Ahmad Al Rumayyan

Professor of Pediatric Neurology and Dean, College of Medicine

Ahmed Al Rumayyan is Professor of Pediatrics and Dean of the College of Medicine at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in Riyadh, a post he has held since 2014 after serving as Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs from 2010 to 2014. He earned his MBBS from King Saud University in 1989, completed residency training in Canada between 1993 and 1996, and was certified in pediatrics by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1996. He then completed a pediatric neurology fellowship in Canada in 2000 and a fellowship in electroencephalography and epilepsy in 2001. He holds a master's degree in medical education from Saudi Arabia (2010) and a PhD in medical education from the Netherlands (2020). He was Assistant Professor from 2005, Associate Professor from 2017 and Professor from 2022, and serves as President of the Association for Medical Education in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.