AI & Healthcare Architect · SFDA

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Dr. Mohammed Fouda

Dr. Mohammed Fouda

Director & AI Lead, SFDA

Leading national drug safety efforts while driving digital transformation with AI. Building production systems regulators use daily.

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Compliance & Code

I wear two hats at SFDA: Director of the Medication Error Department, where I lead the national effort to prevent look-alike drug packaging from harming patients, and Head of the AI Team, Drug Sector, where I drive digital transformation with a 15+ person multidisciplinary team.

Technology Stack

Python Flask FastAPI RAG LangChain FAISS Machine Learning Deep Learning CNNs SQLite

Selected Publications

Signal Detection at SFDA: A Comprehensive Analysis of Current Practices and Future Directions ↗
Peer-reviewed research · Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice · 31(3):e70062 · 2025
Predicting Glaucoma Visual Field Progression from Fundus Images with a Weighted Ensemble Method
Conference paper · IMSA 2025 — Intelligent Methods, Systems & Applications · 2025
Evaluating Machine Learning Models for Predicting Saudi Pharmacovigilance Risk Management Measures
Conference paper · Drug Safety (ISoP Annual Meeting) · 2024
Public Knowledge and Behaviours Regarding Antibiotics Use: A Survey Among the General Public
Peer-reviewed research · International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences · 2017
Transverse Myelitis Associated with Tozinameran Use: Adverse Events-Signal
Signal review · Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety · 2024
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Authority signals

Regulatory AI carries weight only when it survives real institutional, scientific, and patient-safety scrutiny — these are the rooms where the work has been tested.

Global AI Governance

Member, ICMRA AI Steering Committee · Chair, ISoP AI in Pharmacovigilance SIG

Medication Safety Leadership

Director, SFDA Medication Error Department — national evaluation of medication names, labeling, and packaging to reduce look-alike/sound-alike risk

Award-Winning Applied AI

SDAIA × Stanford Hackathon Champion (first-place ML model) · The Eye Hackathon Top 4 Finalist

Research & Peer Review

Distinguished project, SFDA Regulatory Research Day 2024 · Reviewer, Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety and Vaccine

How we collaborate

Strategic Advisory

Guiding organizations through the adoption of AI in regulated healthcare environments.

System Architecture

Designing scalable, compliant regulatory tech stacks.

AI Implementation

From concept to deployment: building RAG pipelines, agents, and predictive models for health data.

ArtGuard medication safety

Using perceptual hashing + vision models to detect drug packaging that looks dangerously similar, protecting patients from medication errors.

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ArtGuard

AI-Powered Medication Safety

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Problem

1,500+

Packaging errors annually

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Stakes

Patients · Regulators · Pharma

All at risk

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Challenge

2-3 hours

Manual review per package

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Solution

Dual-Engine AI

Hashing + Vision LLM

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Workflow

Upload → Analyze → Report

30 seconds

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Impact

500+ scanned

47 flagged · 40% faster

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