UAB Team Visits Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University

Al-Khobar| Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University (PMU) welcomed a team of scholars from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in its campus. This delegation comprised of the UAB’s Dr. Gerald Glandon and the team of professors from that university.

 

They met PMU Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, Dr. Nassar M. Sheikh, Deans, Directors and the faculty members to discuss the avenues for academic collaborations in future.

 

The Director of the Department of Medical & Health Sciences Programs at the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission (SACM) in the USA, Dr. Samar Al Saggaf accompanied the UAB delegates while they visited PMU. She showed optimism about the fruitful outcome of this visit.

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This visit was aimed at discussing the collaboration opportunities between PMU and UAB which is one of the SACM affiliates.

 

“Such collaborations would offer a breakthrough for further growth in higher education in the Kingdom,” said Dr. Samar Al Saggaf.

 

This delegation had a detailed meeting with Dr. Nassar M. Sheikh and the academic and administrative leadership at PMU. They discussed various means of cooperation between the two universities.

 

The exchange of ideas was to explore future mutual cooperation between these universities especially for the postgraduate study programs in sciences in health and hospital management which PMU plans to start in the near future.

 

Finding out the possibilities about the special training opportunities in the fields of health management sciences came under their discussion.