Dr. Loua Al Shaikh MBChB, BSc (hons), FRCA
Medical Director of the Ambulance Service at Hamad Medical Corporation
Dr. Al Shaikh initially graduated from Dundee University with BSc (Honours) in Physiology in 1984 and then Glasgow University Medical School with MBChB in 1989. He was appointed as consultant intensivist and anesthetist in February 1999. His career, in the National Health Service in 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 Critical Care of a Clinical Network in the South of England, comprised of 4 regional hospitals. He was a co-founder of a large Trauma Network comprised of 8 hospitals and 2 ambulance services in the South of England.
In November 2010 he was appointed as Medical Director of the Ambulance Service at Hamad Medical Corporation. His role has been that of medical leadership and oversight to the redesign and delivery of the countrywide model of pre-hospital care through a quality framework of “access to effective care”.
He has contributed to the care model design, medical leadership and oversight, of the third and latest service line in the Ambulance Services Group - Mobile Healthcare Service – comprising the Mobile Healthcare Service. This is a consultant-led and delivered service that supports patients’ transition of care from institutional care into the community and acts as a support arm for long-term care to other group of services in the HMC healthcare system.
