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Nicolas Hooker

Nicolas Hooker 
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EDIC,MD,FFICM,FRCA,MEMFyC

Attending Physician Years Of Experience: 29

  • About the Physician

    Dr. Nicolas Hooker is an Attending Physician in Adult Anesthesia.

    He joined Sidra Medicine from a role as a Consultant in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, UK. Coming to Anesthesia from a Family and Emergency Medicine background, with over 12 years of experience in all fields of anesthesia, he developed a special interest in Obstetric Anesthesia, ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia in the context of anesthesia for orthopedic surgery, and Critical Care Medicine.

     

     

    Languages Spoken

    English, French, Spanish

    Years Of Experience
    29
    Education
    • European Diploma of Intensive Care (EDIC) awarded by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, June 2014
    • CCT in Anaesthesia awarded by the GMC, UK April 2012
    • Certificado de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias (Emergency Medicine Certificate), issued by the Sociedad Española de Medicina de Emergencias (Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine), 2001
    • Diploma de Especialista Universitario en Medicina de Emergencia y Catástrofe, (University specialist in emergency and disaster medicine diploma), issued by the Dept. of Public Health, University of Oviedo, 1997
    • Especialista en Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria (Specialist in Family and Community Medicine, equivalent to CCT GP) Hospital de Riaño, Ministry of Education and Science, Spain, 1994
    • Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía (Degree in Medicine and Surgery), University of Oviedo, Spain, 1991

     

    Affiliations
    • Instructor in Clinical Anesthesia, Weill Cornell Medicine- Qatar
    • Clinical Lecturer in Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine- Qatar

     

    Areas of Interest
    • Obstetric Anesthesia, Critical Care.
    Educational Interests
    • Simulation
    • ACLS instructor
    • Lead for UDST Paramedic Operating Room rotation at Sidra Medicine
    Medical Publications
    1. Hooker N, Ramaswamy K, Kotyra Z. Can epidural labor analgesia reduce the cesarean section rate? – SOAP 2021
    2. Ramaswamy K, Hooker N, Kotyra Z, Dhanashekaran SS, Soltanifar S, Aldamluji N. Effect of implementation of perineal tear pain management programme on pain scores. J Obstet Anaesth Crit Care 2021;11:101-5
    3. Dr N Hooker, Dr K Ramaswamy. Establishing a centre of excellence in Qatar, The International Anaesthetist, RCOA, UK, Issue 14, May 2021;5