Amna Al Futaisi

Professor and Head of Department; Senior Consultant in Paediatric Neurology

Amna Al Futaisi is an Omani pediatric neurologist and academic who heads the Department of Child Health and is Professor of Pediatric Neurology at Sultan Qaboos University, where she is also Senior Consultant in Pediatric Neurology and Pediatric Electrophysiology at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital. She earned her BSc and MD at Sultan Qaboos University and completed fellowships in pediatric neurology and EEG and epilepsy at McGill University and the University of Toronto. She is certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in the United Kingdom. She has helped establish long-term EEG monitoring, vagus nerve stimulation, ketogenic diet clinics and virtual clinics in Oman, chairs the Arab Board Pediatric Neurology Fellowship Program, and is President of the Oman Epilepsy Society and the Oman League Against Epilepsy. Her research covers neurogenetic disorders and epilepsy, with more than 95 publications.