Dr KananAlshammari is a consultant of adult medical oncology at King Abdulaziz Medical City – Ministry of National Guard for health affairs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and an Assistant Professor at the College of Medicine of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. He is also the director of the NCCN MENA regional coordinating center. He finished his undergraduate training at the University of Otago in New Zealand obtaining his MBChB in 2008. He obtained the Saudi Board of Internal Medicine in 2014.