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Dr. Khalid Al-Kharazi is a senior pediatric neurosurgeon at Sidra Medicine with almost 20 years of experience in neurosurgery. He has worked in Canada, Germany, Jordan, and Yemen before joining the medical team in Qatar in 2014.
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Dr. Tayseer Al Saad is a Senior Attending Consultant in the Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Department at Sidra Medicine.
He joined the hospital in November 2017, from Hamad Medical Corporation, where he as a Senior Consultant in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology.
Dr. Al Saad holds more than 10 years’ experience in general pediatric and 20+ years of experience in the pediatric hematology oncology field, serving in different roles and locations. His specialty experience includes:
Dr. Buthaina Al Adba is a senior attending physician at Sidra Medicine. She obtained her medical degree at King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia, followed by a pediatric residency at Hamad Medical Corporation. She completed fellowship training in Pediatric Rheumatology at Sickids Hospital in Toronto, Canada in 2015.
After fellowship training she worked at Hamad Medical Corporation before joining Sidra Medicine in 2017.
Dr. Syed Sayeed Ahmed joined Sidra Medicine as Attending Physician -Pediatric Emergency in February 2018. He has nearly twenty years of well-rounded pediatric clinical experience in the UK, India and the Middle East. Prior to joining Sidra Medicine, Dr. Ahmed was working as Consultant Pediatrician in the UK. His special interests include Acute & Ambulatory Pediatrics, Respiratory Pediatrics & Allergy.
Dr. Oniya is a Senior Attending Physician at Sidra Medicine and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medical College Qatar. She has served as one of the Directors of Medical Education for the OBGYN Department at Sidra and has been recently appointed as team lead.
Dr. Agbetunsin was a Consultant at the University Hospital of Leicester. She completed the advanced training modules in Advanced Labour ward practice and Labour ward Lead. She was the Labour ward Lead till her appointment at Sidra leading departmental risk management and clinical governance. She has special interest in intrapartum care, maternal mental health, high risk obstetrics, medical education and quality improvement. She initiated a maternal mental health clinic which improved the service provision for women in Leicester.
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Dr. Adappa joined Sidra Medicine in November 2017 and is a Senior Attending Physician in the Neonatal unit. He is currently the Medical Director for Education and Middle-Grade staff on the unit. He manages the education program and is the line manager for hospitalist doctors and nurse practitioners. He has expertise in databases and is part of the VON database team on the neonatal unit and is actively involved with analysis, supporting QI projects, and benchmarking.
About the Physician
Dr. Abdelgadir worked as a Pediatric Emergency Consultant at Al Wakrah Hospital before joining Sidra Medicine in 2017. After completing the MD training program in Sudan, she joined the UK Pediatric training, where she was awarded a Certificate of Completion of Training, a Fellowship of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, and a Master's Degree in Pediatrics, UK. She joined the Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics.