Dr. Fatma Ben Abid
Dr. Fatma Ben Abid is a Consultant in Infectious Diseases at the Communicable Disease Center, Hamad Medical Corporation, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar.
Dr. Fatma graduated from Faculte de Medicine de Tunis. She completed her residency and fellowship in Internal Medicine and Chest Medicine at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Oman. She pursued her internship at Columbia Missouri University Hospital, USA.
Later, Dr. Fatma joined the fellowship program in Infectious Diseases at Hamad Medical Corporation. She has a significant research interest and has several publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, multiple ongoing research projects, and presentations at national and international conferences.
Her research interest focused on all aspects of Infectious Diseases, including SARS-CoV2 infection, viral central nervous system infection, immunization, infections in immunocompromised patients, epidemiology and mechanisms of multidrug resistance in gram-negative species, carbapenemase-producing enterobacterales and Candida Auris.
Dr. Fatma completed a Harvard research course: Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (PPCR), in November 2019. She received multiple research awards: "Clinical Research Scholar Award" by PPCR Harvard T.H. CHAN, School of Public Health, USA; "Best Original Research Award" for the academic year (2016, 2017, 2018) Medicine Department, Qatar; and "Excellence in Research Award" 2018 and 2019 annual award day- Communicable Diseases Centre and the Department of Medicine, Qatar.
