Dr Amila practices Emergency Medicine with a special interest in medical education, team work dynamics (crisis resource management or CRM) and simulation-based training. In addition, he serves as adjunct Associate Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU. He is also an Assistant Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS.

Dr Amila obtained his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of the Art of Obstetrics degrees in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1995.

Dr Amila has combined his great passion of teaching with clinical care to the population of Singapore. Amongst his many education-related portfolios he is the Program Director of the hospital clinician scheme for WH, he is the immediate ex-lead (medical) of the Simlab and Chief instructor of ACLS. Amila is employed as Senior Consultant in the emergency department of woodlands health where he serves as Director of medical education. He is the immediate ex-clinical director for the ED. He is also the medical lead for health literacy for the hospital.

He started his career in the United Kingdom as a surgical trainee before moving to Hong Kong where he trained as a surgical research fellow, before settling in Singapore in 2000 and discovering his passion for emergency medicine. After training in the emergency medicine residency program in Singapore, he obtained Membership into the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Accident & Emergency Medicine as well as his Masters of Medicine (Accident & Emergency) from NUS, in August 2004, with distinction and became a specialist in 2008. He practiced as an Associate Consultant in NUH ED before joining the Ng Teng Fong administration in 2010 as a consultant and becoming a senior consultant in 2015. There he served as Associate Dean and Medical L&D Chairman and was heavily involved in all forms of education. In 2019, he joined Woodlands Health where he has served as Health Literacy Chairman, PD of the Hospital Clinician scheme, start-up medical lead of the simulation center and Chief Instructor of ACLS.

He has received numerous teaching awards during his time as a clinician in Singapore. These include the 2013-2014 and 2016-2017 AY Undergraduate Best Tutor department awards – Emergency Medicine Department as well as the 2013-2014 AY SILVER Award for second best undergraduate tutor in Alexandra Hospital and Jurong Health and 2016-2017 AY GOLD Award for Best undergraduate tutor in Jurong Health. Additionally, he is a four-time Winner of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2013-2014, 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018) and the First Jurong Health Campus recipient of the Deans Honour Roll Award (for 3 consecutive wins in the Deans Award for Teaching Excellence category).

He also has received the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Special Recognition Award, received from the Dean for mentoring the medicine graduating classes of 2013, 2015, 2016 & 2017 and is also a two-time winner of the NUS Medsoc Outstanding Tutor Award in 2017 and 2019. He also won the Teaching Excellence (Medical) Award at the Inaugural NUHS Teaching Awards (2018) as well as the NHG Teaching Award for Senior Doctors (2020). In addition, he has won PGY1 teaching awards receiving the PGY1 CEP A* award in Teaching in 2015 as well as the CEP Teaching Award for Best Simulation Session 2017 (Internal Medicine Simulation).