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Dubai Hospital, Dubai Health
Dr. Amna Khalifa Al-Hadari is a Consultant Nephrologist and a senior kidney-care specialist in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She has been associated with Dubai Hospital/Dubai Health, where she has served as Consultant and Head of the Nephrology Section/Department. Her clinical and academic work has focused on nephrology, dialysis, kidney transplantation, and the development of specialized renal services.
Dr. Amna Khalifa Al-Hadari
Consultant & Head of Nephrology Section
Dubai Hospital, Dubai Health
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Her current public profile is particularly connected with kidney transplantation and organ-donation services. In 2026, Al Jalila Foundation identified her as Consultant and Head of the Nephrology Department at Dubai Hospital and highlighted her role in supporting the Your Donation Saves Lives program and its coordination with the UAE's national Hayat organ-donation and transplantation program.
Dr. Al-Hadari completed her postgraduate training in Nephrology at the Sheffield Kidney Institute in Sheffield, United Kingdom. She was also awarded the Sheikh Rashid Award for Higher Medical Studies, according to her conference biography.
The available sources do not provide a sufficiently reliable graduation-year-by-graduation-year academic record, so I would not assign specific dates to her medical degree or nephrology training without further documentation.
Her principal areas of expertise include:
She has been involved in developing specialized nephrology services at Dubai Hospital, including a multidisciplinary pre-dialysis education program (Renal School Clinic), vascular-access care clinic, rheumatology-nephrology clinic, and endocrine-nephrology clinic.
One of the most significant aspects of Dr. Al-Hadari's career has been her involvement in the development of organ transplantation in Dubai.
Her published conference biography identifies her as a pioneer member of the founding team of the Organ Transplant Project at the Dubai Health Authority and one of the principal contributors to launching the program. She was also involved in establishing the first standalone dialysis centre in Dubai, serving as co-chair of its supervisory committee.
Her clinical role was also evident during Dubai's early live-donor kidney-transplant activity. In 2020, Gulf News reported on Dubai Health Authority's first live organ transplant and identified Dr. Al-Hadari as Consultant and Head of the Nephrology Department at Dubai Hospital.
Another report on a 3D-assisted kidney transplant involving Emirati siblings identified her as Head/Consultant of the Hospital's Nephrology Department and described her involvement in the patient's long-term renal care.
Dr. Al-Hadari has contributed to peer-reviewed medical literature. She is a co-author of the 2022 article “Post-Transplant Diabetes: Prevalence, Risk, and Management Challenges,” published in the Dubai Diabetes and Endocrinology Journal. The paper included authors from the Nephrology Department at Dubai Hospital, Dubai, UAE.
Her academic interests therefore extend beyond conventional nephrology into the intersection of:
Dr. Al-Hadari has also had an academic and teaching role. Her professional biography states that she has served as a teacher and examiner at Dubai Medical College for Girls and has been involved in the Internal Medicine residency program, particularly in relation to residents rotating through nephrology.
More recently, she has also been listed among members/examiners associated with the Nephrology Specialty Examination Subcommittee of the Emirati Board, demonstrating continued involvement in postgraduate medical education and assessment in the UAE.
Dr. Al-Hadari has been active as a speaker, moderator and committee participant at medical conferences in the UAE and internationally.
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