Dr. Al Khal earned his MBBCh from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1989.
He undertook his internship at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) in the State of Qatar, and in 1991, joined the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, CT, USA, followed by completion of a 2-year fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Hartford Hospital.
He was awarded the Diploma of the American Board in Internal Medicine in 1994 and the American Board of Infectious Diseases in 1996. He was recertified in infectious diseases in 2013.
Dr. Al Khal holds several clinical positions, chairs various committees, and has led several strategic projects at HMC. Between 1999 and 2001, he served as the Chair of Family Medicine and as Chair of the Department of Medicine from 2001 until 2012.
Dr. Al Khal has been the Head of the Infectious Diseases Division since 1998 and the Lead of the Communicable Disease Center.
Dr. Al Khal is also the National TB Program Manager and the Director of the Clinical AIDS Program. As Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Director of Medical Education/DIO, he has notably led HMC’s achievement of ACGME-I accreditation and, in 2018, received ACGME’s Physician International Award to recognize his outstanding contributions to improving the quality of graduate medical education in Qatar.
Dr. Al Khal also has an advisory role in several public health programs under Qatar’s Ministry of Public Health umbrella. Dr. Al Khal holds an appointment as an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar (WCM-Q).
As Clinical Professor of Medicine at Qatar University College of Medicine (QU CMED) and serves as QU CMED’s Director of the Clinical Affairs Department.
He remains active in research and regularly publishes in Internal Medicine, Pharmacology, Infectious Diseases, and Medical Education.
