Prof. Nasser Al-Sanea is the Head Section of Colon & Rectal Surgery at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

He is also the President of the Saudi Society of Colon & Rectal Surgery, the Chairman of the Saudi Fellowship in Colon & Rectal Surgery and the Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Colorectal Surgery and the Annals of Saudi Medicine. He has numerous publications in the field of colorectal cancer genomics, hereditary colorectal diseases, novel surgical techniques in the treatment of colorectal cancer and anal fistulae