Dr.Sharifah AlDossary

Assistant Professor , Health Informatics Department

Dr. Sharifah AlDossary is an assistant professor and an experienced digital health researcher who has participated in numerous telemedicine service consultations. She aims to promote needs-based planning in telemedicine services as well as digital health implementation. Her research interests include telemedicine, consumer health informatics, and infodemiology.

Dr. AlDossary was awarded her master’s degree in health informatics with first-class honors from King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2011. She then joined the university’s faculty at the College of Public Health and Health Informatics as a lecturer in 2012.

Dr. AlDossary completed her doctorate studies in telemedicine at the University of Queensland’s Centers for Online Health (COH) and The Centre of Research Excellence in Telehealth (CRE). Her PhD work focused on developing and evaluating a needs-based planning framework for telemedicine services.

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Majors

• Telemedicine and Telehealth
• Consumer Health Informatics
• Needs-based planning in in Digital Health
• mHealth

Work Experience

- Program Director -Master of Health Informatics (2020 to date)
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

- Assistant Professor- Health Informatics, (2018 to date)
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

- Lecturer- Health Informatics, (2012-2018)
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

Education

• PhD, The Centre of Research Excellence in Telehealth (CRE), Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Australia, 2018.

• Master of Health Informatics, College of Public Health and Health Informatics , King Abdulaziz bin Saud University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), Saudi Arabia.2011.

• Bachelor degree in Health Information Management & Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Faisal University (currently Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University). Saudi Arabia, 2008.