Dr Kate Stone

MBBS FRANZCOG DDU COGU

Dr Kate Stone is an obstetrician gynaecologist with sub-speciality qualifications in ultrasound imaging.

Kate Stone completed medical school at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne in 1997, and specialist training at the Mercy Hospital for Women between 2000 and 2007. In 1997 she was awarded the RM Biggin’s Prize in clinical medicine and was nominated for the Jamieson award in clinical medicine. In 2003 she achieved the gold medal for the highest mark achieved in the MRANZCOG examination from the Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Kate completed sub-speciality training in ultrasound between 2004 and 2008 at the Mercy Hospital for Women and Royal Women’s Hospital Melbourne.
She obtained a Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound (DDU) from the Australian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM ) in 2007, and the Certificate in Obstetric and Gynaecological Ultrasound (COGU) in 2008.

Upon completion of her sub-speciality training, Kate has worked at a number of tertiary referral centres, including Mercy Hospital for Women, The Royal Women’s Hospital and Monash Medical Centre.

Kate continues to work in the Ultrasound Department at the Mercy Hospital for Women in areas of obstetric and gynaecological imaging. In gynaecological imaging she works closely with the Endometriosis Unit, specifically on developing ultrasound techniques to improve diagnosis and aid in surgical management. In 2013 Kate travelled to San Paolo, Brazil to work with the Endometriosis Team at the Sirio Libanes Hospital, which has led global medical imaging advancements in endometriosis.

Kate also works with the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne as a consultant ultrasound specialist in adolescent / paediatric gynaecology imaging.

Kate has regularly given presentations in the areas of endometriosis and adolescent gynaecology imaging and continues to actively research these areas of specialist study.

At the Mercy Hospital for Women her role involves working with the Perinatal Team in the assessment of high risk pregnancy. In 2014 she travelled to Israel to work in fetal neurology and, on returning, founded the Fetal Neurology Clinic, which provides a co-ordinated, patient-focused approach to perinatal care at the Mercy Hospital for Women. Kate was also a founder of the Melbourne Fetal Neurology Interest Group, coordinating educational / research meetings across the three tertiary imaging centres in Melbourne. She was part of the organising committee and one of the chairs at the first Obstetric MRI conference held in Melbourne in 2017.

Kate Stone has worked at the Mercy Hospital for Women for 17 years and is the current Chair of the Senior Medical Staff Association. In private practice she works at and is a director of Specialist Imaging for Women in Ivanhoe and East Melbourne Ultrasound.