Meghana is the Chief Executive Officer at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) since July 2022, having previously been Chief Medical Officer. OUH is one of the largest acute, University teaching hospitals in the country with 14,000 staff, who deliver care on four sites and across forty-five community locations. As CEO, Meghana has made ‘People’, ‘Patient care’, ‘Performance’ and ‘Partnerships’ her four key strategic pillars and has focused on the OUH People Plan, productivity and delivery of compassionate and excellent patientcare underpinned by the highest levels of research and innovation, through embedding Quality Improvement across the organisation.
Meghana was a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Clinical Director and Divisional Director at Milton Keynes University Hospital before joining University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) where she was Chief Medical Officer (2012-2018) and Deputy Chief Executive from 2015. She completed MBA at Oxford Brookes University (Distinction) and the Innovating Healthcare for Tomorrow Programme at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (2015). Meghana is an Honorary Professor at Warwick University. Meghana was elected as a Trustee for NHS Providers (2024) and is also a Trustee at Medical Detection Dogs (registered charity).
