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Leroy Chuma Edozien |
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Present post: |
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
St Mary's Hospital, Manchester
Lead for Reproductive Health and Childbirth, Greater Manchester
Comprehensive Local Research Network |
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Qualifications: |
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Basic Sciences |
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B Sc (Physiology), University of Ibadan |
1978 |
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MSc (Clinical Biochemistry), Ibadan |
1991 |
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Medical |
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MB BS Ibadan |
1984 |
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FWACS |
1991 |
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MRCOG |
1993 |
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MRCP Ireland |
1995 |
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FRCOG |
2006 |
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Legal |
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LLB
University of London |
1997 |
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M Phil (Medical Law), |
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University of Glasgow |
2002 |
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Previous position held
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at The Royal Oldham Hospital
until May 2002.
Clinical interests
I provide clinical services in general obstetrics and gynaecology
in a tertiary hospital. My areas of special interest are vaginal
surgery, out-patient hysteroscopy and risk management. My clinical
practice is underpinned by a biopsychosocial approach to medicine, and
this is reflected in my clinical consultations, research interests and
teaching of junior colleagues.
Awards/Honours
Medical students’ “Exceptional role model” 2009
National Clinical Excellence Award (Bronze), 2008
RCOG/Wyeth Historical Lecture Award, 2006
for the submission titled 'Medical gynaecology comes full circle: the
management of ectopic pregnancy from Tait to date'. Lecture delivered at
the College in November 2006.
Activities in Patient Safety
Since 1999 I have organised an annual multi-professional conference on
Risk Management and Medico-legal Issues in Women's Healthcare. This
meeting has attracted delegates from across the United Kingdom and
Ireland.
Director of Clinical Audit and Risk Management, Central Manchester
University Hospitals NHS Trust, January 2003 to December 2006. In this
position I provided strategic leadership on issues of patient safety
across a large teaching hospitals Trust.
Author of the RCOG Clinical Governance document, Improving Patient
Safety: Risk Management for Maternity and Gynaecology, peer-reviewed
guidance published in October 2005, updated October 2009
Member of the panel set up by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)
to
develop tools for, and approaches to, learning from intrapartum-related
stillbirths. This project was a response to the concern raised by the
Chief Medical Officer regarding ‘500 missed opportunities’ in his annual
report, 2006. National statistics indicate that 500 babies a year start
labour apparently healthy and then die (intrapartum-related death), a
figure that has remained unchanged over recent years.
Contributed to the NPSA’s report ‘Recognising and responding
appropriately to early signs of deterioration in hospitalised patients’
published in 2007. Some patients who are, or become, acutely unwell in
hospital may receive sub‑optimal
care because their deterioration is not recognised, not appreciated or
not acted upon sufficiently quickly. I was a member of the group that
explored the contributory factors to this problem.
Presented evidence to the King’s Fund inquiry into the safety of
maternity services in England in 2007, and peer-reviewed the inquiry’s
report (Safe Births: Everybody's business; King’s Fund, 2008)
prior to publication. The report is the result of a year's work by an
independent panel commissioned by The King's Fund. Also lectured at a
King’s Fund seminar organised as a follow-up to the report.
Publisher and editor of the quarterly e-magazine Safer Maternity Care
which promotes safe practice in maternity services.
Devised the RADICAL framework for implementing and monitoring healthcare
risk.
Teaching and mentoring
roles
Accredited Educator, Royal College of Physicians’ Physicians as
Educators programme, 2006
Previously RCOG College Tutor for Oldham (responsible for the
educational supervision of trainees in Obstetrics and Gynaecology), and
PRHO Tutor (responsible to the Regional Postgraduate Dean for ensuring
that the educational and pastoral needs of pre-registration House
Officers were met).
External Examiner for the MSc programme in Risk Management,
University College London, 2004-9.
Internal Examiner for a PhD in Risk Management, University of
Manchester, 2005-6
External Examiner, representing the RCOG, at the Fellowship examinations
of the West African College of Surgeons (Faculty of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology), 2009
Mentor to a number of consultants and trainees over the years.
Research roles
Convener of the Perinatal Health Services Research Collaboration based
at the Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, Manchester. Our
current projects include Assessing and Responding to Maternal Stress
(ARMS) and Engaging Partners in Childbirth (EPiC).
As
Lead person for the Reproductive Health and Childbirth specialty group
in the Greater Manchester Comprehensive Local Research Network (GM CLRN)
since April 2008, my role has been to
provide a local focus for NHS research activity in Reproductive Health
and Childbirth,
provide a strategic overview of the local infrastructure required to
support research activity in Reproductive Health and Childbirth, and
facilitate recruitment into clinical studies that are on the national
portfolio.
Publishing/editorial roles
Books:
The
Labour Ward Handbook
(http://www.rsmpress.co.uk/bkedozien.htm
RSM Press 2004
Risk
Management in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
In addition to initiating and editing it, I wrote two chapters.
Chapters in multi-author books:
Place
of birth.
With Mellows H. In Mahmood T, Owen, P, Dhillon C (eds), Models of care
in Maternity Services. RCOG Press 2010
Gynaecological Risk Management.
In Mahmood T, Templeton A, Dhillon C (eds), Models of care in Women’s
Health. RCOG Press 2009
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
In the fourth edition of the tome ‘Clinical Negligence’, edited
by Powers and Harris, (Tottel Publishing, 2007).
Journals:
Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Risk, a leading
journal in the management of healthcare risk and litigation, 2003-7.
Peer reviewer for various journals including: BMJ, BJOG, The
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Annals of Surgery, Journal of
Reproductive and Infant Psychology, Evidence-based Midwifery, Australia
New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
RCOG roles
Wrote
service standards for outpatient clinics, the management of menstrual
disorders and risk management. These were published in ‘Standards for
Gynaecology’ (RCOG Press, 2007).
Member, Working Party on Recertification, 2008-9. This
high-powered working party was asked to consider the implications of the
White Paper Trust, Assurance and Safety – The Regulations of Health Professionals
in the 21st Century
Member, Professional and Clinical Standards Committee, 2007 to 2009. The
remit of this committee included developing and monitoring clinical and
service standards, and facilitating continuing professional development,
appraisal/assessment and revalidation.
Member, Consent Group, 2008-10. The Consent Group advises the College on
good practice in Consent and prepares, revises and updates College
guidelines for obtaining consent to a variety of procedures in
obstetrics and gynaecology. In addition to reviewing and editing other
documents, I wrote the consent documents for abdominal hysterectomy and
instrumental vaginal delivery.
Member, Recertification Committee, 2009 to date.
Management roles
I was appointed Director of Clinical Audit and Risk
Management in the aftermath of the visitation report by the Commission
for Health Improvement (CHI) in 2002 which was critical of the standing
of clinical audit and risk management at strategic, planning and
operational levels in our Trust. By the time I demitted office four
years later, a firm foundation had been established, upon which much of
the Trust’s successful application for Foundation Trust status was
based. Chaired the Trust-wide Clinical Audit Committee for 4 years and
represented the Medical Director at a number of Advisory Appointment
Committees. Played a leading role in preparing the Trust for external
assessments.
I have participated in a range of Trust-wide
committees, including the Clinical Practice Committee, Risk Management
Committee, Consent Committee, Emergency Blood Stock Management Group,
Medicines Management Committee, Flu Operations Group and Implementation
Committee for the Surgical Safety Checklist.
Other professional activities
President, North of England
Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, 2010. The society was founded in
1890 and I am its 120th President.
Member, NHS Evaluations Panel (appointed March 2009). This is an
advisory panel to the Service Delivery and Organisation programme of the
National Institute for Health Research. The panel considers the need for
scientific evaluations of specific initiatives and innovations arising
from developments in the NHS.
Medical Advisor to the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust from 2001 until I
voluntarily demitted in 2008. This national charity was established to
raise awareness of ectopic pregnancies amongst women of childbearing
age, the medical profession and the public. It provides information and
support services and disseminates research findings.
Founding editorial board member of the now-defunct information
portal,
saferhealthcare.org.uk which was a joint venture between the NPSA,
BMJ Publishing and the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, Boston.
Member of the multi-disciplinary group that produced a national
consensus statement on the management of anal sphincter injures suffered
in the course of childbirth. (November 2000).
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