Sanjaya Kalkur
Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Mr. Sanjaya Kalkur since 2012 has been a Consultant at Southend university Hospital with special interest in Gyneacological Oncology, Colposcopy and Ambulatory gynaecology and minimal access surgery and Menopause. He is the College tutor for obstetrics and gynaecology at Southend University hospital since 2014. Under his leadership he has been able to transform the educational landscape in the Department. In the last 6 years, he has managed to turn around departmental educational scenario by making it the best training unit in the whole of UK in 2018 as evidenced by the training evaluation form (TEF) survey conducted by RCOG. For the last few years they have been top on the GMC survey as well. Also, he has been selected as the inaugural Trainer of the region for East of England region by RCOG trainee's committee in 2015. He has been awarded clinical excellence awards (CEA) by Southend University hospital. He received the best training unit from RCOG in 2018.

Since 2018, he is the Associate training programme director (ATPD) for obstetrics and gynaecology at health education England (HEE) East of England School of obstetrics and gynaecology. In this role he oversees faculty development. He is entrusted with the implementation of the new RCOG curriculum and implementation of new E portfolio. Also, he sits on the RCOG equivalence committee. In this role, he assesses postgraduate applications for inclusion in the GMC register as a specialist. he regularly teaches other specialist in the speciality as well as general practitioner. He is research active and a principal investigator for few trials.