Dr. Aparna Hegde is an internationally renowned Urogynecologist. She is also the founder of NGO ARMMAN, which creates scalable programs using technology innovatively to impact maternal and child health. ARMMAN works in 16 states in India and it’s five programs have reached more than 18 million women and their children.
She is Associate Professor (Hon) of Urogynecology and the Head of the Division of Urogynecology at Cama Hospital, Grant Medical College, Mumbai, India’s first comprehensive Center of Excellence in the field. She is also the Founder and Director of the Center for Urogynecology and Pelvic Health, New Delhi and Consultant Urogynecologist at Global Hospital, Surya Hospital and Womens Hospital, Mumbai. She holds MD, DNB and FCPS degrees (Obgyn), MS (Stanford University) and IUGA (International Urogynecology Association) International Fellowship in Urogynecology (Cleveland Clinic Florida). She is a member of the Editorial Board of International Urogynecology Journal. She is also a member of the International Urogynecology Committee on Prolapse and the 7th International Consultation on Continence. She is also a Board Member of the FIUGA (the Foundation for International Urogynecological Assistance).
Dr. Hegde is an accomplished researcher with over 75 publications/abstracts and has done pioneering work in the field of 2D and 3D ultrasound of the pelvic floor which she teaches internationally. She was awarded one of the best paper awards at the 2013 AUGS (American Urogynecology Society) Annual meeting in Las Vegas. She is a recipient of a prestigious NIH (National Institute of Health, US) grant for her large field study on dysfunctional voiding in adolescent girls. She has been conducting round tables and participated as faculty in workshops on imaging of the pelvic floor at the last six IUGA and AUGS annual meetings. She was also be awarded the Fellowship of the Sri Lankan Menopause Society in 2019, the 2nd international dignitary to be awarded the same, for contributions made to develop Urogynecology in Sri Lanka.
She is TED Fellow 2020 and was awarded USAID ‘Social Entrepreneur’ award (2018), ‘Woman ChangeMaker’ award (Womanity Foundation, Geneva, 2017), Woman Icon Award in Asia by Nanyung University, Singapore (2016), ‘People’s Choice Award’ at Saving Lives at Birth event (Washington DC, 2011), among other awards. She has been featured as one of the five global women leaders in the Voice of America documentary, ‘A Single Step: Journeys of Women Leaders’ (2015). ARMMAN was awarded the British Medical Journal South Asia Award for ‘Maternal & Child Health Team’ (2018), WHO Public Health Champion Award (2017) & is the only Indian NGO to have ever won the ‘GSK-Save the Children International’ grant.
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