Abdulrahman Hagr

Professor of Otolaryngology and Director, King Abdullah Ear Specialist Center

Abdulrahman Hagr is a professor of otolaryngology at King Saud University in Riyadh and director of the King Abdullah Ear Specialist Center, where he also directs the Prince Sultan Research Chair for Hearing Disabilities. He graduated in medicine and surgery from King Saud University in 1996, completed postgraduate otolaryngology training at McGill University in 2004 and an otology and neurotology fellowship at Dalhousie University in 2005. He practises as an otologist, neurotologist and skull base surgeon and is president of the Saudi ORL Society. His profiles describe him as founder and adviser of the cochlear implant programs in Saudi Arabia and founder of the King Saud University Otology and Neurotology Fellowship Program. He is also credited with introducing bone-anchored hearing aid, hybrid cochlear implant, auditory brainstem implant and Bonebridge programs in the Kingdom.