Dr. Wisam Al Badr

Dr. Wisam Al Badr, Chief Medical Officer at DaVita KSA, has more than two decades of experience in healthcare. Currently serving as vascular access center program director for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and as the eastern province medical director. Dr Al Badr, earned her bachelors in Medicine and surgery in 1995 and have been practicing since. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in medicine from King Abdul Aziz University–Jeddah, Dr. Al Badr completed her residency training, Michigan (United States). She trained in nephrology and interventional nephrology at Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA. She progressed to be dual board certified in medicine and Nephrology by the ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine & Nephrology). American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology. Dr. Al Badr was previously part of the core quality committee at King Fahad Specialist Hospital –Dammam

(KFSH-D) and has been an examiner with the Saudi Council of Health Specialties at KFSH-D. She completed training in lean methodology and is a certified professional in healthcare quality. Dr. Al Badr is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association, the American Society of Nephrology and the Saudi Society of Nephrology.

She has aspirations of improving the association between operation and the medical field profession as they are an inseparable combination.