Khalid Alyafei

Dr. Khalid Alyafei holds now a position as division chief medical informatics and senior attending pediatrics emergency medicine at Sidra medicine. Dr. Alyafei has a lengthy experience in clinical operation, leadership, education and medical informatics. He held a position as program director of PEM fellowship at HMC on 2008. He assists in residents training & faculty development in providing didactic lectures and workshops in communication and medical professionalism.

As Dr. Alyafei is actively involved in many research studies, he’s also a strong advocate in public education with special interest in injury prevention, home safety, and child abuse prevention. Dr. Alyafei has engaged in medical informatics since 2009 where he participated as SME and active member in steering committee. he became deputy CMIO on 2013 then a division CMIO on Nov 2017.

Dr. Alyafei received his MD from Arabian Gulf University- medical college, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain in 1997. He completed his post-doctoral training in pediatrics and then pediatric emergency medicine at the Children Hospital of Western Ontario, Canada on 2007. Dr. Alyafei is a board-certified pediatrician and also certified in pediatric emergency medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. he has also a master degree in Leadership from Georgetown university.

Dr. Alyafei is a member in several professional membership for emergency medicine and medical informatics