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Dr. Dana M. Bakheet
Associate Professor, Pharmacology
College of Medicine
Alfaisal University
Riyadh, KSA

Email: dbakheet@alfaisal.edu  
Tel : +(966-1) 215-7699 office

 

Education:
PhD. (Molecular Pharmacology)	2003	University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom

Working Experience:

• Associate Scientist: (2007 - to date). King Faisal Hospital and Research Center/ Department of Genetics Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Deputy Dean (Girls Section), College of Medicine, Alfaisal University ( September 2011). Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Associate Professor: (2009 - to date), College of Medicine / Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Course Director Pharmacology: (2009 - 2011), College of Medicine / Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Assistant Professor and Vice Head of Pharmacology Department :( 2003 - 2007). College of Pharmacy / King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Research objectives:
Molecular Biology

• Role of the scaffold protein striatin in regulating cardiac remodeling.
• Association studies of specific genes mutations and cardiovascular diseases in Saudi population.
• Identification of genes mutations in Saudi patients with persistent hyperinsulenimic hypoglycemia of infancy (Nesidioblastosis).
• Mutational screening of disease related genes (Hemoglobinopathies). Screen for both known and unknown mutations.

Pharmacogenetics

• Pharmacogenetics studies of anticoagulants in Saudi population.

Teaching Experiences:

• From 1993 to 2011 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Books:

• Bakheet, D. Selected topics in clinical pharmacology. (2007). Al Farazdak press, 1st edition, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.