Psychopharmacology Series — Dr. Ali Garatli

Ali Garatli, MD, is a consultant psychiatrist and academic with extensive clinical, teaching, and leadership experience in the United States and Saudi Arabia. He received his medical degree from Damascus University in Syria in 1988 and completed his psychiatry residency at East Tennessee State University in the USA. He obtained certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 2000 and went on to serve as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at East Tennessee State University from 2000 to 2009. During this time, he also served as President of the Upper East Tennessee Psychiatric Chapter of the American Psychiatric Association (2006–2009).

Since 2009, Dr. Garatli has been a consultant psychiatrist at King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he has headed the Department of Psychiatry since 2015. He also holds an adjunct professorship in psychiatry at the College of Medicine, Alfaisal University in Riyadh (2017–present).

Dr. Garatli has a particular passion and extensive experience in psychopharmacology and has participated as a speaker and facilitator in hundreds of workshops and lectures at national and international conferences.