Reem Jawad A Al Sulaiman, MD
Dr. Reem Al-Sulaiman, is acting deputy chair of the medical genetics department at HMC. She is Assistant Professor and American Board-Certified Genetic Counselor who is working exclusively on managing patients with hereditary cancer syndromes. Dr Reem is also the assistant chair of rare disease MDT and research committee (Doha-Heidelberg) and is playing an essential role in the establishment of rare disease center in Qatar. In addition, she is a core member of the National Qatar Genome Project Committee (QGP), In addition to being the clinical lead of the genetic counseling program at Qatar University. Dr Reem completed her clinical training and fellowship in genetic counseling from Sarah Lawrence College in New York and was trained in different subspecialties including prenatal, pediatrics and adult genetics with a great focus on cancer genetics as her main area of interest. Dr. Reem was trained in multiple prestigious institutions in the USA including Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York Presbyterian and Columbia Medical Centre in New York. She then gained the American board of genetic counseling and became the first Qatari national board-certified genetic counselor in the country.
Dr. Reem also received her PhD in cancer counseling and psychotherapy from the University of Wales, Regents College in London and her research was honored as one of the 100 breakthroughs in the UK in 2018. Dr. Reem has multiple publications in the field of pediatrics and adult clinical and cancer genetics with special interest in rare disorders.