Director General of the National Rehabilitation Center since September 2008, United Arab Emirates. He holds several positions at the local and international levels, as he is the Chairman of the Expert Dialogue Center, President of the International Society of Addiction Medicine since 2020, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Addiction Review Journal, a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance of Universities for Drug Demand Reduction, and a Mental Health Advisor at the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Countries of the World Health Organization. He is also the Chairman of the Higher Committee for Treatment, Rehabilitation and Community Integration of the Anti-Narcotics Council at the UAE Ministry of Interior, a member of the Board of Directors of the same Council, a member of the Advisory Board of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University since 2015, a part-time professor at the same college, and a professor at the Jordan University of Science and Technology since 2014. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Addiction Medicine and a member of its Training and Education Committee before assuming his current position as President of the Society. He also held the position of President of the UAE National Branch of the International Society of Substance Use Professionals between 2019 and 2020, and Chief Commissioner of the International Center for Certification and Education of Addicted Professionals between 2015 and 2018. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Journal for the Prevention and Treatment of Drug Use Disorders from 2013 to 2015, Chairman of the Technical Advisory Group of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime of the World Health Organization from 2011 to 2013, and Vice President of the Arab Federation for Addiction Prevention from 2005 to 2010. He held the position of Director General of the Al Jazeera Sports and Health Foundation from 2006 to 2008, and managed the International Federation Hospital project in Abu Dhabi from 2004 to 2008. He also held the position of Vice President of the Emirates Medical Association from 2000 to 2006, and Director General of the Central Department of Health Education and Occupational Health at the UAE Ministry of Health in 2002, which is currently known as the Ministry of Health and Community Protection. He received the Sheikh Rashid Award for Science and Culture for the years 2003 and 2014, and was granted the title of Life Member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine in 2017. He holds a PhD in Addiction in 2013 from the School of Medicine at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, a Master’s degree in Public Health in 2002 from Tulane University in the United States of America, and a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and General Surgery in 1999 from the Faculty of Medicine at the Jordan University of Science and Technology.