CEO, Avicenna Healthcare Consultancy Group Professor of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
Dr Alain Sabri is a medical professional and healthcare leader with 25 years of experience as an Otolaryngologist-Head & Neck Surgeon and Facial Reconstructive Surgeon. He has gained a versatile healthcare management experience in a variety of geographical areas worldwide. He has held several leadership positions including chairing five departments, serving as associate chief of staff, medical director of human resources and Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs & recruitment at leading international medical schools and medical centers and CMO of an international organization. He has established multiple programs, departments, as well as multidisciplinary teams/centers of excellence and was involved in two major international projects with the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic in the GCC region along with his clinical and academic activities as an educator-researcher. He has driven team building, the successful development of programs and practices as well as instituting impactful changes that resulted in improvement in the quality of clinical healthcare delivery in addition to educational excellence and financial turnaround.
He has lectured extensively worldwide, has organized & chaired many scientific meetings. He is active in research, both basic science and clinical, and has published widely on head and neck surgery. He recently published a medical textbook on the challenges of global sleep disorders management. He serves on the editorial board of many scientific journals. He has also lectured and conducted research on physician burnout, healthcare professional wellness and leadership.
He was granted the title of professor from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner School of Medicine and many leading medical schools in the middle east where he has practiced and taught. At the Mayo Clinic, USA where he practiced as a faculty surgeon, he received the Teacher of The Year Award. He also was presented with the inaugural ‘outstanding physician-educator of the year award’ at SSMC-Mayo Clinic in the UAE. He received the ‘honor award’ from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
Dr Sabri is American board certified in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He was also awarded the American Board certification in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 2004. His medical educational journey included surgical training, sub-specialization in head and neck oncologic and reconstructive surgery as well as neurotology-skull base surgery at Georgetown, Case Western/University Hospital of Cleveland and Vanderbilt University Medical Centers. He has also completed a master’s degree in health and hospital management from ESA (Ecole Superieure des Affaires-affiliated with ESCP France) business school as well as pursuing further Healthcare Leadership course at INSEAD.
In parallel to the above, he was involved in multiple medical humanitarian missions in South America and the Middle East. He serves on educational institutional boards as well as a cancer charity fund (RAHMA) in the MENA region where he also oversaw the establishment of medical dispensaries that care for the less fortunate. He is fluent in many languages including Arabic, French and English.