Call for more Qatari health professionals Call for more Qatari health professionals Haya H Al Muhannadi / Sunday, January 18, 2015 0 17133 Qatar needs to produce more Qatari health professionals to create an efficient health workforce, Dr Victor Dzau, an official of a US-based medical institute, has said. “My understanding is that out of 8,000 nurses, only 300 are Qataris,” he noted. He was speaking at the Innovations in Global Medical and Health Education (IGMHE) forum in Doha yesterday. Read more
CMUQ appoints two more associate deans CMUQ appoints two more associate deans Haya H Al Muhannadi / Sunday, January 18, 2015 0 18141 Kemal Oflazer and Selma Limam-Mansar have been appointed associate dean of research and associate dean of education, respectively, at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMUQ). A faculty member in computer science at CMUQ, Oflazer obtained his doctorate in computer science from CMU. Specialising in the area of natural language processing (NLP), he is an active member of the research community and has widely published his work in journals and at conferences. Read more
QF team in UK to forge closer links Haya H Al Muhannadi / Sunday, January 18, 2015 0 16482 Officials from Qatar Foundation institutions are in the UK to participate in the “QF/UK Road Ahead Forum” to be held today at King’s College London. The forum implements a memorandum of understanding on research and education signed in September 2013 by QF and its UK partners: the Department for Business Innovation & Skills, the British Council, and Universities UK International Unit. Read more