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Dr. Mitchell Stotland is the Vice Chair, Department of Surgery, Division Chief of Plastic, Craniofacial, and Hand Surgery, and Medical Director, Perioperative Services at Sidra Medicine in Doha, Qatar. Completed his medical school education and plastic surgery residency at McGill School of Medicine in Montreal, Canada, and craniofacial surgery fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles (1997).
Dr. Husnu Firat Altin is a senior attending physician in cardiovascular surgery at Sidra Medicine since 2023 and previously worked as a pediatric cardiovascular surgeon at the University of Health Sciences, Siyami Ersek Hospital in Turkey for 5 years.
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Dr. Abdulkader is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist and Neuro-gastroenterology and Motility Specialist at Sidra Medicine. He attended medical school at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and trained at the Cleveland Clinic (pediatric residency) & Nationwide Children's Hospital (Gastroenterology fellowship and Advanced Neurogastroenterology and Motility fellowship).
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Dr. Singh received specialist Anesthesia training in the UK and undergraduate and postgraduate training in India. He did a fellowship in pediatric anesthesia and pediatric critical care at Manchester Children’s Hospital. After completing his training (CCT), he was appointed consultant Pediatric Anesthetist in Newcastle, Leeds, and Swansea. He was the clinical lead for pediatric anesthesia, helped set up the pediatric acute pain service, and was the pediatric acute pain lead in the UK.
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Professor Kilpatrick is the Division Chief in Clinical Biochemistry at Sidra Medicine. He is clinically responsible for delivering a quality Clinical Biochemistry and Point of Care testing service within the hospital.
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Dr. Hassan is a Senior Attending Physician in the Microbiology Department of Pathology at Sidra Medicine. He joined Sidra Medicine on 1st March 2023.
He is an infection specialist who teaches about infections in adults and children to undergraduate and postgraduate medicine students and other healthcare workers.
He worked for over two decades as a Consultant Medical Microbiologist in Manchester hospitals, UK, including at Wythenshawe, MRI & Stepping Hill Hospital, until Feb 2023, when he left to join Sidra Medicine.
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Dr. Raghda Yahya has been a consultant general pediatrician at Sidra Medicine since 2021. Before this, she spent 11 years as a consultant pediatrician at King Fahad Specialist Hospital-Dammam, Saudi Arabia. As a general pediatrician, Dr. Yahya treats all types of illnesses and helps parents manage their children’s chronic diseases. She enjoys spending time with her patients and their families in inpatient and outpatient settings, striving to create meaningful and therapeutic relationships.
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Dr. Mattar Neri joined Sidra Medicine in 2018 and is a Senior Attending Physician in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus at Sidra Medicine. Dr. Neri graduated from the Venezuelan Central University and has a Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus fellowship from the University of Colorado, Children’s Hospital, Eye Clinic, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Before joining Sidra Medicine, he was a Consultant in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus at King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, KSA.
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Dr. Nelli El-Ghazal obtained her Ph.D. in School Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University. She is a Child and Adolescent Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and an Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Prior to joining Sidra, she worked in the school system and was part of a private practice in the United States.