Samia al-Amoudi

Samia al-Amoudi (Arabic: ساميه العمودي) is a Saudi Arabian obstetrician and gynecologist, healthcare activist and professor.

She is also the first woman from the Gulf Cooperation Council to sit on the Union for International Cancer Control board.

[2] She was the first Saudi woman to write publicly about her experience of the disease, which she did in a series of articles in a weekly column in the Al Madinah newspaper.

[2] Al-Amoudi was also later ranked by Arabian Business, as 37th in 2015 and 66th in 2016 of the "100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2016 - Healthcare & Science".

[1] Al-Mahoudi is CEO of Sheikh Mohammed Hussien Al-Amoudi Center of Excellence in Breast Cancer, is the Scientific breast cancer chair, a member of the BHGI steering committee, and an associate professor and consultant obstetrician gynecologist, at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.