OBGYN.net Editorial Advisor
Ultrasound

Arthur C. Fougner, MD - USA
Articles and Interviews on OBGYN.net by Dr. Fougner

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Date of Birth: July 10, 1948
Birthplace: New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
Marital Status: Married, four children

Education:
B.S. University of Notre Dame - 1970
M.D. Tulane Medical School - 1974
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, 1970

Postgraduate Training:
Resident, Ob-Gyn, St. Clare's Hospital, 1974-77
Senior Resident, Ob-Gyn,NYU-Bellevue, 1977-Chief Resident, Ob-Gyn, 1978- 79

Board Status: Certified, American Board of Ob-Gyn, 1981

Practice: Limited to Diagnostic Ultrasound and Fetal Evaluation

Practice Experience:
1979-81 Private Practice, Ob-Gyn
1981-83 Full - Time Academic, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1983-86 Full - Time Academic, Long Island Jewish Medical Center
1983-86 Physician - in Charge, Division of Obstetrics, Queens Hospital Center
1986 - Staff, Long Island Jewish Medical Center
1986 - Consultant Staff, Queens Hospital Center
1986- Private Practice, Diagnostic Ultrasound and Fetal Evaluation

Academic Positions:
1979 - 81 Clinical Instructor, Ob-Gyn, NYU School of Medicine
1981 - 83 Assistant Professor, Ob-Gyn, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1983 - Assistant Professor, Clinical Ob-Gyn, SUNY, Stony Brook

Professional Societies:
Bellevue Ob-Gyn Society
Queens Gynecological Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine
International Society for Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
American Medical Association
Medical Society of State of New York
Queens County Medical Society

Professional Responsibilities:
Consultant, Fetal Evaluation, Women's Imaging Center
Consultant, Physicians Reciprocal Insurers
Consultant, Teaching Staff, Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Civic, Social Organizations:
Knights of Columbus

Postgraduate Courses, Meetings:
NYU Ultrasound 1982
ACOG, Advanced Ultrasound 1982
Harvard Medical School, Maternal - Fetal Medicine, 1984
AIUM, National Convention, 1983
Thomas Jefferson University, Ob - Gyn Ultrasound, 1986
Bowman Gray University, Advanced Perinatal Ultrasound, 1987
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Diabetes in Pregnancy, 1987
North Shore University Hospital, Cerebral Palsy, 1988
Harvard University, Fetal Sonography, 1988
World Congress of Vaginosonography, 1990
AIUM, Color Doppler, 1991
Columbia University, Vaginal Sonography, 1992par New York Academy of Science, Fetal Cells 1993
AIUM 1995
ISUOG 1997
ISUOG 1998

Publications, Presentations:

Bianchi DW, Shuber AP, DeMaria MA, Fougner AC, Klinger KW. Fetal cells in maternal blood: determination of purity and yield by quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1994 Oct;171(4):922-6
Seltzer VL, Molho L, Fougner A, Hong P, Kereszti B, Gero M, Spitzer M Parovarian cystadenocarcinoma of low-malignant potential. Gynecol Oncol 1988 Jun;30(2):216-21
Fougner AC: Patient Evaluation. In Rosenwaks Z, Benjamin F, and Stone ML (eds): Gynecology: Principles and Practice. Macmillan, N.Y. 1987, pp 3 - 9.
Fougner AC, Wilson SJ: Routine Cesarean section in twin gestation. letter, Am J Obstet Gyneco!l 68: 362, 1986.
Fougner AC, Wilson SJ, Seltzer VL Status epilepticus in pregnancy. A case report J Reprod Med 1985 Dec;30(12):948-50
Fougner AC, Wilson SJ The use of magnesium sulfate in the management of acute fetal distress. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1984 Jul 1;149(5):587-8
Fougner AC, Wilson SJ: Is an OCT necessary after a preterminal NST? letter, Contemp Ob-Gyn 23 (Apr): 10, 1984.Snyder JR, Fougner A, Wolff W, Blaustein A Diagnosis of an abortion complication by ultrasound. JCU J Clin Ultrasound 1982 Sep;10(7):333-4
"Trial of Labor after previous Cesarean Section" Presented at the Fifth Anniversary Symposium of North Central Bronx Hospital, 1983.
"Pregnancy in the paraplegic pati!ent." Grand Rounds, North Central Bronx Hospital, 1983.
"The use of the vacuum extractor in modern obstetrics" Grand Rounds, North Central Bronx Hospital, 1983.
"Diagnosis and management of abnormal labor" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, June, 1983.
"Ultrasound in Obstetrics" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, 1983.
"Vaginal Birth after Cesarean section" Grand Rounds, Franklin General Hospital, 1983.
"Once a section, always a section?" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, 1984.
"The midforceps controversy" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, June 1984.
"The management of abnormal labor" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, July 1984.
"Once a Cesarean, always a Cesarean?" Grand Rounds, Huntington Hospital, October 1984.
"Clinical problems in Gynecology" SUNY, Stony Brook Physicians Assistants Review Course, 1985.
"The management of abnormal labor" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital !Center, July 1985.
"How to perform a standard obstetrical ultrasound" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, December 1985.
"The role of doppler ultrasound in modern obstetrics" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, February, 1986.
"The obstetrical ultrasound: how I do it" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, October, 1986.
"The etiology of cerebral palsy" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, January, 1987.
"The Cesarean Epidemic" WLIW News Panel, July 1987.
"Ultrasound fetal evaluation" A Taste of New York, Great Neck Cable, February 1988.
"Sophisticated prenatal testing" Great Neck Record, May, 1988.
"The elusive etiology of cerebral palsy" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, June 1988.
"The etiology of cerebral palsy: unanswered questions" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, December 1988.
"Transvaginal sonography." Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, April 1989.
"The elusive etiology of cerebral palsy" Queens Perinatal Network, !Fall 1989.
"The elusive etiology of cerebral palsy" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, January, 1990.
"Transvaginal sonography" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, January 1991.
"Introduction to Gynecology" York College, CUNY, March 1992.
"Color Doppler Imaging in Ob - Gyn" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, June 1992.
"Ultrasound in the first trimester" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, January 1993.
"Transvaginal sonography" Grand Rounds, Queens Hospital Center, February, 1993.
"Introduction to Gynecology" York College, CUNY, March 1993.
"Ultrasound in Ob-Gyn" Harlem Hospital, March 1995.
"Ob-Gyn Ultrasound, Pearls and Pitfalls" Queens Gynecological Society April 1998.