Mr Stephen Bird | Bird Ultrasound Stephen Bird is a general sonographer living in Adelaide with over 30 years of clinical experience. He holds a General and a Vascular DMU and a Masters of Medical Sonography from the University of South Australia. He is an honorary fellow of ASUM and a life member of the ASA. He is a passionate educator, presenting regularly at national and international conferences as well as conducting weekend workshops for diagnostic medical ultrasound professionals. His educational resources are also available for all to enjoy at birdultrasound.com.au

Miss Donna Napier FASA | Tweed Valley Hospital Donna Napier is a Radiographer/Sonographer and the acting Sonography Section Manager at the Tweed Valley Hospital in Northern New South Wales, having over 24 years industry experience. She holds a master’s degree in medical sonography and is a Fellow of the Australasian Sonographers association (FASA). Donna has a passion for education and is an advocate for expanding the sonographer’s scope of practice. She has a keen interest in musculoskeletal and emergency ultrasound applications, and more recently has developed a passion for the use of ultrasound to improve men’s health outcomes. Her contributions to the profession are vast, having presented at several national conferences and authored multiple publications in Sonography journal. In 2024 she was proud to partake in multiple outreach initiatives, presenting globally on ocular ultrasound to health professionals in emerging nations for the Radiology Across Borders VITAL conference, as well as travelling to Alice Springs as a part of the RAB UNITY initiative – a collaboration aimed at improving medical ultrasound access and healthcare for First Nation’s people. Due to her work in improving ultrasound education and services in regional areas, Donna was announced as the winner of the Allied Health Rural and Remote Excellence category at the national Allied Health Awards in October 2024. She complimented this award by being named the Allied Health Professional of the Year as well as the Allied Health Educator of the Year (2024, 2023) for the Northern NSW Local Health District within the same month. In 2019 Donna was the recipient of both the Queensland Sonographer of the Year and Educator of the Year awards at the ASA Awards of Excellence. She will be presenting on ‘The Painful Penis’ - serving as a guide to the sonographic evaluation of acute penile injuries commonly encountered in the clinical setting.

Ms Marilyn Zelesco | Fiona Stanley Hospital Marilyn Zelesco is a Western Australian trained diagnostic radiographer who gained a post graduate ultrasound qualification in 1991. Marilyn completed her Masters in Ultrasound through the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2007. Marilyn has received professional awards from the Australian Institute of Radiography, the Australian Sonographers Association and the Australian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine. Marilyn is the Lead Sonographer at the Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth. Marilyn has an interest in hepatic, bowel and male reproductive tract ultrasound, elastography, CEUS, renal transplants, research, education and sonography in indigenous health care.

Mr Steven Abbott | Fiona Stanley Hospital Qualified since 2013 Multiple Presentations at National Conferences Co-authored several articles Working at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Western Australia Interests in; -Shear wave elastography -Male focused ultrasound -Abdomen