Dr. Mukesh Thakur

Dr. Mukesh Thakur MBBS, MRCP (UK), CCST (UK), IA(USA), FRCP (Edinburgh) is working as Internal medicine consultant and A/ Assistant Executive Director for Quality and Patient Safety in Hamad General Hospital. He has had his training in internal medicine at The Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh and Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board (JRCPTB) UK. He has extensive clinical experience of over 17 years in various internal medicine specialties, of which more than 12 years have been in the National Health Service, UK.

He worked as a senior consultant in the Acute Internal Medicine Department at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust UK, which is one of the largest healthcare facilities in England. During this period he led the department to establish acute care pathways, medical ambulatory care clinics and played vital role in transformation of the unit into a center of excellence providing high quality training and education. He pioneered practice of Simulation in Acute Medicine Training programs. He served as Director of Training Program in General Internal Medicine (Yorkshire and Humber Postgraduate Deanery), Lead for Simulation in Acute Internal Medicine (Hull Institute for Learning and Simulation), Examiner for The Royal College of Physicians UK and Core Faculty (East Yorkshire School of Endoscopy). He has many research, posters and presentations under his name.

He joined Hamad Medical Corporation in August 2015 and is involved in several education and quality initiatives. He is trained as Improvement Advisor from Institute for Healthcare Improvement USA and Lean for Healthcare from University of Tennessee USA. Currently he is leading many quality initiatives in Hamad General Hospital, including improving the flow in the process of admission and discharge