Dr Kanan Alshammari

Medical Oncology Consultant - GI, sarcoma Department of Medical Oncology King Abdulaziz Medical City - Central Region Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Kanan Alshammari is a consultant of adult medical oncology at MNGHA-Riyadh. He finished his undergraduate training at the University of Otago in New Zealand obtaining his MBChB in 2008. He then did his internal Medicine training at MNGHA- Riyadh and obtained the Saudi Board of Internal Medicine in 2014. Upon finishing that he entered medical oncology training where he received a scholarship and did his fellowship of general and GI oncology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and finished that by obtaining the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Subspecialty Affiliate certification in 2018. He then advanced his training by doing another fellowship in drug development /phase 1 oncology trials and sarcoma in 2019. His areas of interest are colorectal cancers, HCC, sarcoma, and phase 1 oncology trials.