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WCM-Q symposium discusses the future of healthcare
The symposium was designed to enable healthcare practitioners to look to the future of healthcare and sustainability, understand what equitable culturally competent patient care means, and become ‘change agents’ who can promote physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Topics under discussion included population health challenges and the emerging paradigm of health and disease, sustainability of the global lifestyle medicine movement, perspectives…
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WCM-Q and Alfardan Medical with Northwestern Medicine sign Clinical Training and Education Agreement
A Clinical Training and Education Agreement has been signed between leading healthcare facility Alfardan Medical with Northwestern Medicine (AMNM) and elite medical college Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q). The agreement will provide clinical training sites and experience of the private healthcare sector for a number of WCM-Q students each year, at an early stage in their medical education, while also advancing…
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UChicago Medicine transabdominal cerclage team helps prevent pregnancy losses for hundreds of families each year
For Laura Douglass, MD, the retirement of her mentor, the renowned reproductive endocrinologist Arthur Haney, MD, didn’t come as a surprise. “I was a resident with him during my medical training from 2009 to 2013,” said Laura Douglass, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the University of Chicago Medicine. “And he recruited me to come back to UChicago after my residency because he…
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Dr. Aicha Hind Rifai
“The Certificate in Health Humanities is open to all healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists and dentists, but also to allied health professionals and medical students.” Dr. Aicha Hind Rifai is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q). A firm believer in the healing potential of the arts, Dr. Rifai is a researcher and practitioner in the…
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Professor Muthanna G. Abdul Razzaq
“AUE has found the opportunity of rising to the challenge in a timely manner” Hospitals magazine had the chance to meet Professor Muthanna G. Abdul Razzaq, President and CEO of The American University in the Emirates (AUE) who shed light on the main achievements and lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic after life returned to normal this year. What are…
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Stem cell transplant team looks inward to improve survival rates for patients
When a car stops running, the cause usually turns out to be a broken part that needs to be replaced. Similarly, in the bone marrow of patients with blood diseases, the stem cells responsible for creating blood cells are not working as they should. Through a procedure known as stem cell transplant, sometimes referred to as bone marrow transplant, the…
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Precision oncology: Advancing cancer care through new theranostics approaches
When Russell Szmulewitz, MD, describes an emerging tool used to diagnose and treat certain cancers, he can sound more like an Army general than an oncologist specializing in prostate cancer. Such is the precision of theranostics, however, that the analogy fits. “It’s sort of a smart bomb that goes specifically to the cancer target, and we can see where it’s…
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Dr. Ali Chaari
“The webinar series will aim to assess and address current gaps in knowledge regarding neurodegenerative diseases in Qatar, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and beyond.” Dr. Ali Chaari is a Biochemist who obtained his degree in engineering biology from the National Engineering School in Tunisia and his PhD in Biochemistry and Cellular Biology from the University of…
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Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
“We think everyone deserves to have knowledge and skills related to population health and lifestyle medicine. We feel all health professionals – a nurse, a physician, an educator, a researcher, a health administrator and so on – will benefit and help improve and promote health.” Dr. Ravinder Mamtani is Vice Dean for Population Health and Lifestyle Medicine at Weill Cornell…
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WCM-Q course promotes use of simulations in healthcare education
WCM-Q launched its inaugural course on designing and debriefing effective simulations drawing upon the updated Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best PracticeTM. The course directors were Dr. Stella Major, associate professor of family medicine in clinical medicine, Mr. Joshua Vognsen, simulation education specialist at WCM-Q, and Prof. Michelle Brown, associate professor and director of the healthcare simulation graduate program at the…
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