Ganesh Acharya

General Information: Ganesh Acharya. MD, PhD. FRCOG is a Professor and Head of the Division of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. He also holds a clinical position as a Senior Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at the Karolinska University Hospital and an adjunct professorship at UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. He obtained MD from Lviv State Medical Institute, Ukraine and a postgraduate Diploma in Obstetrics & Gynaecology from Trivhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. He completed his specialist training in Obstetrics & Gynaecology in the UK and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He has an MSc in Medical Imaging (Ultrasound) from the University of Hertfordshire, UK, PhD in Fetal Circulatory Physiology from the University of Tromsø, Norway, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Perinatal Cardiology from the University of South Florida, USA.

Ganesh Acharya has lived, trained and worked in several countries including Ukraine, Nepal, Germany, UK, USA. He has been working in Scandinavia (Norway and Sweden) since 2001. He was initially employed as a Senior Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, and appointed later as a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway in 2008, as a Guest Professor at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden in 2012 and as a full professor in 2016. He has spent some time as an academic visitor/visiting professor at the University of Oxford, UK in 2011 (4 months), Fudan University, Shanghai, China in 2015 (4 months) and University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA in 2015-2016 (10 months).

Ganesh Acharya has a substantial editorial experience. He  had been a Scientific Editor of BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology from 2011 to 2015,  member of International Advisory Board of BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health from 2020 to 2024, Guest Editor of Frontiers in Endocrinology special issue on Placental Hormones and Pregnancy-Related Endocrine Disorders in 2022  and Editor-in-Chief of Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica (AOGS) from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2024.

Areas of Interest: Embryonic and fetal medicine, human reproductive biology, preconception care, embryonic development, teratogenicity, miscarriage, fetal hypoxia, fetal ultrasound, fetal cardiovascular physiology, fetal echocardiography and Doppler ultrasonography,  placental biology, High-risk obstetrics, clinical and experimental fetal medicine & surgery, global maternal health.

Ganesh Acharya has extensive experience in undergraduate and posgraduate medical education including internationalization and curriculum development. He had been actively doing research in the field of medical education with a focus on evaluation of effectiveness of different teaching and learning methods.