Dr. Hedayat Akbari

Dr. Hedayat Akbari is a Paediatrician with a subspecialty in Allergy and Clinical Immunology and more than 40 years of clinical experience. Dr. Akbari currently serves as Head of the Dr. Hedayat Akbari Allergy Polyclinic in Dubai, which he founded in 2023, as well as Head of the Shiraz Allergy Center in Iran, established in 2003. In these roles, he manages allergic and immunological conditions in both paediatric and adult patients, providing allergy diagnostic testing and advanced allergy treatments. Alongside this he has experience in both clinical leadership and patients education within his practices. 

Having graduated in medicine in 1989 and completed his specialist training in Paediatrics in 1992, followed by subspecialty training in Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Dr. Akbari went onto work at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran, where he began his practice in Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 

His clinical and academic work has included research published in peer-reviewed medical journals, focussed on hay fever, asthma and respiratory disease, immunodeficiency, and environmental allergens.

Alongside his practices in Dubai and Iran, Dr. Akbari is a member of several professional societies, including the Emirates Thoracic Society, Iranian Societies of Asthma and Allergy and Immunology, Gulf Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, European Respiratory Society and European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. This demonstrates Dr. Akbari’s ongoing engagement with Allergy and Immunology and the wider medical community.