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Dr Franco Moscuzza qualified from Guy’s Hospital Medical School in 1988 and after initially starting his training in General Medicine switched to Anesthesia and developed subspecialty interests in Pediatric and Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia. He was appointed as a Consultant to Guy’& St Thomas’ Hospitals Trust in 1998. He held a number of educational and administrative posts including College Tutor, Pediatric Life Support Course Director, Clinical Lead for Theatres and Chair of the Surgical Safety Committee before being appointed Director of Anesthetics and Theatres.
Dr. Sinha joined Sidra Medicine in April 2018 as an Attending Physician in the Pediatric Division of the Anesthesia Department. She is the Program Director for Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship at Sidra Medicine and Assistant Professor in Clinical Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar.
Dr. Sindu Balakrishnan joined Sidra Medicine in April 2018. He is the lead for the pediatric pain service at Sidra Medicine which provides pain management for medical, surgical and complex patients. Dr. Sindu is also an instructor in multiple life support courses, airway and sedation courses conducted by the Hamad International Training Centre.
Dr. Durward has been a senior consultant in cardiac intensive care at Sidra Medicine since December 2017. Prior to this, Dr. Durward worked as a consultant in pediatric care for over 20 years at Evelina Children’s, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London.
Dr. John graduated from Madurai Kamaraj University in India and completed his residency in Anesthesiology from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education. Thereafter he completed a fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesia. For six years after his training, he worked as a specialist and later as a senior specialist in Cardiac anesthesia at a busy cardiac institute in Cochin, India.
Dr. Noora Al-Shahwani is an accomplished pediatric surgeon and serves as the Research lead for the Department of Surgery and the Program Director for General Surgery Residency at Sidra Medicine. She is also the Associate Program Director of Pediatric Surgery fellowship at Sidra Medicine.
Dr. Moataz has recently joined the anesthesia department at Sidra Medicine as a full-time pediatric anesthesiologist. He came from Hamad Medical Corporation where he has been practicing as a pediatric anesthesiologist for around six years.
Dr. Bass qualified in London in 1988 and commenced Anesthesia training in London, including a fellowship at Great Ormond Street in London.
Dr Huda Syed has been working at Sidra Medicine since January 2019, as Attending Physician in the Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Sidra. His particular interest is dealing and managing Trauma and Acute medical and surgical emergencies in the Adult and pediatric population.