Caterina Exacoustos

Prof. Caterina Exacoustos was born in Rome, Italy, from German father and Italian mother and has greek grand-grand father. She is an associate Professor of Ob/Gyn at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. She received her medical degree at the Catholic University of Rome in 1984 and completed in 1989 the Ob/Gyn residency and then a fellowship in obstetric and gynecological ultrasound in the same university. During that time her clinical and research interest was mostly on perinatal medicine and she had several important publications in this field. She has been attached since 1993 to the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology initially as research fellow then as researcher and now as associate professor. Since 1993 working with endoscopic surgical teams she test the advantages of the use of transvaginal ultrasound as presurgical diagnostic tool and for an accurate management of gynecological diseases. Actually her main areas of interest are endometriosis and benign diseases including uterine pathology and infertility. She has published more than 150 scientific articles of more than 90 peer reviewed and more than 15 book chapters both in English and in Italian. She has been invited to numerous scientific meetings and conferences of gynecological pathology as speaker in Europe and USA. She has extensive experience in gynecologic ultrasound together with a long history in training activities in several ultrasound courses. She spends also in 2010 a sabbatical year in US at the University of Connecticut as invited professor teaching 3D transvaginal ultrasound.