If you missed the newsletter you can read it here. In it we are thrilled to announce the appointment to the role of WMT Medical Adviser to Dr Amel Alfulaij.
Introducing Dr Amel Alfulaij BA (Hons), MBChB, DTM&H London based Amel has been a GP for 10 years though her first degree was in European Studies and Italian. She speaks Italian, Spanish and Arabic. As a GP she specialises in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and diabetes. In parallel to her role as a GP, Amel has doggedly pursued a commitment to humanitarian medicine including completing the Diploma in Tropical Medicine in ’22. Amel spent the last year working for MSF (Médecins Sans Frontier), first in Tripoli, Lebanon and then in Mosul, Iraq. Both postings involved supporting clinical programmes for refugees in dangerous and complex situations. In London, Amel continues to provide clinical support to refugees and asylum seekers. She is currently studying towards the Diploma in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine with a view to undertaking future overseas humanitarian postings.
Highlights of Amel’s expedition experience include being an expedition doctor with Raleigh International and Operation Wallacea (Honduras and Madagascar). With Raleigh, in Costa Rica, she led an arduous 3 week 210 km trek and then helped manage the challenging expatriation of all personal when Covid shut down the expedition. (Amel is pictured in salmon coloured trousers below.)
Outside of medicine, Amel’s passions are many and varied, and include competitive tennis, surfing, snowboarding, scuba diving, long distance cycling and hut to hut trekking in the Alps.
Amel has been a familiar face to WMT since 2018 when she attended our Chamonix summer medic course and later joined us on the Morocco expedition. She has since taught on Explorer courses so she knows what WMT’s mission is. Amel brings to WMT a wealth of experience garnered through humanitarian medicine, adventure travel and expedition medicine and we are delighted she will be working more closely with us.
