Manjeet Singh Riyat
Manjeet Singh Riyat was a British emergency care consultant, described as the first person of Sikh heritage to hold such a role in the United Kingdom.Life
After education at the University of Leicester, qualifying in 1992, and training at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Lincoln County Hospital, he joined Royal Derby Hospital as a consultant in emergency medicine, in 2003. He rose to be head of the emergency department there in 2006, and was chair of the hospital's medical advisory committee and its medical staffing committee.
Riyat taught emergency medicine and served as an examiner for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine from 2007, becoming lead examiner for their fellowship examinations in 2016.
He was also a clinical research fellow in academic emergency medicine and co-authored a number of papers, in venues including the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Riyat died, aged 52, at the hospital where he worked, on 20 April 2020, after contracting COVID-19. He was married and had two sons.
