Dr Shweta Gidwani MBBS MRCEM FRCEM

Shweta Gidwani (MBBS, MRCEM, FRCEM) is a practicing emergency medicine physician at Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK where she holds a substantive appointment since 2013, serving as the global emergency medicine lead there. For the last 13 yrs she has also held an adjunct faculty position at Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine at The George Washington University, USA where is is also the Senior Associate Director of the Ronald Reagan Institute for Emergency Medicine. She is currently the Co-Chair of the European Society of Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) Global Health Committee and serves as a member of the Educational Committee at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) and part of the Uganda-UK Health Alliance Emergency SCALE Technical team. Her work focuses on emergency care workforce capacity building through workforce optimisation with a view to build provider capacity at scale and build health system and workforce resilience, particularly in LMICs. She has over a decade of experience in the field through partnership projects in a number of countries including India, Uganda and Ghana on such projects. In 2024-25, through The George Institute for Health, UK and Imperial College, she has recently been funded to support a large scale burns prevention and first aid project in Uganda through development award. https://www.georgeinstitute.org/our-research/research-projects/improving-first-response-to-childhood-burns-in-uganda She graduated from Seth G.S. Medical College, Mumbai, India in 2002. She completed her core training in Emergency Medicine at Manchester Royal Infirmary and Critical Care Fellowship at St Helens' and Knowsley Trust, UK. She then moved to London where she completed her Higher Training in Emergency Medicine through the North-West London Deanery rotating through St Mary's Major Trauma Centre, Charring Cross Hospital, Northwick Park Hospital and Chelsea & Westminster NHS Trust. During her training she carried on her field work in Global Emergency Care while also completing a fellowships Patient Safety under the supervision of Prof Charles Vincent at the Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality at Imperial College in 2012. She currently runs a Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship for higher trainees in Emergency Medicine at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust.