Dr Frank Carmody gained his Australian Fellowship in 1989. He spent 1990 at the University of Winnipeg as a visiting fellow with Professor Frank Manning. During that time, he was exposed to tertiary level obstetric and gynaecological ultrasound. Professor Manning taught him the invasive procedures that he now conducts – CVS, amniocentesis, saline hysterogram, fetal blood sampling and fetal blood transfusions.

He obtained the Diploma in Diagnostic Ultrasound from the Australian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine in 1995. Dr Carmody is currently an examiner for the DDU for ASUM. As well, he is on the NATA Inspection Program to validate ultrasound standards in radiology practices. In order to pursue his passion for diagnostic ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Frank founded the Wesley Fetal Medicine Unit here at the Wesley Medical Centre in 1991 and the Greenslopes Fetal Medicine Unit in 2019. His aim was to provide a tertiary referral centre and high quality diagnostic ultrasound service to pregnant women, and women requiring gynaecological scanning.