Dr Ghita Harifi is a Consultant Rheumatologist at Kings College Hospital and an Adjunct Professor of Rheumatology at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health sciences (MBRU), in Dubai , UAE.
Dr Harifi is a board-certified rheumatologist, a Fellow of the Université de Strasbourg, one of France’s best research universities specialized in auto-immune diseases. She completed her Post-Graduate Certificate in Interventional Rheumatology, and her French Certificate in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound from Pierre et Marie Curie University (UPMC) and Sorbonne University, Paris.
Dr Harifi is an expert in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, and she has been leading many teaching programs in this field in the UAE and in the Asia Pacific region.
She is actively involved in research and education and has been published in numerous peer reviewed journals.
Dr Harifi represents the UAE in the Asia Pacific League of Associations of Rheumatology (APLAR) as the Convener of the Young Rheumatologists (AYR) Committee, and as a member of the APLAR academy.