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Dr. Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Al Mesned, MD

Prince Sultan Cardiac Center Al Qassim – Center Director, Dr. Abdulrahman Al Mesned, is a pediatric cardiology consultant who also currently the heads of Pediatric Cardiology Department at the Center.

Dr. Al Mesned received his medical education at King Saud University. After graduating in 1998, he proceeded with his residency at King Fahad Specialist Hospital (KFSH), Qassim where he trained from 1998 to 2002. Dr. Al Mesned became the registrar at the Pediatric Department at KFSH in the years 2000-2002 during his residency. He was also a senior resident during the final year of his residency at KFSH. It was during his residency at KFSH that Dr. Al Mesned took interest in the field of pediatrics, particularly in the specialty of pediatric cardiology.

In preparation for his fellowship in pediatric cardiology, Dr. Al Mesned took the position of senior registrar of the Pediatric Department at the Maternity and Children’s Hospital (MCH) in Buraidah. MCH was the main and only hospital with a pediatric unit in the Buraidah area. Buraidah at that time had a population of around 500,000. The MCH Pediatric Unit could accommodate 100 beds with 6 beds in their Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Dr. Al Mesned served in this capacity from October 2002 up to August 2003. In the same year that Dr. Al Mesned passed the Saudi Board (2003) and Arab Board (2003).

In 2003, he began his Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at King Faisal Heart Institute, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh. He finished his fellowship program with the institute in 2006.In the same year; he advanced his training further by proceeding to a Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program offered by the University of Alberta at the Stollery Hospital in Canada. He is also a member of Saudi Heart Association.

Apart from being an excellent pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Al Mesned is also an accomplished researcher, educator and public servant. Listed below are a few of his achievements in these capacities.

Publication and Presentation:

1.	Completion of Fontan Pathway without surgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center Riyadh, European Journal of Cardio Thoracic Surgery, Stockholm Sweden  (2007) 2.	Case Report of D-TGA with Constrictive Ductus Arteriosus Revisited, Springer Science+ Business Media, LLC (2008) 3.	Total anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage to Coronary Sinus Combined with left-sided obstructive Lesions: A Previously Unreported Association, Journal Congenital Heart Disease (2009) 4.	Incidence of Severe Congenital Heart disease in Qassim Province, Journal of CHD December (2011) 5.	Waiting time for transfer of patients with prostaglandin dependant congenital heart defect to tertiary cardiac centers, Journal of Saudi Heart Association, October 2011 6.	Recessively Inherited Sever Aortic Aneurysm caused by mutated EFEMP2, American Journal of Cardiology (2012) 7.	Safety and Usefulness of outreach clinic conducted by pediatric Echosonographers, Annals of Pediatric Cardiology (2012) 8.	Amplatzer Septal Occluder and Atrioventricular Block: Case Report and Literature Review, Journal of Saudi Heart Association, March 2013