RCOG To Celebrate 50 Years Of Ultrasound, UK

Main Category: MRI / PET / Ultrasound
Also Included In: Pregnancy / Obstetrics;  Women's Health / Gynecology
Article Date: 28 Feb 2008 - 3:00 PDT

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2008 sees the 50th anniversary of a world first - the publication of the first paper on the use of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynaecology. Ultrasound has caused a revolution in medical care and in celebration the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) is hosting a daylong commemorative event on Friday, 29 February.

The 1958 paper, 'Investigation of Abdominal Masses by Pulsed Ultrasound' by Professor Ian Donald, Professor John MacVicar and Mr Thomas Brown transformed maternity care. The commemorative meeting will comprise of a series of lectures looking at the history, impact and future of ultrasound including fetal screening and gynaecological medicine.

Although Professor Ian Donald has sadly passed on, his co-authors Professor John MacVicar and Mr Tom Brown are still active and will be speaking at the event.

Mr Anthony Roberts, Consultant, Queens Hospital and co-organiser of the event, said "Ultrasound has revolutionised the management of pregnancy and gynaecological conditions and millions of people alive today have benefited from its application.

"Our commemorative meeting will look back at hurdles overcome and look forward towards the future of this most valuable tool, which can look into the very beginnings of life."

The commemorative meeting will take place at the RCOG, 27 Sussex Place, Regent's Park, London from 9.30 am until 3.00pm, Friday 29 February.

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Meeting programme

09:30 Registration and refreshments
10:00 Welcome
10:05 OK Brown! We now appreciate the full enormity of what you proposed!
Mr John Fleming, Honorary Research Associate, University of Glasgow, The Queen Mother's Hospital
Dr Malcolm Nicolson, Director, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow

10:45 Reflections and anecdotes
Mr Thomas Brown, Fife
Professor John MacVicar, Leicester
Mr William Patrick Soutter, Honorary Reader in Gynaecology Oncology, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, Colleagues of Ian Donald, London

11:30 Refreshments

11:45 Gynaecological ultrasound
Mr Davor Jurkovic, Consultant, Kings College Hospital Medical School, London

12:05 The impact of ultrasound in the management of ovarian mass and early pregnancy
Mr Thomas Bourne, Consultant Gynaecologist and Reader in Acute Gynaecology, St George's Hospital Medical School, London

12:25 Follicular (1997) and Breast (2007) ultrasound - Past and Recent Work
Professor Bernd-Joachim Hackelöer, Chairman, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Obstetrics and Perinatal Medicine, Asklepios Hospital, Germany

12:45 Lunch and unveiling of Ian Donald's bust

13:50 Ultrasound screening in pregnancy - the cart before the horse
Professor Martin Whittle, Clinical Co-Director, NCC-WCH, London

14:10 Obstetric Ultrasound
Dr Yves Ville, Professor, Poissy University Press Ouest, France

14:30 Panel discussion

15:00 Close

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