Prof. Amr Jamal

Biography

Prof. Amr Jamal, MD, Chairman of family & community medicine department, School of medicine andmedical city, King Saud university, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Also, he is a practicing consultant family physician and associate professor of clinical informatics and family medicine. He holds three boards infamily practice anda master of biomedical & health informatics from Oregon Health & Science University inPortland, Oregon. Amr is a core faculty member at the King Saud University, teaching clinical informatics,family medicine, research methodology and medical ethics courses at the colleges of medicine anddentistry. Amr is the founder program director of the master of Health Informatics in King Saud Universitysince 2012-2017. He contributed in publishing 2 books, 3 book-chapters, 21 original articles, 8 abstracts inthefield of clinical informatics, clinical decision support systems, professionalism and medical education.He was involved in the planning and implementation of the electronic health records in three healthcareorganizations in the country, and the health-sciences content in the Saudi Digital Library (SDL), a national-level project, that aims to increase accessibility of digital information resources in the middle-east. He isaboard member of the National center of Health Information, National Center of evidence-based healthpractice, Saudi Association of health informatics (SAHI), Saudi Association of Health InformationManagement. He is mainly interested in how clinicians make decisions with the assistance of technology,and how these decisions can influence healthcare quality