On behalf of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), it is our privilege to welcome the global neuroscience community to Doha for the 6th Qatar Neuroscience Conference, with a focused theme on artificial intelligence and neurosurgery. As Qatar’s premier healthcare provider and the country’s main provider of secondary and tertiary care, HMC is guided by a clear mission to deliver the safest, most effective, and most compassionate care to every patient we serve. 

Established in 1979, HMC has grown into a national health system that manages a broad network of specialist hospitals and services, including the National Ambulance Service and dedicated mental health, homecare, and residential care programs. This scale is matched by a sustained commitment to quality and safety, reflected in internationally recognized accreditations and a culture that continuously measures itself against global benchmarks in high impact domains such as stroke, trauma, cardiology, cancer care, and complex surgery. 

HMC’s vision is inseparable from education and discovery. Through Qatar’s Academic Health System, HMC works in close collaboration with Qatar University and Weill Cornell Medicine- Qatar and other academic partners to integrate patient care, training, and research, ensuring that innovation moves efficiently from laboratory and data science into clinical benefit. This academic approach is reflected in the strength of HMC’s training ecosystem, including internationally recognized graduate medical education standards, and in the institutional drive to build lasting research capacity in Qatar and the wider region. 

This conference is designed as a bridge between today’s clinical realities and the next generation of neurological science. By bringing together neurosurgeons, neuroscientists, engineers, data scientists, and industry partners, we aim to accelerate responsible AI translation into neurosurgical practice, strengthen multicentre collaboration, and cultivate new ideas that are clinically rigorous, ethically grounded, and globally relevant. We look forward to welcoming you to Doha and to an exchange of knowledge that advances patient outcomes and reshapes what is possible at the interface of intelligent human and Machine Learning, in modern neurosurgery.

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HMC: A Legacy of Excellence

HMC is the first healthcare system in the region to achieve institutional accreditation from the ACGME-International and the first globally to have all its hospitals accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI) under the Academic Medical Center program.

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