Medical students at RCSI Bahrain are encouraged to spend a six week period doing either research or a clinical activity in a place of their choice. During one such attachment student, Ali Abdulnabi Mohamed contributed to a research project in the Chronic Care Center (CCC) in Beirut with co- investigators Dr. Khaled Musllam and Professor Ali Taher from the American University of Beirut Medical Center.
Prof OMalley, President Al Mousawi, Ali Mohamed and Dean Otoom congratulating Ali on his international award May 2011
The study was designed to examine kidney function in 50 patients with thalassemia intermedia. treated at the CCC. Various parameters including serum ferritin, non transferring-bound iron, total (Hb) and fetal (HbF) hemoglobin, nucleated RBC (NRBC), platelets, serum creatine (SCr) and urinary protein (Pr) were studied. These were correlated with demographics, disease progress, spleen status and treatment received.
These finding were presented by Ali at the 3rd International Medical Students Research Congress which took place in Istanbul, Turkey in May. Over 200 medical students participated in this three day conference. Under the heading: Renal Function in patients with thalassemis intermedia: a cross-sectional study Ali received the prize for the second best oral presentation. Professor Kevin OMalley, Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Research in RCSI Bahrain hailed Alis performance as truly outstanding and one that the university is very proud of.
A Bahraini student sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Ali is in his fourth year studying medicine at RCSI Bahrain. He is an active member of many of the universitys clubs and societies and is President of the Friends of the Environment, a group which he established in 2009 and won the RCSI Bahrain student choice awards for best club this year.RCSI Bahrain encourages an active student life, outside the classroom.