Stella Major is a board certified family physician (MRCGP-UK) with an active license to practice with the GMC in UK and QCHP in Qatar.
She is a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practice, UK (FRCGP) and honorary senior lecturer at the Imperial College School of Medicine and Technology, London. 
She is an associate professor of family medicine in clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar and unit lead for patient care and physicianship unit in Essential Principles of Medicine (EPOM) course. She is director of the Clinical skills and simulation lab (CSSL), a certified simulation educator (CHSE-A) with the Society of Simulation in Healthcare and a member of SESAM's SimU group. Since 2020, she is the Deputy National representative to the International Association for Communication in Healthcare (EACH) for Qatar. She is course director to the annual simulation based education symposia sponsored by the division of medical education at WCM-Q which was established since the CSSL expansion project was completed in 2017. https://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/clinical-skills-and-simulation-lab

Stella serves as an external examiner for the MRCGP International CSA (clinical skills assessment) licensing examination in Dubai, Oman and Kuwait, and is a recipient of numerous awards for Excellence in Clinical Teaching and Curriculum Innovations.

Her research interests are varied and are heavily influenced by her observations of contextual cultural nuances. Of note, she examined the prevalence of self-medication and adverse drug reactions leading to hospitalization in Lebanon; uncovered the experience of pregnancy loss among women in Qatar and the UK;  explored global migration and life experiences from the perspective of health educators and trainees; and studied the teaching of communication skills to medical students. Her latest area of interest is the integration of technology into medical education for which she has been awarded a medical education research grant to equip a Virtual Reality (VR) suite in the CSSL, to explore how VR may impact communication skills and learners’ perceptions of empathy.  Her latest publication describes how in response to the COVID pandemic, her team responded by developing a method to support simulated patient encounters (Web-OSCEs) in Zoom. This method has been supporting numerous clinical skills assessments in the curriculum during COVID times and has prompted the introduction of a new bi-campus elective in Telemedicine pitched for medical students, in collaboration with faculty from WCM-Q and WCM’s Center for Virtual Care in New York. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1h9kjuqzhfp5GW/bibliography/public/