With twenty years of experience, Dr. Abdalla graduated from the University of Juba, obtained a Sudanese Board M.D. in pediatrics and completed a fellowship training program in Kenya which was supported by the European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) and the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescents Diabetes (ISPAD) in September 2015. She has since worked as an endocrinologist in one of the largest pediatric tertiary hospitals in her country, attending to pediatric endocrinology emergencies of all kinds. After joining one of Africa’s biggest diabetes centers, The Sudan Childhood Diabetes Center (SCDC), he encountered different types of diabetes, comorbidities and complications. In addition to neonatal and monogenic diabetes, she has seen patients with celiac disease, other autoimmune disorders, malnutrition-related diabetes, and Maureus syndrome, which are unique to Sudan and Africa. With more than 70 cases of rare genetic type of rickets, as well as other rarer cases like osteopetrosis, childhood Paget’s disease, and osteoporosis pseudoglioma syndrome, Dr. Abdalla specializes in bone disorders. She has also managed 150 patients with osteogenesis imperfecta. Her experience expanded to other rare metabolic disorders and inborn errors of metabolism when she established a rare disease clinic at SCDC in 2018. Approximately 700 genetic cases, ranging from common to extremely rare, were diagnosed by her. Through different charity programs, she also provided free enzyme replacement therapy for Gaucher disease and Hunter disease. Her involvement with the Novo Nordisk Managing Changing Diabetes in Children project led her to oversee 26 diabetes clinics across the country, write curriculums and train more than 90 pediatricians, more than 120 diabetes educators and dieticians, as well as create forums for diabetic children and their families.