Dr. Fatheya Al-khaja

Dr. Fatheya Al-Khaja is a clinical geneticist at Dubai Health, United Arab Emirates, where she has practised since 2021. She holds an MBBS from Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (1999), a Master of Science in Medical Genetics and Immunology from Brunel University London (2003), and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Dubai Health Authority (2007). Her training combines core medical knowledge with specialist expertise in genetic conditions and their management.

Dr. Al-Khaja's clinical focus includes inherited blood disorders, particularly thalassaemia and related genetic conditions affecting red blood cells. She has published research on complications including immune hemolysis during pregnancy and iron overload in patients with thalassaemia major. Her work draws on her experience at the Dubai Thalassemia Centre and combines clinical diagnosis with genetic counselling to help families understand inherited conditions.

She is well suited for patients seeking expert assessment of inherited genetic conditions, genetic risk counselling before or during pregnancy, and management of rare blood disorders with genetic causes.