Brief Biography:

Dr. Yasser Al Harbi has a Ph.D. degree in Human from Glasgow University, UK. He has 10 years of graduate and undergraduate teaching experience; of which 6 years is post Ph.D. He has an excellent teaching, research, and diagnostic background and independently handled Research Projects. He has expertise in the fields of gross anatomy. 

Education: 

PhD in Anatomy, from Glasgow University, 2016 

MSc in Anatomy, from Dundee University, 2009 

MSc in medical education, from King Saud bin Abdul Aziz University for health sciences, 2018 

BSc in rehabilitation (physical therapy), from King Saud University, 2005 

Research Interests: 

Gross anatomy, upper extremities, bone, joints and ligaments   

Scientific Memberships: 

Member of the Committee of Social Activities – Medical Health College-2006.

Member of American Association of Clinical Anatomy Conference – 2014.

Member of the student disciplinary committee– in COM-J (King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University) 2016.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Basic Medical Science Department (Medicine College, King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University) 2016.

Member of Saudi Association of medical education in western region 2016

Member of appreciation award committee in COM –J (King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University) 2016

Founder member in  association of academic education 2017  

Academic Counselor in medicine college 2018 till now

Member of  medicine college council (Medicine College -King Saud Bin Abdul-Aziz University For Health Sciences) 2019

Member of curriculum committee (Medicine College -King Saud Bin Abdul-Aziz University For Health Sciences) 2019 

Member of medical education council (Medicine College -King Saud Bin Abdul-Aziz University For Health Sciences) 2019 

Publications (In KSAU-HS): 

Original Articles | 3 

Alharbi, Y., Al-Mansour, M., Al-Saffar, R., Garman, A., & Alraddadi, A. (2020). Three-dimensional Virtual Reality as an Innovative Teaching and Learning Tool for Human Anatomy Courses in Medical Education: A Mixed Methods Study. Cureus, 12(2), e7085. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7085. 

Ismail E E, Al Saffar R A, Motawei K, et al. (March 10, 2022) Defining the Components of the Deltoid Ligament (DL): A Cadaveric Study. Cureus 14(3): e23051. doi:10.7759/cureus.23051 

Alraddadi, A., Hoja, I., Alhawas, H., Khawaji, B., Alharbi, Y., Agha, S., Masuadi, E., & Magzoub, M. E. (2021). Introducing free response short answer questions in anatomy spot tests: experiment study. Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA, 43(4), 497–503. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00276-020-02550-3