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Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah

Senior Advisor, ARETION Consulting

Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah is a Senior Advisor at ARETION and one of Saudi Arabia's national leaders in disaster and emergency preparedness, prehospital care, business continuity and risk. He directs the national EMS and disaster subspecialty fellowship, chairs business continuity for a twelve-hospital health cluster, leads disaster services at SEHA Virtual Hospital — including the virtual rapid-response team deployed for Hajj 1445 — and has advised the Ministry of Health on mass gatherings. Planners bring him the hardest version of the question: will the system hold when everything happens at once?

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Preparedness areas — Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah

Areas drawn from the advisor's own profile on the ARETION platform.

Disaster and mass-casualty preparedness

Plans, incident command and surge capacity for events that overwhelm normal operations.

Mass gatherings and major events

Medical planning, command and surge support for Hajj, Umrah, sporting events and large public gatherings.

Business continuity, resilience and risk

Keeping critical services running through disruption: continuity plans, recovery targets and risk governance.

EMS and prehospital response

Medical direction, protocols and the handover from the field into the hospital.

Outbreaks and public health emergencies

Preparedness and response for infectious threats and other public health emergencies.

Drills, simulation and training

Exercise design, simulation and the training that turns a plan into a capability.

Selected record

National disaster workforce: Programme Director of the EMS and Disaster subspecialty fellowship at the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties since 2024, building the national pipeline of specialists and embedding scenario planning, incident command and operational resilience in the national curriculum.
Business continuity and resilience: Founded and chairs the business continuity function for a twelve-hospital Riyadh health cluster since January 2025, on an ISO 22301-aligned framework; kept 100% service continuity through an enterprise ICT outage and a medical gas supply incident. Received three CEO awards in 2025, including for cluster-wide accreditation in disaster management and business continuity.
Risk management and governance: Defines risk appetite statements and key risk indicators for critical services and embeds live risk dashboards in executive decisions; a zero-failure record across five accreditation audits (three CBAHI, two JCI) and the JCIA Gold Medal. Trained in legislative drafting, with a Master of Laws.
Disaster preparedness at system scale: Built a hospital disaster preparedness department from inception (2023–2024) and directed the health cluster's disaster and operations centre; led an AI-enabled disaster preparedness programme across twelve hospitals and hundreds of national and international drills and live events.

Questions emergency planners ask about Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah

Can Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah review our disaster or mass-casualty plan?

Yes. As a Senior Advisor at ARETION, Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah can review your hazard assessment, incident command structure, surge capacity and links with other agencies, and set out the gaps to close first.

We are planning medical cover for a mass gathering. Can Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah help?

Yes. Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah, a Senior Advisor at ARETION, can review your medical plan, command structure, staffing and escalation routes before the event.

Can Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah help us keep critical services running through a disruption?

Yes. As a Senior Advisor at ARETION, Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah advises on business continuity and resilience: business impact analysis, recovery targets, continuity plans and the exercises that test them.

Does Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah advise on EMS and prehospital systems?

Yes. Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah, a Senior Advisor at ARETION, advises on EMS medical direction, prehospital protocols and the handover into emergency care.

Book a consultation with Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah

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