Edwin Chandraharan MBBS, MS, MRCOG, DFFP, DCRM, FSLCOG, FRCOG

Edwin Chandraharan is the Director of Global Academy of Medical Education & Training Ltd, and was the Lead Consultant for Labour Ward at St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London from 2005 to February 2020. He has been the Clinical Director for Women’s services FROM 2011-2016 and the Lead for Clinical Governance in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from 2005-2017. He is passionate about delivering high quality patient care with a strong focus on Transformational Training, Risk Management and Patient Experience. 

He is the Co-Editor of the Textbook Obstetric and Intrapartum Emergencies: A Practical Guide to Management and an Associate Editor of High-Risk Obstetrics: Management Options. He edited the Handbook of CTG Interpretation: from patterns to physiology (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Edwin led a regional multi-disciplinary Tertiary Referral Service for women with Abnormal invasion of the placenta, especially placenta percreta for 8 years and developed the new conservative surgical technique ‘The Triple P Procedure’ for percent. He was the RCOG Representative to the Maternity Services Improvement Board (MSIB) of NHS London and was a member of the Intrapartum Score Card Advisory Group of the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA). He has also been involved in conducting Service Assessments and conducting external reviews of Maternal Deaths. He is an accredited Expert Witness and has appeared in both Coroner’s and the High Courts as an Expert Witness and holds the Cardiff Law School Expert Witness Certificate. He was part of the Team that won two National Awards in the UK: HSJ Value Award in 2016 and the BMJ Clinical Leadership Award in 2017 for ensuring a reduction in emergency cesarean sections and low hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy rates in the UK through the implementation of physiology-based CTG interpretation, with the use of Fetal ECG (STAN) and competency-based staff training.