Ms. Shaikha Ali Al Qahtani, MSc, RN
Co-Chair - Scientific Committee
Director of Nursing – Corporate Nursing
Wound Care Management
Hamad General Hospital
Ms. Shaikha Al Qahtani is the first Qatari Director of Nursing and Wound Care Management at Hamad General Hospital (HGH). She oversees Nursing and Wound Care Management for ambulatory care services in the hospital’s OPD and surgery unit, as well as Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Bone and Joint Center and Fahad Bin Jassim Dialysis Center. She is a member of the American College of Wound Care and Tissue Repair (AWCT). In the beginning of the year 2017, she was given an acting role of Assistant Executive Director in (Ambulatory Care Service) HGH. She then moved to the Corporate Nursing Department, this department is covering all nursing service in HMC.
Ms. Al Qahtani has previously worked as a subspecialty wound care nurse in the Patient and Family Education Unit at HGH, also covering Women’s Hospital.
She has conducted many wound care awareness programs for schools and held numerous wound care workshops for students and faculty at the University of Calgary (UCQ). Shaikha has also attended and participated in many international courses and conferences.
In the year 2016, she successfully chaired and organized the Qatar First International Wound Management Conference.
Ms. Al Qahtani completed her Diploma in Nursing in 2007 through the High Institute of Nursing – Doha, Qatar, and completed an International InterProfessional Wound Care course from the University of Toronto (IIWCC) in 2009.
Ms. Al Qahtani received her BSN in 2013 from University of Calgary in Qatar and followed that with a Masters in Science of Skin Integrity Skills and Treatment from the University of Hertfordshire in 2014. She recently completed her Master of Nursing thesis at the University of Calgary, Qatar in 2016.
She is the first UCQ student to complete the MN thesis program. Her research is already making an impact to the model of collaborative interprofessional practice in the outpatient wound clinic at HMC and was rated very highly by her research respondents. Shaikha is disseminating her findings about the contributions of a well-developed interprofessional team who support holistic approaches to healing wounds. She has also published a number of articles and abstracts and has presented in national and international conferences.
