Alawi Al Sheikh Ali
Emirati doctor specializing in cardiology.
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Name in Arabic:
علوي الشيخ علي
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Nationality:
Emirati
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Country of Residence:
United Arab Emirates
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Alawi Al Sheikh Ali's Bio
Emirati doctor specializing in cardiology.
He has been the CEO of Academic Affairs at the Dubai Academic Health Corporation since February 2023, a member of the Board of Directors of the same corporation, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences , and a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the same university since 2016.
He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the National University of Dubai since September 2024, the Emirates Council of Scientists , and the Dubai Future Councils , and a member of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Heart Association since 2010, the Gulf Heart Association, and Parkin Company since December 30, 2023.
He held the position of Deputy Director General at the Dubai Health Authority between 2021 and 2023, Founding Dean of the College of Medicine at the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences between 2016 and 2021, President of the Emirates Cardiac Society between 2013 and 2016, and was a cardiac electrophysiologist at the Tufts New England Medical Center between 2007 and 2009.
He also worked as a consultant cardiologist and a specialist in cardiac electrophysiology at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City between August 2009 and December 2015, and as the head of the Cardiac Sciences Institute at the same city between 2012 and 2015, and as the head of the Department of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology between 2010 and 2013, and was an assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in the United States between 2007 and 2009.
Selected as a judge for the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Award for 2019 and 2020.
He holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Research in 2009 from the Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University in the United States of America, a Master’s degree in Physiology in 1996 from Boston University in the United States of America, and a Bachelor’s degree in Biology in 1995 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States of America. He also graduated from the School of Medicine at Tufts University in 2000.




