Dr. Buthaina Al Adba is a senior attending physician at Sidra Medicine. She obtained her medical degree at King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia, followed by a pediatric residency at Hamad Medical Corporation.  She completed fellowship training in Pediatric Rheumatology at Sickids Hospital in Toronto, Canada in 2015.

After fellowship training she worked at Hamad Medical Corporation before joining Sidra Medicine in 2017.

Dr Al Adba established a multi-disciplinary clinic to treat Aicardi Goutières Syndrome (AGS) with a team approach.  She won the “Outstanding Patient Experience” award at Sidra Medicine and is pioneering the patient passport program with the quality and safety team.

Dr Al Adba is a peer reviewer for the Pediatric Rheumatology Online Journal and has spoken on auto-inflammatory diseases at conferences in the Gulf region.

Dr. Al Adba is a member of the Pediatric Rheumatology Arab Group (PRAG) and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR).