Samia al-Amoudi

Samia al-Amoudi is a Saudi Arabian obstetrician and gynecologist, healthcare activist and professor. She is the head of the Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi Center of Excellence in breast cancer. She is best known for her work in raising breast cancer awareness, after diagnosing herself with the disease. She is also the first woman from the Gulf Cooperation Council to sit on the Union for International Cancer Control board.

Life and career In 1981, Al-Amoudi was among the first doctors to graduate from the medical college in King Abdulaziz University.

In April 2006, she diagnosed herself with breast cancer, for which she underwent chemotherapy. She also appeared on a daily TV show.

In 2010, she was ranked fifth on the Power 100 list, which is Arabian Business's annual listing of the world's most influential Arabs.

Since 2012, the year she completed her cancer treatment, she has been head of the Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi Center of Excellence in breast cancer and scientific chair for breast cancer at KAU, Jeddah Saudi Arabia, and is GE Healthcare's #GetFit Ambassador.