Award-winning doctor to speak at empathic healthcare event
Dr Rabia Imtiaz
An award-winning doctor – who made history when she became the first female Muslim Medical Director of South Asian origin in an acute NHS Trust – will speak at an innovative empathic healthcare course.
Dr Rabia Imtiaz is a Medical Director at NHS England and transformational coach who mentors emerging healthcare leaders and is the winner of multiple accolades, including Doctor of the Year, Best Trainer and Patient Choice awards.
In a deeply personal keynote speech, at the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare’s Educating for Empathy in Healthcare course for healthcare professionals and educators in April, Dr Imtiaz will reveal how empathy and compassion have shaped her leadership, clinical practice and personal growth.
She said: “I’m thrilled to be speaking at the pioneering Educating for Empathy in Healthcare course in Leicester. This is an amazing opportunity to learn the most impactful skill in healthcare.”
Dr Imtiaz’s speech, entitled ‘Beyond Expertise: The Golden Key from Good to Great Compassion – the ultimate differentiator in healthcare leadership’, will show that compassion is a strategic leadership skill that enhances patient care, strengthens team cohesion, and drives innovation.
Other speakers at the event will include highly respected Australian medical doctor, lawyer, researcher and disability advocate, Dr Dinesh Palipana, who has received numerous honours and awards, including the Medal of the Order of Australia and Queensland Australian of the Year. He will deliver a session called, ‘Unparalysed: How a spinal cord injury and depression shaped a doctor's thinking’.
The Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare, based at the University of Leicester, delivers world-leading training to equip the NHS with empathic, compassionate and resilient healthcare practitioners.
It has devised the three-day Educating for Empathy in Healthcare course to provide clinicians, educators and academics with the skills needed to develop empathy teaching in their own settings.
Attendees will learn how to support others to recognise the barriers and challenges to embedding empathy across the systems they work in, and to develop effective strategies for overcoming them.The course has been coordinated by Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare director Professor Jeremy Howick and will take place from Monday, April 20, to Wednesday, April 22, at the Sir Bob Burgess Building at the University of Leicester.
The early bird deadline for tickets is Tuesday, January 20.
To learn more about Educating for Empathy in Healthcare and to apply, visit the webpage https://le.ac.uk/empathy/study/educating-empathy