Dr Reema Kohli is a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology accredited by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG), with special interest in the management of pelvic floor disorders, pelvic floor reconstructive surgery and minimally invasive laparoscopic and vaginal surgery.

Dr Kohli believes in ensuring personalised care for her patients by focusing on informed and shared decision making and keeping her patients’ wishes at the core of her practice. She has extensive experience in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology that she has gained through training and working as a specialist across rural, regional and tertiary hospitals in Australia and India over the last 15 years.

She has completed her advanced training in obstetrics and gynaecology at Box Hill Hospital in Victoria before achieving Fellowship of RANZCOG. After completing specialist training she spent an additional year of training in urogynaecology at Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland.

Working with an excellent team of urogynaecologists headed by Dr Malcolm Frazer helped her learn specialised techniques of pelvic floor surgery. Reema has also worked under the apprenticeship of Dr RK Mishra, a pioneer in advanced laparoscopy in India to hone her skills in pelvic floor surgery/endoscopy. Her current public appointments are at Eastern Health and Monash Health as a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology.

She is also a RANZCOG-accredited training supervisor and a member of Board of Examiners for Specialist trainees in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology.

Dr Kohli has been awarded for her research on predictors of fetal growth restriction and new techniques to better visualise urinary tract in laparoscopy at various national and international conferences. She has been actively involved in teaching medical students at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. In addition to her role as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, she engages in teaching medical students at Epworth Clinical School.

She has recently been awarded the prestigious Brown Craig Travelling Fellowship By RANZCOG Women's Foundation to pursue further research and training in advanced vaginal surgery.

When not working, she loves to paint and travel with her husband Rohan who has been a GP for 10 years and is now pursuing specialist training in pain medicine. She works with multiple media on canvas and is now learning the ancient Indian art of Tanjore painting.

She is fluent in English, Hindi, Urdu.

In addition to looking after all aspects of obstetric and gynaecological care, Dr Kohli's clinical interests include:

• Management of complex pregnancies with pre-existing medical conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, epilepsy etc. Management of twin pregnancy, vaginal breech delivery and vaginal birth after caesarean section.
• Treatment of common urogynaecological conditions such as pelvic organ prolapse (through non-surgical and surgical approaches like vaginal hysterectomy), urinary incontinence, prevention of prolapse procedures (vault suspension) and procedures like colpocleisis (in patients not fit for major/extensive surgery).
• Advanced laparoscopic roscopic surgical approaches including surgery for complex ectopic pregnancy, cysts in ovary, removal of uterus (hysterectomy), removal of fibroids and treatment of endometriosis.