Dr Hafis Ibrahim graduated from India and underwent post graduate training in paediatrics from the prestigious Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. He moved to the UK in 2001 and and subspecialised in neonatology, obtaining his CCT in 2009. Subsequently he worked as a consultant neonatologist at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital which was then the largest neonatal unit in Europe before moving to Abu Dhabi in 2014. His main interests other than clinical neonatology includes medical research, medication safety, quality improvement and infection control. He has led many quality improvement projects during his career. He is also a keen educator being a faculty member of the neonatal fellowship programme and set up the first neonatal simulation programme for paediatric residents in Abu Dhabi. He has multiple publications in peer reviewed journals and has presented at national and international meetings. He currently works as one of the consultant neonatologists at Corniche Hospital, Abu Dhabi where he leads on medication safety in newborn infants and is also the chair of the hospital infection control Committee.