International gold medal award for HMC doctor

The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) recently honoured Dr Huda al-Naemi, a consultant medical physicist at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) with the ‘Healthcare Gold Medal’.The Gold Medal and Early Career awards are for IPEM members who have made outstanding contributions in academia, innovation and healthcare, and in recognition of the achievements of Early Career members.The prizes were presented by Prof Stephen O’Connor, IPEM’s president, at a ceremony in Bristol, UK.Dr Huda al-Naemi has worked for more than 20 years at the HMC.In 2006, she became executive director of occupational health and safety and established the provision of medical physics services in support of medical imaging, including consultation, preparation of new equipment tenders and specifications for different imaging equipment as well as quality control testing.She is also involved in training and education programme for radiology residents.Dr al-Naemi became chair of the National Medical Radiation Licencing Committee at the Ministry of Public Health and has undertaken projects with the International Atomic Energy Agency and Qatar Foundation, all contributing to improvements in healthcare.She has participated in a number of projects funded by the Qatar National Research Fund and has developed and implemented a system for quality and safety in women’s imaging in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.Dr al-Naemi has recently been appointed an assistant professor of Medical Biophysics Research in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar.In 2017, she received the ‘State Encouragement for Medical Sciences Category Award’, in recognition of outstanding contributions in various scientific and humanitarian fields.