Dr. Reham Nazal Profile

Faculty Member

Academic Rank: 

Assistant Professor

Specialization: 

Human Physiology, Medical Genetics, and Developmental Neurosciences

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Education: 

University/College Name	Degree Received	Specialization	Description
Paris Sorbonne University	Phd	Developmental Neurosciences and Human Genetics	Highest mention with Honor
Al-Quds University	BA	Doctor of Medicine and Surgery	Very Good
High School, Tawjihi			Excellent

Academic Experience: 

From	To	Present	Position	Institution	Description
24/05/2023	25/05/2023		Associate Professor	Faculty of Medicine, Arab American University	Neurosciences, human physiology, and medical genetics
01/10/2017	23/05/2023		Assistant Professor	Arab American University
20/01/2013	30/09/2017		Assistant Professor	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University
01/04/2006	30/09/2008		Teaching and research assistant	An-Najah National University

Administrative Experience: 

From	To	Present	Position	Institution	Description
01/08/2022	07/05/2023		Head of Physiology and Pharmacology Department	Faculty of Medicine, Arab American University
01/08/2020	31/07/2022		Head of Physiology and Pharmacology Unit	Faculty of Medicine, Arab American University
15/08/2014	01/09/2016		Head of Molecular Biology and Genetics lab	An-Najah National University

Courses Taught: 

Course Title	Level
Fundamentals of anatomy and Physiology of Psychic activity and clinical psychology	Graduate
Biology for Medical Students	Undergraduate
Cell Biology for Medical Students	Undergraduate
Human Medical Physiology for Medical Students	Undergraduate
Physiology for Dental students	Undergraduate
Medical Genetics	Undergraduate
Neurosciences for Medical Students	Undergraduate
Anatomy and Physiology for Health profession students	Undergraduate
Neuroscience for audiology and speech therapy students	Undergraduate
Physiology for Pharmacy and Pharm-D students	Undergraduate
Research methods for health sciences students	Undergraduate

Biography: 

Dr. Reham Khalaf-Nazzal is a clinical academic of Human Physiology and Genomic Medicine, and a leader of the ‘Stories of Hope, Stories from Palestine’ community-based, translational genomics project. The primary focus of the ‘Stories of Hope, Stories from Palestine’ project is to characterise the clinical and molecular basis of rare diseases in Palestinian communities and to translate research findings into improved diagnostic provision and clinical care for affected patients, families, and their communities. My group is also working to compile a database of founder gene mutations to facilitate the development of a genotyping platform that can be used for multiple purposes including diagnostics, carrier testing and newborn screening. The overall aim of my work is to translate research findings into improvements in patient-centred clinical care. My research stands as a strong inspiration for delivering academic courses in Medical Genetics and Developmental Neurosciences, with tailored scientific content to the context of local health challenges and clinical scenarios in rare genetic diseases. The overarching objective of my work aims at advancing scientific and medical knowledge of hereditary and neurodevelopmental disorders, through adopting a multidisciplinary approach from patient bed to laboratory bench and test tube. Initial data gathered in this project showed promising potential for novel gene discoveries and led to the identification of biomolecular disease mechanisms while providing impacting diagnostic and clinical management benefits for participating families. We continue our efforts to seed future focussed studies to investigate the biomolecular disease mechanisms identified through developing a solid scientific platform for project expansion enabling a long-term patient and family recruitment program for continued discoveries of neurodevelopmental molecules and biological pathways. To achieve these optimistic goals, we work to cement collaborative relationship with the leading international scientists and institutions.

Skills: 

Academic Skills: teaching undergraduate and graduate courses for Medicine students, and other Health professions students

Academic Skills: Design and implementation of online courses, blended courses and FLIP teaching model

Academic Skills: Student orientation, follow up and academic guidance.

Medical research supervision skills: Help in design, proposal writing and supervision of graduation thesis projects for senior medical students, and biomedical mater students.

Medical Research Skills: adopt a stratified scientific approach to tackle the burden of rare diseases 'Stories of hope, Stories from Palestine Project' where both clinical and scientific research skills are applied-from patient bed-to test tube approach.

Awards: 

Combined Palestinian-French government scholarship to perform a PhD in developmental neurosciences and neurogenetics..

Zamala Program-Taawon professional hosting program, establishing first rare diseases Consortium in Palestine, April 2019.

Zamala Program-Taawon travel grant to perform two-month training in Clinical and Laboratory Genetics at Exeter University Medical School

French-Palestinian project, al-Maqdisi programme 2012 ‘Cortical development and genetic causes of brain malformations among Palestinian families’.

C.V.: 

CV-Reham KHALAF-NAZZAL Feb 2024 UEMS_Photo.pdf

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