Dr. Hamed Al Sinawi is a senior consultant old age psychiatrist and the head of the department of behavioral medicine at Sultan Qaboos University. He graduated from Sultan Qaboos University then pursued further training in Old Age Psychiatry in the UK and obtained the FRCPsych. He returned to Oman in 2010 to set up a memory clinic at (SQUH) which is responsible for the assessment and management of patients experiencing cognitive symptoms and training medical students and psychiatry residents and supervising research projects. Dr. Hamed has several publications in high-impact journals and has authored several book chapters in different areas of psychiatry. Dr. Hamed is passionate about raising public awareness about mental health and addressing stigma and was awarded best public educator by the royal college of Psychiatrist in UK in 2014.Dr. Hamed is also the Chairman of Oman Alzheimer’s Society which is anon profit organization working with people with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers to raise public awareness and improve quality of services for people with cognitive impairments. He participated in international conferences and workshops related to cars of the elderly and he is very active in public education and awareness about mental health in general. He has a weekly column in two of the national newspapers and a regular podcast addressing health and wellbeing. He also conducts workshop to companies and health care services about wellbeing and communication skills.