Jameela Al-Ajmi

Senior Consultant in Adult Infecious Diseases, Hamad Medical Corporation

Asst. Professor in Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College- Qatar

Dr. Aljmi earned her Arab board specialization in internal medicine in 2002 and went on for clinical attachment at Wayne University, Michigan / MD-Anderson Cancer Centre, Texas. She completed her post-graduate diploma and Master of Science in Infectious Diseases from University of London -London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and re-certified board in infection control 2016. She was appointed as executive director of Corporate Infection Prevention and Control Program since 2015. She has served on many committees including Prevention and Control of Infection Committee at corporate level, head of Outbreak Committee, hairman of water safety, infection control polices committees and member of the national committee of weapon prohibition. Dr. Jameela is fellow at the Institute of Health Care Improvement in Patient Safety 2013 -2014  and she is a Lean-Six Sigma Black Belt certified in patient safety and quality.

She has also made great contributions to the training program of quality improvement, infection control and prevention where she was selected as Director of Infection Control course from George Washington University and Medical Training Center- HMC. She has also been a speaker in different workshops and conferences. She is teaching quality improvement modules for the public health master degree students at the University of Qatar.

 She was involved in many quality improvement projects to promote patient safety by reducing the risk of acquiring and transmitting infections such as corona virus, ebola and tuberculosis. She had consistently displayed a remarkable ability to cope up with different areas like oversight Clinical Microsystems coaching program, coaching improvement project team aiming to reduce central line associated blood stream infections 

She was recognized at the Stars of Excellence Employee Awards and recognition program at  HMC for star of Excellence Award for best leadership project (reduction of HCAI in NICU 2010), Glowing star award for distinction in practice, Award of merit  for distinction in practice and Award of merit for technological innovation for 2011.

Dr. Jameela is particularly interested on issues relating to general infectious diseases, infection control and clinical risk management. Her works have been published in a variety of medical publications in different national and international journal.