Faissal Shaheen
Faissal Shaheen is a Saudi nephrologist and co-founder of the King Fahad Hospital Jeddah and the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation. In 2003 he led the Saudi team involved in the first kidney transplantation in the Arab World. He is the president elect of the International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement from 2019 to 2021.Biography
Shaheen studied at Mansoura University in Egypt and graduated in 1980. He underwent specialist training in internal medicine and nephrology from the Vienna Medical Academy of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research in 1987. In 2002, he earned a fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. Over the course of his career, Shaheen published 181 papers and 190 abstracts in medical journals worldwide. He worked as director general of the Saudi Centre for Organ Transplantation from its inception in 1993 to 2018.
