Birth Place: | Beirut, Lebanon |
Nationality: | Saudi Arabia |
Citizenship: | Saudi Arabian |
Occupation: | Physician |
Associate Professor | |
Spouse: | Prince Khaled bin Saad Al Saud |
Children: | 5 daughters |
Parents: | Mishari bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (father) |
Relatives: | King Abdulaziz (grandfather) |
Discipline: | Medicine |
Sub Discipline: | Internal medicine |
Maha bint Mishari Al Saud (ar|مها بنت مشاري بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود) is an academic at Alfaisal University's College of Medicine and a physician at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre. She is a member of the Saudi royal family.
Princess Maha is the daughter of Mishari bint Abdulaziz, one of the children of King Abdulaziz. Her mother is a Syrian woman from Aleppo, whose father was a physician.[1] Princess Maha was born in Beirut.[1]
Princess Maha got her early education in Lebanon and in Riyadh.[1] She holds a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery which she received from the College of Medicine at King Saud University in 1986.[2] She completed her residency program at George Washington University Hospital in internal medicine in 1993.[2] In 1994 she got a certificate from the American Board of Internal Medicine.[2]
Following her medicine training Princess Maha began to work at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in 1995 where she still works as a consultant in internal medicine and a senior clinical scientist.[2] She is an associate professor of medicine at Alfaisal University’s College of Medicine and has served as the university’s vice president of external relations since 2014.[3]
She served as the governor of Saudi Arabia chapter of the American College of Physicians and a member of College's international council from 2015 to 2019.[2] She was also a member of the board at the Primary Vascular Research Institute.[3]
Maha bint Mishari is the wife of Prince Khaled bin Saad Al Saud.[4] They have five daughters.[4] They live in Riyadh and have also a mansion in Mulholland Estates in Beverly Hills which they bought in 2013.[4] The mansion was put on sale in February 2020.[5]