Sulafa Khalid Mohamed Ali

Sulafa Khalid Mohamed Ali (; born 24 October 1964, in Khartoum) is a pioneer in paediatric cardiology in Sudan.

Early life and education Sulafa Khalid Mohamed Ali was born on 24 October 1964 in Khartoum, Sudan. Sulafa completed her high school at Khartoum North High School between 1980 and 1983. She earned a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum in 1989. In 1995, she was made a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and became a Fellow in 2006.

Career Sulafa started her medical training as a house officer at Khartoum Teaching Hospital (1990–1991), before becoming a resident paediatric (1991–1993). In 1993, she moved to Saudi Arabia to join the Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, as a resident pediatric, before joining the Prince Salman Hospital, Riyadh, in 1997 as a pediatric specialist, and then the King Abdul-Aziz Cardiac Center in 1999 as an Assistant Consultant and Fellow Pediatric Cardiology.

Sulafa returned to Sudan to work at the Sudan Heart Center and Jafar Ibn Ouf Children’s Hospital as a Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist since July 2004 and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum. She was promoted to an associate professor in July 2008 and later to a professor in July 2012 at the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Khartoum. In 2012, She founded the Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program at the Sudan Medical Specialization Board. Along with the Federal Ministry of Health, she created a programme to control valvular heart disease in 2012. In addition to the WHO Expert Committee on Rheumatic Heart Disease, she is a member of several other national and international scientific groups.

She is the creator and chairwoman of Sudan's Rheumatic Heart Disease Control Program and the Sudanese Children's Heart Society, a nonprofit organisation supporting children with heart disease. She has also been the President of the Pan African Network of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease since 2022. Sulafa was awarded the World Heart Federation's Advocacy Award in 2022.