Dr. Khalid Al Ansari
Chair of the Emergency Medicine Department at Sidra Medicine
Dr. Khalid Al Ansari is the Chair of the Emergency Medicine Department at Sidra Medicine. His fields of expertise include emergency and trauma care, poison control, emergency respiratory diseases and gastroenteritis, and child protection and advocacy.
Dr. Al Ansari's extensive expertise in emergency medicine and acute medical care has helped him transform the delivery of pediatric emergency services to patients in Qatar.
Dr. Al Ansari is also a professor at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar, the inaugural chairman of Level One Trauma, Emergency Department and Urgent Care at Sidra Medicine, the founder of the National Poison Center, the chairman of the Sidra-wide Hospital Resuscitation Program and the founder of the Child Advocacy Program in Qatar.
Prior to joining Sidra Medicine, Dr. Al Ansari was an associate professor and the medical director of pediatric emergency services at Hamad Medical Corporation for 17 years.
Dr. Al Ansari is the chairman of Qatar Biomedical Bank, the chairman of the Ministry of Public Health’s National Child Protection Committee, and a member of National Disaster Committee.