Ruth Sneep
Ruth is a consultant in Emergency Medicine from the Netherlands. Born and raised in Amsterdam, she obtained her MSc in Medicine in 2011.
She started her medical career in a vibrant city hospital in the city of The Hague, where she worked in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. After this she decided to broaden her horizons quite literally and go for an adventure. She worked a year in a small hospital on an island in the Caribbean, where her love for ultrasound was sparked. In an area without the luxury of 24/7 radiology cover, it seemed an ideal tool for an Emergency doctor. When she moved back to do Specialty Training in Emergency Medicine in the renowned Leiden University Medical Centre, ultrasound became a serious part of her daily practice. With ultrasound enthusiast consultants present 24/7 in both the Emergency Department as Intensive Care to support her development, she followed multiple courses and gained more skills on the bedside. Especially the latter she found invaluable.
In 2018 she finished Specialty training and decided to move to London for a year. NHS clearly did something to her, since she's still here. She worked at King’s College Hospital and in Wales in the Emergency Department and pre-hospital with the EMRTS team. By that time she was acquainted with the RCEM courses and got her sign off here as well. Her love of teaching could finally be combined when she joined an ultrasound course provider where she taught doctors of diverse specialty’s the old Level 1 and Level 2 courses. She also worked for the departmental Ultrasound-groups in the different hospitals and continued teaching on the shop floor. When she joined Royal London Hospital it made sense she would carry the flame of the US-fellowship and here we are: adding another nationality to our team!