Samah Hazem Alkhawashki

Curriculum vitae

 SAMAH HAZEM ALKHAWASHKI 

Nationality: Saudi               Languages: Arabic and English.                                 

Current position: Demonstrator/ Resident- Department of Psychiatry -King Saud University.

Contact information: 

E-mail: salkhawashki@ksu.edu.sa           

Education:

• Canadian Board candidate - Psychiatric residency training at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (July 2014-December 2019).
• Master of public health (MPH) -Miller school of Medicine- University of Miami, August 2012-August 2013.
• MBBS, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, July 2010, GPA 4/5.
• High school degree, Al-Ghad School, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2003) – grade/ 98.21%.
• Primary school in Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom.

Licensing and examinations:

• ACLS 2014
• MCCEE
• MCCQE1
• USMLE Step 1
• USMLE Step 2 CS
• TOEFL: 109/120 (April 2012)
• GRE: 900
• Saudi licensing Exam (SLE)
• BLS 2008 and 2010  - ACLS 2008

Training:

• Currently enrolled in the Psychiatry Residency training program at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• A half day per week elective in developmental disorders at Surrey Place Center, Toronto (March 2017-June 2017) with Dr. Vikram Dua
• Training in Psychosomatic medicine for 6 months (October 2013- March 2014) as part of Residency training at King Khalid University Hospital, Under the Saudi commission of Health specialties.
• Junior faculty member at the Department of Psychiatry, King Khalid University Hospital in Riyadh, which is the major training center for the Saudi Psychiatry board in Saudi Arabia (started Aug 2010).
• Child and adolescent psychiatry training from April 2011 till April 2012, in addition to general psychiatry training during on-calls and department teaching activities.
• Observership at The Center for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto-Canada, for 6 weeks starting November 1/ 2010.
• Internship year, where I spent 12 months rotating in different specialties, including: Pediatrics, Internal medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and gynecology, Emergency medicine and 2 elective months in Psychiatry.
• Medical elective in cardiology for a month at King's College-London-summer 2008.
• Psychiatry elective for 2 weeks in King Khalid University Hospital-Riyadh-summer 2008.

Leadership positions:

• Elected as the first ever female chief intern at the College of medicine-King Saud University, leading 60 male and female intern colleagues (2009-2010).
• Leader of the training committee of the organ donation awareness Campaign (2008-2009).
• Elected as the female class representative for 3 consecutive years during my third (2006-2007), fourth (2007-2008) and fifth (2008-2009) years as a medical student.
• Sub-group leader in my second year of medical school (2005-2006).

Research projects:

• Prevalence of Social anxiety disorder in the visually impaired versus the controls.
• Autism spectrum disorders: identification of culprit genes through phenomics, genomics and bioinformatics, in collaboration with University of Toronto.
• Identifying genes for positive traits in bipolar disorder, in collaboration with University of California.
• Structured Clinical Interview for DMS-IV disorders (SCID) modified for Saudi National Mental Health survey, which is part of the World Mental Health initiative under the WHO, as an interviewer and supervisor.
• Questionnaire formulation and data collection in a research studying the relationship between parents and their children and the different factors affecting it.
• Data collection phase of the Epidemiologic study of tobacco use among undergraduate students at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2008/2009).

Health, Community and organizational services:

• Quality Improvement project- Improving length of stay at St. Michael’s Hospital inpatient psychiatry unit (July 2016 – May 2017).
• Stress management presentation to Medical science Graduate students-University of Toronto (April 2017).
• Member of the resident wellness committee at Psychiatry Residents' Association of Toronto (May 2017-current).
• Mental health awareness talk – Saudi Student association (March 2017).
• Mental health panel – Saudi Student association (March 2016).
• Volunteer at Saudi student association of Toronto (2014).
• LEND Trainee – Mailman center for child Development- University of Miami (January – August 2013).
• Pediatric mobile Clinic volunteer – University of Miami (March – May 2013).
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) support groups – Miami (November 2012).
• Walk out of darkness community walk to raise awareness about suicide – Miami (October 2012).
• Children's Mental and physical health awareness campaign (2011-2012).
• Psychiatry health education program and its underlying children’s mental health campaign. (2009-2010).
• Internship preparatory course, for final year medical students.
• H1N1 flu awareness campaign under the care of ministry of health (2009).
• King Saud University student committee of the 2009 campaign against the spread of the novel H1N1.
• Exhibition committee of the third medical career day (2009).
• Asthma awareness campaign (May 2009).
• Training committee in an organ donation awareness campaign (2008-2009).
• Represented the organ donation campaign on Saudi television.
• 25 year Annual Tribute Ceremony, this acknowledged and attributed 260 workers (including physicians and staff).
• Activity programs for orphans.
• Activities of our holy celebrating days, where we went to patients in different Hospitals and celebrated with them. 
• Organized activity programs with my colleagues for raising charity money during my second year of medical school (2005-2006).
• Cooking and preparing food to sell and raise money for charity (2002).

Honors:

• Ranked 20^th among 100 female medical students in 2009 with a GPA of 4.17/5.
• Elected as one of the top 5 ideal students among 100 female medical students (2009).
• Received an honor award in physiology during my second year of medicine (2005-2006).
• Received an honor award in histology and physiology during my first year of medicine (2004-2005).
• Received an honor award in my last year in high school for being the top student in my class.

Appreciation tokens:

• An article was written about my leadership skills by my colleagues, in our student-based weekly newsletter, ‘The Weekly Med’ (2009).
• Three appreciation tokens from my colleagues, one as a sub-group leader and the others as the class representative.
• Appreciation token from the Dean of the College of Medicine for participating in the orphans program.

Conferences and workshops:

• Building Resilient Medical Communities: Current Innovations, Future possibilities (May 30, 2017)
• 'Co morbidity within psychiatric disorders and medical illnesses', Jeddah-KSA (April 2012)
• 1^st Saudi ADHD conference , Riyadh-KSA (December2011)
• 1^st Riyadh Military Hospital symposium in psychiatry, Riyadh-KSA (October 2011)
• The 7^th International conference on Psychiatry "controversies in Psychiatric Practice", Jeddah-KSA (June 2011).
• The Autoimmune Mechanism of Pathogenesis for Autism and novel immune Targets for Treating Autism, Riyadh-KSA (April-2011).
• Art psychotherapy training and assessment tools (2010).
• Improving memory skills in cooperation with the International Human Rebalance academy, Riyadh-KSA (2010).
• Updates in gynecology for family physicians, Riyadh-KSA (2010).
• Joint American academy of pediatrics and ADHD support group and society conference from the American Academy of continuing medical education, Riyadh-KSA (November 2009).
• World mental health day, Riyadh-KSA (October 2009).
• Achievement of the dale Carnegie institute communication skills training program, Riyadh-KSA (September 2009).
• The third medical career day, Riyadh-KSA (March 2009).
• 4^th annual general surgery symposium, Riyadh-KSA (2008).
• IFMSA (International Federation of Medical Students’ Association) training (October 2008).
• Diabetes in children and adolescents workshop (November 2007).
• What's new in quality assurance? (2006). The national committee of Bio. And med. Ethics (2004).

Skills:

• Active team player
• Leader
• Excellent communication skills
• Proficient computer skills