Shafallah Medical Genetics Center is a state-of-the-art genetics center dedicated to the welfare of children with special health-care and educational needs and their families in the state of Qatar. The center will provide high quality medical genetics services, as well as, professional and community-based education. The center will pursue fundamental knowledge by fostering an active research enterprise, built on collaboration and leadership. The center will serve as a model for comprehensive and integrated genetic health-care services in the Middle East and the world.