KAUST-SFDA First Joint International Conference

Trends in Microbiome and Digital One Health

October 30 - November 1, 2023

Souhaila Al Khodor

Principal Investigator and Director, Maternal and Child Health Department, Sidra Medicine, Qatar

Biography

Dr. Al Khodor is the Acting Executive Director of Translational Medicine Department and the Director of Maternal and Child Health Division in the Research Branch at Sidra Medicine, Qatar. Dr. Al Khodor received her Bachelor’s degree in Medical Lab. technology from the Faculty of Public Health at the Lebanese University in 2001. Soon after, she started her master’s degree in microbiology and Immunology at the American University of Beirut (2002-2004). Dr. Al Khodor received her second master’s degree and PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA (2005-2008). Before joining Sidra, Dr. Al Khodor worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Signaling systems Unit, laboratory of Systems Biology, at the National Institute of Allergy and infectious Diseases (NIAID), National
Institutes of Health (NIH) in Maryland, USA. Dr. Al Khodor’s laboratory in Sidra focuses on characterizing the role of the
microbiome in health and disease, with a particular emphasis on maternal and child health and the integration of metagenomics with other omics aiming to identify predictive markers for various diseases and pathological conditions. Dr. Al Khodor is an adjunct Faculty at the College of Health & Life Science in Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences in Qatar
University. Dr. Al Khodor has over 67 peer-reviewed publications. She currently serves as an Assistant Specialty Chief Editor for Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology and is the Section Editor for Metagenomics in the Journal of Translational Medicine.

All sessions by Souhaila Al Khodor

Unveiling the Dynamics of Breast Milk Microbiome: Impact of Lactation Stage and Gestational Age
03:00 PM
Souhaila Al Khodor

Principal Investigator and Director, Maternal and Child Health Department, Sidra Medicine, Qatar

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