Dr. Hessa Al-Rashid
Precision cardiometabolic physician with 18 years in preventive medicine, trained at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Al-Rashid trained in internal medicine at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre in Riyadh before completing a fellowship in preventive cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic. Her work over the following decade focused on identifying cardiometabolic risk at the molecular level — long before symptoms appear.
At Smart Santé she leads the cardiometabolic panel design — ApoB, Lp(a), continuous glucose monitoring, and arterial stiffness — and personally reviews every patient's baseline report before the physician debrief. Her philosophy: the data only matters if it translates into a protocol the patient can sustain.
Outside the clinic, Dr. Al-Rashid lectures on risk stratification in metabolic disease at the Saudi Heart Association and contributes to clinical audit panels for the Ministry of Health. She reads English and Arabic medical literature with equal fluency, and insists that every Smart Santé report is written for the patient, not the chart.
Areas of Expertise
- Cardiometabolic Risk Stratification
- Lipidology & Apolipoprotein Panels
- Continuous Glucose Monitoring
- Arterial Stiffness & Vascular Age
- Preventive Cardiology Protocols
- Metabolic Syndrome Reversal
Education & Credentials
- MD — King Saud University College of Medicine, Riyadh
- Internal Medicine Residency — King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
- Preventive Cardiology Fellowship — Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
- MD, King Saud University College of Medicine
- Fellowship in Preventive Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic
- Board Certified, Saudi Commission for Health Specialties
Languages Spoken
Arabic (native), English (fluent)
A Note From Dr. Hessa Al-Rashid
"The data only matters if it translates into a protocol the patient can sustain. My job is to close that gap."