Falah Shawkat Al-Naib was a senior consultant surgeon and head of the department of surgery at Al Diwaniya General Hospital, Iraq. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq on 1 July 1942 and was educated in the city. He studied medicine at the University of Baghdad medical school and qualified in 1966. He then carried out a compulsory period of service in the Iraqi Army as a second lieutenant medical doctor. He subsequently worked and trained at Medical City in Baghdad as a house officer, senior house officer and registrar in the orthopaedic department. He was then he was a registrar in the surgical department there for two years. In April 1971, he married Rajaa Al-Khuzai, who was also a doctor and became a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In October of the same year, Falah and his wife fled to the UK. He worked at many hospitals in London, including at Kingston Hospital. He gained his FRCS in 1974, and worked and trained as a registrar and senior registrar in neurosurgery at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon. In 1976, he went back to Iraq, where he worked as a consultant surgeon and head of department at Al Diwaniya General Hospital. During this time, he worked hard and did his best to reform the department. Falah operated on the most complicated cases, without referring his patients on to Baghdad unless absolutely necessary. He operated on hundreds of cases of war injuries during the eight years of the war with Iran. In 1986, he was granted the title of senior consultant surgeon. He retired in 2005. Falah published many papers in the Iraqi Medical Journal, including on breast surgery and hiatus hernia. He died peacefully on 19 April 2019 in Glasgow.