Dr. Manisha Kumar

• Dr. Manisha M. Kumar has been a Consultant in Aberdeen, Scotland since Feb 2003. She was the Clinical Lead for Obstetric Anaesthesia in Aberdeen for five years and, currently, is the Portfolio Clinical Director for Governance in Medicine, which is a management role in the wider hospital.

• Her areas of expertise include Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, ENT/Airways and Thoracic Anaesthesia, along with the Legal and Ethical aspects of Medicine. She has led the development of simulation scenario-based training -in the areas of Human Factors, Obstetrics, Difficult Airways and One Lung Ventilation. With an interest in Clinical Negligence and Adverse Events Management.

• Dr Kumar has an interest in the ethical and legal aspects of medicine and has recently completed an LLM in Medical Law and Ethics from the University of Edinburgh. During this course, she undertook additional modules on Regulation of Healthcare Professionals, Shaping of Modern Healthcare and Governance of Innovative Medicine. Authoring her dissertation on ‘Legal and Ethical aspects of the Role of System Failure in Gross Negligence Manslaughter’. Dr Kumar is the Chair of Acute Sector Clinical Governance Committee in NHS Grampian overseeing governance aspects across all specialty areas in the Acute sector. This involves moderating highlighted clinical governance issues, identifying system risks and escalating concerns to higher management. All completed Level 1 investigations are presented to this committee for approval. She has also been commissioning and leading a significant number of Level 1 investigations into adverse events.

• For the last five years, Dr Kumar has been giving medicolegal expert advice for the legal firms and Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. This has involved going through case notes and advising on the appropriateness of the clinical actions taken, identifying any breach of duty and negligence.

• She has written over sixty Medico-legal expert reports over the last three years. Most of these have been for the claimants.

Medicolegal Report Writing , InspireMedilaw 2022 - Annual Expert Witness Conference, Bond Solon 2024

Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists 1998, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association, Difficult Airway Society, North of Scotland Society of Anaesthetists, Medical protection Society