Dr. Abdulelah Alhawsawi is a double board (American and Canadian Board) certified Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon. Currently, he is an assistant professor of surgery at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In 2011, Dr. Alhawsawi finished a Multi-Organ Transplant/ HBP Surgery Fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York. He did his general surgery residency at Dalhousie University Medical Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from 2004 until 2009.

Dr. Alhawsawi is also a healthcare quality and patient safety expert. He is the Assistant Secretary General for technical affairs at the Central Board of Accreditation for Healthcare Institutions (CBAHI)