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Join Professor Simon Meagher and leading experts for an intensive masterclass designed to transform your clinical practice.
Date: Saturday, 28 March 2026 | Melbourne
This high-impact, one-day event delivers live scanning demonstrations, real-world case studies, and cutting-edge techniques across all trimesters.
Why attend?
Designed for sonographers, obstetricians, radiologists, maternal–fetal medicine specialists, and trainees, this course offers the latest insights, practical tips, and take-home skills to elevate your clinical practice.
The In Focus Fetal Cardiac (Obstrics) seminar is brought to you by the ASA, in collaboration with Professor Simon Meagher and his team and in partnership with GE Healthcare
VENUE - Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, Arthur Streeton Auditorium - Collins Place, 25 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000
In-Person attendance
ASA Member: $240 AUD
Non Member: $480 AUD
Post Workshop Online Recordings
(*Note: The event will not be live streamed. However, all recorded sessions, including live scanning, will be accessible post-workshop through a unique login that will be emailed to you after the event.)
ASA Member: $240 AUD
Non Member: $480 AUD
NOTE: Event numbers are strictly limited, so register early to avoid missing out.
This event is targeted at mid to advanced career professionals.
7.6 CPD Points
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Cancellation
Cancellations must be received in writing a minimum of 14 days prior the event to receive a full refund. Any cancellations made less then 14 days prior to the event will not be eligible for a refund (except in exceptional circumstances as determined by ASA in its complete discretion).
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Professor Simon Meagher
(BSc (Hons), MB BCH BAO, FRCPI, FRCOG, FRANZCOG, DDU, COGU)
Dr Meagher is consultant sonologist at the Perinatal department, Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne. He also serves as Medical Director of Monash Ultrasound for Women where he oversees a team of 60 staff including sonologists, sonographers, genetic counsellors, phlebotomists and administrative staff in delivering a tertiary level ultrasound service across south east Melbourne. Dr Meagher has dedicated over 30 years of his term as Medical Director, teaching and lecturing in obstetric and gynaecological ultrasound both locally and overseas. He has delivered over 800 lectures, across 15 countries, and 40 cities worldwide. In 2015 he was awarded ‘Sonologist of The Year’ by the Australian society of Ultrasound in medicine (ASUM) in recognition of his teaching skills and his commitment to hands on training within the hospital setting at the Mercy Hospital for Women and for his commitment and contributions to ASUM. His interest in clinical research has focussed on early pregnancy screening and diagnosis he has published multiple articles in peer review journals, text book , and teaching handbooks focusing on cardiac and first trimester pregnancy screening and diagnosis. Dr Meagher has described six sonographic fetal markers during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy. He is now focusing his interest on aneuploidy and embryo development from seven to 10 weeks as we approach the dawn of a new era of genetic screening via free fetal DNA analysis.
Dr Meagher has taken on multiple leadership positions - early in his career as the Chair of the Standards of Practice Committee at ASUM, examiner and executive board member for the ASUM Diploma of diagnostic ultrasound and later as council member of ASUM and ISUOG Board of Trustees. . Thereafter he served as Chairman of the Victoria Obstetric Sonologists group and on several task forces and education committees at the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetric and Gynaecological Ultrasound.
◦ Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne.
◦ Medical Director, Monash Ultrasound for Women
◦ Obstetrician Gynaecologist Sonologist in full time Ultrasound for >30 years .
◦ ISUOG - Member of the Board of Trustees –current
◦ ISUOG - Chair of Courses committee 2018-2024
◦ ISUOG - Ambassador to Asia and Pacific region 2018-2024
◦ ISUOG - Online Education Committee – current
◦ ISUOG - NGEN committee – current
◦ ISUOG – VISUOG committee- current
◦ ISUOG - International faculty of speakers – current
◦ Dedicated Interest in First trimester Prenatal diagnosis , Cardiac Screening and Diagnosis
◦ Delivered over 800 lectures, across 17 countries, and 45 cities worldwide.
◦Peer Review Publications >100. Citations 1596. h-Index 20. Research Interest Score 827.
◦ Chairman Standards of Practice Committee, Australian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (2007 – 2012)
◦ Council Member, Australian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM) (2007-2012)
◦ Board Member, Diploma in Diagnostic Ultrasound (DDU) Australian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (2005-2015)
◦ Examiner for Diploma in Diagnostic Ultrasound (DDU), Australian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (2007-2012)
◦ Board Director, Monash Ultrasound for Women (Monash IVF Group, Australia) (2011 – 2015)
◦ Consultant Obstetrician Gynaecologist Sonologist, Mercy Hospital for Women (1996 – present)
◦ Chairman Melbourne (Victorian) Obstetric Sonologists (2010- 2014)
Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, Arthur Streeton Auditorium - Collins Place, 25 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000
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