ATBH Scientific Subcommittee

Chair: Dr Alla El-Awaisi, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, College of Pharmacy and QU Health Chair of Interprofessional Education Committee, Qatar University

Co-chair: Dr Tanya Kane, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, Qatar University

Dr Kane is an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science in the College of Medicine at the University of Qatar. She holds a PhD and MSc in Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh, an MA from McMaster University, a BEd from the University of Toronto, and a BA from Queen’s University (Canada). Her research interests include globalization of higher education, knowledge-based economies, medicine and gender, especially in relation to the countries of the Arabian Peninsula. Dr Kane’s current research project is examining male infertility in the Gulf. Her previous work has focused on dementia, cultures of expertise, the intersection of religious and scientific knowledge, language in transnational education and the universality of medicine. Dr Kane has held posts at Northwestern University in Qatar, Texas A&M University at Qatar and Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. A former teacher, she has taught in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Other ATBH Scientific Subcommittee Members

• • Dr Ahmed Al Hammadi, Deputy Chairman, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar
  • Dr Alison Carr, Associate Dean for Clinical Education, College of Medicine, Qatar University, Qatar
  • Dr Daniel Rainkie, Clinical Lecturer, College of Pharmacy, Qatar University, Qatar
  • Dr Jessie Johnson, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Programs and Chair of the Interprofessional Education Committee, University of Calgary, Qatar
  • Dr Lily O’Hara, Associate Professor of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Qatar University, Qatar
  • Dr Marion Jones, Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Professor of Interprofessional Learning, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
  • Dr Mujahed Shraim, Assistant Professor of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Qatar University, Qatar
  • Dr Nora Al-Mutawa, Family Medicine Consultant and Head of Clinical Training, Primary Health Care Corporation, Qatar
  • Dr Susu Zughaier, Associate Professor of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Qatar University, Qatar
  • Dr Zachariah Nazar, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Practice, College of Pharmacy, Qatar University, Qatar

Administrative Coordinator:

Ms Sarah Al-Qahtani, Administrative Coordinator, College of Medicine, Qatar University