Ayman Rifai

Ayman Rifai, American national, is head of the Nuclear Medicine Department at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has been a practicing consultant there in the fields of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine since 1983. Dr. Rifai has co-authored numerous articles and studies, such as 'An Unusual Treatment-Related Complication in a Patient with Growth Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Tumor,' and has presented many lectures in his long career in medicine. For a a few years he was also appointed Director of the Residency Training Program at KFSH.

Dr. Rifai was born in Syria, where he graduated medical school from the University of Damascus in 1971 being first in his class. He continued his residency and training in the United States, in such institutions as St. John's Hospital in Detroit and University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he also assumed the role of Assistant Professor.

Dr. Rifai now resides in Riyadh with his wife, who is also a doctor at King Faisal Specialist Hospital. She practices in the field of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. They have three children. Their oldest daughter Reem now lives in London with her husband after acquiring a Master's Degree in Journalism from the American University in Washington D.C. Their second daughter, Nour, now is studying medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. And their youngest son, Ryan studies Business at Virginia Commonwealth University.