Children & Young People’s Services
Usama Al-Kanani
CCT, Dip PEM Edin, EPOPS, FRCEM, MRCEM, Msc MedTox Cardiff
ED Attending Physician Clinical Lead for Disaster Medicine
Years of Experience: 16
Dr. Usama Al-Kanani has worked and trained in London since 2008 before joining Sidra Medicine in 2019 as a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending physician. He works in the pediatric emergency department, treating a variety of trauma and non-trauma cases.
Dr. Usama is affiliated with Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar as an instructor in clinical emergency medicine and clinical pediatrics.
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- Arabic
- English
- Born in Baghdad 1977, he obtained a medical degree (M.B.Ch.B) from Baghdad College of Medicine 2001. His residency was in Baghdad, North London, Kent, Nottingham, and Bristol. Heh completed membership and fellowship training in Emergency Medicine with a subspecialty in Pediatric emergency medicine in London in 2018. Obtained a diploma in pediatric EM from Edinburgh University and a master’s degree in medical toxicology from Cardiff University.
- Sidra Medicine: Attending Physician
- Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar: Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine and Instructor in Clinical Pediatrics
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Medical Toxicology
- Regional anesthetic block
- Procedural Sedation
- Point of Care Ultrasound
- ACLS, PALS, procedural sedation, POCUS instructor
- Regional block course organizer and instructor
- Royal college of EM and Qatari EM board examiner.
- Bursary Award – 2013
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