Ali Al-Otaibi

Chairman, Neurophysiology Department; Consultant Pediatric Neurologist, Epileptologist and Clinical Neurophysiologist

Ali Dhohyan Al-Otaibi is chairman of the Neurophysiology Department at the National Neuroscience Institute of King Fahad Medical City in Riyadh, and a consultant pediatric neurologist, epileptologist and clinical neurophysiologist. He received his MBBCh from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, the Saudi Specialty Certificate in Pediatrics and the Arab Board of Medical Specializations in Pediatrics, and completed the pediatric neurology fellowship program at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre. He then trained at the University of Toronto through clinical fellowships in epilepsy and in pediatric clinical neurophysiology. His subspecialty focus is the presurgical evaluation of intractable epilepsy and epileptic syndromes, including invasive intracranial EEG recording and electrocorticography, and he has expertise in managing refractory status epilepticus and continuous EEG monitoring in critical care units. He is a co-author of the 2024 expert consensus statement on infantile epileptic spasms syndrome in Gulf Cooperation Council countries and sits on the organizing committee of the Saudi Pediatric Neurology Society conference.