Minister of Public Health H E Mansoor bin Ebrahim bin Saad Al-Mahmoud and other officials during the ceremony.
Doha: Sidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, honoured the achievements of the 2024-2025 graduating class of residents, fellows, medical doctors, and scholars. The event, part of its third annual Medical Education Day, was held on June 21 at the Le Royal Meridien.
The event was attended by several dignitaries, including Minister of Public Health H E Mansoor bin Ebrahim bin Saad Al-Mahmoud, Managing Director of Hamad Medical Corporation Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Mohammed Al-Suwaidi, Chief Medical Officer of Hamad Medical Corporation Dr. Khalid Mohammed Al-Jalham, and Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Medical Education at Hamad Medical Corporation Dr. Abdulla Rashid Al-Naimi.
The Class of 2025 featured 68 individuals across Sidra Medicine’s academic programs including 19 residents from Pediatrics; 36 fellows from both Women’s and Pediatrics; 5 undergraduate students from Medicine, Nursing and Biological Sciences, and 8 sponsored staff from Genomics, Research, Medical Imaging and Neuroscience Dr. Iyabo Tinubu-Karch, Chief Executive Officer at Sidra Medicine said: “Medical Education Day is a celebration of ambition, resilience and the promise of what comes next. It reflects not only the hard work of our graduates, but the dedication of those who taught, mentored and supported them.
The recognition of our graduates reflects Sidra Medicine’s ongoing commitment to building a healthcare workforce prepared to meet the region’s most pressing challenges through excellence in education, collaboration and clinical innovation.”
Prof. Ibrahim Janahi, Chief Medical Officer of Sidra Medicine said: “As graduates of Sidra Medicine, our Class of 2025 are now in a position to help lead critical change in healthcare across our region. Many of the conditions affecting children in the MENA region are still not well understood, as our populations are often left out of global healthcare research and clinical trials.
This must change. I look to the current and future generation of graduates to play a big role in bringing a much-needed perspective to the health and research sector. We wish them all the best in their exciting journeys as healthcare and research pioneers, leaders and team builders.”
To date, more than 173 students, including residents and fellows have graduated from Sidra Medicine’s medical education programs, an important milestone in its ongoing contribution to healthcare capacity building in Qatar and the region.
Key pediatric graduate programs included emergency medicine, medical genetics, pulmonology, neurology and epilepsy, hospital medicine, hematology and oncology. Research specialties included genomics and precision medicine, biological and biomedical sciences.
