Dr. Lucia Nirmalanayagam
Consultant family medicine doctor with 15+ years' experience in urgent care and chronic disease management
Family DoctorConsultantGeneral & Family Care
Experience
17 years
Languages
English, Tamil
Location
Dubai Investment Park, Dubai
Sees
children, adults, seniors
- ✦Over 15 years of clinical experience in family medicine and primary care
- ✦UK board-certified consultant with MRCGP qualification (2016)
- ✦GP Clinical Lead in Bromley, UK, with focus on learning disability, autism, and urgent care services
- ✦Broad specialist training across seven disciplines including cardiology, gynaecology, psychiatry, and paediatrics
About Dr. Lucia Nirmalanayagam
Dr Lucia Nirmalanayagam is a UK board-certified Consultant in Family Medicine with over 15 years of clinical experience. She relocated to Dubai in January 2024 and now practises at NMC Healthcare, where she provides comprehensive primary care to individuals and families across all ages. Before moving to the UAE, she served as a Family Medicine Consultant and GP Clinical Lead in Bromley, UK, where she focused on learning disability and autism services alongside urgent and emergency care.
Dr Nirmalanayagam treats a wide range of acute and chronic conditions in both walk-in and pre-booked appointments. Her acute care experience covers fever, colds and flu, cough, sinusitis, ear and throat pain, urinary tract infections, abdominal pain, and rashes. For long-term conditions, she manages high blood pressure, thyroid disorders, diabetes, and high cholesterol. She also provides mental health support for depression and anxiety, general paediatric care, women's health (including menstrual issues, menopause, contraception, and cervical screening), and preventive health screening and education.
Her training is broad, spanning ear-nose-throat, paediatrics, general medicine, psychiatry, sexual health, cardiology, and gynaecology. She takes a patient-centred approach, prioritising each person's holistic needs and collaborating with specialists to deliver integrated, high-quality care.
Special interests: learning disability and autism care, health screening and preventive education, sexual health, holistic patient-centred care.
A good choice if you…
- ✓need a primary care doctor who manages both acute illnesses and long-term conditions across all ages
- ✓want continuity of care with a physician trained in multiple specialties including women's health and mental health
- seek urgent care for colds, fever, urinary tract infections, abdominal pain, and other acute conditions
