Dr Jyoti Kathuria presented a pictorial review of the cervix - the good (normal varient), the bad (abnormal, benign) and the ugly (abnormal, suspicious of mailgnancy). This was developed in response to referrals to secondary services from GP's where she was seeing a lot of referals with normal smear but abnormal looking cervix.
Dr Kathuria also discussed changes to the HPV immunisation schedule 2017 and proposed changes to the cervical screening pathway in 2018.
Dr Kathuria is a full time Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland.
NOTE: The New Zealand Cervical Screening Programme was changed to an HPV-based screening model in September 2023, replacing the old model. Please view the following webinar for information regarding the updated programme: HPV primary screening for cervical cancer
Resources
- National Screening Unit
- Cervical screening Healthify
- Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cervical Screening in New Zealand 2020 National Screening Unit
Presenter
Dr Jyoti Kathuria
Dr Jyoti Kathuria is a full time Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Middlemore Hospital. She has a special interest in colposcopy and has been the lead colposcopist at Middlemore from 2011.
She trained in colposcopy in the UK and received the certificate of colposcopy training from RCOG, London and British Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (BSCCP) in 1999.
Dr Kathuria is an expert colposcopy auditor for National Cervical Screening programme and also assessor for RANZCOG for registrar colposcopy training. She is accredited colposcopist with the BSCCP.
