Children & Young People’s Services

Fatma Al-Mudahka

MBBS, MD
Senior Attending Physician & Medical Director | Outpatient Pediatric Infusion Center (OPIC)
Years of Experience: 20

Dr. Fatma Al-Mudahka is a Senior Attending Physician in the Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Division at Sidra Medicine and serves as the Medical Director of the Outpatient Pediatric Infusion Center (OPIC). She is also an Associate Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar.

Dr. Al-Mudahka completed her undergraduate medical training at the Arabian Gulf University College of Medicine and Medical Sciences in Bahrain and her pediatric residency training at Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar. Prior to joining Sidra Medicine, she was the Head of the Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit at Hamad Medical Corporation.

She completed a clinical fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children in Canada. Dr. Al-Mudahka has extensive experience in managing children and adolescents with gastrointestinal disorders and nutritional deficiencies, with particular clinical interests in inflammatory bowel disease and liver and bowel transplantation.

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Fatma Al-Mudahka

  • Arabic
  • English

  • Arabian Gulf University College of Medicine & Medical Sciences, Bahrain
  • Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition – University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
  • Executive Leaders Program: Innovation and Change Module – Harvard Business School, Qatar Leadership Centre

  • Hamad Medical Corporation
  • Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar

  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Liver and bowel transplantation
  • Gastrointestinal disorders
  • Nutritional deficiencies

  • Associate Professor – Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar

  • Corneal Langerhans cells in children with celiac disease. Scientific Reports, 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-22376-w
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treatments and Predictive Biomarkers of Therapeutic Response. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022. DOI: 10.3390/ijms23136966
  • Human AGR2 Deficiency Causes Mucus Barrier Dysfunction and Infantile Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2021.07.001
  • Corneal confocal microscopy demonstrates minimal evidence of distal neuropathy in children with celiac disease. PLOS ONE, 2020. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238859
  • Prevalence of malnutrition at the time of admission among patients admitted to a Canadian tertiary-care paediatric hospital. Paediatrics & Child Health, 2014. DOI: 10.1093/pch/19.8.413

  • Gastroenterology
  • Hepatology
  • Clinical Nutrition

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