Dr. Al Hareth Al Khater

​
Sr. Consultant Physician, Deputy Medical Director, National Center for Cancer Care & Research, Chairman, Corporate Healthcare Ethics Committee

---

Dr. Al-Hareth M. Al-Khater was granted a Qatari national medical scholarship and obtained his medical degree at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He then joined Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) where he did his internship and medical residency before obtaining a national medical sub-specialty scholarship. He completed his internal medicine residency, hematology and medical oncology fellowship training at the University of Missouri-Columbia, working at the University Hospital, the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veteran's Hospital & Ellis Fischel Cancer Center.

Dr. Al-Khater obtained American Board certification in internal medicine, hematology and medical oncology. He is currently a Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist and Deputy Medical Director at the National Center for Cancer Care & Research, HMC, Doha, Qatar. He is also a Medical Advisor for the National Cancer Program in the Ministry of Public Health, Qatar.

He has participated in many institutional, national and international committees including being a member of the Qatar National Research Ethics Committee, member of the Qatar State Awards Trustees' Committee, member of the Advisory Committee for the Gulf Center for Cancer Control & Prevention, Riyadh, K.S.A. and member of the Scientific Council for the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.

His main interests are urological cancers and healthcare ethics at the end of life.