Credentials:
- Professor of Thoracic Diseases and Sleep Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University
- Consultant for Thoracic Diseases, Sleep Disorders, and Intensive Care, University Hospitals
- Head of the Board of Research Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University
- Head of Thoracic Diseases Unit, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University
- Director of the University Sleep Disorder Center, King Khalid University Hospital
- Founder of Fundamental Critical Care Support in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and created the first cycle in the Middle East (1998)
- Founding member of the Saudi Thoracic Society
- Chairman of the American College of Chest Physicians in the Kingdom (2000-2006)
- Representative of the European Respiratory Society (October 2008 - Present)
- Member of Editorial Department for several medical journals like:
- A columnist for the Riyadh Daily
Formal Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Medicine and General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University (Honors)
- Fellow of the Royal College of Internal Medicine
- Fellow of the Royal College of Internal Medicine, Edinburgh
- Arab Fellowship in Internal Medicine
- Fellow of the University of Manitoba (Canada) for Sleep Disorders
- Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians
- Fellow of the University of Manitoba (Canada) for Thoracic Diseases
- European fellowship of Respiratory Diseases
- Fellow of the University of Manitoba (Canada) for Intensive Care
- European fellowship for Intensive Care
- A member of the American Academy for Sleep Medicine
