Prof Fatimah Lateef, MBBS, FRCS (Edin)(A&E), FAMS (Em Med)
Professor Fatimah Lateef is senior consultant, Director of Undergraduate Training and Education as well as Director of Quality and Clinical Services at the Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital. She is a core faculty at Singhealth Emergency Medicine Residency, an Adjunct Professor at Dukes-NUS Graduate Medical School, Lee Kong Chian Medical School, NTU and Yong Loo Lin Medical School, National University of Singapore. She is also the vice chair of Education in the Emergency Medicine Academic Clinical Programme at Singhealth. Prof. Fatimah is also Director of The Singhealth Duke NUS Institute of Medical Simulation, the largest simulation training facility in Southeast Asia. She is also a board member and founding member of the World Academic Council in Emergency Medicine and a board member of Health Promotion Board in Singapore.
Her areas of sub-specialisation include Prehospital Care Medicine, Cardiovascular and Neurovascular Emergencies. She is also highly involved in medical education and research. She has worked in various countries including both the UK and USA, many Asian countries and served as an International Consultant to MaxHealthcare, India.
A strong advocate of lifelong learning and empowerment, she has presented more than 500 abstracts at international conferences, published over 300 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and is on the editorial board and reviewer for some 50 international journals. She leads various leadership groups, grooming youths and doctors to excel, which is also befitting her role as a core faculty, nurturing residents in Emergency Medicine.
For her work in the various fields, she has been conferred awards such as Young Investigator’s Award (1998), Excellent Scientific Publication Award (2001), Best Teacher Award (2002), Laerdal Visiting Lectureship Award (2003), Courage Award (2004), National Healthcare Humanity Award (2005), The Outstanding Young Person of Singapore (2006), Good Mentor Award, Singhealth (2005), The Outstanding Young Person of the World Award (2006), Woman for Peace Award, Sokka Gakkai International, (2007), Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, NUS (2008), Singapore Medical Journal Recognition Award for Review with Distinction, (2007-2016), Critical Talent Retention Award, Singhealth, Excellent Educator Award 2016 and The Academy of Medicine, Gold Reviewer Award( 2011), Deans Awards for Excellence in Clinical Training/ Teaching 2016 from The National University of Singapore and The National Day Long Service Award 2017, The Academic Medicine Award 2019, amongst others.
