KHALID ABDULLA ALALI, PhD Foundation Program Qatar University P O Box 2713 Doha-Qatar

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1 KHALID ABDULLA ALALI, PhD Foundation Program P O Box 2713 Doha-Qatar Tel: Fax: kalali@qu.edu.qa PERSONAL INFORMATION Name : Khalid Abdulla Alali Gender : Male Date of Birth : January 01, 1953 Place of Birth : Doha Qatar Nationality : Qatari Specialty : Human Genetics EDUCATIONS Ph.D. in Genetics, Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne, Florida, U.S.A. May 1988 M.Sc. in Molecular Biology, Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne, Florida, U.S.A. May 1983 B.A in Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S.A. May 1979 THESIS Alali, K.A. (1983): The genetic structure of the People of Qatar: Clinical Cytogenetics, (M. Sc. Thesis) Alali, K.A. (1988): Parental chromosomal abnormalities and hetrochromatic Polymorphism associated with multiple Spontaneous abortions. (PhD Thesis) ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Director of Foundation Program 2004 Present 1

2 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS (Cont.) Member of the Board of the Regent, The Arabian Gulf University Health Programs Coordinator College of Science, Vice Dean College of Science, Biomedical Program Coordinator College of Science, Acting Head Department of Zoology, College of Science, Head of Health and Environment Research Unit Scientific & Applied Science Research Center, Doha Qatar Assistant Professor Biology Department, College of Science, 1988 Present Instructor Department of Zoology, College of Science, Demonstrator Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, ACTIVITIES / COMMUNITY SERVICES Member of the World Commission on the Ethics of Science Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) Member of the Arab Committee for Science and Biotechnology Ethics Member of The Arab Group for Study of Blood Genetic Disorders Member of the Administrative Board of the Qatar National Cancer Society 2

3 ACTIVITIES / COMMUNITY SERVICES (Cont.) Established the first Cytogenetics Laboratory at Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha Qatar Chairperson, Scientific Genetic Committee, Shafalah Center for Children with Special Needs, Shafallah Genetic Medical Center, Doha Qatar. Member of Steering Committee for the Community College of Qatar Chairperson of Institutional Review Board, (QU-IRB) Member of Student Affairs Committee, Member of Academic Council, CONFERENCES ATTENDED : Year Conference/Workshop Place Dates 2010 Ethics Meeting Tunisia Dec Qatar Foundation Research Forum Presented at a Workshop on Dec. 13/2010 Presentation Title: Current situation and future challenges of Research Ethics in the State of Qatar. Doha-Qatar Dec. 12 &13 Ethics Meeting Kuwait October Workshop by American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) Workshop Title: International Engagement- Responsible Science for a Safe and Secure Society Presentation Title: UNESCO programs in Ethics of Science and Technology and COMEST s role in supporting them. 1 st Asia Pacific Research Ethics Conference (APREC) Presentation Title: Current Situation and Future Challenges of Research Ethics in the State of Qatar. Amman-Jordan October 3-6 Singapore Sept

4 Year Conference/Workshop Place Dates th COMEST Session (UNESCO) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia June Conference on Ethics in Science & Technology Theme: Enculturation of Ethics for Scientists and Engineers for a sustainable Future The Expert Meeting on Ethics of Nanotechnologies in the Arab Region الا جتماع الا قليمي السابع للجنة العربية لا خلاقيات العلوم والتقانة The seventh regional meeting for Arab Commission for science and technology Petaling Jaya, Selangor Malaysia June 15 Doha Qatar May Doha Qatar March COMEST Extraordinary Session Paris, France November Avian Flu Forum and Biomedical Program - November 25 th Anniversary Doha Qatar Expert Meeting on Ethics and Social Cairo, Egypt October Responsibility of Scientific Researchers in the Arab Region ISESCO, UNESCO (Cairo Office) First Meeting for the Eastern Mediterranean and Arab Forum on Bioethics in Research WHO, ISESCO, UNESCO Cairo Egypt August Qatar First Towards Partnership in Dec Research with Arab Expatriate Scientists to achieve sustainable development in Qatar 2 nd Pan Arab Human Genetics Conference UAE, Dubai Nov Setting Objectives Workshop Doha Qatar November 17 Advisory Expert Commission for the July 4-6 Teaching of Ethics (UNESCO) The First Genetic Medicine Symposium Doha Qatar April COMEST Dakars December 5-9 Regional Expert Meeting on Ethics Teaching Muscat, Sultanate of Oman November COMEST Session Paris, France June Arab Commission for Science & Tripoli, Libya May Biotechnology Ethics 4 th Scientific Conference in Genetics & Gulf University March Inherited Diseases Bahrain 1 st Pan Arab human Genetic Conference UAE April 4-6 4

5 Year Conference/Workshop Place Dates 2005 ندوة عن آيفية التعامل مع الجنين المشوه A seminar on how to deal with malformed fetus Qatar Project Doha, Qatar Cairo March The First Doha Thrombophilia Symposium Doha Qatar January nd International Conference on Chemistry and its Applications ندوة تقنيات الحمل المساعدة والبعد الا خلاقي لها الا خلاقيات : مادة تعليمية في آليات الطب بمناسبة انعقاد الاجتماع التا سيسي للجنة العربية لا خلاقيات العلوم البيولوجية والتقانية Symposium pregnancy techniques and moral assistance, ethics: educational material in schools of medicine on the occasion of the launching meeting of the Arab Committee for ethics Bioscience الاجتماع السادس للجنة عمداء آليات العلوم بدول مجلس التعاون The sixth meeting of the Committee Deans science with GCC ندوة الانعكاسات الا خلاقية للعلاج الجيني 2001 (Ethical implications Symposium for gene therapy) / Doha Qatar Beirut December 6-9 August January 4-5 October Second Qatari International Pediatric Conference Qatar April الندوة الخاصة بالمو تمر العالمي لليونسكو حول التعليم العالي بين الواقع والتفعيل في دول الخليج العربية Seminar for the UNESCO World Conference on higher education between reality and activation in the Gulf Doha Qatar 9 th OIC COMSTECH Meeting Islamabad Pakistan Workshop on Ground Water Pollution Protection and Remediation / Arab School / Doha Qatar on Science & Technology (State of Kuwait Branch) World Conference on Science Budapest / 1998 Regional Conference on the Marine Environment of the Gulf December 5-7 November November 7-10 June 26 July 1 Hungary Dec

6 Year Conference/Workshop Place Dates اجتماع الخبراء العرب في ميدان التقانات الحيوية 1997 Meeting of Arab experts in the field of biotechnologies The Second Symposium on Food Safety and Human Health Annual Scientific Conference Recent Advances in Laboratory Medicine & Pathology حلقة عمل حول : تطبيقات التقنيات الحديثة للمواد الجديدة 1994 Workshop on: applications of modern techniques of new materials 1993 The First Conference in Chemistry and its Applications Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) ندوة عن الا نعكاسات الا خلاقية للا بحاث المتقدمة في عام علم الوراثة A seminar on ethical implications of advanced research in genetics ISESCO Rabat July 1-4 Hamad Medical Corporation April 29 May 1 April 5-7 November 6-9 Dec. 7-9 New Orleans, LA, Oct. 5-9 USA Doha Qatar Feb AARU Oct الندوة الفكرية الرابعة لرؤساء ومدراء جامعات الدول 1989 الا عضاء في مكتب التنمية العربي دور الجامعات في مواجهة التحديات المعاصرة Intellectual fourth Symposium and universities of the Member States of the Arab Development Bureau role of universities in the face of contemporary challenges ندوة دراسة أبعاد وا ثار التكنولوجيات المتقدمة والمستجدة 1988 في المجتمعات العربية A study of dimensions and implications of advanced and emerging technologies in Arab societies Doha Doha October November No Date The First Symposium on Genetics Disorders King Saud Univ. Col. of Medicine & Univ. Teaching Hospitals 6

7 Year Conference/Workshop Place Dates First Regional Meeting of National Bioethics Committees WHO, UNESCO Cairo, Egypt Others: TESOL International (USA) Every Year TESOL Arabia (Dubai, UAE) Every Year Arabian Gulf University Board of Trustee yearly meetings in Bahrain ( ) PUBLICATION Alali, K. and Hozier, J. (1984): The genetic structure of the people of Qatar, Clinical cytogenetics, Qatar Medical J.6 (2): Alali, K. and Hozier, J. (1989): Parental chromosomal abnormalities associated with multiple spontaneous abortions. Proceeding of the first Arab genetic conference, Cairo Egypt, 14. Alali, K., Al Zaman, A., Macera, M, and Verma, R (1991) Chromosomal abnormalities in childhood acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (M4). Cancer genetic and cytogenetics, 57, (2), Alali K, Alzaman, A and Al-Najar, K (1993) A pattern of chromosomal diseases in Qatar. Abstract of the symposium on the medical genetics in the setting of Middle Eastern populations, Riyadh Saudi Arabia, 72 Alali, K., Rizvi, Z, and Alzaman, A (1993) Reciprocal Translocation t (1;7) (p35, q 36) associated with spontaneous abortion, Am. J. Human Genetics. 53 (3), 1563 Sebetan, I, Alali, K, Azadeh, B (1993) Genetic polymorphism of orosomicioid ORMI and ORM2 in Qatari Populaiton. Am. J. Human Genetics. 53 (3), 1714 Abdel-Rahim, A, El-alfy, N and Alali, K (1994) Some histological remarks for the marine snail Mondonta (gastroboda prosobranchia) Journal of the unions of Arab biologists, Cairo, 2(A), Zoology, 1:10. Elalfy, N, Alali, K, and AbdelRehim, A (1994) Chromosomal number and plyplodization in Qatari marine prosobranchial snail Mondonta vermicucata, J. Egypt. Ger. Soc. Zool. 12 (C), Elalfy, N, Alali, K, and AbdelRehim, A (1994) Karyotype, meiosis and sperm formation in the land snail Macrochlamys indica, Science Journal. 14(1),

8 PUBLICATION (Cont.) Sebtan, I, Alali, K and Alzaman,A (1994). Orsomucoid: a new variant and additional duplicated ORM1 gene in Qatari population. Am. J. Human Genetic. 55 (3), 388. Alali, K, El-Alfy, N (1994) Aberrations of mitotic chromosomes Induced in female albino Rat Rattus Norvegicus by feeding nitrosamine precursors and protective agent: Honey, Nigella Sativa and Lupinus terms, Egyption J. Histology,17(2), Abdel-Rahim, A, El-alfy, N and Alali, K, (1996) Genetic polymorphism in the Qatari date palm weevil rhynchophorus ferrugineus (oliver) (Coleopetra: Curculionidae), Proceeding of the Egyptian Academy of Sciences. 46, Alali, K (2005) Consanguinity and associated socio-demographic factors in Qatari population, Qatar Medical Journal 14 (1), Alali k, Afifi N, Abumesbah Lina, Alsayed Maiada, (2006) Congenital anomalies in Down syndrome among Qatari population. Qatar Univ. Sci. J. 26: Bener, A and Alali, K (2006) Consanguineous marriage in a newly developed country: The Qatari Population, J. Biosoc. Sci. 38, Afifi, N, Alali,K, (2006) Scanning and transmission electron microscopic study of the human spermatozoa from male smokers and nonsmokers. Abstract in The FASEB Journal, 20 (5) Alali k, Afifi N, Abumesbah Lina, Alsayed Maiada, (2006) Congenital anomalies in Down syndrome among Qatari population. Qatar Univ. Sci. J. 26: Afifi, N, Alali,K, (2007) Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopic Study of the Human Spermatozoa from Male Smokers and Nonsmokers. EMMJ Hunter-Zinck H, Musharoff S, Salit J, Alali K, Chouchane L, Gohar A, Mathews R, Butler MW, Fuller J, Hackett N, Crystal R, Clark AG, (July-2010) Population Genetic Structure of the People of Qatar. Am. J. Human Genetic. 87 (1), Book Chapter: Study of the Genome Structure of the Qatari Population (in publication) RESEARCH : 1. The association between the close homologue of L1 (CHL1) gene and Schizophrenia in Qatari Population. (UREP ) 2. Study of genetic polymorphisms of transcription factor 7-like 2 [TCF7L2] with gestational diabetes mellitus in state of Qatar. (students graduation project) 3. Pilot Study on Moral Judgment Competence Development among Medical Students and non-medical. (in collaboration with WCMC) 8