Dr. Banan Mukhalalati

Dr. Mukhalalati is an Associate Professor in the Clinical Pharmacy and Practice Department in the College of Pharmacy at Qatar University and the Director of Strategy and Program Development in the QU Health. Dr Mukhalalati received her BSc in Pharmacy from King Saud University in Saudi Arabia, and her MBA from Qatar University, before doing her PhD in the University of Bath in UK. Dr. Mukhalalati joined QU as a Founding Assistant Dean for Faculty and Student Affairs in 2009. Dr Mukhalalati has been appointed by FIP as a Global Lead for the 3rd FIP Development Goal “Quality Assurance” in 2019. Dr Mukhalalati is also an active member of the Academic Pharmacy section in FIP.   In 2020, Dr Mukhalalati graduated from the Executive Leadership Program by Qatar Leadership Center and recently she graduated from Qatar University Teaching in Higher Education Fellowship in collaboration with Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University Dr. Mukhalalati’s research interests are in the areas of learning theories, health profession education, preceptors’ professional development, cultural competence, capacity building, and disaster management. She has established research collaborations with prestigious institutions both locally and globally, has more than 23 publications in the areas of health profession education and research, and has been involved in supervising MSc students. She has received more than 15 intramural and extramural research funding (from QU and QNRF) as a lead principal investigator. She has also presented more than 30 research abstracts as posters, and podium presentations in local, regional, and international conferences, symposia, and workshops. Dr. Mukhalalati won the third place in Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim award for educational research in 2020. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j6K3pc4AAAAJ&hl=en ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0049-8879