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Dr. Naseer Masoodi
Asst. Chair, Department of Medicine
Hamad Medical Corporation

Dr. Nasseer Masoodi is a Senior Consultant/Assistant Chair for Department of Medicine at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) in Qatar. He also holds additional roles as Deputy Chair of the IRB Committee-HMC and Chair of the Informatics Optimization Committee for HMC/PHCC.  During current pandemic, he was the Medical Lead for Quarantine Operations Taskforce for the State of Qatar. Dr. Masoodi is a practicing clinician with focus on providing person centric care and engaging clinicians in adopting the information technology to improve patient care and outcomes. Dr. Masoodi provides medical and program oversight of ambulatory general internal medicine services at HMC. He is a task force member of Qatar's Healthy Aging Initiative and deputy chair for Multiple Chronic Conditions Initiative (both are priority initiatives under Qatar's National Health Strategy).

Dr. Masoodi is a fellow of American College of Physicians (FACP) and American Geriatric Society (AGSF), served as member of important ACP committees like Medical Informatics Committee and PMC (performance measures committee) of ACP. He also served as associate professor of Geriatrics at FSU College of Medicine Tallahassee-FL (USA). He has published many research and review articles in various peer reviewed journals.

Dr. Masoodi completed his MB BS from University of Kashmir (India) and further training in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics from University at Buffalo, NY (USA). He received his MBA through University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA) and his post baccalaureate certificate in Clinical Informatics through Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA.