Speakers


Abdulmajid Basheer Abdulmajid (MPH)
Advisor for the General Counsel
Hamad Medical Corporation

Mr. Abdulmajid is at present the Advisor to the General Counsel- Legal Dept., Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).  He served HMC since 1997, as Legal Expert, then as Director of Legal Dept in 2002.

Mr. Abdulmajid had his first law degree (LLB) FROM School of Law, University of Khartoom (Sudan) in 1977and had his Master of Philosophy (M. PH) degree in Medical Law & Ethics from Glasgow University in 2003, besides other courses and diplomas in Foreign Investment and commercial law. 

Mr. Abdulmajid started his career in 1977 as a Legal Counsel in Council of Ministers Secretariat in Sudan (1977-1981), then worked as a Legal Counsel for Mobil Oil Co, Sudan (1981-1983), then he moved to Saudi Arabia where he joined the National Guard Medical Services as a Legal Counsel in 1983, where he started his new career as a healthcare lawyer.  Then in 1997, he joined Hamad Medical Corporation, as the first full time lawyer.  His official designation now is the Advisor for the General Counsel.

Mr. Abdulmajid has been a member of the World Medical Law Association since 2006, and the various medical ethics committees since 1997 both in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, (HMC Corporate Ethics Committee, WWRC “Women’s Hospital” Ethics Committee and Mental Health Ethics Committee) and has been managing medical lawsuits and claims in HMC. He has also been the main adviser for all ethical and medico-legal issues in HMC and has significantly contributed to the formulation and drafting of HMC policies and procedures related to medico- legal and ethical affairs.