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Tayseer Al Saad

Dr. Tayseer Al Saad is a Senior Attending Consultant in the Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Department at Sidra Medicine.

He joined the hospital in November 2017, from Hamad Medical Corporation, where he as a Senior Consultant in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology.

Dr. Al Saad holds more than 10 years’ experience in general pediatric and 20+ years of experience in the pediatric hematology oncology field, serving in different roles and locations. His specialty experience includes:

All pediatric hematology patient including blood transfusions, blood products and biological factors.
All pediatric cancer patient including diagnostics and chemotherapy
Procedures: bone marrow aspiration, bone marrow biopsy, lumber punctures, intrathecal chemotherapy, IV chemotherapy and biological factors

23 July, 2024

Choosing Qatar for Complex Nasal Surgery

A six-year old boy, born with a rare condition called a nasal meningoencephalocele, underwent a minimally invasive procedure at Sidra Medicine recently.

9 July, 2024

Sidra Medicine Signs MoU with Children’s National

Partnership to enable Nursing Best Practices and Excellence Sidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Children’s National Hospital from Washington D.C., to establish a

1 July, 2024

Sidra Medicine Becomes First Hospital in Qatar to Administer Revolutionary Gene Therapy Medication

Life-saving drug from Roche Pharmaceuticals now available in Qatar for children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Chris El Kik becomes first patient to receive treatment for DMD Doha, Qatar, 1 July

30 June, 2024

Accurate and Timely Diagnoses Now a Reality with Whole Genome Sequencing at Sidra Medicine

Hope for Patients with Complex Medical Conditions and Rare Diseases 30 June 2024, Doha, Qatar – Sidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, is pleased to announce that it has successfully implemented

9 June, 2024

Sidra Medicine Celebrates Second Medical Education Day

Sidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, celebrated its second Medical Education Day on 8 June 2024 at The Ritz Carlton Hotel to honor its batch of 2023-2024 graduate residents, fellows, and medical students.

15 May, 2024

Sidra Medicine Hosts Inaugural Conference on Primary Immune Dysregulation Disorders

15 May 2024, Doha, Qatar – Sidra Medicine, in collaboration with the MENAT-NIAID initiative, proudly hosted the Recent Advances in Primary Immunodysregulation Disorders (RAPID) conference on the 9th and 10th of

14 May, 2024

Sidra Medicine to Establish Qatar’s First-Ever Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program

14 May 2024, Doha, Qatar – Sidra Medicine, a QF entity, is proud to announce the upcoming establishment of the first-ever pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) program in Qatar, in partnership with one of the world’s leading pediatric hospitals, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

22 April, 2024

Sidra Medicine Leads Largest Research on Rare Genetic Disease Risk in the Middle East

A study by Sidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, on rare genetic diseases in a wide-ranging and diverse Middle Eastern cohort from Qatar, has been published in the prestigious Genome Medicine journal1.

1 April, 2024

First Arab Middle Eastern Genetics Research in Autism Going Global

On World Autism Awareness Day, Sidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, celebrates the profound impact of its long-standing initiative, the BARAKA-Qatar study1 (Building a Resource for the Advancement of Knowledge of Autism in Qatar).