Amal Khidir, MBBS, FAAP
Dr. Khidir, an American Board certified pediatrician, joined Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) in 2006. In addition to serving as Director of the Pediatric Clerkship at WCM-Q, she practices pediatrics and Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and Sidra Medicine. Dr. Khidir also supervises medical students and residents.
Following graduation from the Faculty of Medicine at Khartoum University, Sudan in 1991, Dr. Khidir completed her residency training at Howard University (HU) Hospital, Washington, D.C. and later joined the faculty at HU, in 2002. As a pediatric clerkship director at HU, she oversaw more than 100 medical students and 20 dental residents each year. In 2005, Dr. Khidir was awarded the Academic Excellence Program Award/Grant by HU to run a faculty development seminar, titled ‘Teaching in Clinical Settings’. In 2007, she completed faculty development training program at the Harvard Macy Institute. She has received several teaching awards from both WCM-Q and HMC.
Dr. Khidir has been involved in several academic and non-academic committees at HU, HMC, and WCM-Q. She is a member and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Section of International Child Health (SOICH) at AAP, Council of Medical Students Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP). Dr. Khidir holds active licenses to practice pediatrics in the US, Qatar, and Sudan.
Dr. Khidir’s areas of interest are medical education, faculty and professional development, health promotion, and cultural competency. She is the co-founder of the professionalism course and workshops conducted at HMC. She is involved in and has led several medical education workshops locally, both nationally and internationally.
Dr. Khidir is the author of a study titled ‘Providing Culturally Appropriate Health Care Services in Qatar: Development of a Multilingual Patient Cultural Assessment of Quality Instrument’. This study was funded by the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP), equivalent to R01 grants. She also supervised students in an Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) grant to study anthropometric measurements, nutritional habits, and physical activity of school children and adolescents in Qatar.