
Dr. Abdulnasir Falah Howaidi, MD, FRCS (Glasg.), MScDM.
Senior Consultant ED HMC, Chairman of ED Disaster Planning Committee,
Member of the experts’ panel in QCHP, Supervisor of the Adults Urgent Care Centers
Dr. Abdulnasir Howaidi received his MD from Baghdad University, School of Medicine in 1983. After a one-year internship, he joined the field as a medical doctor for 6 years during active combat.
He trained in general surgery in Al Noor Hospital and Medical City Teaching Center in Baghdad.
In 1994 he joined the Iraqi Red Crescent mission to the civil war in Yemen.
In 1999 he received the FRCS (Glasgow) and joined the emergency department in Hamad Medical Corporation.
In 2008 he obtained the Fellowship in Trauma Surgery and in 2014 he finished the Master of Science in Disaster Medicine.
In 2016 he became a member of the Panel of Experts in the Qatar Council of Health Practitioners (QCHP). In the same year he was requested to be a member of the VIP team dealing with high governmental officials, Diplomatic delegations and important country visitors. In 2018 he became the Patient Complaint Leader in ED HGH.
He authored chapters related to disaster preparedness and response in books.
• Chapter title “Disasters and Disaster Medicine” in the book Essentials of Accident and Emergency Medicine 2019
• Chapter title “Triage” in the book Emergency Medicine and Trauma January 2020