Alya Abdulrahim Qari

President of the Saudi Society of Medical Genetics, Senior Genetic Counselor

Alya Abdulrahim Qari is President of the Saudi Society of Medical Genetics and a senior genetic counselor at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, where she also chairs the society's board of directors. Genetic counselling sits between the laboratory and the family: translating variant classifications and test limitations into decisions patients can act on, and guiding families through inherited disease risk, carrier status and reproductive options. Her professional focus includes variant interpretation in consanguineous populations and the development of genetic counselling as a recognised profession within the Saudi health system.