Dr. Asmaa Al Rashed is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. She is board certified and has received her training in General Surgery and Critical Care Fellowship at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, and completed Laparoscopic Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Fellowship in Laval University, Quebec City, Canada. She works as a consultant in general, metabolic and bariatric surgery in the Department of Surgery and a consultant in critical care in Al-Amiri Hospital and Jaber Al-Ahmed Hospital in Kuwait. She held numerous academic and leadership roles and has been invited as a speaker by prestigious international academic institutions and professional societies. Dr. Al Rashed’s research and clinical work focus on quality of care in obesity and metabolic and bariatric surgery, digital transformation in healthcare, and in achieving equity in surgery. Dr. Al-Rashed’s vision and leadership have transformed the landscape for women physicians in Kuwait and the MENA region. She founded the Women Surgeons of Kuwait and co-founded the Women Surgeons Research Network (WSKRN). Furthermore, she led the movement of the Women Surgeons of the Gulf, co-founded the Pan Arab Women Physicians Association and contributed to the growth of many professional women physicians’ groups and societies.