Ziad Memish

Advisory committee member

Senior Advisor to the Supervisor General of KSrelief

Ziad Memish is currently a Senior Advisor to the Supervisor General of King Salman Humanitarian Aid & Relief Center (KSrelief) for Medical & Humanitarian Research and Professor of infectious diseases at the College of Medicine in Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Memish obtained his MD from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada in 1987 and is Board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Infectious Diseases as well as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Canada, Edinburgh, and London) and the American College of Physicians.

He received the King Abdulaziz Medal of the Fist Class in 2007, the highest national award for his achievements in infectious diseases and infection control in KSA. In 2019, he received the Minister of Health Award for leadership in research for over 10 years. In October 2024, he was awarded the “Health Research Excellence: Lifetime Achievement Award” by the Research Development & Innovation Authority. He is a Highly Cited Researcher due to his exceptional research performance and publication of multiple highly cited papers (those that rank in the top 1% by citation in the field) by the Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024. EIC of 5 medical journals, presented extensively nationally and internationally and published more than 900 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.