"Dr. Salih Saad AL-Ansari
Biography of Proposed Guidelines Development Group
Institutional Affiliation, Health Promotion Center
Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine
Academic Degree
1994, Family and Community Medicine, King Faisal University, Dammam, Saudia
1987, Bachelor degree, Medicine, King AbdulAziz University, Jeddah, Saudia
City of residence Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Biography
Dr. Ansari has an academic expertise as a Supervisor of Postgraduate Program for Family Medicine and an assistant professor in Family and Community Medicine and Head of Family Medicine Department and as Dean of Al Ghad Health Sciences College. He published 14 articles on Child Health Medical Education, School Health, and Physical Education.
In physical activity, Dr Ansari is an advocate in Health Promotion, Education and combating NCDs through physical Activity and walking at the Arab, Gulf States and Saudi Arabia. Dr Ansari is an author of 2 books on Walking, and wrote and translated more than 140 articles on promoting personal health and overcoming NCDs and documented tens of success stories.
Dr. Ansari is an activist on social media (Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, Keek, Snapchat, and Facebook). He also established “Riyadh Walkers” (@musha_riy), and “Saudi Walkers” (@mushat_saudia) that is consisted of more than 100 groups that is promoting walking in the Saudi community…."