Restructuring of administration to include largest number of physicians

Abdulla Bin Souqat, SHAMS Executive Director said, this step comes as per directives of the board of trustees to revamp work process through regulations for the welfare of the award and society and to cope with the developments in UAE medical field.

He added that this round will introduce more subsidiaries to the award categories in addition to increasing the budget this year.

This initiative is aimed at redistributing authorities and providing opportunities to centers to expand their activities in order to gain more funds and enhance the award's financial and organizational operations as per our five year plan, Bin Souqat pointed out.

Work according to the new schedule will be divided as follows:

Research and Social Services Center founded to upgrade level of medical services and health awareness campaigns will include two units, the first focuses on funding medical researches following the increase of physicians number seeking support, besides the strong demand for restructuring of the body to set laws regulating funds and researches objectively.

The second section highlights the researches in areas of social services aiming to spread health awareness and developing medical culture among public.

This will be achieved after surveying social needs, setting up awareness programs and creating communication channels with organizations operating in the same field.

A specialist team work will control the center's activities in order to study and follow research applications which will systemize the funding process and help many researches reach Medical Science Publication affiliated to SHAMS and other international publications.

As for the Continuous Medical Education Service Center, the activities will be concerned with medical conferences and its related actions along to increasing the number of medical congresses in UAE where organizers seek SHAMS financial and management support.

The center will study each application separately to determine appropriate conferences that match the award's purposes.

Also, the center will monitor continuous medical education as its programs have proven efficiency in improving the capacities of medical professionals in various sectors.

A competent team of physicians will set proper training programs to serve this goal.

Awards Center, which is the primary activity for the award since its inception, is the core for the scientific committee's and its subsidiaries' work.

Medical Publications Center, which lately issued the Medical Science Magazine (MSM), the only internationally accredited magazine, has introduced many medical related publications in its former rounds.

The MSM is published in UAE in two versions in prints and electronic copies where its first edition was released in January 2008.

Its title has been changed from SHAMS to MSM following thorough discussion.

The Center for Arab Genomic Studies was set to detect and prevent genetic disorders and to find future basis for health care in the region.

One of its main projects in the launch of the Catalogue for Transmission Genetics in Arabs (CTGA) that aims to raise awareness on genetic diseases among Arab societies and planning future strategies for research.