Professor Omar AI -Rawas is the Secretary General of the Arab Board of Health Specializations, and the Chairman of t he Ara bian Gulf University Board ofTrustees. H e is Professor of Medicine, and recei ved his MB.ChB, postgraduate training in Respiratory Medicine and PhD from the University of G l asgow, UK and he is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow.
Among the positions held in the past are Dean of College of Medicine & Hea l th Sciences (COM HS), Sultan Qaboos University (SQU}, Director of Medical Research Centre, SQU, Chairman of the SQU Hospital Board, H ead Department of Medi ci ne in SQU, Assistant Dean for Clini cal Affairs of COMHS, President of Oman Medical Association, Chairman of Internal Medicine Scientific Committee of Oman Medical Specialty Board (OMSB}, Member of Council ofTrustees of OMSB, and Ch airman of the Health Sector Comm ittee of the Researc h Cou ncil of Oman.
His research interest i s in lung function in health and disease, epidemiology of respiratory cond iti o ns in Oman, especially Asthm a; being the Count ry Coord inator in the International Study of Asthma and Allergies i n Ch ildren (ISAAC) in add ition to respiratory health care delivery in Oman. He contributed to more t h an 100 publ ications in peer-reviewed journals in these areas, in add ition to many confere nce presentations and published abstracts.
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