Dr Taj Hassan has been a consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust since 1999 and is Director of the CAILTEC platform. He is Past President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (2016 - 2019).

Internationally, he has been involved in running leadership training programmes for the International Federation of EM (IFEM) as well as for the European Society for EM and designed and co-led the EMLeaders programme for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in 2018 that is now embedded into training in the UK. His other main interests are technology enhanced education and systems development to help build safer emergency care.

He has been Chair for Europe on the Board of the International Federation for EM (2016 to 2022) as well as Chair of the International Faculty of the Pakistan Society of EM since 2019 and is also the Chair of the newly formed South Asian Collaborative for Emergency care (SACEM). He leads the collaborative HALO Programme at www.cailtec.org which aims to help ‘fast track’ emergency care development in South Asia – home to 1 in 5  people on the planet !