Speakers

 
Dr. Reem Al-Sulaiman
Board Certified Genetic Counselor

Reem Al Sulaiman is a board certified cancer genetic counselor working at the National Centre of Cancer Care and Research in Qatar. She gained her Bachelor degree of science in Cancer Biology and Immunology, school of medicine at Bristol University in the United Kingdom followed by Masters of Science in Cancer Therapeutics at Queen Mary University of London. She then became interested in the field of genetics and got her clinical training and masters in genetic counselling from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Reem was trained in prenatal, pediatrics and adult genetics and Cytogenetics with a great focus on cancer genetics as her main area of interest. Reem was trained in multiple prestigious institutions in the USA including Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York Presbyterian and Columbia Medical Centre in New York and then passed the American board of genetic counselling and became the first Qatari national certified genetic counselor in the country. Reem is also a PhD candidate in counselling and psychotherapy at Regents College in London and participated in several publications in the field of genetics and psychotherapy.