Established in 2014

UKARCOG is a network of O&G trainees and pre-specialty doctors that work jointly on large audit and research projects in the field of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) throughout the UK. Our objectives are:

Engagement

Engage the network of UK trainees to undertake audit and research projects

Quality

Improve healthcare service locally and nationally through performing joint nationwide audit and research projects

Support

Support the aspirations, in concert with the RCOG, of doctors training in O&G in order to benefit our patients.

Meet the core committee of 2024-26

Hajra Khattak

Chair

Hajra is NIHR Academic Clinical lecturer and is based at University College London (UCL). She completed her doctoral studies on the topic of female fertility preservation (in particular ovarian tissue cryopreservation and transplantation). Her other research interests include evidence synthesis, early pregnancy and medical education.

Naomi Black

Secretary

Naomi is an O&G registrar in the West Midlands and MD candidate researching recurrent pregnancy loss with the University of Warwick. Naomi graduated from Imperial College London in 2016 and was an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow between 2018-2021. Prior to joining the core committee Naomi was involved in several UKARCOG projects as a data collector and then regional lead for the West Midlands.

Ian Henderson

Statistician

Ian is an O&G trainee currently out of programme for an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship based in the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford. His PhD is on the use of early warning scores and systems in maternity and the prediction of maternal morbidity. He completed research fellowships with the RCOG National Maternity and Perinatal Audit and NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship on perinatal epidemiology.

Naomi Clement

Core Committee

Naomi is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Obstetrics & Gynaecology in Leeds. She graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2018 after completing her PhD in Genetics in 2017. Her interests are of functional genetic of maternal conditions (particularly diabetes) in fetal outcomes as well as ensuing the access of genomic investigations to all patients. She joined UKARCOG in 2021.

Get in Touch

Email: ukarcog.enquiry@gmail.com