Biography:

Dr. Hissa A. Moammar is a distinguished pediatrician, educator, and researcher with over four decades of clinical and academic experience. She earned her Doctor of Medicine at the American University of Beirut in 1978; completed her Pediatric Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital–Harvard Medical School, and served as a Consultant Pediatrician at SAMSO from 1991 to 2004. She also held key leadership roles during this period, including Chief of Medical Professional Education and Training. At SAMSO, Dr. Moammar initiated several enduring continuing education programs since 2002, such as the First Primary Care Conference, the Harvard Lectures Program, and the Telemedicine Consultation Program.
Her publications include: “Mother Care” (Arabic, 1993), a widely distributed maternal health textbook. “Incidence and Features of Galactosemia in Saudi Arabs” (Journal of Inherited Metabolic Diseases, 1996), “Patterns of Inborn Errors of Metabolism in Saudi Aramco 1983–2008” (Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2010), which contributed to the centralization of Saudi Arabia’s National Newborn Screening Program
From 2006 to 2015, Dr. Moammar joined King Fahd Hospital of the University (KFHU) as a Consultant Pediatrician. She held several administrative roles, including Director of Laboratory Medicine, where she led KFHU to its first College of American Pathologists (CAP) accreditation in 2014.
From 2018 to 2021, Dr. Moammar was affiliated as a pediatric researcher with the King Salman Center for Disability Research, where her work focused on autism spectrum disorders.