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Dr. Ranjana Sharma

Experience: 44 years overall

Education: MBBS, MS – Obstetrics & Gynecology, MRCOG (UK), Fellow of the Indian College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (FICOG)

Specialization: Gynecologist and Obstetrician

Department: Gynaecology

Registration: 9323 Delhi Medical Council, 2001

Hospital: Indraprastha Apollo Hospital

INTRODUCTION:

Dr. Ranjana Sharma has forty-two years of experience in obstetrics and gynecology, split between India, Saudi Arabia, and the UK. She worked in both non-teaching and teaching hospitals. She is offering world-class obstetric care using all modern methods of fetal screening and monitoring and pain relief in labor.

She is a skilled surgeon and well-trained in vaginal, open abdominal, laparoscopic, and robotic surgery. She believes in proof-based medicine and patient counseling. She ensures that her patient understands the plan of management.

Detailed Experience

  • Ranjana Sharma is a skilled surgeon with more than 35 years of experience in obstetrics and gynecology, during which she has worked with both teaching and non-teaching hospitals in India.
  • Care of pregnancies, including high-risk pregnancies.
  • Extensive knowledge of vaginal deliveries, both surgical and normal.
  • modern methods of fetal monitoring, painless labor, water birth, and VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Caesarean Section).
  • Modern methods of antenatal screening include screening for Down syndrome, fetal anomalies, fetal echo, and gestational diabetes mellitus.
  • Caesarean sections with minimal blood loss and morbidity in gynecology.
  • Medical (non-operative) management of gynecological disorders, including ectopic pregnancy, urinary leakage and related problems, infertility, IUI, IVF, menopause, and adolescent medicine.
  • Polycystic Ovarian Disease (PCOD), fibroids, prolapse, bleeding problems, period problems, ovarian cysts and tumors, endometriosis, cancers and pre-cancers of the uterus, cervix, ovaries, and other genital organs, problems of vaginal discharge.
  • Vaginal surgery, esthetic vaginal surgery, vulvoplasty, vaginoplasty, minimally invasive surgery.
  • Abdominal surgery includes hysterectomy and myomectomy (removal of fibroids).
  • Fertility preservation surgery, tubal surgery, family planning, and pre-marriage counseling.
  • Pre-conception counseling Minimally invasive surgery.
  • Almost all gynecological surgeries mentioned above.
  • Laparoscopy/robotic surgery: ovarian cystectomy, myomectomy, hysterectomy (removal of the uterus), adhesiolysis, treatment of ectopic pregnancy and endometriosis, treatment of prolapsed uterus or vagina, fertility preservation surgeries, tubal surgery.
  • Hysteroscopy: diagnostic, myomectomy, adhesiolysis, polypectomy, TCRE, uterine septum resection, lost IUCD.
  • Colposcopy and directed punch or loop biopsies for cervical cancer screening, urogynecology, incontinence (leakage), and other urinary problems in women. Surgical and medical management, including minimal access surgery (tape), for stress urinary incontinence.
  • Senior Consultant (Obs. & Gyn.): Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, 1998–2015.
  • Senior Consultant, Obs. & Gyn., at Fortis La Femme, 2005–2009.
  • 1998–2009: Senior Consultant Obs. & Gyn. at Max Balaji, Shanti Mukand Hospital, Pushpanjali.

Awards and achievements

  • Inspiring Gynecologist Award by the Economic Times.
  • Chairperson of the All India Coordinating Committee (NZ) of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, UK.
  • Developed expertise in managing pregnancies and deliveries, gynecological problems, and gynecologic surgeries.
  • Delivering treatment that is based on evidence, recognized and recommended internationally, and agreed upon mutually with patients.
  • There are a number of articles on various issues related to women’s health in ‘India Today’, national and local news papers, and magazines.
  • 'inspiring, Gynaecologist' award by Economic Times 2018.
  • Special emphasis is placed on patient counseling, discussion regarding management, and patient education.
  • Article in “The Working Woman’s Pregnancy Book” by Marjorie Greenfield, Times Group Books.

Professional membership

  • Life Member of the All India Gynecologists’ Society.
  • Life member of the Delhi Gynecologists’ Society.
  • Life member of the Indian Endometriosis Society.
  • A lifetime member of the Indian Fertility Society.
  • Member of the International Association for Oral Health and Disability Council.
  • Elected Representative of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Co-ordinating Committee for North Zone, India, 2003–2006 and 2007–2010.
  • Secretary of the Delhi Chapter of the Indian Menopause Society, 2009.
  • Elected to the Indian Menopause Society’s Governing Council, serving from 2002 to 2005.
  • Delhi City Coordinator for ‘Growing Up Programme’ of the Adolescent Health Committee of the Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Societies of India (FOGSI) (2009).
  • Member of the ‘Core Committee for Prevention of Cervical Cancer’ of FOGSI (Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Societies of India), 2009.
  • Life Member of the Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Societies of India.

Research and Publications

Research:

  • A study of the histopathological findings of endometrial samples in postmenopausal women without vaginal bleeding with thickened endometrium (ET > 5 mm) on ultrasound.
  • To study dietary habits and weight changes in women in the postpartum period.

Publications:

  • A case of postmenopausal pyometra caused by endometrial tuberculosis, IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences, vol. 14, issue 11, November 2015.
  • Menopause and Cardiac Disease: “Menopause” 2014; 198–203; Jaypee Brothers Med Publishers (P) Ltd.

Prevention:

  • HPV vaccine: A breakthrough in prevention of cervical cancer, Apollo Medicine 2012, June, Volume 9, Number 2, pp. 87–90.
  • Article in “The Working Woman’s Pregnancy Book” by Marjorie Greenfield, Times Group Books 2009.
  • National Consensus and Policy Development Document ‘Menopause and the Role of HRT in Indian Women’ 2007. Consensus Expert Committee and Working Group Members.
  • ‘Sarcopenia after Menopause’ Obs & Gynae Today, Vol. IX, No. 11, November 2004.
  • National Consensus and Policy Development Document ‘Menopause and the Role of HRT in Indian Women’ 2002. Consensus Expert Committee and Working Group members.
  • There are a number of articles on various issues related to women’s health in ‘India Today’, national and local news papers, and magazines.