Dr Mohamed Khalifa is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine, Health, and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Over 20 years, Dr Khalifa led multidisciplinary healthcare and information technology teams to develop and implement evidence-based solutions to direct healthcare strategy and services operations. Using health analytics and business intelligence, Dr Khalifa led diverse projects enhancing patient safety and healthcare effectiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. Over the last 10 years, Dr Khalifa published +60 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters and was granted his first innovation patent from IP Australia in 2018.

Dr Khalifa is currently the Director of Studies at the College of Health Sciences, Education Centre of Australia. He served for one year as the Digital Health Officer at the ADHA – Australian Digital Health Agency, from April 2020 to April 2021. Prior to that, from 2017 to 2020, Dr Khalifa served as the Research Officer at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Dr Khalifa worked from 2012 to 2017 as a Consultant and Director of Medical and Clinical Informatics at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He was also a Part-Time Instructor at the AUC – American University in Cairo, Egypt, teaching Health Information Management and Healthcare Management. He worked as an Independent Consultant for Health, Medical and Clinical Information Systems Projects, Healthcare Management Projects, and Healthcare Quality Management Projects since 2002. Dr Khalifa’s experience areas include healthcare strategic management and performance improvement, health informatics project management, healthcare business intelligence, analytics, and big data.

Dr Khalifa is a medical doctor, got his MBBS – Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery from Ain Shams University in 2001, Post Graduate Diploma of Healthcare and Hospital Management from the American University in Cairo, Egypt in 2004, a MSc – Master of Science in Health Informatics from The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, the United Kingdom in 2012, and a PhD in Health Innovation from the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine, Health, and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia in 2020. Dr Khalifa is an FAIDH – Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, an MRCSEd – Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, United Kingdom and he is also a CPHIMS – Certified Professional in Healthcare Information Management Systems, an Accredited CPHIMS Trainer and an Advisor on the Technical Committee of the CPHIMS exam, HIMSS - Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, United States. Besides being a registered member in the HIMSS and the AHIMA – American Health Information Management Association, United States.