George Condous

Biography

George Condous is Head of Department of Gynaecology and Consultant Gynaecologist at Nepean Hospital, Sydney. He is also Head of Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sydney Medical School Nepean, University of Sydney. He is a specialist with an interest in Gynaecological Ultrasound and Advanced Endosurgery. He set up the first and only Acute Gynaecology Unit to date in Australia which utilizes ultrasound at the first point of contact for women with emergency gynaecological as well as early pregnancy complications (miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy). He performs Advanced Endosurgery procedures for women who need intervention for pelvic masses, adnexal pathology, stage IV endometriosis and/or hysterectomy. He works in a multidisciplinary team at the SAN Hospital with Dr Walid Barto, who is one of the local Colorectal Surgeons. Together they perform Joint Laparoscopic Surgery on women with the most severe forms of bowel endometriosis. He runs the LaSGeG laparoscopic courses through the SAN Hospital teaching O&G Specialists and trainees laparoscopic surgery. Having completed his undergraduate degree with the University of Adelaide, he left Australia in 1993 and moved to London where he completed his training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. From 2001 - 2003 he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at St George's Hospital, London. At St George's he set up the Acute Gynaecology Unit, the first in the United Kingdom. It was also during this time that he developed his great interest in Early Pregnancy and especially the management of pregnancies of unknown location (PULs). He has developed many mathematical models for the prediction of outcome of PULs which were the subject of his Doctorate of Medicine with the University of London. In 2005, he returned to Australia where he completed his Laparoscopic Fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Reproductive Endosurgery, Royal North Shore, Sydney. He was appointed as a Consultant Gynaecologist and Senior Lecturer at Nepean Hospital in 2006 and soon was made Associate Professor. In 2010, he was made Departmental Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Nepean Hospital. He obtained the MRCOG in 1999 and was made FRANZCOG in 2005. In 2009, he was awarded his Doctorate in Medicine (MD), University of London, for his thesis entitled: "The management of pregnancies of unknown location and the development of new mathematical models to predict outcome". He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Australasian Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (AJUM), as well as President-elect for the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM). He is on the Scientific Committee for the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ISUOG) meeting in Rome 2016 as well as invited faculty at this year¿s ISUOG meeting. He has edited three books including the "Handbook of Early Pregnancy Care", published over 170 papers in international journals and is internationally renowned for his work in early pregnancy and more recently endometriosis. His current research interests relate to the management of ectopic pregnancy, PULs and miscarriage, as well as the use of transvaginal ultrasound, and in particular sonovaginography, to predict posterior compartment endometriosis. He is the lead investigator for the International Deep Endometriosis Analysis (IDEA) group having just published the manuscript entitled: ¿Systematic approach to evaluation of the pelvis in women with suspected endometriosis, including terms, definitions and measurements to describe sonographic features of endometriosis: a consensus opinion from the International Deep Endometriosis Analysis (IDEA) group¿. George Condous is Head of Department of Gynaecology and Consultant Gynaecologist at Nepean Hospital, Sydney. He is also Head of Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sydney Medical School Nepean, University of Sydney. He is a specialist with an interest in Gynaecological Ultrasound and Advanced Endosurgery. He set up the first and only Acute Gynaecology Unit to date in Australia which utilizes ultrasound at the first point of contact for women with emergency gynaecological as well as early pregnancy complications (miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy). He performs Advanced Endosurgery procedures for women who need intervention for pelvic masses, adnexal pathology, stage IV endometriosis and/or hysterectomy. He works in a multidisciplinary team at the SAN Hospital with Dr Walid Barto, who is one of the local Colorectal Surgeons. Together they perform Joint Laparoscopic Surgery on women with the most severe forms of bowel endometriosis. He runs the LaSGeG laparoscopic courses through the SAN Hospital teaching O&G Specialists and trainees laparoscopic surgery. Having completed his undergraduate degree with the University of Adelaide, he left Australia in 1993 and moved to London where he completed his training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. From 2001 - 2003 he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at St George's Hospital, London. At St George's he set up the Acute Gynaecology Unit, the first in the United Kingdom. It was also during this time that he developed his great interest in Early Pregnancy and especially the management of pregnancies of unknown location (PULs). He has developed many mathematical models for the prediction of outcome of PULs which were the subject of his Doctorate of Medicine with the University of London. In 2005, he returned to Australia where he completed his Laparoscopic Fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Reproductive Endosurgery, Royal North Shore, Sydney. He was appointed as a Consultant Gynaecologist and Senior Lecturer at Nepean Hospital in 2006 and soon was made Associate Professor. In 2010, he was made Departmental Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Nepean Hospital. He obtained the MRCOG in 1999 and was made FRANZCOG in 2005. In 2009, he was awarded his Doctorate in Medicine (MD), University of London, for his thesis entitled: "The management of pregnancies of unknown location and the development of new mathematical models to predict outcome". He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Australasian Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (AJUM), as well as President-elect for the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM). He is on the Scientific Committee for the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ISUOG) meeting in Rome 2016 as well as invited faculty at this year¿s ISUOG meeting. He has edited three books including the "Handbook of Early Pregnancy Care", published over 170 papers in international journals and is internationally renowned for his work in early pregnancy and more recently endometriosis. His current research interests relate to the management of ectopic pregnancy, PULs and miscarriage, as well as the use of transvaginal ultrasound, and in particular sonovaginography, to predict posterior compartment endometriosis. He is the lead investigator for the International Deep Endometriosis Analysis (IDEA) group having just published the manuscript entitled: ¿Systematic approach to evaluation of the pelvis in women with suspected endometriosis, including terms, definitions and measurements to describe sonographic features of endometriosis: a consensus opinion from the International Deep Endometriosis Analysis (IDEA) group¿.

Research Interest

George Condous is an Academic Gynaecologist with special interests in advanced gynaecological ultrasound and advanced laparoscopic surgery. His research themes include early pregnancy complications and diagnosis of endometriosis. Early pregnancy themes include the ultrasound morphology of tubal ectopic pregnancy and its impact on non-surgical interventions, mathematical modelling to rationalise the follow up of women withpregnancy of unknown location (PUL), prediction risk model to predict miscarriage in women who present with a viable pregnancy at the first early pregnancy ultrasound. Research has shown that women with an incomplete miscarriage are most suitable for expectant management. These are women who do not have a well-defined gestation sac, but still have retained products of conception (RPOC). A recent study using a power Doppler color scoring (PDCS) system has found that an absence of vascularization of the RPC (Denoted by a score of 1) predicted higher spontaneous resolutions by expectant management than the presence of vascularization (scores 2-4). However, color scoring is subjective; no research has been done to study the reproducibility of the PDCS system. By analyzing the inter- and intra-observer reproducibility of the PDCS system, it is hoped that this diagnostic tool would allow for more conservative and effective management decision making for women who suffer an incomplete miscarriage in their first trimester.