Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah — national leader in disaster medicine, EMS, business continuity and risk | ARETION Senior Advisor
Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah — Senior Advisor, ARETION Consulting
Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah is a Senior Advisor at ARETION, specialising in disaster management. He advises on disaster and emergency preparedness, EMS and prehospital systems, and business continuity, resilience and risk management. Book a consultation with Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah directly on platform.aretion.org.
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Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah is one of Saudi Arabia's national leaders in emergency, disaster and prehospital care, and in the business continuity, resilience and risk management that keep health services running when it matters most. An emergency medicine subspecialty consultant, he directs the national EMS and disaster subspecialty fellowship, chairs business continuity for a twelve-hospital health cluster, leads disaster services at the national virtual hospital, and has advised the Ministry of Health on mass gatherings. As a Senior Advisor at ARETION he brings that record to organisations that need their plans to hold under pressure — and to prove it to regulators, boards and the public.
What does Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah help clients with?
The work they take on as a Senior Advisor at ARETION.
Building a business continuity programme to ISO 22301: business impact analysis, recovery time and recovery point objectives, recovery playbooks and exercises
Enterprise risk management for a hospital or health system: risk appetite, risk registers, key risk indicators and board-level risk reporting
Disaster and emergency preparedness across a hospital network: governance, incident command, mass-casualty readiness and cross-agency integration
EMS and prehospital systems: medical direction, mission-specific protocols and the handover into emergency care
Medical readiness for mass gatherings, including Hajj, and tele-emergency surge support
Accreditation readiness for CBAHI and JCI, and the governance, risk and compliance framework behind it
Designing drills, tabletop and full-scale exercises, and the after-action review that turns them into improvement
Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah's portfolio
What each area of advice rests on: appointments, published work and recognition.
National disaster workforce
Programme Director of the EMS and Disaster subspecialty fellowship at the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties since 2024, building the national pipeline of specialists and embedding scenario planning, incident command and operational resilience in the national curriculum.
Business continuity and resilience
Founded and chairs the business continuity function for a twelve-hospital Riyadh health cluster since January 2025, on an ISO 22301-aligned framework; kept 100% service continuity through an enterprise ICT outage and a medical gas supply incident. Received three CEO awards in 2025, including for cluster-wide accreditation in disaster management and business continuity.
Risk management and governance
Defines risk appetite statements and key risk indicators for critical services and embeds live risk dashboards in executive decisions; a zero-failure record across five accreditation audits (three CBAHI, two JCI) and the JCIA Gold Medal. Trained in legislative drafting, with a Master of Laws.
Disaster preparedness at system scale
Built a hospital disaster preparedness department from inception (2023–2024) and directed the health cluster's disaster and operations centre; led an AI-enabled disaster preparedness programme across twelve hospitals and hundreds of national and international drills and live events.
Tele-emergency and mass gatherings
Disaster Service Lead at SEHA Virtual Hospital since 2023, where he established the Virtual Disaster and Virtual Emergency Departments, tele-emergency medicine and the Emergency Medicine Rapid Response Virtual Team, deployed for Hajj 1445. Advisor to the Ministry of Health on mass gatherings (2024–2025).
EMS and prehospital care
Fellowship in prehospital care and EMS at McMaster University, Canada, where he served as an EMS medical director and authored mission-specific protocols (2022); emergency medicine consultant at a Riyadh tertiary medical city.
International and humanitarian response
Member of the 2023 Turkey earthquake relief taskforce; Humanitarian Award for aid work in Aden, Yemen (2025); participant in Italy's national explosion drill (2022); consultant to the Global Centre for Mass Gathering Medicine on MERS-CoV and COVID-19 protocols (2020–2021).
A national expert network and published record
Founder and chair of the Disaster Management Expert Club, a national knowledge-sharing platform for risk and disaster leaders; author of 42 peer-reviewed papers on disaster systems, virtual emergency medicine, infection control and pandemic policy, and editor-in-chief of The Art of Emergency Medicine.
Four disciplines, one advisor
Advanced European Master in Disaster Medicine (Università del Piemonte Orientale), Master of Laws in dispute resolution (University of Aberdeen), MBA in quantitative analysis, and MPH in biostatistics (UNSW), with Saudi Board certification in emergency medicine and executive training at Oxford, Stanford and Cambridge.
Qualifications
As recorded in the firm's advisor directory and maintained by the advisor.
Subspecialty Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Disaster Specialist
Legislative Advisor
Questions about consulting Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah
Can Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah build a business continuity programme for our hospital?
Yes. He founded and chairs business continuity for a twelve-hospital health cluster on an ISO 22301-aligned framework, and kept services running through an enterprise ICT outage and a medical gas incident. An engagement covers business impact analysis, recovery time and recovery point objectives, recovery playbooks and the exercises that test them.
Does he advise on enterprise risk management?
Yes. He sets risk appetite statements, risk registers and key risk indicators for critical services and reports risk at executive and board level, combining clinical, legal (LLM) and quantitative (MBA, MPH) training. That pairing is why his accreditation record across five CBAHI and JCI audits has no failures.
We need to prepare for a mass-casualty event or a disaster. Where do we start?
With governance and an honest baseline. He has built a disaster preparedness department from scratch and led hundreds of national and international drills, so a first session typically maps your hazards, incident command, surge capacity and agency links, and sets the order in which to close the gaps.
Can he help with EMS, prehospital care or mass-gathering medicine?
Yes. He trained in prehospital care and EMS at McMaster University, directs the national EMS and disaster subspecialty fellowship, advised the Ministry of Health on mass gatherings, and set up the virtual rapid-response team used during Hajj 1445.
Is this consulting, or clinical care?
Consulting. An ARETION session is advisory: it produces judgement, a plan or a written opinion on the firm's letterhead. It is not a clinical consultation, does not diagnose or treat, and does not replace care from a treating physician.
How do I book a consultation with Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah?
On the ARETION platform at platform.aretion.org: open the Advisors page, choose Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah, pick an available date and time, and confirm. The session link and confirmation arrive by email, and written advice follows on the firm's letterhead.
Can I consult Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah online?
Yes. Available formats: Online, over Zoom; Document review and evaluation; On-site. Online sessions run over Zoom from anywhere in Saudi Arabia or the Gulf, in Arabic or English.
What can Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah help with?
Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah is a Senior Advisor at ARETION, specialising in disaster management. The problems clients typically bring to this discipline, and the advisor's own areas of expertise, are set out on this page. To book: https://platform.aretion.org.
Can I reschedule a session?
Yes, free of charge: immediately before the session starts, and with the advisor's approval after it has started.
Areas of expertise
The subjects this advisor takes work in, in their own words.
Disaster
Business Continuity
Risk
How an engagement runs
Discipline
Disaster Management Consulting
Formats
Online, over Zoom · Document review and evaluation · On-site
Languages
Arabic · English
Years in practice
7
What you receive
The session, then written advice on the firm's letterhead
Booked directly on the ARETION platform: platform.aretion.org
Identifying this advisor correctly
One author, several published renderings of the name — which is why no single registry holds the complete output. These are the identifiers that resolve them to one person.
Also published as: Bin Nafisah S · Nafisah SB · Sharaf Bin-Nafisah · Sharafaldeen A. Bin Nafisah
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