Director: healthcare workforce monitoring division

Department of health - Abu Dhabi

Dr. Hatem Faraj Al Ameri is the Director of the Division of Healthcare Workforce Monitoring at the Department of Health, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine at Khalifa University and a Visiting Consultant Pulmonologist at Shaikh Khalifa Medical city with more than 25 years of experience in clinical and academic medicine, as well as health care regulation and policies. Through his current position at the Department of Health, he plays an integral role in setting the Abu Dhabi medical education agenda that aims to make Abu Dhabi the best practice model in academic medicine and a destination for learners, educators, and medical education researchers.

He founded the program Tanseeq in 2010, the first and the largest national post-graduate medical education (PGME) matching program in UAE. Under his management, Abu Dhabi became the first regional and the second global to receive ACGME-I accreditation for its residency programs. As a board member in several national medical education and workforce planning committees, Dr. Alameri led the transformation of health professional licensing, health care practice legislation, and established the medical education funding schemes.

Dr. Al Ameri completed his pulmonary medicine fellowship and internal medicine residency from McGill University in Canada in 2002 and 2000, respectively. He has received several academic awards including Best Chief Resident in 2000, Teacher of the Year from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2007, the ACGME-I physician leader award in 2022  and The Gold Stevie Award in 2021 and 2023. He has authored multiple publications in the field of both clinical medicines and medical education.