About the speaker
Dr Sophia NE Webster
BMedSci BMBS DFSRH DLM PGCert MRCOG MA
Consultant Obstetrician & Clinical Educator
Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, UK
Dr Webster has worked for 7 years as a senior clinician in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Her areas of interest include high risk obstetrics, shared decision making, clinical education, medical ethics and law and global health.
She is a clinical examiner for the MRCOG Part 3, and a member of the MRCOG Part 2 EMQ sub-committee. Dr Webster is actively involved in clinical teaching and simulation training in the UK and overseas, with a particular focus on intrapartum care.
She is a member of the RCOG ethics committee and just recently completed a Master in Health Care Ethics and Law at the University of Manchester.
As a training doctor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dr Webster spent a year working in Cape Town, South Africa in 2007. Since then, she has participated in many teaching and advocacy projects in women's health internationally, with a focus on sub-Sahara.
Providing high quality, woman-centred care is her priority and through education Dr Webster tries to help practitioners around the world enhance their clinical skills.