ساره ركيان الحربي

Sarah Rokyan Al-Harbi
sarralharbi@ksu.edu.sa

EDUCATION:

• Master of Infectious diseases with distinction from the university of Western Australia (Feb 2011 to Dec 2012).
Dissertation title: Functional characterization of an endogenous plasmid from Helicobacter pylori.
Supervisors: A/Prof Mohammed Benghezal and Dr Yakhya Dieye.

• Bachelor degree in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, 2008, King Saud University, Collage of Applied Medical Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Including one year of internship at laboratory department at king Abdul-Aziz medical city –National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh. Started, from March 2007 to April 2008).

• During the internship, I covered the following areas:
Microbiology, Chemistry, Pathology, Blood bank, Hematology, Molecular Genetics, Cytogenetics, Immunology(Serology and HLA&flowcytometry) and Toxicology .

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Medical Technologist in the Electron Microscopy Unit at Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Department in National Guard Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (From June 23, 2008 to February 18, 2009).

• Demonstrator in Clinical Laboratory Sciences department, King Saud University, Collage of Applied Medical Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2011- present).

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Courses:

• Academic writing course (Advanced Composition) at University of British Columbia Writing Centre in Vancouver, Canada. (From 05/11/10 to 06/10/10)

• the Langara English for Academic purposes (LEAP) program at Langara College in Vancouver, Canada. (From June 24, 2009 to October 23, 2009)

• Training at Military Central Laboratory & Blood Bank laboratory, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (from 27.06.2006 to 26.o7.2006), during this period I covered the following areas (Histopathology, Biochemistry, Blood bank, Hematology, Tissue Typing and Microbiology).

Conferences attended:

• 2nd Annual meeting of the Saudi society of medical microbiology & infectious diseases (19th -20th January 2008).

• 2nd Avian &pandemic Influenza training workshop organized by the GCC centre for infection control & Saudi Society for public health in collaboration with WHO,NAMRU-3 &CDC (05-09 January 2008).

• AIDS International DAY on the 28th of November 2007.

• International symposium &workshops; Current Concepts & Issues in pathology & laboratory medicine (19-21 November 2007 G).

• The 6th Annual International Hematology Conference, the 1st Annual Hematology Nursing Meeting and the 1st Annual Hematology Laboratory Technology Meeting (19-22 March 2007).