Zohair Yousef Al-halees MD

Dr. Zohair Yousef Al Halees is a distinguished cardiovascular surgeon from Saudi Arabia. Born in 1954 in Gaza, Dr.Al Halees graduated from King Saud University Medical School in 1976, after a year of rotating internship, he joined the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as a surgical resident.

He joined the cardiac surgery team from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA who were performing cardiac surgery at the hospital. He then moved to Houston, Texas, USA where he started his cardiac surgical career before moving to Ottawa University Heart Institute in Canada, where he remained till 1984. Dr. Al Halees took extra training as a fellow in pediatric cardiac surgery in Denver Colorado, USA from 1984 to 1985. After that, he returned to King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, where he is currently a Distinguished Senior Consultant in Cardiac Surgery.