WCM-Q offers opportunities for continuing medical education and professional development

WCM-Q offers opportunities for continuing medical education and professional development

Doha: The Division of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) hosted a series of webinars for healthcare professionals.

With the worldwide prevalence of dementia, a common pathological consequence of neurodegenerative diseases, expected to significantly rise over the coming years, WCM-Q launched a webinar series titled ‘Protein Misfolding Diseases and Neurodegeneration: From Experimental Approach to Clinical Therapy’ to keep healthcare professionals up to date with relevant advancements in the field. The course was directed by Dr. Ali Chaari, visiting assistant professor of biology at WCM-Q.

As part of the series, a session titled ‘The Molecular Basis of Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Bench to Bedside’ was presented by Professor Tiago Outeiro, director of the Department of Experimental Neurodegeneration and head of the lab Experimental Neurodegeneration, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany. An additional session from the series titled ‘Disease Modification in Parkinson Disease: An Update’ was led by Dr. Angelo Antonini, professor of neurology and director of the Parkinson and Movement Disorders Unit and Study Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, University of Padua, Italy.

CPD’s Biostatistics webinar series continued with a virtual workshop titled ‘Applied Biostatistics Using STATA.’ Presented by Dr. Ziyad R. Mahfoud, professor of research in population health sciences at WCM-Q, the webinar