Edwin Chandraharan (MBBS, MS (Obs&Gyn), DFFP, DCRM, MRCOG) is the Lead Consultant Labour Ward & Lead Clinical Governance in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at St. George’s University Hospital in London, UK and has been working with ST Analysis since 2002.
Can you tell us about your first experiences of STAN and ST Analysis?
ST Analysis was introduced to St. George’s Hospital by my predecessor Mr. Austin Ugwumadu and Professor Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran in 2002. Initially we had only four STAN ST …

Professor Jacquemyn was the first to introduce STAN in Belgium in 2001, and since this time his department at the University Hospital of Antwerp has been a ‘Centre of Excellence’. Together with the midwives Gisèle Possemiers and Suzy Verbruggen he has trained hundreds of doctors and midwives in the STAN method. The ‘students’ have not just come from the region of Flanders but from the whole of Belgium, from the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
We asked Professor Jacquemyn a few questions …