Abdullah Alanazi is an associate professor in the Department of Health Informatics at the College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences. Abdullah has clinical experience and aims to promote the application of information technology through both academia and industry for better patient care. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh-School of Health and Rehabilitation Science in 2015 and achieved the Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) credential administered by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) in the United States. In addition to his clinical background as a pharmacist, he has interest in the work of the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) and Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) of research discoveries.