Prof. Amr Jamal, MD, Chairman of family & community medicine department, School of medicine and medical 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 in family practice and a master of biomedical & health informatics from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, 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 and dentistry. Amr is the founder program director of the master of Health Informatics in King Saud University since 2012-2017. He contributed to publishing 2 books, 3 book chapters, 21 original articles, 8 abstracts in the field 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 healthcare organizations in the country, and the health-sciences content in the Saudi Digital Library (SDL), a national-level project, that aims to increase the accessibility of digital information resources in the middle-east.
He is aboard member of the National Center of Health Information, National Center of evidence-based health practice, Saudi Association of health informatics (SAHI), Saudi Association of Health Information Management. He is mainly interested in how clinicians make decisions with the assistance of technology, and how these decisions can influence healthcare quality.