Dr. Anita Kaul is a gynaecologist, obstetrician, and foetal medicine specialist with 28 years of experience.
The doctor provides services like Down syndrome screening, twin pregnancies, Laparoscopic Gynaecology, Fertility Conserving Procedures, in-utero foetal therapy, and many more.
She earned her bachelor's degree in medicine from Bangalore University in 1986 and her master's degree in obstetrics and gynaecology from Kanpur University in 1991.
Professor Kypros Nicolaides trained her in foetal medicine at Kings College London, and she returned to Delhi in 2006 to develop the first specialised foetal medicine centre in North India at Apollo.
She founded the Fetal Surgical Therapy programme in 2011, which was the first in North India, and she is one of the country's few foetal surgeons.
In partnership with FMF-UK, she has established a Fellowship programme.
She is a life member of Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Delhi.
, 2005, Diploma in Advanced Obstetric Scanning, (RCR/RCOG) London
MS, 1991, G.S.V.M Medical College Kanpur University, India
MBBS, 1986, Bangalore University
Experience
Anita Kaul completed her 2 year Fetal Medicine Fellowship with Professor Kypros Nicolaides at Kings College Hospital,London.She returned back to Delhi to start the Apollo Fetal Medicine Unit as a separate unit in August 2006. Working in Apollo Hospitals since 1998
The unit is now established as a referral unit for a variety of chromosomal screening tests, diagnosis and management of fetal abnormalities and second-opinion scans.The in-utero fetal therapy centre was started in 2012 ,with it being one of the few centres in India offering advanced fetal interventions.Specialised clinics, fetal twin pregnancy clinic was started in 2018 and the Fetal Brain (neurosonography) clinic was started in 2020 again pioneering clinics in North India for complicated problems.The unit is accredited with the Fetal Medicine Foundation UK for 1st Trimester Down syndrome screening(NT/NB scan ) as well as training doctors in performing this scan.Regular teaching and training programmes nationally are organized by her.
Professional Memberships
President-Fetal Medicine Foundation India
Vice President -North Zone Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Executive Committee Member –Fetal Medicine and Genetics Committee –FOGSI
Executive Committee Member –Imaging –FOGSI
Life member of Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Delhi
Awards
Awarded Fellow of Indian College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Jan 2016 President-Fetal Medicine Foundation India Vice President -North Zone Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Executive Committee Member –Fetal Medicine and Genetics Committee –FOGSI Executive Committee Member –Imaging –FOGSI Life member of Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Delhi
Paper Published
Chapter-Embryo Reduction FOGSI Focus 2016
Chapter –Why, When, Where Fetal Surgery FOGSI Publication 2016
Singh C, Kaul A. Comments on editorial: Has Noninvasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) Come of Age? JOGI, 2015
Singh C, Agarwal G, Gupta N, Kaul A. A retrospective review of the incidence and outcome of neural tube defects diagnosed during pregnancy at a tertiary care centre in India JOG
Singh C, Dagar M, Kaul A. Cord entanglement in Monoamniotic twin pregnancy. Cover image, JOGI, 2015
Singh C, Kaul A. Current status of Fetal Surgery. Current Medicine Research and Practice 02/2015; DOI: 10.1016/j.cmrp.2015.01.007
Gholkar N, Singh C, Kaul A, Kapur KK. First trimester diagnosis of congenital heart disease. Journal of Fetal Medicine. 2 Sept 2015 DOI:10.1007/s40556-015-0048-9
Singh C, Kaul A. Monochorionic twin pregnancy.
AOGD Bulletin, Volume 14-8, December 2014.
Amniotic fluid index in healthy pregnancy in an Indian population.
Paliwal S, Singh C, Gholkar N, Kaul A. Diagnosis of holoprosencephaly in the first trimester. Int J Reprod Contracept Obstet Gynecol. 2013; 2(4): 735-736. doi:10.5455/2320-1770.ijrcog20131257
Diagnosis of sirenomelia in the first trimester Singh C, Lodha P, Arora D, Prabhu Sharma A, Kaul A.
J Clin Untrasound. 2013 Nov 27
Nasal bone length: the long and short of it. Evaluation of the reference values for the fetal nasal bone length at 16 to 25 weeks of gestational age in an Indian populaton.Sharma A, Tayal T, B H N, Radhakrishnan P, Kaul A.
Prenat Diagn. 2013 Aug.
Prenatal diagnosis of Fetal Peters Plus syndrome: a case report Gupta N, Kaul A, Kabra M.Case Rep Genet. 2013 July
Fauzdar A. Chowdhary M, Makroo RN, Mishra M, Srivastava P, Tyagi R, Bhaduria P, Kaul A.Indian J Hum Genet. 2013 Jan.
Chapter – Problems and complications of Monochorionic Twin Pregnancies Edited by Malhotra N June 2012
Tulika T, Kaul A
J Obstet Gynaecol India. 2012
Obstetric outcomes associated with second trimester unexplained abnormal maternal blood markers:A comparative study between outcomes of normal and abnormal blood values.
P.Lodha,A Sharma C Singh T Tayal A Kaul Apollo Medicine Vol 9 Sept 2012
Chapter – Screening policies for birth defects FOGSI Focus 2010
Chapter – First trimester ultrasound
An introduction to Genetics and Fetal Medicine. Edited by Deka D Jaypee Brothers 2009
Rapid-prenatal diagnosis through fluorescence in situ hybridization for preventing aneuplody related birth defects.
