Research record

Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah

MPH · MBA · LLM · MSc Disaster Medicine

Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah is a distinguished subspecialty consultant in Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medical Services, Pre-Hospital Care, and Disaster Management. He currently serves as the Business Continuity Chair overseeing 12 hospitals, leading strategic preparedness, resilience, and continuity initiatives across the healthcare network.

With 42 published research papers, Dr. Bin Nafisah combines extensive clinical expertise, academic contribution, and healthcare leadership to advance emergency preparedness and high-quality patient care.

Published research

42 published papers

Identifiers

Also published as

Bin Nafisah S · Nafisah SB · Sharaf Bin-Nafisah · Sharafaldeen A. Bin Nafisah

Focus

  • Disaster medicine
  • Mass-casualty triage
  • Prehospital care and EMS
  • Business continuity (ISO 22301)
  • Emergency department operations
  • Health-system resilience
  • Tele-emergency care
  • Outbreak response
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis
  • Medication safety

Appointments

2019 — present

Emergency Medicine Consultant

King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh

current

Chair of Business Continuity

KFMC / Riyadh Second Health Cluster

Oversees business continuity across 12 hospitals. Built the cluster-wide Business Continuity Management framework to ISO 22301 from inception — risk register, Business Impact Analyses, Key Risk Indicators and recovery-time objectives across critical clinical services, with scenario-based tabletop exercises and continuity stress-tests.

2023 — present

Emergency & Disaster Service Lead

Seha Virtual Hospital

Established Saudi Arabia's first Disaster Lead Service within the national virtual hospital, founding the Virtual Disaster and Virtual Emergency Departments and the Emergency Medicine and Rapid Response Virtual Team (EM-RRVT) for surge and escalation during mass-casualty events.

2024 — present

Lead

Disaster Management Experts Club

2026 — present

Scientific Committee, EMS & Disaster

Saudi Commission for Health Specialties

2026 — present

Senior Adviser

ARETION Healthcare Consulting

2025 — 2026

Director, EMS & Disaster Fellowship Programme

Saudi Commission for Health Specialties

Curriculum architect for the subspecialty fellowship — Incident Command Systems (ICS/NIMS/FEMA), scenario planning, mass-casualty management, CBRNE/HazMat and operational resilience, aligned to Vision 2030 health-sector resilience priorities.

2024 — 2026

Chairperson, Clinical Research Department

King Fahad Medical City

Founded the department; established governance, SOPs and a compliance framework aligned to ICH-GCP, NCBE, SFDA and PDPL, with joint-controller data governance and risk-tiered protocol review.

2023 — 2024

Chairperson, Disaster Management Department

King Fahad Medical City

Established hospital-wide disaster governance, mass-casualty plans and HazMat protocols; led the AI for Disaster Preparedness & Response programme deployed across 12 hospitals in Riyadh Health Cluster R2.

2020 — 2021

Advisory Consultant

Ministry of Health

Advised on MERS-CoV and COVID-19 surveillance protocols, data architecture and analytic outputs feeding national public-health decisions.

Training

2022 — 2023

Fellowship, EMS & Prehospital Care (AFC)

McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

2021 — 2023

Advanced MSc, Disaster Medicine

Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale

Publications

42 works, 2011 to 2026. Verified against Crossref, PubMed, OpenAlex and ORCID.

2026

  • Case series

    Button Battery Code: A Case Series of Button Battery Ingestions in Children at a Tertiary Referral Center and Proposed Management Protocol

    Journal of Medicine, Law & Public Health · 10.52609/jmlph.v6i2.285

2025

  • Trial

    To Evaluate Quality of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Performed At Scene and During Transport After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Crossover Trial

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v5i2.132

  • Report

    Emergency Medicine and Rapid Response Virtual Team (EM-RRVT): Insights from the Hajj 1445/2025 Experience

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v5i2.160

  • Study

    Optimizing Paediatric Paracetamol Dosing: Transitioning from Age-Based to Automated Weight-Based Calculations in Saudi Arabia

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v5i2.187

  • SR / MA

    Methylene blue use in adult and pediatric patients with vasodilatory shock: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    International Journal of Medicine in Developing Countries · 10.24911/ijmdc.51-1752093448

2024

  • Position statement

    Mpox Preparedness and Response 2024: Position Statement of The Disaster Management Experts Club

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v5i1.163

  • Scoping review

    Vitamin-D Effect on SLE: A Scoping Review

    Arthritis & Rheumatology — ACR Convergence 2024

2023

  • Commentary

    Prehospital ultrasound: a commentary

    Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine · 10.1007/s43678-023-00551-w

  • Study

    Comparison of START and SALT Triage System in Mass Casualty Incidents: A Study of On-Site Training

    International Journal of Advanced Research · 10.21474/ijar01/17092

  • Study

    The Cluster Approach: A Study of a New Model of Disaster Response

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v3i3.85

  • Commentary

    Evacuating Patients with Ongoing Dialysis

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v3i3.90

  • SR / MA

    The Effect of Butyrophenones for the Management of Primary Headache in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v3i2.78

  • Case report

    Ketamine For Sickle Cell Priapism: A Case Report & Literature Review

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v3i3.84

  • Commentary

    Vendor Attraction to Improve the PTM System: A Commentary

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v3i1.70

2022

  • SR / MA

    Use of Diphenhydramine for Pain Management in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v2i3.55

  • SR / MA

    Ketamine for Adults with Severe Asthma Exacerbation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v2i1.37

  • Review

    A Systematic Review of The Systematic Review of Post COVID-19 Syndrome

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v2i1.33

2021

  • Report

    MERS-CoV in the COVID-19 era: update from Saudi Arabia, 2019–2020

    Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal · 10.26719/emhj.21.049

  • SR / MA

    The risk of coronavirus to healthcare providers during aerosol-generating procedures: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Annals of Thoracic Medicine · 10.4103/atm.ATM_497_20

  • Study

    The Effect of Wearing an N95 Mask on the Blood Gas Values of Healthcare Providers

    International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences 10(2): 51–54

  • Study

    Does The Existence of COVID-19 Vaccine Affect The Level of Anxiety Among Frontline Healthcare Providers? A Pre And Post-Analysis

    International Medical Journal 28(2)

  • Trial

    Virtual Versus In-Personal Teaching of Infection Control Essentials: A Quasi-Experimental Nonequivalent Groups Design

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v1i3.25

  • SR / MA

    Magnesium Administration For COPD Exacerbation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v1i3.22

  • Commentary

    Scenario Planning in Disaster Management: A Call to Change the Current Practice

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v1i3.28

  • Commentary

    Lethal Over-the-Counter Cardioselective Drugs: An Urgent Call to Policy Makers

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v1i3.21

  • Survey

    Patient Satisfaction with the Emergency Department Experience in the Era of COVID-19: A National Survey

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v1i2.11

  • Study

    Improving the patient's experience in the emergency department during COVID-19 pandemic: a community-based analysis from Western Saudi Arabia

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v1i1.9

  • Study

    Leaving The Emergency Department Without Being Seen or Without Complete Treatment: A Study From Saudi Arabia

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v1i1.8

  • Study

    Wrist and Forehead Temperature Measurement as Screening Methods During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v1i2.12

  • Study

    Sleep Disturbance During Quarantine in the Era of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Pandemic

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v1i1.5

  • Study

    The Prevalence of COVID-19 in Jizan Region, Saudi Arabia: A Demographic Analysis

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v1i2.4

  • Study

    Prevalence of COVID-19 in Al Qassim Province, Saudi Arabia: A Sociodemographic Analysis

    JMLPH · 10.52609/jmlph.v1i2.16

  • Book

    The Art of Emergency Medicine: A Practical Approach for Emergency Physicians

    Monograph

2020

  • Case report

    Liraglutide overdose: A case report and an updated review

    Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine · 10.4103/2452-2473.276386

2019

  • Case report

    Varenicline Seizure: Case Report and Literature Review

    Journal of Neurobehavioral Sciences · 10.5455/jnbs.1532600115

2018

  • Systematic review

    School closure during novel influenza: A systematic review

    Journal of Infection and Public Health · 10.1016/j.jiph.2018.01.003

  • Case report

    Psychosis and middle cranial fossa arachnoid cyst: Case report and literature review

    Journal of Neurobehavioral Sciences · 10.5455/jnbs.1527282016

  • Commentary

    Antibiotic misuse: a looming crisis for Saudi Arabia

    Nature Middle East — partner content

2017

  • Study

    Over-the-counter antibiotics in Saudi Arabia, an urgent call for policy makers

    Journal of Infection and Public Health · 10.1016/j.jiph.2016.09.016

2016

  • Study

    Patient Safety Culture: what are we missing?

    Annals of Alquds Medicine 12/13: 2–13

2014

  • Cohort study

    Ommaya reservoir infection rate: a 6-year retrospective cohort study of Ommaya reservoir in pediatrics

    Child's Nervous System · 10.1007/s00381-014-2561-x

2011

  • Case report

    Guidewire Breakage: An Unusual Complication of Anterior Odontoid Cannulated Screw Fixation

    Asian Spine Journal · 10.4184/asj.2011.5.4.258

Publication list compiled September 2026 from Crossref, PubMed, OpenAlex and ORCID, with author-name variants reconciled by hand.

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