Denis Hawkins Memorial Award Recipient 2011

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Editorial Board's choice of recipient for the 2011 Denis Hawkins Memorial Award is Dr Ramya Sethuram for her contribution to the article entitled “Delivery of the deeply engaged head: a lacuna in training”, 2010, Volume 30 Issue 6, pages 545–549.

Dr. Ramya Sethuram studied medicine at the Madurai Medical College and graduated from The Tamilnadu Medical University in 2000 as a university award winner in Paediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Though her initial interest was in Paediatrics, she was offered a rotation in Obstetrics and Gynaecology which she took up and enjoyed and hence decided to pursue it as a career. Her postgraduate medical training was in Madras (now Chennai). She graduated with an MD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 2004.

She travelled to the UK in 2005 with a view to obtain higher specialist training and obtained MRCOG in 2006. Her initial training was in the areas of minimal access surgery and urogynaecology. In addition to research articles, she has published articles on pelvic floor and bladder dysfunction in local newspapers.

She is currently working as a senior gynaecological research fellow in Birmingham.

Outside medicine, she is a keen mountain walker, an experimental cook and a writer. She attributes her success to her parents, supportive friends and her good fortune in having come across some great teachers all of whom she wishes to acknowledge and thank.