December 7, 2026


Building a Resilient Health Information Ecosystem

Health Sciences Library Symposium - 5th Edition

Barry Solaiman , Ph.D.

Barry Solaiman

Assistant Dean of Students and Assistant Professor of Law at the College of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics in Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar.

Dr Barry Solaiman is an Affiliate of the Harvard Medical School (HMS), Center for Bioethics. He formerly served as an Associate Professor of Law at HBKU Law in Qatar and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics in Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, where he served as Co-Director of the Intersection of Law and Medicine Conference Series, and an Adjunct Lecturer at Northwestern University Qatar. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge. He was Editor-in-Chief of both the Cambridge International Law Journal, and Medicine and Law. He is co-editor of the “Research Handbook on Health, AI and the Law”, which is the leading book in the field, and is a member of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Working Group on Regulatory Considerations for AI in Health. He has published in leading journals on the regulation of AI in healthcare and was Lead Principal Investigator for a grant at HBKU that created guidelines for the development of AI in healthcare research. His work on AI has received the Science and Sustainability Award from the British Council.