H.E. Dr. Saleh Al Qahtani

Chairman, Board Of Directors & Executive Director, Royal Clinics

Member, Board of Directors, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (Gen. Org.)

About

Chairman, Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, Royal Clinics, Saudi Arabia

Professor of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia

Consultant Gastroenterologist/Hepatologist, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, &

Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Dr. Saleh Alqahtani is the Chairman and CEO of the Royal Clinics and a Consultant

Gastroenterologist/Hepatologist at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia. He holds faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins University and Cornell University, USA. Before joining the

Royal Clinics, Dr. Alqahtani was the Medical Director of International Digestive and Liver Services at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA, the Associate Director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas and Instructor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. 

The recipient of several awards and honors, Dr. Alqahtani has published extensively and is considered a highly regarded expert in liver, digestive diseases and  endoscopy.  He has authored numerous publications and book chapters and is a highly respected researcher. Dr. Alqahtani has been the principal investigator of clinical trials related to the management of viral hepatitis and fatty liver disease, including novel agents, and the co-investigator for many clinical trials in liver cancer, liver cirrhosis and outcome of liver transplantation. He is a regional and internationally invited speaker, lecturing at scientific conferences in the United States, Middle East, Latin America, Asia, and Europe.

Dr. Alqahtani is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Gastroenterology, Transplant Hepatology and Obesity Medicine and is a member of professional societies including the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the European Association for the Study of the Liver, the Global NASH Council, the Mayo Clinic Alumni Association, and the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association.

Dr. Alqahtani earned his medical degree from King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia.  He completed his internal medicine residency program at Western University, followed by a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Calgary, and an advanced liver disease and liver transplantation fellowship at the worldrenowned Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.