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NSU Faculty Member Elected to Board of Syrian American Medical Society of South Florida
(Left to right) Mutasem Rawas-Qalaji, B.Pharm., Ph.D., associate professor, NSU’s College of Pharmacy; Rania Kashlan, D.D.S., M. Hussam Alayoubi, M.D., cardiologist, Broward Health Coral Springs and Broward Health North; Waddah Allaf, M.D. pulmonologist, Memorial Hospital Pembroke and Memorial Hospital West; Rachid Abarra, president, Advanced Air Ambulance Corp; and Basem Termanini, M.D., vice president, SAMS and gastroenterologist, East Liverpool City Hospital and Trinity Health System in Ohio.
Mutasem Rawas-Qalaji, B.Pharm., Ph.D., associate professor of pharmaceutics at NSU’s College of Pharmacy, was among five members elected to the Board of the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) of South Florida.
Previously, Qalaji was president and a board member for the Syrian American Council (SAC) of South Florida. During his term as the president, SAC-SF, in addition to many other activities, was able to raise more than $2 million in South Florida in collaboration with various humanitarian organizations like Syrian Sunrise Foundation, Shaam Relief Foundation, and Mercy Without Limits.
The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is a non-profit, non-political, educational and humanitarian organization that was established in 1998. The objectives of SAMS encompass a range of professional, educational, humanitarian and cultural activities.
SAMS organizes two annual conferences, national and internal, to enhance the medical knowledge of SAMS members, contribute to the medical profession, and support continuing medical education. It provides educational scholarships through their scholarship program that was established in 2006 and has provided so far more than 113 scholarships. SAMS offers a Clinical Observership Program for non-US Physicians. SAMS, also, organizes medical and dental missions to Syrian refugee camps and hospitals in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon.
SAMS sponsors Avicenna Journal of Medicine (Avicenna J Med), published by Wolters Kluwer Health (Philadelphia, PA), and publishes a periodic newsletter.
For more information about SAMS, please visit its website at www.sams-usa.net/society/.