Amal Khidir, MBBS, FAAP, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Assistant Dean for Faculty Development, Vice Chair of IRB and former Pediatric Clerkship Director (2008-2023) joined Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar in 2006. She is an American Board-certified pediatrician, a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Section on Global Health (SOGH), and the Section on International Medical Graduates (SOIMG). She is a member in Council of Medical Students Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) since 2003. She was a co-leader of the Research and Scholarship Collaborative (2017-2022) and co-chair of the Annual Meeting Committee (2022) in COMSEP. She is a member of the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care (APHC) since 2020 and the co-chair of the Annual Meeting Committee since 2023. Also, she is a co-lead of the Leadership Excellence in Education for Professionalism (LEEP) Fellowship. She practices pediatrics Sidra Medicine.
Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Khartoum University, Sudan. She completed her pediatric residency training at Howard University Hospital, Washington, D.C., later joined the faculty and became the pediatric clerkship director (2003-2006). Her passion for faculty development rapidly evolved after completing the Program for Educators in Healthcare Professions at Harvard Macy Institution in 2007. She completed the LEEP Fellowship in 2023. She completed the COMSEP COACH Certificate Program in 2023.
She is the co-founder of the Professionalism program at HMC where >4000 faculty, trainees, nurses, and pharmacists participated. She led and participated in more than 50 peer-reviewed regional and international professional education workshops. She received several teaching awards and the COMSEP 2021 Research and Scholarship Award. Areas of interest: professionalism, remediation, professional development, assessment, and cultural competence.
Awarded several grants example: (1) National Priorities Research Program equivalent to R01 grant titled "Providing Culturally Appropriate Health Care Services in Qatar: Development of a Multilingual Patient Cultural Assessment of Quality Instrument," (2) COMSEP Grant “Exploring Belonging in Professional Identity Formation” a multi-institution study, and (3) WCMQ Medical Education Research Grant “Impact of Perceived Generational Differences on Learning Project: A Multicenter, Multiphase Collaborative Study.” As well as other awarded research and CPD grants and supervised learners clinically and in research.
Areas of interest: Medical education, professional development, professionalism, remediation, assessment, and cultural humility.
