Ali Saeed Alzahrani

Professor Ali S. Alzahrani is a consultant endocrinologist at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre and a Professor of Medicine at Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  He was the Executive Director of the Research Center during the period of 2019-2022 and the past President of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, Gulf Chapter in 2015

Prof. Alzahrani graduated from King Saud University, had his postgraduate education (residency and fellowship) at KFSHRC and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  He was a visiting professor to Johns Hopkins University 2010-2011 and to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in October-November 2018.   He was the recipient of the 2015 International Clinician Award from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, Orlando, Florida. He was the Editor-in Chief of the Annals of Saudi Medicine.  He is an Editorial Board member of the official journal of the American Thyroid Association, THYROID, the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM) and Endocrine.  He is an academic editor of the PLOS.  Prof. Alzahrani has more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, more than 120 regional and international presentations and has presented more than 150 lectures nationally and internationally as an invited speaker. He is an active member of several international societies and an active member of the American Thyroid Association Research Committee and the International Thyroid Oncology Group (ITOG). His academic interests are clinical and molecular research in the areas of endocrine cancer and endocrine genetics.