DOHA: Sidra Medical and Research Center has appointed three new senior members of its management team in the positions of Chief Research Officer, Clinical Chief of Surgery and Chief Information Officer.
All three appointees have left senior positions with leading organisations to join Sidra.
Research expert Dr Francesco M Marincola, MD, FACS, has been appointed as Chief Research Officer.
He will be responsible for leading the development of Sidra’s research capabilities to enable it to become a centre of excellence for clinical and translational biomedical research. He joins Sidra from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) where he held the positions of Chief of the Infectious Disease and Immunogenetics Section and Tenured Senior Investigator.
Paediatric General Surgeon Dr David Lyle Sigalet MD, MSc, PhD, FRCSC, FACS, has been appointed Clinical Chief of Surgery.
Dr Sigalet will lead Sidra’s surgical department to ensure delivery of a high standard of patient focused and transformative care.
In addition, he will drive forward innovation in research and medical education to place Sidra at the forefront of surgical expertise and progress.
He is a Paediatric General Surgeon with over 25 years of experience in surgery, research and academia. Prior to joining Sidra he was Professor of Surgery in the Department of Pediatric General Surgery at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation, University of Calgary, one of Canada’s top research universities.
Health information systems expert Michael LeRoy has been appointed as Chief Information Officer with the remit of leading the planning, design and implementation of the cutting edge, integrated medical and information management system that will be key to the functioning of Sidra as a state-of-the-art, all-digital medical centre. LeRoy joins Sidra from the role of Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the Detroit Medical Center (DMC), Michigan, US.
Commenting on the appointments, Sidra CEO Dr William F Owen said: “We are delighted to have three people with such outstanding track records in their fields joining us today.”
Sidra Project Com-munications Director Khalid Al Mohannadi said:
“We are committed to providing equal opportunities for Qatari nationals. In fact, we increased the number of Qataris in 2012 by 10 percent from 2011.”
“At present, 30 percent of Sidra’s 245 project team employees are Qataris. This number will change as Sidra brings on more operational staff but we are committed to growing Qatar’s talent to ensure that we always meet and exceed government-set Qatarisation guidelines as we do now,” he added.
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