Mrs. Alaa Al Amiry Selected as a “2021 Dudley White International Scholar”

Mrs. Alaa Al Amiry, Lecturer at College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, has been recently selected as a “2021 Dudley White International Scholar” for her abstract by the American Heart Association (AHA). This international Award is named after Dr. Paul Dudley White, the founder of the American Heart Association (AHA), and it is granted to recognize authors that contributed to the highest ranked abstract from each country, in reflection to Dr. White’s vision for global excellence in cardiovascular science and medicine.

Co-authored with an American Professor, Prof. Brian J. Maguire, the abstract of concern is related to a paper titled “Emergency Medical Services (EMS) calls during COVID-19: Early lessons learned for systems planning (A Narrative Review)” that was published earlier in a SCOPUS Q2 open access journal. The paper studies the exceptional phenomenon during COVID-19 of increased demand on EMS dispatch centers around the world, and the collateral disastrous impact on non-COVID-19 related emergencies. In it, Al Amiry and Maguire tried to understand the bottleneck and explain it with specific patterns, and draw conclusions and lessons for decision makers in the prehospital field.

The AHA is a well-reputable international medical organization that organizes annual international conference “Scientific Sessions”, where medical doctors, cardiologists, researchers and specialist from all over the world attend and contribute to it. Al Amiry’s poster was accepted in this international conference, that will take place next month on between 13 and 15 November. Her poster was chosen as the highest ranked work from UAE.

It is noteworthy to mention that this is the second research Award Mrs. Al Amiry receives, as the first one was awarded by Hamdan Smart University at the venue of “Innovation Arabia 10” conference back in 2017, where she received “Conti Research Prize for Systems Thinking and Organizational Capability” for her MBA Thesis titled “An Exploratory Study of the Use of Mobile Apps and its Implications for Internal Business Processes in Healthcare Organizations in Dubai”.