Dr Loua Al Shaikh MBChB, BSc (hons), FRCA, FFICM
Medical Director, Ambulance Service, Hamad Medical Corporation
Prior to joining HMC in 2010 as the Medical Director of the Ambulance Service, he was a consultant intensivist and anaesthetist from 1999 to 2010. His career in the National Health Service, England, developed through responsibilities at senior clinical, operational and managerial roles for service provision, commissioning and advisory levels both regionally and nationally. He was appointed as Medical Director of a Critical Care Clinical Network in the South of England, comprised of 4 regional hospitals. He was a co-founder of a Trauma Network that featured 8 hospitals and 2 ambulance services in the South of England.
His role at HMC has been that of medical leadership and clinical oversight of the redesign and delivery of the countrywide model of ground-based, rotary and fixed-wing, pre-hospital care and interfacility transfers through a quality framework of “access to effective care”.
As part of the remit of the Ambulance Service, he plays a key role in advising its executive leadership on Major Incident Preparedness and Resilience. He chairs the Service’s Research Oversight Committee and has published may papers in the field of pre-hospital care alongside healthcare peers in Qatar and abroad.
With colleagues across various departments, he has contributed to the establishment of various HMC services such as the Mobile Healthcare Service, ECMO service, systemwide Critical Care Network, Qatar Early Warning System (QEWS) amongst others.
