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Professional Profile

Current NHS post

Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist/Urogynaecologist, Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals 

Qualifications

• MBBS (Goa University, India) May 1997
• Post Graduation Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology ( Goa University , India) May 2000
• MRCOG from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists May 2008

 

Professional Memberships

• Member of European Society of Gynae Endoscopy
• British and Irish Association Robotic Gynaecological Society
• Member of the International Urogynaecology Association
• Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• Life Member of the Indian Medical Association

 

Post CCT (post graduate) Experience

• Post CCT (post-graduation) fellowship in Minimal Access Surgery/Robotic surgery from Frimley hospital in 2012
• Post CCT (post-graduation) fellowship in Urogynaecology from St George’s Hospital in 2011
• Fellowship in Minimal Access Surgery from St Richard’s hospital , Chichester in 2005
• Fellowship in University of Sydney, Penrith in 3D & 4D pelvic floor USS in February 2014
• Fellowship in Urogynaecology from St Charles University in Prague in 2013
• Advanced training skill module(ATSM) in Advanced labour ward practice - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2010
• An ATSM in Maternal Medicine (high risk obstetrics) - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2010
• An ATSM in Medical Education - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2011
• An ATSM in Urogynaecology - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2011
• An ATSM in Acute Gynaecology and Early Pregnancy - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2012
• An ATSM in Benign Abdominal Surgery(Open and Laparoscopic) - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2011
• An ATSM in Benign Abdominal Surgery(Hysteroscopy) - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2012

 

Medical Education

• Single Best Answer Examination panel for the MRCOG exams
• Examiner for medical students in St Georges Medical School, Tooting
• Educational Supervisor and Clinical Supervisor for Oxford deanery post graduate trainees
• Ex Lead for Southampton Medical Students in obstetrics and gynaecology
• Ex Interim College Tutor in obstetrics and gynaecology

 

Management Positions

• Was a Local negotiating Member for Obstetrics/Gynaecology/Paediatrics and neonatology - Wexham Park Hospital
• Was the Deputy Lead for F1/F2 doctors in O & G
• Am presently the Lead in Urogynaecology and Postnatal services in Wexham Park Hospital.
• Appraiser for Doctors in Wexham Park Hospital
• Ex Governance Committee Member for the BSUG (British Society of Urogynaecology), UK
• Ex Committee member of the Point of Care Testing (POCT) for Frimley Trust

Research

Completed a 2 year Dissertation Study of Partograms in 200 Cases of labour in Goa Medical College in 2000 for the Diplomate of National Board, New Delhi.

 

Publications

1. LUG (Levator Urethral Gap) and Uterovaginal prolapse in the ICS(International Continence Society) journal. Oral presentation at Brazil in October 2014
2. Learning curve in robotic surgery in a district teaching hospital. Published in International Robotic Journal (IRJ)
3. Robotic Sacrocolpopexy Series in a district teaching hospital
4. Robotic Hysterectomy Series in a district teaching hospital
5. Spontaneous pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum in pregnancy in the Arch Dis Child, Fetal Neonatal Ed 2009; 94(suppl 1): Fa 58-Fa71

Items (2), (3) and (4) were accepted in the J. Robot. Surg. Supplement 1 in the December 2012 issue (Volume 6, Suppl. 1.) The three abstracts are on pages S18-S19.

 

International Presentation

1. Presented on the outcomes of diverticulectomy in a tertiary centre at the International Urogynaecologists Association (IUGA) conference in Lisbon, Portugal on the 29/06/11
2. Presented robotic hysterectomy series in BIARGS (British and Irish Association of Robotic Gynaecologists Society) Conference in Manchester, UK in September 2012

Posters

1. Supervised a poster presentation on 3rd and 4th degree perineal tears at OXFOG (Thames Valley Deanery) in May 2016
2. E-poster: Transvaginal endoscopic management of tubal ectopic pregnancy - a case series
3. E-poster: Are patients satisfied with TOT tape? : A review of short term subjective outcome and complications of TOT procedure in a UK general hospital
4. Transvaginal endoscopic bilateral salphingo-ophorectomy (BSO) – the UK experience
5. Learning curve in Robotic Surgery in Marseilles, France in June 2012
6. Robotic Sacrocolpopexy Series in Marseilles, France in June 2012
7. Robotic Hysterectomy Series in Marseilles, France in June 2012
8. Outcomes of Urethral diverticulectomy in a tertiary teaching hospital in Lisbon on the 29/06/11
9. Postpartum bladder care audit in119 patients in a Tertiary Teaching Hospital (prospective) at St Georges Hospital, London
10. Outcome of Obesity in pregnancy at the Innovations in the RCOG in London from the 09/11/09 to the 11/11/09

(2), (3), (4) were presented at the RCOG Congress in Liverpool, U.K from the 24/06/13 to the 26/06/17).

 

Personal background

I am a very keen supporter of voluntary and charity services. I believe in simplicity, good family values and selflessness. I love music (classical and pop), travel, swimming and walks. My wife is a dentist and we have  a lovely son  Ethan.