{ "_help": "Everyone shown on the About page, in groups. Each group has an 'id' (used by the page, do not change it), a 'title', an optional 'note', and a list of 'people'. A person has: 'name' (exactly as it should appear), 'role' (the short line under the name, may be \"\"), 'postnominals' (degrees after the name, may be \"\"), 'titles' (a list of longer lines, may be []), 'photo' (a file in /assets/people/, or \"\" to draw a monogram tile with the initials), and 'photoRing' (true only when the picture has a ring printed into it, which the site then masks away). To add a person, copy one {...} block, change the text, and put the square photo (480 px or larger) in /assets/people/. An open seat uses \"open\": true and shows a dashed tile with its role, never a face. Only real people who agreed to be shown.", "groups": [ { "id": "faculty-advisors", "title": "Faculty Advisors", "note": "College of Medicine leadership who advise the group.", "people": [ { "name": "Prof. Khaled Al-Kattan", "role": "Faculty Advisor", "postnominals": "", "titles": [ "Dean, College of Medicine", "Vice President, Finance and Administration" ], "photo": "/assets/people/khaled-al-kattan.jpg", "photoRing": false }, { "name": "Dr. Akef Obeidat", "role": "Faculty Advisor", "postnominals": "", "titles": [ "Vice-Dean, Quality Assurance and Accreditation" ], "photo": "/assets/people/akef-obeidat.jpg", "photoRing": false } ] }, { "id": "advisory-board", "title": "Advisory Board", "note": "The practising robotic surgeons who supervise RSIG.", "people": [ { "name": "Prof. Dieter Broering", "role": "Advisory Board", "postnominals": "MD, PhD, FEBS, FACS", "titles": [ "Professor of Surgery, Alfaisal University", "Executive Director, Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence (OTCoE), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh", "President, Clinical Robotic Surgery Association (CRSA)", "Vice President, International Society of Liver Surgeons (ISLS)", "Congress President, International Living Donor Liver Transplant Group (iLDT Group), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia" ], "photo": "/assets/people/dieter-broering.jpg", "photoRing": false, "_source": "Titles corrected by the owner on 2026-09-21: the launch booklet had Prof. Broering's and Dr. Raptis's titles swapped." }, { "name": "Dr. Dimitri A. Raptis", "role": "Advisory Board", "postnominals": "MD, MSc, PhD", "titles": [ "Professor of Surgery, Alfaisal University", "Consultant in HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation at the Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence (OTCoE)", "King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh" ], "photo": "/assets/people/dimitri-raptis.jpg", "photoRing": false, "_source": "Titles corrected by the owner on 2026-09-21: the launch booklet had Prof. Broering's and Dr. Raptis's titles swapped." }, { "name": "Dr. Suha K. Kaaki", "role": "Advisory Board", "postnominals": "MD, FRCSC, FACS", "titles": [ "President and Founder, Robotic Surgery Society (RSS)", "Secretary General, Saudi General Surgery Society (SGSS)", "Associate Professor of Surgery, King Saud University", "Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh" ], "photo": "/assets/people/suha-kaaki.jpg", "photoRing": false }, { "name": "Prof. Feras Khaliel", "role": "Advisory Board", "postnominals": "MD, MSc, FRCSC, PhD", "titles": [ "Chairman of Cardiac Surgery", "Deputy Executive Director, Heart Centre of Excellence", "King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh", "Led the team that performed the world's first fully robotic heart transplant, 2024" ], "photo": "/assets/people/feras-khaliel.jpg", "photoRing": false }, { "name": "Dr. Abdelrahman Nimeri", "role": "Advisory Board", "postnominals": "MD, FACS, FASMBS", "titles": [ "Director, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Mass General Brigham", "Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School" ], "photo": "/assets/people/abdelrahman-nimeri.jpg", "photoRing": true, "_source": "Owner, 2026-09-23: \"2 new advisors have joined. 1. Abdelrahman Nimeri, MD, FACS, FASMBS, Director, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Mass General Brigham, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School\". No photo yet: monogram until one is uploaded." }, { "name": "Dr. Farah A. Husain", "role": "Advisory Board", "postnominals": "MD, FACS, FASMBS, DABS-FPD", "titles": [ "Professor of Surgery, Division of Foregut and Metabolic Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)", "Vice-Chair for Education, Department of Surgery, OHSU", "Program Director, General Surgery Residency, OHSU" ], "photo": "/assets/people/farah-husain.jpg", "photoRing": true, "_source": "Owner, 2026-09-23: \"2. Farah A. Husain MD FACS FASMB DABS-FPD, Professor of Surgery, Division of Foregut and Metabolic Surgery; Vice-Chair Education, Department of Surgery; Program Director, General Surgery Residency; Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)\". Photo supplied by the owner the same day." }, { "name": "Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Peter Grimminger", "role": "Advisory Board", "postnominals": "FACS, FEBS (hon.)", "titles": [ "Senior Consultant and Head of Upper GI Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery and Robotics", "University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany" ], "photo": "/assets/people/peter-grimminger.jpg", "photoRing": false } ] }, { "id": "board-of-directors", "title": "Board of Directors", "note": "The students who founded RSIG and lead it: the Board for 2026 to 2027.", "people": [ { "name": "Ahmad Mirza", "role": "Founder and Director", "postnominals": "", "titles": [], "photo": "/assets/people/ahmad-mirza.jpg", "photoRing": false }, { "name": "Aiko Urooj Danish", "role": "Founder and Director", "postnominals": "", "titles": [], "photo": "/assets/people/aiko-urooj-danish.jpg", "photoRing": false }, { "name": "Dr. Qazi Mir Hakam", "role": "Founder and General Secretary", "postnominals": "", "titles": [], "photo": "/assets/people/qazi-mir-hakam.jpg", "photoRing": false } ] }, { "id": "student-advisors", "title": "Student Advisors", "note": "", "people": [ { "name": "Umair Aleem", "role": "Founder and Student Advisor", "postnominals": "", "titles": [], "photo": "/assets/people/umair-aleem.jpg", "photoRing": false }, { "name": "Samra Mirza", "role": "Founder and Student Advisor", "postnominals": "", "titles": [], "photo": "/assets/people/samra-mirza.jpg", "photoRing": false } ] }, { "id": "department-heads", "title": "Department Heads", "note": "Each department has two student heads. A seat marked Recruiting now is still open.", "_help": "One entry per head. 'department' is the slug of the department (training-development, research-innovation, awareness or public-relations), so the head also shows on that department's page. A named head with no photo yet has \"photo\": \"\" and shows a monogram portrait with the ember ring; upload a photo later to replace it. An open seat has \"open\": true: one open seat with \"name\": \"Two heads\" stands for both seats of a department.", "people": [ { "name": "Kareem Darwish", "role": "Head, Research and Innovation", "department": "research-innovation", "postnominals": "", "titles": [], "photo": "", "photoRing": false, "_source": "Owner, site-todo 94b (2026-09-22)." }, { "name": "Ayah Abu Jamea", "role": "Head, Public Relations", "department": "public-relations", "postnominals": "", "titles": [], "photo": "/assets/people/ayah-abu-jamea.jpg", "photoRing": false, "_source": "Owner, site-todo 94a (2026-09-22)." }, { "name": "Khidr Mohammed", "role": "Head, Public Relations", "department": "public-relations", "postnominals": "", "titles": [], "photo": "", "photoRing": false, "_source": "Owner, site-todo 94a (2026-09-22)." }, { "open": true, "name": "Second head", "role": "Research and Innovation", "department": "research-innovation", "titles": [ "Recruiting now" ] }, { "open": true, "name": "Two heads", "role": "Training and Development", "department": "training-development", "titles": [ "Recruiting now" ] }, { "open": true, "name": "Two heads", "role": "Awareness", "department": "awareness", "titles": [ "Recruiting now" ] } ] }, { "id": "research-coordinators", "title": "OTCoE Research Coordinators", "note": "Research and Innovation also has two OTCoE Research Coordinators (OTCoE: the Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence).", "_help": "Shown on the About page under Departmental Leadership and on the Research and Innovation page, under Current leadership. Add, remove or edit coordinators here. 'photo' \"\" shows a monogram portrait with the ember ring until a photo is uploaded.", "people": [ { "name": "Leen Alshibi", "role": "OTCoE Research Coordinator", "department": "research-innovation", "postnominals": "", "titles": [ "Research and Innovation" ], "photo": "", "photoRing": false, "_source": "Owner, site-todo 93a (2026-09-22)." }, { "name": "Sami Abdul Kareem", "role": "OTCoE Research Coordinator", "department": "research-innovation", "postnominals": "", "titles": [ "Research and Innovation" ], "photo": "", "photoRing": false, "_source": "Owner, site-todo 93a (2026-09-22)." } ] } ], "voices": { "_help": "The two quote moments. 'advisors' is In their words (home page and the Advisory Board page): each quote has 'show' (untick to hide it), 'name', 'title', 'photo', 'quote' (word for word, exactly as published), 'kind' (\"said\" for the person's own words, spoken or signed, shown in quotation marks; \"written\" for words from a paper or a book, shown as a passage, never as speech), 'label' (the small line above the quote, for example Said to Arab News), 'credit' (the line under the name that says where the words come from), 'sourceLabel' (the words of the small source link) and 'url' (the article, opens in a new tab). Only add words that were really published, with the link. 'founders' is From the founders (About page): the first founder is shown large; each has 'name', 'role', 'photo' and 'line' (their own words, approved by them).", "advisors": { "title": "In their words.", "lede": "What the surgeons who supervise RSIG have said and written about robotic surgery. Every line links to where it was published.", "items": [ { "show": true, "label": "From an interview", "name": "Prof. Dieter Broering", "title": "Executive Director, Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC", "photo": "/assets/people/dieter-broering.jpg", "quote": "Robotic surgery is a game-changer, particularly in conducting donor and recipient surgeries.", "kind": "said", "credit": "In an interview with Brand Finance, 31 January 2024.", "sourceLabel": "Read the Brand Finance interview", "url": "https://brandfinance.com/insights/26450-2" }, { "show": true, "label": "Written with co-authors", "name": "Dr. Dimitri A. Raptis", "title": "Consultant in HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC", "photo": "/assets/people/dimitri-raptis.jpg", "quote": "Liver transplantation, a complex surgical arena, has not been left behind in this robotic evolution.", "kind": "written", "credit": "Written by Dr. Raptis and co-authors in the chapter “Robotic Liver Transplantation”, Modern Surgery (Springer), 2025.", "sourceLabel": "Read the chapter on Springer", "url": "https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-031-79150-5_99" }, { "show": true, "label": "From her signed message", "name": "Dr. Suha K. Kaaki", "title": "President and Founder, Robotic Surgery Society of Saudi Arabia", "photo": "/assets/people/suha-kaaki.jpg", "quote": "Our mission is to advance the standards of surgical practice and nursing through the integration of advanced robotic technology and continuous professional education.", "kind": "said", "credit": "From her message as President and Founder of the Robotic Surgery Society of Saudi Arabia.", "sourceLabel": "Read the message on rss.org.sa", "url": "https://rss.org.sa/" }, { "show": true, "label": "Said to Arab News", "name": "Prof. Feras Khaliel", "title": "Chairman of Cardiac Surgery; Deputy Executive Director, Heart Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC", "photo": "/assets/people/feras-khaliel.jpg", "quote": "But it’s not replacing surgeons — it’s enhancing what we can do.", "kind": "said", "credit": "Said to Arab News, 17 October 2024.", "sourceLabel": "Read the Arab News article", "url": "https://www.arabnews.com/node/2575697/saudi-arabia" } ] }, "founders": { "title": "From the founders.", "lede": "Five students founded RSIG. Here is why, in their own words.", "items": [ { "name": "Ahmad Mirza", "role": "Founder and Director", "photo": "/assets/people/ahmad-mirza.jpg", "line": "Surgery was never something I discovered. I grew up hearing about the operating room at the dinner table, long before I ever stood in one, and the devotion of the people who raised me became my own. Robotics is where that calling found its direction. I built RSIG so students can meet robotic surgery before residency, not during it. It is how I pass the passion on.", "_source": "The founder's own words, approved (2026-09-21)." }, { "name": "Aiko Urooj Danish", "role": "Founder and Director", "photo": "/assets/people/aiko-urooj-danish.jpg", "line": "My vision for RSIG is to create the kind of space I would value as a student, one that transforms curiosity into opportunity, encourages meaningful growth, and gives students the chance to actively engage with the future of robotic surgery.", "_source": "The founder's own words, approved (2026-09-22)." }, { "name": "Dr. Qazi Mir Hakam", "role": "Founder and General Secretary", "photo": "/assets/people/qazi-mir-hakam.jpg", "line": "The first time I saw a surgical robot in action, I was fascinated. Seeing the level of precision, control, and innovation firsthand made me realize how much surgery is evolving, and how exciting that future can be. It inspired me to learn more, and through RSIG, I hope to give medical students that same sense of curiosity and exposure, to see what the future of surgery could look like and imagine themselves being part of it.", "_source": "The founder's own words, approved (2026-09-22)." }, { "name": "Umair Aleem", "role": "Founder and Student Advisor", "photo": "/assets/people/umair-aleem.jpg", "line": "I have spent my time at Alfaisal building bridges between our students and the wider world of medicine, because I know what it feels like to stand outside a door you cannot open. RSIG is that door for the students who come next, and being part of its beginning means more to me than I can say.", "_source": "The founder's own words, approved (2026-09-22)." }, { "name": "Samra Mirza", "role": "Founder and Student Advisor", "photo": "/assets/people/samra-mirza.jpg", "line": "I grew up surrounded by surgery, and learned early that medicine is measured by the people you help. My work has always been about opening doors for students. RSIG is one more, and I am proud to help hold it open.", "_source": "The founder's own words, approved (2026-09-22)." } ] } } }