Dr. Habib Abdullah is a US trained and licensed Paediatric Clinical Psychologist at Al Jalila Children’s. He completed his undergraduate at the State University of New York and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at California School of Professional Psychology. Dr. Habib completed his clinical training at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) in their Oncology department and ran various groups as well as provided individual and family based interventions. He completed his internship in paediatric psychology in Northwestern Physician Group in Chicago, Illinois. Prior to joining Al Jalila Children’s, Dr. Habib completed a Fellowship in paediatric psychology at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, working in various medical clinics including sleep, cardiology, obesity, diabetes, audiology, burn, pain management, headache, cystic fibrosis, high risk new born, gastrointestinal, bariatric surgery evaluations and inpatient consultation & liaison (CL) services. He has also worked in community mental health clinics as well as school counselling. Additionally, Dr. Habib has done research in paediatric pain and stigma against mental health. Dr. Habib has a special interest in working with pain management, sleep disorders, inpatient CL services as well as working with comorbid medical and mental health diagnoses. Dr. Habib is also the board member of the International Committee for Pediatric Psychologists.

Joel Sanchez joined Al Jalila Children’s in 2017 as a Pulmonary Function Technologist and is responsible for managing and conducting all of the test procedures that take place in the pulmonary function laboratory. He also works alongside doctors in the Sleep Clinic to provide a CPAP therapy initiation and adherence service. Prior to this, Joel was based in the United Kingdom working as a Specialist Clinical Respiratory Physiologist at the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust and also for the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust working at both the Bristol Royal Infirmary and the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.

Dr. Aji Mathew is Paediatric Pulmonology Specialist at Al Jalila Children’s and has nine years of post residency experience in paediatrics including critical care and emergency in different countries including Kuwait, India and Singapore. After completing his Diploma in Child Health from the Institute of Child Health, Chennai, and MD Paediatrics from Kasturba medical college Mangalore in 2008, Dr. Aji worked at Al Jahra hospital, Kuwait, in 2009, for four years in General Paediatrics and Critical Care. During the period, he completed his membership of Royal College, London (MRCPCH). In 2013, he joined KK Children’s Hospital, Singapore, in Paediatric Emergency for two and a half years. He has undergone training in critical care procedures, emergency airway management, emergency ultrasound, ATLS, PALS etc.

Dr. Rizwana Popatia is Consultant Paediatric Pulmonologist at Al Jalila Children’s. Prior to this, Dr. Popatia worked as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and Assistant Attending Pediatrician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is board certified in Paediatrics and Paediatric Pulmonology. Her medical expertise includes paediatric asthma, interstitial lung disease, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, primary ciliary dyskinesia, paediatric aerodigestive disorders, and paediatric bronchoscopy.She completed her residency in Pediatrics at the State University of New York – Downstate Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, and a Fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonology at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She also served as a Chief Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical school. She was a member of Harvard ACGME committee and Harvard Patient Safety and Quality Committee.