Khalid Mubarak Bindayna received his Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology from the Faculty of Medicine, University of London, in 1989. He has more than thirty publications to his name. Currently, Prof. Bindayna is chairing the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases of the College of Medicine and Medical Sciences. He is also the Director of the Master's in Laboratory Medicine program at the college.