Overview
Work history
Certification
Personal Information:
Professional Summary
Educational Courses
Skills
Research Experiences
Conferences
Membership
Awards
Timeline
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Salihah  Alessa, MD

Salihah Alessa, MD

Dhahran,Saudi Arabia

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Emergency Medicine Consultant

Dammam Medical Complex , Eastern Health Cluster
Dammam, Saudi Arabia
03.2025 - Current

Acting speciality consultant level III

Adult Emergency Medicine Department, King Fahad Medical City
Riyadh
02.2022 - 01.2025

Adult Emergency Medicine Resident

King Fahad Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
10.2017 - 09.2021

Medical Intern

King Abdulaziz University Hospital
Jeddah
03.2016 - 02.2017

Clinical internship

Maastricht University
, Netherlands
09.2014 - 12.2015

During this year, I had the chance to work at different health care system by rotating at several international hospitals like South Africa, Ireland, Maastricht and Saudi Arabia

Certification

  • SBEM: Certified Saudi Board in Adult Emergency Medicine,King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 2021.
  • MBBS: Maastricht University, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences,M.D. Degree, December 2015. Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Personal Information:


Date of birth: September 21st 1987

Nationality: Saudi
Gender: Female

Language:

Arabic: Native speaker. English: Fluent speaker , Dutch: intermediate

Professional Summary

Disciplined , confident and highly skilled physician with Saudi board certification in Adult Emergency Medicine.A team player who is passionate about delivering outstanding medical care to patients and maintaining excellent relationships with peers and staff.

Educational Courses

  • Basic risk management in health care
  • Training of the trainers course (TOT)
  • Basic life Support (BLS)
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
  • Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
  • Advancing Patient Safety through Effective health care Risk Management course
  • HealthCare Operations and Optimizing Patient Flow Management
  • Leveraging Healthcare Data for Improved healthcare Delivery
  • Critical care paramedic course participation
  • Clinical documentation
  • Improving Patient experience
  • Enhancing Physician Communication Skills Course (EPCS)
  • COVID-19 Critical Care Crash Course Online at SCFHS
  • EM stat course instructor participation

Skills

  • Emergency Response
  • Team leader
  • flexible and adatable
  • positive reinforement strategies

Research Experiences

2020-2021: Physicians Practices and Attitude towards Sickle Cell Disease Patients with Vaso-occlusive Crises. Multi-centers self-administered questionnaire. First author,Medical College,University of Dammam,Saudi Arabia

Presented at Bahrain Emergency Medicine Conference 2021, SASEM 2022.


2021: Prevalence of Violence towards Health Care Workers in Emergency Departments Co-author and data collector, Department of Emergency, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia


2016 - 2017: Prevalence and determinants of poor compliance to antihypertensive drugs in primary health care settings: An online survey from Saudi Arabia.
Co-author, King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital, Jeddah , Saudi Arabia


2015: Clinical Validation of the Platelet Activation Test in Unprocessed Blood (PAC-t-UB) in Cardiac Surgery. Author, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Treatment, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), Maastricht, Netherlands

Conferences


April 2024: 9th international scientific Assembly conference,  Saudi Society of emergency Medicine (SASEM 24), Khobar , Saudi Arabia


September 2023:  8th international scientific Assembly conference,  Saudi Society of emergency Medicine (SASEM23), Jeddah , Saudi Arabia 


June 2023: Emergency Subspecialties Day, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia


November 2021: Bahrain Emergency Medicine Conference 2021


October 2021: Health Care Leadership Academy Conference


October 2020: ACEP20 (American College OF emergency Physician annually assembley 20) Unconventional


February 2020: SASEM 5th International Scientific Assembly at Khobar, Saudi Arabia


February 2019: Saudi Arabia Trauma Conference at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia


November 2018: Best of EM at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia


September 2018: Annual Congress on Emergency Medicine and Critical Care at Dubai, UAE


March 2018: Best of EM at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia


February 2017: 2nd Saudi Society of Emergency Medicine Scientific Assembly Conference, Dammam


February 2017: ECG interpretation workshop at Khobar, Saudi Arabia


November 2016: Advance Pediatric Emergency Care Course, Twareat Medical Center – AlKhobar, Saudi Arabia


Membership

Saudi Society of Emergency Medicine

Awards

  • 2011- 2012 Scholarship award, from King Abdullah Special Scholarship Program in Medicine & Life sciences.
  • April- May 2010 Certificate of Appreciation, from Saudi Aramco Medical Services Organization Volunteer Program

Timeline

Emergency Medicine Consultant

Dammam Medical Complex , Eastern Health Cluster
03.2025 - Current

Acting speciality consultant level III

Adult Emergency Medicine Department, King Fahad Medical City
02.2022 - 01.2025

Adult Emergency Medicine Resident

King Fahad Medical City
10.2017 - 09.2021

Medical Intern

King Abdulaziz University Hospital
03.2016 - 02.2017

Clinical internship

Maastricht University
09.2014 - 12.2015
Salihah Alessa, MD