Dr Leroy Edozien LLB MBBS BSc MSc MPhil FRCOG FWACS MRCPI

Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

Theme Lead for Reproductive Health and Childbirth, Greater Manchester Comprehensive Local Research Network

Professional societies: Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (Fellow); British Fertility Society; British Menopause Society; Society of Reproductive and Infant Psychology; UK Society for Behavioural Medicine; Expert Witness Institute.

Served on various committees undertaking asignments for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, National Patient Safety Agency, National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence and National Institute of Health Research..

President, North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, 2010.

Primary research interest area: perinatal health services.    As with other aspects of clinical practice, the way we deliver health service should be evidence-based. Unfortunately good-quality evidence is often lacking in this field. Health service research aims to find the best ways of translating the results of science and technology into real benefits for individuals and for the community.

The Perinatal Health Services Research Collaboration is a research team based at the Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, but drawing its membership from a range of disciplines and institutions. We aim to develop a portfolio of research and innovation projects relating to the organisation and delivery of maternity services and to the psychology of maternal and fetal health. Our work includes research into the effectiveness of models of service delivery and the development and evaluation of interventions to improve the quality and safety of maternity services. We are interested in engagement of partners, antenatal education, psychosocial stress in pregnancy, team work, and patient safety. Our work is underpinned by the philosophy that midwifery and obstetric care should aim to achieve both good clinical and good psychological outcomes for the woman and baby.

Accredited in medical education (Royal College of Physicians)

'Exceptional role model' certificate, UoM medical students, 2009

Obtained medical and legal qualifications from the universities of Ibadan, London and Glasgow. Member of West African, Irish and UK postgraduate medical colleges. Previously Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, The Royal Oldham Hospital                         

Author, The Labour Ward Handbook (RSM Books, Second edition 2010) which was 'Highly Commended' in the BMA Book of the Year Awards 2010.

Specialist in risk management. Director of Clinical Audit and Risk Management, Central Manchester Hospitals, 2002-6. Edited the journal Clinical Risk 2004-7. Edited the book Risk management in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Elsevier, 2007).  Publisher/editor, Safer Maternity Care (e-magazine).

LLB, London; MB BS, Ibadan; BSc Physiology, Ibadan; MSc Chemical Pathology, Ibadan; MPhil Medical Law, Glasgow; FRCOG FWACS MRCPI