Dr Nur Lubis
Emergency and Surgical Care Team
Dr Lubis graduated with MBBS from Imperial College, London in 2003 with a distinction in surgery and an intercalated BSc in Nutrition from Kings College, London. Having completed her anaesthesia training in the North East London region in 2013, she is currently on sabbatical from working as a consultant anaesthetist at Whipps Cross Hospital, Bartshealth NHS Trust, London. Her areas of interests are humanitarian and disaster medicine, aeromedical retrievals and medical education. Dr Lubis have spent over a decade working as a frontline doctor in the humanitarian sector starting with the 2005 Pakistan earthquake with Mercy Malaysia. Since then she has completed eight missions with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and six with Operation Smile as an anaesthetist. She is a member of the UKEMT (UK Emergency Medical Team) and an examiner for the Diploma in the Medicine Care of Catastrophes (DMCC). She edited the trauma section of the Oxford Specialist Handbook of Global Anaesthesia due to be published later this year. She has worked both with AMREF Flying Doctors in Kenya and Careflight and The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) in Queensland, Australia. She is an examiner for the Diploma in Retrievals and Transfer Medicine (DipRTM), Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. She has taught and directed the WFSA SAFE Obstetrics courses in Liberia, India and Cambodia. She has also taught trauma care on Ukraine to frontline personnel and been involved in hands-on teaching for anaesthesia providers in Ethiopia, Palestine and India. She is part of the faculty for the Developing World Anaesthesia course run by the Royal College of Anaesthetist (RCOA) UK.