Shared Maternity Care Workshop 1: Third Trimester Issues and Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy

Over two evening webinars, the annual Shared Maternity Care Collaborative workshops cover important antenatal topics. Join leading obstetrician and gynaecology experts from Mercy Health, Northern Health, the Royal Women’s Hospital, and Western Health.

Third trimester issues and infectious diseases in pregnancy

In the first of these two Shared Maternity Care Workshops:

Associate Professor Stefan Kane will cover common and important issues encountered in the third trimester: signs and symptoms, investigations, referral and management. Issues include: non-cephalic presentation, small/large for gestational age, decreased foetal movements, cholestasis, hypertension, and induction of labour. 

Professor Lisa Hui will discuss important perinatal infections: syphilis, CMV, parvovirus, toxoplasmosis and herpes simplex. You will learn what these diseases are, how to recognise them and what to do when your patient has tested positive for them.

Be sure to register for both webinars sessions.

Speakers:

Associate Professor Stefan Kane - Third Trimester Issues

Associate Professor Stefan Kane is a maternal foetal medicine subspecialist obstetrician who has the privilege of serving as the medical director of maternity services and the acting director of maternal foetal medicine at the Royal Women’s Hospital. His clinical engagements cover the full scope of complexity in pregnancy, from multiple gestations to complex foetal anomalies and significant pre-existing maternal medical conditions. Stefan also holds an honorary appointment as Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health.

Professor Lisa Hui - Infectious Diseases in pregnancy

Prof Lisa Hui is a maternal foetal medicine specialist at the Mercy Hospital for Women with special interests in prenatal screening and diagnosis. She is the hospital’s Director of Genetics, a clinical academic in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health at the University of Melbourne, and group leader of Reproductive Epidemiology at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She is an active member of the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis and an associate editor of its official scientific journal Prenatal Diagnosis.  

Learning outcomes:

1. Explain the most common issues encountered in the third trimester, the signs and symptoms, and investigations required.
2. Describe some of the most important perinatal infections, how to screen for and recognise them.
3. Explain how to manage and follow up identified third trimester issues and perinatal infections collaboratively with the patient and maternity hospital.

Click here to register for the second workshop session