Dr. Syed Haris Huda has been an Attending Physician in Emergency Medicine at Sidra Medicine since January 2019. His clinical practice spans the full spectrum of adult and
pediatric emergency care, with particular expertise in trauma and acute medical and surgical emergencies. He currently serves as the Education Lead for the Department of Emergency Medicine, where he is closely involved in curriculum development, faculty development, and trainee education.

Over the years, Dr. Huda has led several transformative initiatives aimed at improving patient care delivery and operational efficiency. These include his roles as Lead for Minor Injuries in Emergency Medicine at Sidra Medicine and Former Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) Fellowship Program. He is the Chair of the Pediatric Emergency Resuscitation Program (PERP) and is an instructor in ACLS, PALS, APLS, and ATLS life support courses.

Dr. Huda holds a faculty appointment at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar and has extensive real-world experience in leading and managing mass casualty incidents, including bomb blast–related emergencies. He has a strong interest in medical education and is deeply committed to teaching junior doctors, peers, and nursing colleagues. To further strengthen his role as an educator, he completed a Fellowship in Adult and Medical Education through the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).

He currently serves as an examiner for both the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). In parallel, he is pursuing a Master’s degree in Healthcare Leadership and Management at UCLA, reflecting his ongoing commitment to excellence in education, leadership, and system-level improvement in emergency care.

Professor Guillaume Alinier, PhD, has an academic career spanning over 25 years, with a special interest in simulation-based healthcare education for which he received a UK National Teaching Fellowship award from the Higher Education Academy in 2006. He was part of the team that helped establish various components of the ECMO training programme in Qatar and led the development of innovative ECMO simulation education technology. He is Director of Research at Hamad Medical Corporation Ambulance Service, Doha, Qatar but also holds visiting professorships with the Universities of Hertfordshire and Northumbria in the UK, as well as being Adjunct Professor of Education in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar. He has contributed to important publications and initiatives led by key healthcare simulation societies such as the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, the Society for Simulation Applied to Medicine, the Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare, and the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning, and has also published two books on debriefing and numerous journal articles. https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=9SMHCwEAAAAJ. He serves on numerous paramedic, emergency medicine, and educational journal editorial boards and currently is guest editor for a special collection on “Simulation for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response“ for the journal BMC Advances in Simulation https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/SEPDR