Dr. Kavita Goswami

About the Doctor / Professional

Dr Kavita Goswami has 19 years of experience as a successful consultant obstetrician and gynecologist in the UK, with a busy practice in the NHS and private sector. Her special interests are vaginal surgery and menstrual irregularity management.

Dr Goswami has a warm bed side manner and advocates women's preventative healthcare.
She has extensive broad based experience and skills, managing all aspects of pregnancy and general gynecology. This includes menstrual disturbances, menopausal problems, pelvic pain, fibroids, endometriosis, ovarian cysts, vaginal prolapse, urinary incontinence, vaginal discharge, contraception, pediatric and adolescent gynecology, cervical smears testing and management, colposcopy and surgical management of miscarriages and ectopic pregnancy. In addition to this, she specialises in pelvic floor and urogynecology, She also offers ambulatory office based outpatient gynecology procedures (outpatient hysteroscopy, opening of female circumcision, endometrial ablations, Myosure endometrial lesion resections). She is proficient in a wide range of vaginal, hysteroscopic, abdominal, and laparoscopic surgeries (including ovarian cystectomies, vaginal and laparoscopic hysterectomy, fibroid surgery and pelvic floor repairs, laparoscopic hysteropexy and sacrocolpopexy) and has extensive experience. She also undertakes perineal repairs, vaginal refashioning and labial reduction.

She completed her specialist training in Obstetrics and Gynecology (CCST) in the West Midlands, UK, followed by clinical fellowships in Sydney, Australia and at Cooper Hospital and Temple University, New Jersey, USA. She has also undertaken advanced laparoscopic training at IRCAD, Strasbourg.

She is skilled and experienced in high risk obstetrics and provides women-centred care. She believes in supporting women and in making their births' safe, irrespective of their choices. She also uses 'natural' caesarean section techniques.

She holds an RCOG/RCR accredited Diploma in Gynecology and Obstetrics Ultrasound Scanning. She has been a regional trainer (RCOG) for transvaginal scanning, hysteroscopic, benign and laparoscopic surgery. She has a keen educational interest and has been training medical students, specialist registrars, GPs and multidisciplinary staff throughout her career. She has been a trainer for ALSO, MOET emergency Obstetrics skills training certifications, and a DRCOG examiner. She is also an RCOG examiner for MRCOG part 3 (UK). Dr Goswami has research interests in uterovaginal prolapse repair, urinary incontinence, female circumcision (FGM) and hysteroscopic resection of fibroids.

Her core competencies are:

• Pregnancy care – routine and complicated
• Gynecology problems
• Menstrual problems
• Womens’ health check
• Contraception
• Gynecology surgery
• Urogynecology
• Laparoscopic Surgery
• Endometriosis
• Abnormal smears
• Pelvic Pain
• Vaginismus
• Urinary Incontinence
• Pelvic Organ Prolapse
• Dysmenorrhea
• Sexual Dysfunction
• Uterine Fibroids
• Ovarian Cysts
• Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
• Adolescents Issues
• Menopause