Dr Samia Al Amoudi

A breast cancer survivor who when diagnosed in 2006 was the first Saudi women to write publicly about the disease. She later became the first GCC woman to sit on the board of the Union for International Cancer Control in 2012. A consultant obstetrician gynecologist, she is the founder/CEO of the Sheikh Mohammed H. Al-Amoudi Center of Excellence in Breast Cancer and chairwoman of Women’s Health Empowerment at King Abdulaziz University.