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About The Awards

Terms and Conditions

Under Excellence Awards

Under Recognition Awards

Mechanism

Awards 2019

Distinguished Physician Award

  • Dr. Ali Al Dameh trained in New Zealand and Australia, and at Harvard Medical School, US. He successfully performed the first totally laparoscopic and thoracoscopic esophageal resection on a patient with esophageal cancer at Emirates Specialty Hospital in Dubai Healthcare City, and has been recognized as the best clinical surgery tutor at the University of Auckland, and the best clinical tutor for medical students at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) in Al Ain. Dr. Dameh has received a number of awards such as:

    • The Medical Assurance Society Scholarships, National Kidney Foundation of New Zealand
    • Bailey Summer Award
    • Bachelor of Medical Science Thesis – Distinction in Molecular Pathology
    • Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust Award in Medical Sciences
    • Health and Research Council (HRC), Junior Award in Health Research
    • Otago Medical Research Foundation grant for Medical Research

    In the UAE, Dr. Dameh actively promotes health in the community, and is a regular speaker in national meetings including the UAE Oncology Conference, UAE Gastrointestinal (GI) Symposium, Emirates Oncology Annual Meeting, and Gulf Thoracic Society Meeting. He has partnered with more than 15 charity organizations to help with funding for some of his patients.

Distinguished Nurse Award

  • Saving lives and giving back to the community is Rim’s passion, who has been working for more than a decade with extensive experience in the emergency department. She is a certified emergency nurse and has also trained as an advanced trauma life support coordinator. Now 34, she has assisted in 3,500 major operations in her career, and was promoted at the age of 23, making her the youngest nursing supervisor.

    In the past, Rim has volunteered with several organizations including the Norwegian Refugee Council during the war in 2006, and as a surgical/emergency nurse for the Global Smile Foundation for underprivileged children suffering from lip and cleft palate deformities, among others.

    In Dubai, she set up an orthopedic clinic and several emergency departments, and was involved in the process from building the structure and implementing the strategies, to creating policies while maintaining quality standards based on Magnet accreditations and the Joint Commission International (JCIA). In parallel, Youssef started her educational career as an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Basic Life Support (BLS) instructor, as well as teaching first aid courses to non-medical personnel in schools and offices.

    Youssef currently volunteers for the ESEFNI (‘help me’ in Arabic during an emergency) Program for the Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services as a First Responder, and is a member of the American Emergency Nurse Association.

Distinguished Allied Healthcare Professional Award

  • Saving lives and giving back to the community is Rim’s passion, who has been working for more than a decade with extensive experience in the emergency department. She is a certified emergency nurse and has also trained as an advanced trauma life support coordinator. Now 34, she has assisted in 3,500 major operations in her career, and was promoted at the age of 23, making her the youngest nursing supervisor.

    In the past, Rim has volunteered with several organizations including the Norwegian Refugee Council during the war in 2006, and as a surgical/emergency nurse for the Global Smile Foundation for underprivileged children suffering from lip and cleft palate deformities, among others.

    In Dubai, she set up an orthopedic clinic and several emergency departments, and was involved in the process from building the structure and implementing the strategies, to creating policies while maintaining quality standards based on Magnet accreditations and the Joint Commission International (JCIA). In parallel, Youssef started her educational career as an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Basic Life Support (BLS) instructor, as well as teaching first aid courses to non-medical personnel in schools and offices.

    Youssef currently volunteers for the ESEFNI (‘help me’ in Arabic during an emergency) Program for the Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services as a First Responder, and is a member of the American Emergency Nurse Association.

Inspiring Woman in Healthcare Award

  • Dr. Reem Al Gurg, a PhD Graduate has two Master’s Degrees: One from King’s College London, UK in ‘Human Nutrition Project: Nutrigenomics’, and the second from the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (RCSI), Dubai in ‘Healthcare Management and Leadership’.

    She has been assigned several positions that helped in formulating insights into the educational and healthcare systems in Dubai. Her career path began in 2006 when she was Senior Executive, Medical Affairs, Dubai Healthcare City. In 2008, she was appointed as an Adjunct Faculty of the Health Science Department at Zayed University, and in 2017, she joined the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) as assistant professor for Health Policy, which included a number of roles at committees nationally as well as collaborations internationally. She has achieved several milestones in her professional life, such as:

    • Associate Professor in Health Policy as part of the faculty of medicine at MBRU
    • Director of Strategy and Institutional Excellence
    • Outstanding Scientific Research
    • Advisor for eight medical students at MBRU
    • RCSI Leadership Program Award In the field of volunteer work, she has been credited with:
      • Being on the festival friends list of the Emirates Literature Festival in the UAE
      • Being part of the ‘Hunna Group’ - Women of the UAE who contribute to children’s literature, where she goes for regular gathering in schools, as well as internationally to the Red Crescent refugee camps where she reads to children
      • Donating books for children of determination (Braille books)
      • Participant in Race for a Cause
      • Member of the social hub, ‘Ramem’, helping to renovate homes for the unprivileged

    Dr. Al Gurg has a passion for writing children’s books that encapsulate the local region and the Emirati culture with a scientific background. She has published 12 books, with four more in the pipeline.

Young Healthcare Professional Award

  • Zahir Zouheir Kaouche has made a big effort to acquire continuous knowledge to develop his career, and has gained experience as a dentist, while working in Al Ain for three years. Kaouche has already achieved remarkable certifications and diplomas, based only on his personal effort and dedication. These include:

    • Bachelor with “Excellence” from Ras Al Khaimah Medical and Health Sciences University with a GPA of 3.92
    • Chancellor’s Gold Medal; ranked first, class of 2013
    • Diploma in Implant Dentistry by the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (RCSI)
    • Fellowship in Alexandria Oral Implantology Association

    Kaouche is a member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD), and the International Congress of Oral Implantologists. He has participated as a lecturer at Ras Al Khaimah College of Dental Sciences (RAKCOD) Dental Conference in 2018. He also participates in many courses, workshops and seminars, and has performed studies and is gaining experience in both, implantology and orthodontics.

Volunteerism Award, Individual Category

  • Dr. Yasmin Kottait has studied and researched the situation of children with special needs, creating a new way of engaging with them through her initiative ‘Big Smiles on Special Faces’.

    Her training allows her to help a child through treatment at the dentist, and also the way children of determination are treated. The initiative is unique, and uses programming community interventions, school interventions, and clinical interventions. Interventions in the clinic reach 20% of children with special health care needs.

    Dr. Kottait is also active in volunteerism abroad where more help is needed. She has participated in several volunteerism initiatives in places like Sri Lanka (560 children treated) and Malawi (200 children treated). Dr. Kottait is also aware of the importance of having an impact on the community. She has spoken to 200+ parents who have children with special needs; educated more than 75 teachers and caregivers; and spread awareness to more than 1,000 dentists. A total of 1,342 children have been screened through this initiative.

  • Dr. Emmanuelle Christian Lerat is a General Dentist with more than 20 years of experience. She is very active in the volunteer community, having done volunteer work in countries like Togo, Ethiopia, and Vietnam.

    Her focus during these missions is training, educating and treating children with dental needs, along with training the local people, so her knowledge remains in the place for a longer period. Dr. Lerat strongly promotes dental health awareness programs.

    In Dubai, she provides training to several schools, including Lycée Francais International George Pompidou, teaching the students about dental hygiene and good food habits. Her charity missions so far have treated 2,000+ children in Togo.

Volunteerism Award, Organization Category

  • Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is a healthcare company with over 130 years of history in helping communities and individuals in the healthcare industry by trying to keep people well at every age and at every stage of life. Their main aim is to improve access and affordability, create healthier communities, and put a healthy mind, body and environment within reach of everyone, everywhere.

    With more than 130,000 employees across the world, J&J galvanizes partners, connecting communities by leveraging their employees and extensive local reach to help activate resources and resolve the world’s most pressing health challenges. J&J’s approach includes:

    • Strengthening the healthcare workforce
    • Empowering healthcare advocates and leaders
    • Mobilizing regional voices and ingenuity
    • Transforming delivery of care through technology J&J has accomplished a lot as a socially responsible company through volunteer work. For example, in empowering healthcare advocates and leaders, they implemented two programs to achieve their goals:
      • Partnership with INSEAD to deliver world-class programs through the Middle East Health Leadership Program (MEHLP)
      • Strategic Innovation for Community Health (STICH)

Healthcare Research Award, Basic Sciences Research Category

  • Research Title - Targeting Breast and Prostate Cancer: Design and Synthesis of Novel and Privileged polycyclic pyrido [1,2-a] Quinolinones, Benzopyranes and Benzoxepines Motifs

    Professor Taleb H. Al-Tel and his team present drug discoveries in the fields of breast and prostate cancer, hyperlipidemia and multidrug resistant pathogens (MRSA). The work by this team is novel in drug development. The team will soon begin clinical trials on a new drug against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), where laboratory and animal studies have already demonstrated superior therapeutic effects and less adverse effects. If successful, the new medication will be a remarkable discovery in the field of antimicrobial drugs, and will save the lives of people whose MRSA infections are incurable with the currently available antibiotics. Their work has been published in five highly reputable journals.

Healthcare Research Award, Clinical Research Category

  • Research Title – Type of Mood: A Novel Mental Health State Recognition of Young Adults in the UAE

    Professor Leontios Hadjileontiadis holds two PhDs and has a remarkable record of research in highly reputable journals. He presents an excellent and innovative method to detect depressive disorders subconsciously by a smart phone application that records four parameters related to keystroke dynamics while a person uses the phone’s keyboard. This application comes as a solution to the inaccuracies known to be associated with the questionnaires designed to diagnose depression. It is promising for the future, and can have wider applicability in the field of early diagnosis.

Healthcare Innovation Award, Outpatient Clinics Category

  • Title – ‘Endometrial Receptivity Analysis (ERA®), a New Hope for recurrent IVF failures

    Igenomix is the world’s leading genetic company focused on the reproductive segment. The Genetic Diagnostic Test, Endometrial Receptivity Analysis (ERA®) patented by Igenomix helps to evaluate the woman’s endometrial receptivity from a molecular perspective, helping in vitro fertilization (IVF) specialists to transfer the right embryo at exactly the right moment, achieving a successful pregnancy for their patients. Igenomix UAE is the first private laboratory to be accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP), and after 10 years of research and development, ERA is now the unique patented genetic test for IVF worldwide.

    Igenomix has performed 36,000 ERA tests worldwide, showing growth each year. The chances of pregnancy are known to have gone up to 85% when an ERA test is involved.

  • Title: Purpose-Built Facility for Children of Determination

    The Doris Duan Young Autism Center is a multidisciplinary treatment facility that was established in 2014. The observation room was built to give access to parents to observe the session from a separate room without distracting the child, assuring their involvement, proper training and also to maximize Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) supervision. It gives them ideas on how, why and when problem behaviors occur, as well as how to handle the child when at home or in public places. The room maintains parent’s privacy, and also includes high-tech accessories that allow parents to join and observe the session remotely when they can’t be physically present.

    The 3D Immersive Technology, called the Magic Carpet is an interactive projection system, which has been customized to be applicable across different settings such as education, calming sensory application, rehabilitation, mainstream learning, social skills, group responding, speed and dexterity, visual performance, and concentration.

    It has addressed the issue of finding the balance between fulfilment of sensory needs as well as the creation of a motivating environment to increase the opportunities of learning and progress.

    This app-based product creates motivation for the learners and gets them to actively be involved individually or within a group setting to acquire social skills and listener responses, which are pre-requisite skills for school inclusion.

  • Title - Contributions of Compounding Pharmacy in the UAE Healthcare System

    Revitalife Compounding Pharmacy (RCP), is a unique company providing pharmacy compounding in the UAE since 2012. Pharmacy compounding personalizes medicines to make improvements in the clinical practice for doctors/consultants/specialists from Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy, Multivitamin and Mineral IV Therapy, to personalized and flexible dosing of compounded medications. It also acts as an outsourced pharmacy for compounded products for more than 150 active clinics in the UAE.

    RCP is the first active compounding pharmacy in the UAE that provides quality and safe medicines tailored to individual requirements of each patient. A qualified team consisting of eight licensed pharmacists in DHCC, and seven Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP)-licensed pharmacists, ensure that the operations are compliant to United States Pharmacopeia (USP) regulations.

Healthcare Innovation Award, Intpatient Category

  • Title: The Hearing Restoration Program

    The Hearing Restoration Program is the first and only complete standalone pediatric hearing restoration program in the UAE and the region. The program is unique, and provides the full spectrum of care for patients with suspected or proven hearing disorders. The program is dedicated to children and includes a complete range of services, all under one roof (ear clinic, audiology unit, hearing assistance services, etc). Specialized services have been developed, such as specialized hearing for children with special needs (Down syndrome clinic), and the hearing loss clinic that takes care of patients with permanent hearing loss (including genetic testing which is unique in the country). A highly specialized unit, run by talented healthcare professionals, The Hearing Restoration Program includes:
    • Audiology unit: Child-friendly (involving parents) with state-of-the-art infrastructure
    • Protocols for specific illnesses related to interaction with specialties such as oncology, mental health, etc
    • Surgical solutions
    • Parent education

    The program is also building strong relationships with charity funding bodies, especially Al Jalila Foundation to enable access to quality healthcare to underprivileged children.

  • Title: ‘Internal Stabilization of the Lumbo-Sacral Spine Junction using the Minimally Invasive, Percutaneous, Axial-Anterior Intervertebral Stabilization-AxiaLIF Method

    Dr. Zbigniew Brodzinski has developed a new method of surgical treatment called the internal stabilization of the lumbo-sacral spine junction. It is a surgical treatment that relieves severe spinal disc pain by fusing two back bones together using a minimally invasive technique. Currently, Emirates Specialty Hospital is the only hospital in the GCC and Middle East using this method. The technique has shown better outcomes in terms of quality and patient safety, and has the highest efficacy rate of excellent post-op results. In addition, more than 95 articles have been published, and more than 10,000 surgeries have been performed around the world.

Outpatient Clinics Award category

  • Sub-categories
    Place
    Name of facilities

    Single Specialty Clinics

    First

    Primavera Medical Center

    Second

    Dr. Abeer Al Kobaisi Cosmplastic Center

    Third

    Dr. Elsa New Concept Clinic

     

     

     

    Clinical Support Facility

    (One winner)

    The Family Therapy Clinic

     

     

     

    Multi-Speciality Clinics

    First

    Royal Aesthetic & Medical Clinic

    Second

    Diversified and Integrated Sports Clinic

    Third

    German Clinic

     

     

     

    Outpatient Surgical Center

    First

    Magrabi Eye Hospital

    Second

    BR Medical Suites

    Third

    Eye Consultants

     

     

     

    Rehabilitation Centers

    First

    Child Early Intervention Medical Center

    Second

    Advanced Behavioral Learning Environment

    Third

    Camali Clinic Child & Adult Mental Health

     

     

     

    Fertility Clinics

    One winner

    Dubai Gynecology and Fertility Center

     

     

     

    Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Center

    One winner

    Digestive Health and Endoscopy Consultants

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