Prof Amr Jamal

Chairman of Family and Community Medicine Department, King Saud University

Prof Amr A. Jamal, MD, SBFM, ABFM, MRCGP, MBI, CPHIMS

  • Chairman of Family & Community Medicine Department
  • Supervisor of Evidence-Based Health Care & knowledge Translation Research Chair
  • Associate professor and Consultant Family Physician & Clinical informatician, College of Medicine and University Medical City, King Saud University.
  • General – Secretariat Consultant for Digital Health and e-learning, Head of National Health Informatics Scientific committee, Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.

Prof Amr Jamal is a practicing consultant and associate professor of clinical informatics and family medicine, and Chairman of the family & community medicine department at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He holds three boards in family practice and a Master of Biomedical & health informatics from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon.

He has held the title of General Secretariat Consultant for e-Learning, and digital transformation and the chairman of the National Health Informatics scientific committee in the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties since 2016. In addition to his responsibilities, he is a Board member of the National Center for Health Information and The National Center for Evidence-based Health Practice, Saudi Health Council, Riyadh.

He was also a founding program director of the Master of Health Informatics at King Saud University from 2012-2017. Finally, Prof Jamal has contributed to publishing two books, three book-chapters, 27 original articles, 18 abstracts.