Dr Moataz MBBch, DESA, is an Attending Physician in the Pediatric Division of the Department of Anesthesiology.He has joined Sidra Medicine in April 2018. He was one of the initial core members recruited to form the first pediatric anesthesiology team in the state of Qatar at Hamad Medical Corporation.Dr Moataz completed his residency training in Anesthesiology at the American University of Beirut followed by three fellowships, the first of which is in Cardiac Anesthesiology at the same institution, a Critical care fellowship at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto (UofT) one of the busiest trauma centers in Canada and a Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa (OttawaU).Dr Moataz has an extensive expertise of 12 years managing the perioperative care of children, infants and neonates ranging from the healthiest to the sickest with most complex pathologies.Dr. Moataz's particular interests are pediatric airway management and education. He is a member of the Qatar Difficult Airway Management Society and Innovation (QDAM), and is the lead-Instructor of the Pediatric Airway section of the Advanced Airway Management course since 2017. He is also a core-faculty member of anesthesiology residency program as well as the pediatric anesthesiology fellowship program. He is currently the equipment committee director at the division of Pediatric Anesthesiology in Sidra.Dr Moataz has co-authored several textbook chapters regarding the management of the normal and the difficult airways in infants and children.

I currently serve as a Pediatric Otolaryngologist, Head-Neck Surgeon at Sidra Medicine and Research Center, Doha, Qatar after completing a Fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology, Head-Neck Surgery, at Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA.

During my career thus far I have been fortunate to receive several awards. While at Stanford University, I was awarded the Fellow of the Year within the Department of Otolaryngology, Head-Neck Surgery and nominated for the 2023 Kelley M. Skeff GME Professionalism Award. During my residency at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, I was awarded the esteemed Mandela Rhodes Scholarship from over 7,500 applicants and the TSESI Dubai traveling scholarship, among others.

I serve as a coordinator with the International Federation of Otorhinolaryngological Societies (IFOS) and within the education committee of the Young Otolaryngologists of IFOS (YO-IFOS). I have also served as the Africa regional representative under the umbrella of the Global Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Initiative (Global OHNS).

I am a highly motivated clinician with a keen interest in clinical and global health research. I have published multiple original research articles within the highest impact journals in our field. Having had the privilege to have trained and practiced medicine in both low and high-resource settings, I have gained holistic perspectives in the arena of global health, education and clinical care.

My ultimate vision is to continually perform clinical medicine at the highest level and promote global otolaryngology research that facilitates an equitable and world-class clinical practice.

Dr Sinha joined Sidra Medicine in April 2018 as Attending Physician in Pediatric Division of Department of Anesthesia. She is the Program Director for Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship at Sidra and Assistant Professor in Clinical Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar.

Dr Sinha completed her clinical fellowships in Pediatric Anesthesia and Pediatric Critical Care from Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto in 2012. Under the New Children Hospital Project of Sickkids International, she joined as consultant in Pediatric Anesthesia at Hamad Medical Corporation where she led many projects establishing key policies and procedure for safe delivery of pediatric anesthesia, pediatric sedation, and pain management. With more than 12 years of exclusive Pediatric Anesthesia practice, she packs extensive experience of managing babies and children with various comorbidities including difficult airway under her belt.

Dr Sinha has special interests in teaching and training. She is instructor in many Life support courses at HITC (APLS, ATLS, PFCCS) and Course Director for Communication Skills in Healthcare and Teach the Teacher Course at Medical Education, HMC.