His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Well being Board of Administrators, formally inaugurated Dubai Well being’s Heart for Innovation and Know-how.
The middle combines scientific experience, analysis, and modern applied sciences to form the way forward for healthcare, and advance well being for humanity.
The inauguration was held as a part of the Dubai Well being Board of Administrators assembly, chaired by His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, and attended by Board members together with Her Excellency Dr. Raja Easa Al Gurg, His Excellency Abdulla Abdul Rahman Al Shaibani, Professor Sir Ian Andrew Greer, His Excellency Walid Saeed Al Awadhi, His Excellency Mohammed Hassan Al Shehhi, and Dr. Amer Sharif, CEO of Dubai Well being.
His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed conveyed his honest appreciation to His Excellency Professor Alawi Alsheikh-Ali, Director Basic of the Dubai Well being Authority, for his useful contributions to Dubai Well being and for his instrumental function in laying the inspiration for Dubai’s first educational well being system. His Highness wished him continued success in his new tasks.
Throughout the assembly, Board members reviewed key achievements and have been briefed on the progress of initiatives aimed toward enhancing affected person care and elevating the standard of healthcare.
His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed welcomed the Board members, commending their efforts to advance healthcare in alignment with Dubai’s Social Agenda 33.
His Highness acknowledged: “We’re progressing steadily towards a future the place innovation and superior know-how are on the core of healthcare supply. The Heart for Innovation and Know-how at Dubai Well being serves as a strategic platform that brings collectively experience, expertise, and forward-thinking concepts to develop options that make an actual distinction in folks’s well being. I lengthen my appreciation to Dr. Raja Easa Al Gurg and Dr. Amina Al Rostamani for his or her beneficiant contributions to the institution of this pioneering heart.”
Deserving recognition
His Highness honoured Dr. Raja Easa Al Gurg, Chairperson of the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Charity Basis, and Dr. Amina Al Rostamani, Board member on the AW Rostamani Group, in recognition of their help in establishing Dubai Well being’s Heart for Innovation and Know-how. His Highness expressed his honest appreciation for his or her useful neighborhood efforts in advancing care, medical training, and analysis.
The Dubai Well being Board of Administrators additionally expressed their gratitude to Her Excellency Dr. Raja Easa Al Gurg and Her Excellency Dr. Amina Al Rostamani for his or her beneficiant contributions to the Heart for Innovation and Know-how and recommended their well-deserved recognition for his or her pivotal function in advancing neighborhood philanthropy.
Her Excellency Dr. Raja Easa Al Gurg thanked His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed for the honour, noting that supporting such initiatives builds on the values instilled by her late father, whose contributions left a long-lasting mark on neighborhood service and the spirit of giving. She emphasised that the institution of the middle will foster innovation and steady improvement within the healthcare system by enabling analysis groups to advance and undertake rising applied sciences.
Her Excellency Dr. Amina Al Rostamani expressed her satisfaction in being honoured by His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed. She mentioned: “I’m privileged to have contributed to the institution of the Heart for Innovation and Know-how at Dubai Well being, which goals to speed up the adoption of sensible options in healthcare and strengthen Dubai’s place in medical sciences by strategic partnerships. Social duty is deeply rooted in our neighborhood and stays a vital driver of the sustainable improvement led by our smart management.”
His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed toured the Heart for Innovation and Know-how within the firm of Her Excellency Dr. Raja Easa Al Gurg and Her Excellency Dr. Amina Al Rostamani, the middle’s major benefactors, in addition to members of the Dubai Well being Board of Administrators. They have been joined by Peter Corridor, President of IMEA at Informa Markets, and Hal Wolf, President and CEO of HIMSS. Throughout the go to, His Highness was briefed on the newest modern initiatives designed to reinforce the standard of care.
Strategic partnerships
The Heart for Innovation and Know-how was established by the beneficiant contributions of the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Charity Basis and the AW Rostamani Group, which made a joint donation of AED10 million by Al Jalila Basis, the philanthropic arm of Dubai Well being.
The middle’s launch coincides with the primary version of WHX Tech 2025, the World Well being Know-how Exhibition, going down from 8–10 September 2025 on the Dubai World Commerce Centre. Throughout the occasion, Dubai Well being will announce a sequence of recent collaborations with main educational, know-how, and authorities companions to advance initiatives on the heart. These partnerships embody Dubai Future Basis, Prototypes for Humanity, Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation, Siemens Healthineers, Schneider Electrical, and Huawei.
The Heart for Innovation and Know-how is dedicated to reworking daring concepts into real-world options that improve affected person care, drive medical developments, and enhance lives, in step with Dubai Well being’s ‘Affected person First’ promise. It additionally serves as an academic and analysis platform, enabling clinicians, scientists, learners, and innovators to pioneer breakthroughs that form the way forward for healthcare.
Dr. Yacine Hadjiat, Director of The Heart for Innovation and Know-how at Dubai Well being, mentioned: “The Heart for Innovation and Know-how brings collectively expertise from throughout disciplines, and gives the setting and assets wanted to reimagine healthcare supply. It’s designed not solely to advance know-how but additionally to encourage daring pondering, foster collaboration, and speed up discoveries that finally serve sufferers and enhance lives.”
Designed in step with the world’s main well being innovation hubs, the middle homes superior laboratories and applied sciences for growing, testing and validating options. This consists of the Prolonged Actuality and Mind Interface Lab (XR BCI), the Robotics and Sensors Lab, Synthetic Intelligence and Knowledge Lab, Design Lab, a Consumer Expertise Room, and areas for collaboration.
To help the transition from discovery to utility, the middle additionally affords complete providers by its Know-how Switch Workplace (TTO), enabling innovators to guard mental property and construct partnerships.