Amr Jamal

Amr Jamal, MD, SBFM, ABFM, MRCGP, MBI is a practicing consultant family physician and assistant professor of clinical informatics and family medicine at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He holds three boards in family practice and a master of biomedical 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 and ethics courses at the colleges of medicine and dentistry. Amr is the program director of the master of Health Informatics in King Saud University. He was nominated by KSU medical students as “The Professor of the Year” in 2012 and 2014. He was involved in the planning and implementation of the electronic health records in two healthcare organizations, and the health-sciences content in the Saudi Digital Library (SDL), a national-level project, that aims to increase accessibility of digital information resources in the Arab world. He is interested in how clinicians make decisions with the assistance of technology, and how these decisions can influence healthcare quality.