A Saudi female physician and the first female cardiac surgeon consultant in the Middle East and the second in the world.

She is the Head of the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department at the Prince Sultan Cardiac Center for the Armed Forces in Riyadh, and a Senior Specialist in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Adult Congenital Defects. In the same position since 2004.

She is considered the first female cardiac surgeon and the first consultant in pediatric cardiac surgery and congenital defects in the Middle East, and the second female head of a cardiac surgery department worldwide, having successfully performed nearly 7,000 surgeries.

She is a member of the American Heart Association, the European Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and the Arab Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

She served as Chair of the Scientific Council of the Saudi Board Program for Cardiac Surgery in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties. She also worked as a senior specialist in pediatric cardiac surgery and congenital defects at the Children's Hospital at the University of Toronto in Canada, and as a specialist in adult cardiac surgery and heart valve repair at a hospital in Paris.

She was also a specialist in pediatric cardiac surgery and adult congenital defects.   At the Prince Sultan Cardiac Center for the Armed Forces, she was a surgical specialist at the Military Hospital in Riyadh, a senior surgeon at the same hospital, and a resident physician there.

She was awarded the King Faisal Medal, Fourth Class, the Unity Medal, the Unity Medal, and the Gold Unity Medal by the President of the Republic of Yemen.

She holds a British Fellowship in Surgery, a Canadian Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, and a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery from King Abdulaziz University .