Poster #4 - Dari AlHuwail

Assistant Professor, Kuwait University, Al-Adailiya, Kuwait

Biography

Dr. Alhuwail is the co-founder of the Kuwait Health Informatics Network and an Assistant Professor at the Information Science Department in the College of Computing Sciences and Engineering, Kuwait University. He co-founded the Health Informatics Unit at the Dasman Diabetes Institute and currently serves as a consultant. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the College of Medicine at the University of Dundee, supervising graduate students in health informatics. Dr. Alhuwail obtained a PhD in information systems -- health informatics, from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and an MSc from the University of Arizona. Prior to and during his doctoral work, he spent 12 years working in industry and various labs around the world, including the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health, the Division of Clinical Informatics at BIDMC/Harvard, and the Health IT Lab at UMBC. Dr. Alhuwail is actively conducting research in health informatics and has several publications in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests are centered around the use, adoption, and implementation of health informatics applications. He’s a member of relevant professional and academic societies including the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), the American Medical Information Association (AMIA), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).