Schedule

Speakers

Suean Pascoe

Zedu Ultrasound Training Solutions

Suean Pascoe is a sonographer, educator and director of Zedu Ultrasound Training Solutions, a private education organisation based in Melbourne, Australia.

Suean’s passion lies in seeing people from every medical specialty excel in developing ultrasound skills – fast. Her approach is to combine the theoretical with the pragmatic, with a focus on ensuring that learners leave with practical skills relevant to their clinical context.

The reputation of the programs delivered at Zedu means Suean is highly sought after as a speaker and tutor at ultrasound conferences. Her current research focus is on the effects that the development and integration of a common lexicon for ultrasound teaching can have on the learning and teaching experience.

Myra Theisz

Zedu Ultrasound Training Solutions

Myra embarked on my professional journey as a paramedic with Ambulance Victoria, where she learned (often the hard way) a great deal about communication, consent, respect, and compassion. Eventually, she switched gears into the world of ultrasound, finding new ways to utilise her experience, knowledge, and skills as a generalist sonographer.

Myra has worn the hats of (paramedic) Clinical Instructor, Tutor Sonographer, Chief Sonographer, and now Lead Sonographer Educator. She has lived experience as sister, wife, and mother to neurodivergent individuals, as well as extensive experience as a volunteer (including two years as chair of the board of directors) at an independent Victorian primary school supporting and embracing neurodiversity. I am committed to the utmost in patient care, with a focus on respect, compassion, and effective communication. I love lateral thinking, problem solving, and have a passion for ongoing education.

Natasha Roussel

South Coast Radiology

Natasha is a Sonographer and Radiographer located on the South Coast of NSW. She has a particular interest in Paediatric and MSK imaging. She also is passionate about improving the experiences of patients in the LGBTQI community when interacting with the health system, by educating fellow Sonographers and allied health colleagues in providing gender affirming care.

Donna Oomens, FASA

Western Sydney Vascular Services

Donna has been a vascular sonographer for 30 years, including training and teaching. Donna is chief sonographer for Western Sydney Vascular Services and undertaking a PhD around arteriovenous fistula ultrasound. Donna is passionate about quality performance in ultrasound and mentoring. Donna has presented at many ASA meetings nationally and co-convened the 2018 ASA Conference and 2019 Canberra SIG. Donna has held vascular workshops in Singapore and worked in Pakistan to improve vascular ultrasound.

Rose Beattie

Advanced Ultrasound

Rose has been scanning since 2008, attending Monash University. 

She trained in Bega, NSW and has since worked in Hobart, Tasmania and up and down the coast of NSW. In 2018, she set up an orthopaedic ultrasound clinic with local foot and ankle orthopaedic surgeons in the Illawarra. She continues to scan primarily foot and ankle patients for local podiatrists of the Illawarra. In 2020, she began a mobile ultrasound company to service residents of nursing homes during the Covid Pandemic.

Currently Rose resides in Wollongong, NSW and works as a contract sonographer in the Illawarra and Sydney. She scans in private practices, and the local public hospitals within the Illawarra. Rose is passionate about teaching.

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