Mohammed is KHCC Professor of Cancer Care Informatics, a joint role secondment between King Hussain Cancer Center (KHCC), Jordan and the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK. He co-directs KHCC Cancer Care Informatics with Prof AbdelGhani Tbakhi. Mohammed is also the co-director, and co-founder of the 1st International MSc Programme in Cancer Care Informatics that is jointly run with KHCC and the University of Jordan. Professor Odeh’s research innovation and leadership is deeply focused on “Next Generation Cancer Care Through Knowledge-driven Requirements Engineering informed by semantic enrichment, process and data analytics” jointly with KHCC in Jordan and UWE Bristol, UK. Mohammed’s research deeply integrates legal, ethical, social, and professional requirements into his research and development initiatives and projects.
Rana Dajani Ph.D. molecular cell biology from U of Iowa, currently Cmalakova Fellow at the Jepson school of Leadership at the University of Richmond, Harvard Radcliff fellow, a Fulbrighter, Fulbright Foreign Student Program, Jordan to the United States, 2000; Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program, Jordan to the United States, 2012. Eisenhower fellow, Professor, former center of studies director, Hashemite University, Jordan, Yale and Cambridge visiting professor. World expert on genetics of Circassian and Chechan populations in Jordan. Established stem cell research ethics law in Jordan.
Dr. Asem Mansour has served as CEO and Director General of the King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC) since April 2012. In this role, he leads more than 2,000 oncologists and medical professionals in executing KHCC’s vision to provide the highest quality care to cancer patients in Jordan and across the Middle East. Dr Mansour is an international policy fellow of the Centre for Science and Policy of Cambridge University.
Dr. Mansour is currently overseeing the region’s largest cancer center expansion, which is set to include a new, 13-story inpatient tower and a 10-story outpatient building. KHCC’s new campus will total over 108,000 square meters, doubling its existing capacity for patient care and significantly increasing its education and research capability.
Nancy Hakooz has been a professor at the School of Pharmacy-University of Jordan since 2012. She attained her BSc in Pharmacy-1997 from the University of Jordan and her PhD in Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics from the University of Manchester 1997.
She was the founding dean of the faculty of pharmacy at Zarqa University in 2010. In 2013 professor Hakooz held the position of the vice president of Zarqa University in addition to her position as the dean. Zarqa University is one of the biggest private universities in Jordan. She was the Acting President on many occasions when the president of Zarqa University was travelling on official and private visits. Professor Hakooz contributed significantly to several changes that took place on many laws governing Zarqa University such as: promotion laws, laws related to scientific research and scientific visits, laws related to scholarships and many more.
Dr. Faten Kharbat is an Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence at Al Ain University, UAE. She holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from University of the West of England, MSc, and BSc in Computer Science from Jordan University. Her main research interest is learning classifier systems, cancer care informatics, knowledge based systems, applying data mining techniques to marketing, information systems, enterprise social networking, and recently was involved in e-learning systems and quality of higher education. Dr. Kharbat’s educational background, teaching, research, and administrative experience enhance her exceptional skill and experience in synthesizing findings from large data sets using modern digitized tools and techniques.
Rana Yousef is an associate professor of software engineering in the computer information systems department, King Abdullah II School of information technology, the University of Jordan. She attained her BSc and MSc in computer science from the University of Jordan, and her PhD in software engineering from the University of the West of England-Bristol/UK in 2010. She worked as a dean assistant for computer, development and quality affairs in the Deanship of Academic Research in the University of Jordan in 2015, and she is a Member of the Association of Jordanian Women Academics in Jordan.
Associate professor at the University of Jordan, 7 years teaching IT courses at the Information Science Department. Member of multiple committees in the university, occupied an administrative position of Assistant Director of University Requirements Coordination Office (2019). Active member of the teaching staff of the first International Cancer Care Informatics MSc programme, both taught and research. Active member of Association of Jordanian Women Academics and founding member of their first International Conference “Women in Academia”.
Yousra Odeh is an Assistant Professor in the Software Engineering Dept at Applied Science Private University. Also, she is assistant director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (ICE) in the university. In 2015, she had her PhD from the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK. She is specialized in Requirements Engineering in Cancer Care Informatics. In 2020, she was part of the team that mentored the first winning place healthcare platform project that was prototyped to reduce the impact of Covid-19 on healthcare staff in the New York Abu Dhabi International Hackathon. I