Prof. Tim Harris
Consultant, Emergency Medicine, HMC, Qatar
Deputy Chair and Lead for Academic Affairs, Department of Emergency Medicine, HMC
Professor Emergency Medicine at QMUL and BH, London, UK
Tim was born in the UK but has spent around half his life overseas. He trained in Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine in Australia. He has 15 years of experience in pre-hospital care in Australia (Victoria and Sydney Lifesaver) and UK (London HEMS and East Anglia Air Ambulance). His clinical career has been based around major trauma centers in Australia and the UK. He has worked in 43 hospitals across 11 countries and mixed training with travel for volunteer work in Africa, India and Samoa.
Tim has worked at Barts Health for 14 years and was appointed Professor Emergency Medicine at QMUL and BH in 2012. In 2018, he moved to Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar-one of the largest EDs in the world seeing 1,800 patients each day. He is Deputy Chair and Lead for Academic Affairs.
He divides his academic time between teaching and research. His main interests are resuscitation, ultrasound, airway, point of care testing and education. His research time is focused facilitating and recruiting to large multicenter studies. He has published around 100 papers. His current main focus is leading the QMUL Emergency and Resuscitation MSc. He supervises the academic trainees and academic students in their research programs and runs the undergraduate and some of the post-graduate teaching programs for QMUL.
