Dr Raees Lunat
Raees completed his medical school training at UCL where he was a prize-winning student. He graduated in 2018 with a BSc In Global health and a distinction in Clinical Medicine. He went on to complete his first year foundation training at the Whittington Trust where he was awarded the trust’s “Leader of the Year” award in 2018 due to his ongoing commitment to quality improvement for transformational change, teaching and out-of-hospital philanthropic involvement.
Raees is a passionate educator and runs two of his own national teaching programmes both of which have consistently received outstanding feedback. Additionally, he was the undergraduate teaching lead at both of his foundation trust hospitals and led a revamp of the teaching programmes at both by liaising with course organisers, introducing formal teaching for tutors and introducing formal mentorship for medical students. He has also achieved a formal certificate in teaching while supporting medical students via wellbeing sessions.
Raees is also a keen leader with extensive experience gained from his multiple leadership roles. He founded the ‘Widening Participation Scheme’, where doctors aim to provide education for health promotion and prevention within ethnic minority communities, in order to dispel common cultural health misconceptions and encourage engagement in healthcare. His interest in leadership has also led him to complete two competitive leadership programmes, to participate in an NHS Leadership programme and to attend and present at an international leadership conference. He is currently writing the online leadership programme for all trainees in the East of England deanery which aims to be rolled out by the end of the year. He also has a keen interest in quality improvement and has completed several quality improvement projects to date. Of note he has implemented a pathway to improve attendance at outpatient appointments and another pathway to improve radiation dose awareness for clinicians. He has had the opportunity to present his work internationally.
Outside of his medical training, Raees is one of the leads of “Charity Week”; the largest student-led charity globally. He has been extensively involved with the charity for more than seven years and during his involvement the charity has raised over £5 million pounds and expanded to four new countries.
At HEE he is looking forward to enhancing his skills in transformational change, large-scale project management and using his previous experience to further develop and enhance existing initiatives.
