Division of Pulmonology

Division of Pulmonology provides a wide range of therapeutic, diagnostic, technical and education services to all individuals under the umbrella of King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs. Our vision is to establish innovative standard of state of the art pulmonary care. That keeps abreast of all new changes in the field of pulmonary medicine and adopt it in our institution for the benefit our patients. Also establish strong educational and training opportunities for our, students, residents, fellows and health care professionals. To establish a very strong subspecialties clinics and protocols with clinical indicators to assess our delivered care. To conduct research in respiratory disease aimed to study respiratory disease/issues related to our community and to translate new development into both daily clinical practice and to rich training environment for the young physician at different level of training and subspecialties.

Division of Pulmonology Capacity

1. The Pulmonary Service in pulmonary ward (Ward 8) has capacity of 20 beds

• The Pulmonary service is one of the busiest providing consultation services of average 10-15 consultations in a day covering ER, Medical Wards, Surgical Wards, ICU, Cardiac and KASCH
• The Pulmonary section members actively follow and manage all pulmonary patients enrolled in Home Care Program
• The Pulmonary Service attends to KAMC chronic ventilated patients in other facilities (Al Hayyat National Hospital)
• Recognized center for pulmonary fellowship training program
• The Pulmonary Services has 10 consultants, 1 assistant consultant, 1 staff physician and fellows.

• Prof. Hamdan Al Jahdali, Division Head
• Prof. Mohammed Al Moamary
• Dr. Abdullah Al Harbi
• Prof. Mohammed Al Ghobain
• Dr. Mohammed Khan
• Dr. Majed Al Ghamdi
• Dr. Mohammed Al Oraini
• Dr. Hajar Al Hayyan
• Dr. Sami Al Yami
• Dr. Ahmed Al Mutairi
• Dr. Nahla Osman
  
• Dr. Abdelkarim Saad
• Fellows

1. The Sleep Disorder Center staffs

• Prof. Hamdan Al Jahdali, Director
• Dr. Ahmed Al Mutairi, Consultant
• Mr. Hassan Kacace, Chief Sleep Lab
• Ms. Cheong Peng, Certified Polysomnography Technologist
• Ms. Sheree Pedregosa, Polysomnography Technologist I (KASCH)

Ms. Jenelyn Miag Ao, Polysomnography Technologist II (KASCH)

Division of Pulmonology Scope of Services

The existing scope of pulmonary services includes but not limited to:

• Inpatient Pulmonary Service – covered by pulmonary consultant, staff physicians, assistant consultant and fellow or resident

• Pulmonary Consultations - covers all consultation from other services at any time including ER, ICU, Cardiac, Trauma and KASCH. This service is covered by consultant and one assistant consultant or fellow

• Outpatient Pulmonary clinics (KAMC-ACC)

Prof .Hamdan.AL Jahdali

• General Pulmonary
• Sleep Medicine
• Pulmonary TB
• MPD Pulmo/Sleep

Prof. Mohammed Al Moamary

• General Pulmonary
• MPD Pulmonology

Dr Abdullah Al-Harbi

• General Pulmonary
• Pulmonary Hypertension

Dr. Mohammed Khan

• General Pulmonary
• Interstitial Lung Diseases
• MPD Pulmonary

Dr. Majed Al Ghamdi

• General Pulmonary
• Lung Cancer screening/nodules/mass
• MPD Pulmonary

Prof. Mohammed Al Ghobain

• General Pulmonary
• Severe Asthma
• MPD General Pulmonary

Dr. Mohammed Al Oraini

• General Pulmonary

Dr. Hajar Al Hayyan

• General Pulmonary
• Severe Asthma

Dr. Sami Al Yami

• General Pulmonary
• Interstitial Lung Diseases

Dr. Ahmed Al Mutairi

• General Pulmonary
• Sleep Medicine

  Pulmonary Screening Clinic
• Pulmonary Physiology Laboratory –well equipped with all required necessary procedures in any tertiary care facilities. Our laboratory is equipped with Full Pulmonary Function laboratory, walking pulse oximetry tests, and ABG facilities. These tests and procedures are available for referrals from other services. Our laboratory is also equipped with other sophisticated procedures, these test includes; methacholine provocation test, exercise induced asthma procedures, overnight pulse oximetry studies, and cardio-pulmonary exercise test.
• Sleep Disorders Center - Currently, we have only one bed for sleep study. All our sleep technicians are certified polysomnographist. We perform average 5-6 overnight sleep study per week and 1-2 daytime sleep study per week. Active home sleep study program.
• Pulmonary Rehabilitations – The first Pulmonary Rehabilitation established in the Kingdom. There is concise and updated policy and procedures about all the procedures and the process of pulmonary rehabilitation. The pulmonary rehabilitation service covers both inpatients and outpatients pulmonary cases with chronic pulmonary disease.
• Bronchoscopy and interventional u/s bronchoscopy – Pulmonary physicians are privileged to perform Bronchoscopy procedures
• Chronic Ventilated Patients – this service covers other service and ICU patients
• Outside KAMC Facility team for Chronic ventilated patients – weekly visit by multidisciplinary team headed by Pulmonary consultant with representatives from Nursing Services, Respiratory Services, and Rehabilitation Services
• Adult Pulmonary Fellowship Training Program – recognized by Saudi Commission For Health Specialties

Clinical Programs in Pulmonology

Division of Pulmonology Leadership

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