Dr. Rizwana Popatia is Consultant Paediatric Pulmonologist at Al Jalila Children’s. Prior to this, Dr. Popatia worked as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and Assistant Attending Pediatrician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is board certified in Paediatrics and Paediatric Pulmonology. Her medical expertise includes paediatric asthma, interstitial lung disease, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, primary ciliary dyskinesia, paediatric aerodigestive disorders, and paediatric bronchoscopy.She completed her residency in Pediatrics at the State University of New York – Downstate Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, and a Fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonology at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She also served as a Chief Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical school. She was a member of Harvard ACGME committee and Harvard Patient Safety and Quality Committee.

Dr. Aji Mathew is Paediatric Pulmonology Specialist at Al Jalila Children’s and has nine years of post residency experience in paediatrics including critical care and emergency in different countries including Kuwait, India and Singapore. After completing his Diploma in Child Health from the Institute of Child Health, Chennai, and MD Paediatrics from Kasturba medical college Mangalore in 2008, Dr. Aji worked at Al Jahra hospital, Kuwait, in 2009, for four years in General Paediatrics and Critical Care. During the period, he completed his membership of Royal College, London (MRCPCH). In 2013, he joined KK Children’s Hospital, Singapore, in Paediatric Emergency for two and a half years. He has undergone training in critical care procedures, emergency airway management, emergency ultrasound, ATLS, PALS etc.

Joel Sanchez joined Al Jalila Children’s in 2017 as a Pulmonary Function Technologist and is responsible for managing and conducting all of the test procedures that take place in the pulmonary function laboratory. He also works alongside doctors in the Sleep Clinic to provide a CPAP therapy initiation and adherence service.Prior to this, Joel was based in the United Kingdom working as a Specialist Clinical Respiratory Physiologist at the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust and also for the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust working at both the Bristol Royal Infirmary and the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.He initially studied a Bachelor’s degree in Human Physiology and then later went on to study Clinical Physiology and Respiratory Physiology at Swansea University, where he also trained within various NHS hospitals throughout Wales.  In late-2017, prior to starting his position at Al Jalila Children’s, he completed a post-graduate diploma in Respiratory Medicine at University of South Wales.Joel is a member of the Association for Respiratory Technology and Physiology (ARTP) and has an ARTP Practitioner Level Qualification, he also has European Respiratory Society Membership and is a registrant of the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists in the UK.Joel Sanchez has significant experience with a variety of medical equipment and devices that are used to carry out a broad range of diagnostic tests, which are useful in diagnosing respiratory disease and for the management of sleep related breathing disorders with positive airway pressure therapies such as; CPAP and BiPAP devices.