We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming WA Branch Annual Scientific Meeting, an Update on Women’s and Children’s imaging, to be held in Perth on 15 -16 March 2025 at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Nedlands.

Keynote speakers include

Dr Mathew Leonardi
Dr Mathew Leonardi is an expert in complex gynecology, endometriosis excision surgery and gynaecological ultrasound (assistant professor) at McMaster University Medical Centre in Hamilton, Canada. He is an honorary adjunct lecturer at the University of Adelaide. His philosophy of care includes working in an interdisciplinary team and patient-centred decision making. He has been awarded his PhD from the University of Sydney which is focused on the utility of ultrasound in the diagnosis and surgical management of endometriosis.

Dr Leonardi is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in his field. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles, several textbook chapters, and presented at numerous international congresses on endometriosis. He has received
numerous awards for his conference presentations on endometriosis. He is an avid researcher, actively contributing academically to the advancement of gynecologic health.

Dr. Leonardi is on the World Endometriosis Society Early Career Board and a founding member of the Next Generation Committee at the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is an Associate Editor for Reproduction & Fertility and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Canada. He is part of an Australian research group named Imagendo, which won the most prestigious science award in Australia, the 2023 ANSTO Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology.

A/Prof Derek Roebuck
A/Prof Derek Roebuck is an Australian radiologist who was educated in Tasmania. He trained in Hobart and London before moving to Sydney for fellowship training in paediatric radiology in 1993. After working in private practice for a short time he completed a second fellowship at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. After a brief return to Sydney, he worked at Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1996 to1999.

A/Prof Roebuck then returned to London to start a permanent interventional radiology service at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, becoming Head of Clinical Service （Radiology) from 2015 to 2018. He was President of the Society for Pediatric Interventional Radiology in 2014. After nearly twenty years at GOSH he re-emigrated to Australia to become Professor of Paediatric Radiology at the new Perth Children's Hospital and the University of Western Australia. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Society for Pediatric Interventional Radiology in 2021.

A/Prof Roebuck's main medical interests are childhood cancer, paediatric vascular disease, and interventional radiology in the airway

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