Omar Al Hammadi
Official Spokesperson for the Government Media Briefing on COVID-19 Developments in the UAE.
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Name in Arabic:
عمر الحمادي
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Nationality:
Emirati
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Country of Residence:
United Arab Emirates
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Omar Al Hammadi's Bio
Official Spokesperson for the Government Media Briefing on COVID-19 Developments in the UAE.
He has been the Vice President of Health Services at Abu Dhabi National Oil Company ( ADNOC ), Vice President of the Emirates Internal Medicine Society since 2019, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of Cancer Patients Society since 2021.
He is also a physician, writer, and medical content creator on social media.
He worked as an internal medicine consultant at Al Rahba Hospital, which specializes in treating infectious diseases in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and was responsible for health affairs at the same hospital.
He participated as an examiner for students of the College of Medicine at the University of Sharjah , and as an examiner for doctors specializing in internal medicine in the Arab and Emirati Board exams. He also worked as a visiting lecturer at the College of Medicine at Khalifa University .
He was selected to speak at the TED conference held at the College of Medicine at the United Arab Emirates University in 2014. He was also selected among the 100 intellectuals in the Reading Retreat in 2016, sponsored by the UAE Cabinet, and among the “Emirati Thinkers Elite” by the Emirates Center for Strategic Research and Studies.
He contributed to the dissemination of evidence-based health knowledge during the pandemic, and appeared in a number of print and visual media outlets, and was also hosted in many seminars and lectures.
In 2020, he was chosen as the official spokesperson for the UAE government’s media briefing on the latest developments in Covid-19, and he was also chosen as the guest of honor at the Abu Dhabi Book Fair in 2021 in honor of the efforts of the first line of defense during the pandemic.
His published books include: "37 Degrees Celsius: Medical Student Papers" 2012, "The Struggle with Grendizer: Texts on Cyberbullying" 2017, "50 Ideas You Should Know About Medicine" 2018, "Criticism of Prophetic Medicine" 2020, "The Invasion: Corona, What Happened? And What Does the Future Look Like?" 2021, "Survival of the Fittest: A Look at the Roots of Radicalism" 2022, "Criticism of Alternative Medicine: Logical Fallacies in Health" 2023.
He participated in writing intellectual and social articles in several Emirati and Arab newspapers. He also participated in authoring the book “Pluralism in the Gulf and Its Neighborhood: Reality and Prospects” through a research paper on cultural and religious pluralism in the UAE 2015.
He holds a Master’s degree in Leadership in Medical Education from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the University of Sharjah, a Diploma in Obesity and Weight Maintenance from the University of South Wales in the United Kingdom, in addition to the Arab Board in Internal Medicine in 2015. He also graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2009, and specialized in internal medicine at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City .




