Khalid Al Yafei (MD) is a pediatric emergency physician & former program director of the pediatrics emergency medicine fellowship program. He is an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar, a position he has held since February 2008.

Alyafei is a Qatari physician who studied medicine at the medical college of Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain. He joined Hamad Medical Corporation in 1997. The following year, he joined the Arab board program in Pediatrics. He moved to London, Ontario, Canada, where he joined the residency program in Pediatrics, then Pediatrics Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine as a subspecialty fellowship at the University of Western Ontario- Canada.

Dr. Al Yafei assists in developing health education in pediatric emergencies; he assists residents, medical students, and fellows during their clinical rotations. He’s actively provided didactic lectures and workshops in communication and medical professionalism to residents & faculty.

As Dr. Alyafei is actively involved in many research studies, he’s also a strong advocate in public education with a special interest in injury prevention, home safety, and child abuse prevention.

In 2008, he became a member of the health informatics team at Hamad Medical Corporation and continued to be a CIS and clinical reference group informatics member. Subsequently, has been appointed as Vice- CMIO in Sidra in August 2013, and in November 2017, he was promoted to CMIO, leading the medical informatics team to meet the vision of Sidra Medicine to have a highly advanced technology that’s fully integrated to assist physicians in providing excellence and safe care to their patients till August 2023.

Dr. Alyafei continues practicing as a senior attending pediatric emergency and medical director of PALS at Sidra Medicine.