Dr. Usha Vishwanath, Director & Head of Department Obstetrics & Gynecology, Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital, Nungambakkam, Chennai.
Former Head of the Department & Professor – OBG at Sri Ramachandra medical college with more than 30 Years of teaching experience – UGs and PGs
Nominated by Medical Council of India as one of the three-member team as subject expert to develop the competency – based revised MBBS curriculum for OBG
Undergraduate and Postgraduate examiner for more than two decades
Received the Stanlean of the year alumni award in 2025 for exemplary clinical service to the society by Stanley medical college
Received the Life time achievement award from Parivu charitable trust for the year 2025
Sole author of Textbook of Obstetrics for UGs and PGs by Elsevier (2nd Edition)
Awarded the Diploma In Hospital Administration by National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi & has been Head of Quality and Patient Safety for more than two decades
NABH assessor for both entry level and full accreditation
Assessor for “Manyata” labour room accreditation for hospitals
Designed Suraksh, Intrapartum monitoring mobile app that has been awarded the CAHO-TECH innovative award in 2021
Currently working on automated reporting of NST and CTG tracing with the help of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning
Has launched Teaching learning website, Adhyapana for UGs and PGs in October 2024 to be functional soon with highlights of interactive live case discussion
Has completed training in tubal microsurgery at Chennai
Instructor for the Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics program
Has been a very active member & faculty of the Medical Education Unit of Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research Institute
Has been the Co-ordinator for Professional development classes called PRODEV, training medical students on professional development & soft skills / interpersonal relationship
Has participated in a number of Public awareness programs, school and college students awareness programs and community patient care programs
