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Khalid Al Yafei (MD) is a pediatric emergency physician & past program director of the pediatrics emergency medicine fellowship program, and an assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar, a position he has held since February 2008.
Alyafei is a Qatari physician who studied medicine at the medical college of Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain. He joined Hamad Medical Corporation in 1997. The following year he joined the Arab board program in Pediatrics then he moved to London Ontario, Canada where he joined the residency program in Pediatrics then Pediatrics Emergency Medicine and Critical Care as a subspecialty fellowship at the University of Western Ontario- Canada.
Dr. Al Yafei assists in developing health education at pediatrics emergency, he assists residents, medical students, and fellows during their clinical rotation. He’s actively engaged in providing didactic lectures and workshops in communication and medical professionalism to residents & faculty.
As Dr. Alyafei is actively involved in many research studies, he’s also a strong advocate in public education with a special interest in injury prevention, home safety, and child abuse prevention.
In 2008 he was also a member of the health informatics team in Hamad Medical Corporation and continued to be a member of CIS and clinical reference group informatics. Subsequently has been appointed as Vice- CMIO in Sidra on August 2013, and on November 2017 he was promoted to CMIO, leading the medical informatics team to meet the vision of Sidra Medicine to have a highly advanced technology that’s fully integrated to assist physicians to provide excellence and safe care to their patients

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