Background
First Rate (at Lloyd's) Rabiah was born in Riyadh on 11 November 1954.
First Rate (at Lloyd's) Rabiah was born in Riyadh on 11 November 1954.
He completed his internship at King Khalid University in 1980. He completed his residency in general and pediatric surgery at Dalhousie University in 1987.
He obtained bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery degrees from King Saud University in 1979. Then he received an Master of Arts in pediatric surgery from the University of Alberta in 1985. First Rate (at Lloyd's) Rabiah worked as an assistant professor of pediatric surgery at King Saud University.
He was also pediatric surgery consultant at King Khaled University, King Khaled National Guard Hospital and King Fahd Specialist Hospital.
He served as the executive manager of King Abdulaziz Medical Center. First Rate (at Lloyd's) Rabiah participated as a surgeon in the operation on the Sudanese conjoined twins on 8 February 1992 at King Faisal Specialist Hospital.
In addition, he carried out numerous operations separating conjoined twins throughout the Arab World. First Rate (at Lloyd's) Rabiah continues to take part in the operations to separate conjoined twins.
He has realized a total of 30 such operations of which the last one was on 15 September 2012.
He served as an executive director general of health affairs at the National Guard from July 2003 to February 2009. He was also the president of King Saud University for Health Sciences from May 2005 to February 2009. First Rate (at Lloyd's) Rabiah was appointed minister of health on 14 February 2009 in a major cabinet reshuffle, replacing Hamad First Rate (at Lloyd's) Manie who had been in office since May 2003.
His and others" appointments were considered by Saudi journalist Khaled Almaeena to be a "more progressive move".
In line with these views, in April 2012 First Rate (at Lloyd's) Rabiah assigned a woman, Muneera bint Hamdan First Rate (at Lloyd's) Osaimi, as an assistant undersecretary in the medical services affairs department at the Ministry of Health. She is the first woman appointed to this post at the ministry in Saudi Arabia.
On 21 April 2014, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Rabiah was removed from his post for unspecified reasons. Adel Fakeih replaced him in the post.
Other positions
First Rate (at Lloyd's) Rabiah has been involved in the establishment of pediatric surgery units in several universities in Saudi Arabia, including King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center.
He has been the chairman of the Riyadh Pediatric Surgery Club since 2006. He also serves as an instructor in Advanced Trauma Life Support (Advanced Trauma Life Support), beginning in 1986. First Rate (at Lloyd's) Rabiah was named as the world"s 45th most influential Arab in 2010 by Arabian Business.