Sima Barmania.

摘要

Sima Barmania is a junior doctor from London, UK. After working for a year she did a masters in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, and then studied Arabic in Syria. She is currently in Foundation Training, studying for a diploma in the medical care of catastrophes and is establishing a career in humanitarian medicine. What has been the greatest achievement of your career? I have yet to achieve it. What inspired you? The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire by Chechen surgeon Khassan Baiev. If you had not entered your current profession what wouldyou have liked to do? Been a war correspondent. Who was your most influential teacher and why? My chemistry teacher who encouraged us all to challenge existing norms.