Faculty

Dr. Alfreda Stadlin
Professor of Anatomy
College of Medicine
Alfaisal University
Riyadh, KSA

Email: astadlin@alfaisal.edu
Tel : +(966-1) 215-7688 office

Education:
Postgrad Dip (Epidemiology & Biostatistics)	2002	Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ph.D (Neuroscience)	1985	University of Western Australia
B.Sc (Hons) (Anatomy)	1978	University of Western Australia

Teaching Awards:

Teacher of the year award Chinese University of Hong Kong (year of inception, 1997) – 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 (maximum 5 awards allowed)
Master teacher award – 2003

Employment:

Professor, Anatomy, Al Faisal University, 2011
Professor, Anatomy, Chungbuk National University, South Korea, 2009-2011
Senior Lecturer, School of Medical Science, Griffith University, Australia, 2005-2009
Associate Professor, Anatomy, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1988-2005
Assistant Professor, Anatomy, University of Otago, New Zealand, 1983-1985
Visiting Associate Professor, Anatomy, Stanford University, USA, 2009
Visiting Professor, Pathology, Stanford University, USA, 2000

Research Interests:

Drug and alcohol addiction
Oxidative stress and neurodegeneration

Current Projects:

Drug and alcohol abuse – genotype-phenotype interactions in populations in the Asia-Pacific region
Effects of gene polymorphisms on alcohol dependence and long-term craving susceptibility

Selected Publication: (H Index: 12)

Dissabandara L.O., Loxton N.J., Dias S.R., Daglish, M. & Stadlin A. (2011). Psychometric properties of three personality inventories translated to Sinhalese. Sri Lanka J Psychiat 2:13-17
Ho A.M.C, Cheung B.K.L, Stadlin A. (2011). Pain response in heroin users: Personality, abstinence, and modulation by benzodiazepines. Addict Behav 36:1361-1364
Dissabandara L.O., Dias S.R., Dodd P.R. & Stadlin A. (2009). Patterns of substance use in male incarcerated drug users in Sri Lanka. Drug Alcohol Rev 28:600-607
Kaewsuk S., Tannenberg R.K., Kuo S-W, Björkman S.T., Govitrapong P., Stadlin A. & Dodd P.R. (2009) Regional expression of dopamine D1 and D2 receptor proteins in the cerebral cortex of asphyxic newborn infants. J Child Neurol 24:183-193
Ho A.M.C., Tang N.L.S., Cheung, B.K.L. & Stadlin, A. (2008). Dopamine receptor D4 -521C/T gene polymorphism is associated with opioid dependence through cold-pain responses. Ann NY Acad Sci 1139:20-26
Loxton N.J., Wan V.L.N., Ho A.M.C., Cheung B.K.L., Tam N., Leung F.Y.K. & Stadlin A. (2008). Impulsivity in Hong Kong-Chinese club drug users. Drug Alcohol Depend 95: 81-89
Loh E.W., Tang N.L.S., Lee D.T.S., Liu S.I. & Stadlin A. (2007). Association analysis of GABAA receptor subunit genes on 5q33 with heroin dependence in a Chinese male population. Am J Med Genet 144B: 439-443
Stadlin A.; James A.; Fiscus R.; Wong Y.F.; Rogers M. & Haines C.J. (2003) Development of a postnatal 3-day-old rat model of mild hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. Brain Res 993: 101-110.
Szeto C.Y.K., Tang N.L.S., Lee D.T.S. & Stadlin A. (2001) Association between mu opioid receptor gene polymorphism and Chinese heroin addicts. Neuroreport 12:1103-1106

Teaching:

Chungbuk National University – undergrad and post-grad medical program (2009-2011)
- Gross anatomy
Griffith University – undergrad and post-grad medical and dental program (2005-2009)
- Gross anatomy, embryology, histology, genetics
Chinese University of Hong Kong – undergrad medical program (1988-2005)
- Gross anatomy, neuroanatomy, embryology, genetics
University of Otago – undergrad medical program (1983-1985)
- Gross anatomy, neuroanatomy, cell biology, histology
Stanford University – postgrad medical program (2000, 2009)
- Gross anatomy

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