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Mona Al-rukhaimi

Mona Al-rukhaimi BSC, MBBCH, MRCP (UK), FRCP, FRCPE

Nephrology
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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She is the current President of the Emirates Medical Association Nephrology Society , Vice- President of Arab society of Nephrology & Renal Transplantation and the leader of the KDIGO Implementation Task Force for the Middle East & African Regions. She is the ISN Council (2011-2017),ISN Executive Committee Member (2015-2017) and Ex-chair of ISN Middle East Region. She is the first female Nephrologist and Internist in UAE. Graduated from the University of Kuwait in 1983 and subsequently received her MRCP (UK) in 1989, FRCP Edinburg - 2001 and FRCP London - 2005. Prof. Alrukhaimi has actively organized World Kidney Day activities in the UAE since 2006 and the past sixth rounds of the ISN Update Course in Nephrology. She played an active role in the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism . She is a member of the Steering Committee for Women in Transplantation under TTS. She is regular Examiner at the Royal College of Physician of UK.She is country investigator in DOPPS 5 and on the ongoing DOPPS 6.
She Co-Chaired the 13th MESOT Meeting in 2012, and Chaired the 12th Congress of the Arab Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation (ASNRT)& The 6th ISN-EMAN Update Course in Nephrology in 2014. Prof. Alrukhaimi has received various prestigious awards, including the Ministry of Education Award, UAE (1976), Sheikh Rashid AlMaktoum Award for Postgraduate achievement (1989), the National Kidney Foundation International Distinguished Medalist, USA (2007) , Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid AlMaktoum Award for Medical Science (2012) and a special honor and award of recognition by Gulf Medical University (2012).
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