Professor Nabil A. Shallik, MD, is an Associate professor of Clinical Anaesthesiology at Qatar University in Qatar, Associate professor of Clinical Anaesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar and Associate professor of Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care at Tanta Faculty of Medicine in Egypt, Associate head of anaesthesia services Ambulatory Care Centre, Anaesthesia Department IT & CPD lead at Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar. He also works as a senior consultant in Anaesthesia, ICU and Perioperative Medicine at Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar. He has published more than 50 articles in national and international peer-reviewed medical journals including perioperative, pain and airway publications. He is the main author of numerous book chapters, and editor of many medical books. He is a leading researcher in airway management in the Middle East and his research interests mainly focus on perioperative care and on new tools for airway assessment and management. Dr. Nabil is a pioneer in anaesthesia education and a dedicated clinical teacher with more than 30 years of anaesthesia practice and 25 years of dedicated anaesthesia teaching.

Dr. Nabil is a core faculty member of the Anaesthesia Residency Program, the first ACGME-I accredited program in the Middle East. As a course director for all airway workshops and courses in Qatar Robotic Surgery Centre and Itqan Simulation Centre, he is continually testing, inventing and tailoring basic and advanced educational modules related to airway skills to suit different health care providers. Dr. Nabil is an active contributor to international anaesthesia societies; Airway Management Academy (AMA) and European Airway Management Society (EAMS), Difficult Airway Society (DAS) and he is the founder of Difficult Airway management (DAM) Society for Middle East and Gulf area (MENA). He received innovation funding from the Academic Health System (AHS) in HMC and Qatar foundation (QF) for the development of many airway-related projects. He has Five United State (US) patents for airway projects, he received many Awards from national and international bodies. He is the director of Head and Neck Anesthesia and Advanced Airway Management Fellowship program (HANAAM).

As a manager he streamlined the clinical service in the ENT anaesthesia department, was a major force behind the transformation of the Hamad Medical Corporation into an academic health system, the implementation of electronic medical record, the Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation of the Corporation and is frequently invited as guest speaker in national and international conferences.