Neonatology and Perinatology

Sajjad Rahman

Director of NICU
Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital
Saudi Arabia

Biography

Sajjad ur Rahman is currently working as Clinical Director of Critical Care Pediatrics in HMG Hospitals Riyadh Saudi Arabia. He worked as Senior Consultant Neonatal Perinatal Medicine and Neurodevelopmental Pediatrics in Hamad Medical Corporation and Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College in Doha State of Qatar from 2008 till 2015. He has worked as Professor and Chairman Department of Pediatrics at Peshawar Medical College Peshawar Pakistan. He did his FCPS (Pediatrics) from Pakistan and FRCPCH from UK where he trained in Neonatology and neurodevelopmental Pediatrics. He did his Fellowship in Neonatal Perinatal Medicine from The Hospital for Sick Children University of Toronto Canada. He worked as Consultant Neonatologist in UK from 2001-2007. He worked as a co-researcher in many international MRCT’s. He has special interest in Perinatal Epidemiology. He initiated and worked as Lead PI of Perinatal Neonatal Outcomes Research Study in the Arabian Gulf (PEARL Study) which developed Qatar’s first national maternal, neonatal and perinatal database registry called Q-Peri-Reg. He has contributed a number of international publications and a book chapter on Neonatal Mortality and its correlates. He also has a special interest in Perinatal asphyxia, Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy and Therapeutic Hypothermia. He worked as a co-researcher in TOBY trial. He initiated and has been leading his own MRCT “Magcool Study.” He is currently on the editorial board of Journal of Clinical Neonatology (JCN) and World Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a reviewer for a number of international journals. He is also an examiner for Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health London. He has delivered invited lectures and presentations in dozens of national, regional and international conferences on Perinatal Epidemiology, Therapeutic Hypothermia and Non-Invasive Ventilation. His first book on Perinatal Mortality was published in 2012 and his second book "Neonatal and Perinatal Mortality: Global Challenges, Risk Factors and Interventions” was published in 2016.

Research Area

Pediatrics and Neonatology