TY - JOUR T1 - Ten minutes with Professor Meghana Pandit, Chief Medical Officer, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust JF - BMJ Leader JO - BMJ Leader SP - 246 LP - 247 DO - 10.1136/leader-2020-000291 VL - 4 IS - 4 AU - Meghana Pandit AU - Anthony Robert Berendt Y1 - 2020/12/01 UR - http://bmjleader.bmj.com/content/4/4/246.abstract N2 - BiographyProfessor Meghana Pandit, MBBS, FRCOG, MBA, trained in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Oxford Deanery and was a Visiting Lecturer of Urogynaecology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. She was a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Clinical Director and then Divisional Director at Milton Keynes, before joining University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW), where she was Chief Medical Officer (CMO) from May 2012 to December 2018 and Deputy Chief Executive from 2014.Meghana received her MBA from Oxford Brookes University and completed the Innovating Health for Tomorrow programme at INSEAD, Fontainebleau. She is a Founding Senior Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, a Professor of Practice at Warwick University and an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.As CMO at UHCW, she led the development of clinical strategy and had responsibility for Clinical Quality, Risk, Medical Education, Research & Development, and Legal Services. She was a Responsible Officer for over 500 doctors and undertook clinical office-based gynaecology. With a similar portfolio of responsibilities as Oxford University Hospitals CMO since January 2019, she is a Responsible Officer for over 1000 doctors, maintaining her association with Warwick University as Course Director for the MSc in Healthcare Operational Management.Throughout my career, and more so since I have held leadership roles, it has become clear to me that as a leader, one has to communicate clearly and ensure consistency in messaging. This could be about a number of tasks in the workplace such as conducting board rounds or completing appraisals or having the influenza jab, for instance. The communication could also be about key priorities such as a focus on patient safety. The goal is to keep communication channels open with colleagues, … ER -