Dr. Kanan Alshammari is a consultant of adult medical oncology at King Abdulaziz Medical City – Ministry of National Guard for Health Affairs (MNGHA) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and an Assistant Professor at the College of Medicine of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University (KSAU) for Health Sciences.
He is also the director of the NCCN MENA Regional Coordinating Center at MNGHA. He completed his undergraduate training at the University of Otago in New Zealand, earning his MBChB in 2008.
He then obtained the Saudi Board of Internal Medicine in 2014. He completed his medical oncology training at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and received the Subspecialty Affiliate certification from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2018.
Dr. Alshammari then did another fellowship in drug development/phase 1 oncology trials and sarcoma in 2019 at the Princess Margaret Cancer Center in Toronto, Canada. He has published in the areas of HCC and precision oncology and has a particular interest in sarcoma.
