best Research Presentation Award

Best Clinical Presentation Award

Best Poster Presentation Award

Presenters must indicate when submitting their paper if they wish to be considered for a prize.

Details of these prizes will be published in the ASUM Ultrasound Bulletin.

Nuchal Translucency Course

Thursday, 14 September 2006

This course is primarily focused at those requiring training for Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) accreditation for the performance of the Nuchal Translucency scan. It will however be an informative program for practitioners in any directly related clinical field, including Obstetricians, Genetic Counsellors and Midwives, and their input to discussion will be valuable and attendance is welcomed. The course will be based on the FMF course in the UK and participants will receive a copy of the CD - The 11 - 14 weeks scan' by Nicolaides, Sebire, Snijders and Ximenes. This theoretical course is the first step to accreditation as a user of the FMF program within Australia and is open to all involved in obstetric ultrasound.

Practice Review and Clinical Risk Management (PR&CRM) points are obtainable for Fellows of RANZCOG.

08:30am - Introduction/ MCQ
09:15am - Principles of Screening
09:45am - Practicalities of NT Measurement
10:15am - Morning Tea
10:45am - NT and Chromosome Abnormality
11:15am - Biochemical Screening
11:45am - 12 Week Anomaly Scan
12:15pm - Screening and Multiple Pregnancy
12:45pm - Lunch
1:45pm - Invasive Prenatal Testing
2:15pm - Counselling Issues
2:45pm - Increased NT and Normal Chromosomes
3:15pm - Afternoon Tea
3:45pm - MCQ
4:30pm - Finish / Discussion

Joint Co-Ordinators - Associate Professor Lachlan de Crespigny and Ms Ann Robertson

Social Program

WELCOME RECEPTION
Date: Friday, 15 September 2006
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: Melbourne Convention Centre, You Yangs 6, Level 3
Cost: Inclusive (Registered full delegates only)
Additional ticket guest: AUD55.00 per person
Dress Code: Smart Casual

An invitation is extended to all delegates to attend our Welcome Reception. This informal function will be an ideal opportunity for delegates to meet with old friends and new acquaintances.

ASUM ASM GALA DINNER
Date: Saturday, 16 September 2006
Time: 7:00pm - 11:30pm
Venue: The Great Hall, National Gallery of Victoria
Tickets: Inclusive (Registered full delegates only)
Additional Tickets: AUD110.00 per person
Dress Code: Smart Casual

The ASUM ASM Gala Dinner is an important part of the Meeting. Please note that tickets are inclusive for full registered delegates and additional tickets are available for purchase at a cost of AUD110.00. In order to avoid disappointment please advise the Meeting Office of your intention to attend or purchase your ticket to the ASUM ASM Gala Dinner prior to 5:00pm on Friday, 15 September 2006. Enjoy the fine food and wine with our friends and colleagues at the Gala Dinner at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). The NGV International on St Kilda Road is an iconic Melbourne building, fusing the modernist Australian architecture of Roy Grounds with a stunning renovation in 2003-2004 by the renowned Mario Bellini. NGV International, a favourite special event location in Melbourne for decades, contains the magnificent Great Hall, which is famous for its stained glass ceiling by Leonard French.

ASUM ASM 2006 Photographic Competition

In what will be a first at the ASUM ASM 2006, a photographic competition has been organised by ASUM and the 2006 Local Organising Committee. Individuals are invited to submit up to three photographs for each of the 2 prize categories.

GENERAL INTEREST PHOTOGRAPH – The 2006 Local Organising Committee is looking for all budding photographers to send in their favourite photographic work. This might be an artistic photo, a holiday snap or portraits of people. There are no specific themes for this category.

HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPH (Ultrasound) - Prizes will be awarded to the best historical photograph of ultrasound under the following 3 categories:
1. Interest
2. Technology
3. Occasion

To Enter
If you are interested in entering the competition please contact the Meeting Office for further information. You will be sent guidelines and a form, to be returned with a 50 –100 word description of each of your photos. Please note that submissions close on Monday, 14 August 2006.

By entering a photograph you are acknowledging that the photograph was taken by yourself, and is not from copyrighted sources. You also assign rights to use the photograph in any ASUM publication.
The winners' photographs will be printed in large format and displayed at the Meeting and will also be published in the Ultrasound Bulletin.

Please register your interest to asum2006@icms.com.au

Dr Grant Baxter

Consultant Radiologist, Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Dr Grant Baxter is a General Radiologist with subspecialty interest in Oncology, GU including renal transplantation and ultrasound. The Western Infirmary incorporates the Beatson Oncology unit, which is the second largest cancer centre in the United Kingdom. Dr Grant is involved with the West of Scotland Prostate Brachytherapy Team and is Head of the Ultrasound Department. Other interests centre upon ultrasound contrast agents and needle techniques, under either ultrasound or CT guidance.

Professor Yuxin Jiang

Director of the Department of Diagnostic Ultrasound, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
Professor of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China
President of the SUM/CMA Society for Ultrasound in Medicine Chinese Medical Association
Professor Yuxin Jiang will lead a team from China to present at ASUM ASM 2006 on topics relating to ultrasound guided therapy, eg HIFU and Radio Frequency and Microwave Ablation, use of contrast in ultrasound, and various interventional techniques.

Professor Charles Kleinman

Director, Fetal Cardiology, Children's Hospital of New York, USA
Professor Charles Kleinman MD is Chief of Paediatric Cardiac Imaging at the Children's Hospital of New York and Professor of Clinical Paediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Weill Medical College at Cornell University, New York. He also runs the Fetal Cardiology Service at the New York Children's and affiliated hospitals in New York.

Professor John McGahan

Director of Abdominal Imaging and Ultrasound, University of California, United States
John P. McGahan, MD is the Professor for Radiology and Director of Abdominal Imaging and Ultrasound at the University of California, Davis located in Sacramento, California. He has been author over 200 scientific articles and has been editor over five published text books in the field of ultrasonography.

Professor Gregory Moneta

Professor of Surgery, Oregon Health Services University, Portand, United States
Professor Gregory Moneta is Professor of Surgery at the Oregon Health Services University in Portland, Oregon, USA. He has been past president of several national bodies including American Venous Forum. He has been actively involved with vascular ultrasound since its inception and has performed seminal studies on criteria for diagnosing carotid, mesenteric and renal arterial disease. He is actively involved in establishing criteria for performance in vascular laboratories.

Dr Christian Nolsøe

President of the Danish Society of Diagnostic Ultrasound (DSDU), Denmark
Associate Professor, Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Dr Christian Nolsøe is the President of the Danish Society of Diagnostic Ultrasound (DSDU). He is a radiologist with subspeciality in ultrasound and a PhD in image guided tissue ablation. His fields of interest include interventional US, Doppler, tissue ablation, US contrast and new techniques.

Professor Sharlene Teefey

Director of Ultrasound, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, United States
Dr Sharlene Teefey is Professor of Radiology and the Director of Ultrasound at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. Her residency and fellowship were at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. She has a special interest in musculoskeletal ultrasound, which has also been the focus of her research.

Professor Dirk Timmerman

Professor Faculty of Medicine, UZ Gasthuisberg, Belgium
Professor Dirk Timmerman is head of the unit of prenatal medicine and gynaecological ultrasound at the University Hospitals of Leuven. He is coordinator of the International Ovarian Tumour Analysis (IOTA) collaborative group and Belgian representative to the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB). He is a member of the board of ISUOG (International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology) and member of the editorial board of the journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. His main interest has been gynaecological ultrasonography.

Professor Kittipong Vairojanavong

Past President Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (AFSUMB), Rajavithi Hospital, Thailand
Professor Vairojanavong is the Past President of the Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (AFSUMB). His is involved with the advisory editorial board of Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy Journal as well as the Ultrasound Review of Obstetrics and Gynecology Journal.

Professor Marvin C Ziskin

President of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Professor of Radiology and Medical Physics, Temple University Medical School, United States
Marvin C. Ziskin, M.D., M.S. (Biomedical Engineering) career in Ultrasound commenced in 1965 at Hahnemann Medical College, where he pioneered in B-Scan Techniques in Clinical Medicine. In 1968 he joined the faculty at Temple University Medical School, where he has been Professor of Radiology and Medical Physics for the past 38 years. He has written more than 200 scientific articles and is the coauthor of 7 textbooks. From 1982 to 1984, he was the President of the American Institute of Ultrasound, and from 2003 to 2006 was the President of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology.

Dr Michael Bethune

Consultant Sonologist, Melbourne; Ultrasound for Women, Mercy Hospital for Women, The Royal Women's Hospital, Australia
Dr Michael Bethune is a specialist Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with the subspecialty certificate in Obstetric and Gynaecological Ultrasound (COGU). He is a visiting imaging specialist at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne and at the Mercy Hospital for Women. He also works in private practice at Melbourne Ultrasound for Women. Dr Bethune is the present Treasurer of the Australasian Association of Obstetric and Gynaecological Ultrasonologists (AAOGU). He is actively involved in ultrasound education and has spoken at several national and international meetings. He is a RANZCOG accredited Nuchal Translucency assessor. His fields of interest include 3D/4D Ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis.

Mr Cain Brockley

Chief Sonographer, Medical Imaging Department, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Australia
Mr Cain Brockley has been the Chief Sonographer at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne for the last five years. He obtained his postgraduate qualification at RMIT University and since that time has been involved in all aspects of paediatric ultrasound. Mr Brockley has been involved in a number of research and academic projects including co-writing paediatric subject matter for the Monash University ultrasound course. Cain regularly presents at a range of educational events as well as local and national conferences. His areas of interest include paediatric liver transplant evaluation, ultrasound of the paediatric eye and specialized paediatric musculoskeletal examination.

Associate Professor Lachlan de Crespigny

Honorary Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Principal Fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Australia
Associate Professor Lachlan de Crespigny is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist who practices exclusively in ultrasound and related diagnostic procedures. He is a Principal Fellow in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne and is an Honorary Fellow of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. He is in private ultrasound practice. He has long had an interest in research in his specialty and has published widely in Australian and International journals. His recent topics include ethics and abortion. He is coauthor of Prenatal Tests: The Facts (OUP 2005).

Professor David A Ellwood

Associate Dean and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Canberra Clinical School of the University of Sydney & ANU; Director of the Fetal Medicine Unit at The Canberra Hospital, Australia
Professor David Ellwood is a practicing obstetrician and certified subspecialist in Maternal-Fetal Medicine who is interested in teaching and research in high risk obstetrics. Currently he is the President of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ). He is an Executive Member of Women's Health Australia (WHA). He is also a member of the Advisory Faculty of Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO). He is the Past Chair of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Committee of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RANZCOG), and the current Chair of the Research Assessment Sub-Committee which oversees research training for trainees. He is a Past Chair of the High Risk Obstetric Advisory Group of NSW Perinatal Services Network (HROAG). He is widely published and sits on the Advisory Board of the publication Australian Doctor. Professor Ellwood's expert opinion is sought in a wide range of pregnancy and birth related legal issues.

Ms Mary Langdale

Senior Sonographer, Victoria House Imaging, Melbourne, Australia
Ms Mary Langdale qualified as a general sonographer with DMU and is currently employed as the senior sonographer at Victoria House Imaging in Melbourne. The past seven years there have helped her develop an extensive knowledge of musculoskeletal ultrasound and her full time job in the busy private practise involves a workload of at least 80% MSK. The variety of injuries seen is immense and includes many elite athletes from varying sports. Mary has a keen interest in sharing her knowledge with fellow sonographers, sonologists and medical staff both within the department and around Australia through various presentations, workshops and tutorials with Monash University, ASA and ASUM.

Dr Simon Meagher

Obstetrician, Gynaecologist and Sonologist; Director, Monash Ultrasound For Women, Monash IVF Melbourne, Australia
Dr Simon Meagher is Director of Monash Ultrasound for Women, Consultant Obstetrician Gynaecologist / Sonologist at the Mercy Hospital & Box Hill Hospitals. Dr Meagher is actively involved in research and has published over 50 articles in peer review and local journals. He has a dedicated interest in education and has produced a world first DVD library in obstetric and gynaecological ultrasound with the first 5 chapters now distributed through ASUM www.asum.com.au. Over recent years his Melbourne based annual workshops have attracted large numbers nationally and internationally. He is an examiner for the ASUM Diploma in Diagnostic Ultrasound (DDU) has an established private practice 'Obstetric and Gynaecological Ultrasound, in Mulgrave.

Dr Amanda Sampson

Clinical Director of Ultrasound, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Director, Women's Imaging Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Dr Amanda Sampson has taken an active interest in the teaching of ultrasound through the RANZCOG, having collaboratively developed 3 CDrom Practice Improvements Projects for Fellows and Subspecialists (Threatened Miscarriage, Gynaecology, Fetal Brains). Her main areas of interest include training, multiple pregnancy, fetal brain development and abnormality, intrauterine tranfusions, and adolescant gynecology. She has served on numerous committees within RANZCOG and for the DHA.