Armenpress News Agency, Armenia Saturday Founder of fetal echocardiography Professor Philippe Jeanty arrives in Armenia for special courses YEREVAN, MAY 18, ARMENPRESS. At the invitation and assistance of First Lady of Armenia Rita Sargsyan, Professor Philippe Jeanty, director of USA’s Nashville, TN Inner Vision Women’s Ultrasound hospital, has arrived to Armenia. Professor Jeanty is a world renowned specialist of prenatal diagnostics. Photometric scales designed by him are installed in all ultrasound devices around the world. The Professor will hold two-day courses on fetal echocardiography in Yerevan. The first lecture will begin on May 20. “The purpose of these lectures is to improve the skills of Armenian doctors in early diagnostics of fetal heart defects”, Karine Toghunts, president of the Armenian Association of Ultrasound Diagnostics in Gynecology and Obstetrics said. “I don’t have sufficient information as to how it’s done in Armenia, but my Armenian partners regularly send images to me, based on which I can say that everything is ok”, Professor Jeanty said. He stressed that he likes to pass on his knowledge to younger doctors. Professor Jeanty is the founder of fetal echocardiography, author of 34 textbooks on ultrasound examination in obstetrics and more than 154 publications. He is the founder of the largest educational website on prenatal diagnostics – thefetus.net.