Dr Pooja Vaswani is a highly experienced Consultant Obstetrician in Abu Dhabi and Consultant Gynecologist in Abu Dhabi with over 35 years of experience in the field. As a renowned pregnancy care consultant, she has dedicated her career to comprehensive women’s health services. She also serves as a trusted women's health consultant in Abu Dhabi, offering expert care to women across all stages of life. Dr Pooja is also recognized as a specialist in female reproductive health, providing advanced diagnosis and treatment with a patient-centric approach. Known for her exceptional maternity care consultant expertise, she speaks fluent Arabic, having worked in the Middle East for over 24 years, including countries like the UAE and the Sultanate of Oman.
She received her medical degree (MBBS) from Government Medical College, Nagpur, India in 1985, after which she did a Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the year 1989 and later obtained an MD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the year 1992 from the prestigious Indira Gandhi Government. Medical College, Nagpur, India.
She then completed her MRCOG from the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, United Kingdom, in 2005, followed by a Diploma in Minimal Access Surgery in 2008. Dr Pooja has a keen interest in keeping herself up-to-date with her knowledge and skills. She pursued her interest in infertility and underwent a 1-year training in assisted reproduction and completed her Fellowship in Reproductive Medicine in 2015. In 2017, Dr Pooja was awarded the prestigious Fellowship from the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, United Kingdom (FRCOG). In 2020, she was conferred with the fellowship of the Indian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FICOG).
To keep herself updated with newer developments, she has acquired a life membership of the Federation of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of India (FOGSI), Indian Society of Assisted Reproduction (ISAR), World Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons (WALS), and makes sure to attend national and international conferences regularly every year. To keep herself abreast with current practices and clinical advances, she never misses a chance to undergo various training programs.
She started her career as a Lecturer in the Indira Gandhi Government. Medical College, Nagpur, where she mastered her clinical experience by managing a variety of complicated clinical cases. Apart from enriching her clinical experience, she gained excellent experience in teaching and education through her role as a Lecturer for Obstetrics and Gynaecology while working in Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur, India. She moved to the Middle East in 1999 and has worked with various prestigious institutions. Dr Pooja has worked in the UAE at SEHA-managed healthcare facilities, namely Mafraq Hospital and Madinat Zayed Hospital, for 6 years and with the Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman, for over 9 years. Before joining NMC Royal Women’s Hospital, she worked as a specialist Obstetrics and Gynaecologist at one of the leading private hospitals in Abu Dhabi.
Over 35 years of her professional career, she has been passionately involved in countless deliveries, many of which are high-risk cases. Having worked for so many years in a region with having multinational population and varied cultures, she develops a quick rapport with patients from all nationalities.
Her special interests are high risk maternal medicine, operative vaginal deliveries, complicated caesarean sections, twin pregnancies, pregnancies associated with fibroids, painless labour, laparoscopic surgeries and colposcopy, major gynaecological surgeries, infertility, cervical and breast cancer screening.
Awards and Recognition:
- Speaker at many national and international conferences.
- She won the first prize for her presentation on the topic “Obesity and Pregnancy outcomes in UAE population with high prevalence of obesity-How bad is it?” in Abu Dhabi SEHA Research Conference in December 2011.
Publications:
- Dr Pooja has a keen interest in Research and clinical studies. Many of her research studies have been published in International Journals.
- She speaks Arabic, English, Hindi, Sindhi, Urdu, and Marathi.
