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I am a skilled research professional, with extensive experience in state and private university education and government research settings. I possess a wide range of scientific, teaching and project management skills and have a talent for building positive relationships within collaborative networks. Qualifications 2007 Initial Teaching Development Programme, "Learning and Teaching in Higher Education" University of Bath, UK 1988-1993 PhD "Phosphoinositide signalling in a neuroblastoma cell line" Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Leicester University, UK 1984-1988 BSc (Hons) DIS Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University of Technology, UK Recent History November 2015-present. Associate Professor in Pharmacology, RCSI-Bahrain • Year 2 Director, Medicine programme (2021-date) • Learning Community Academic Lead • Module leader: nine modules across School of Medicine & School of Nursing and Midwifery • Undergraduate Medicine Admissions Team • Dilmun Award Scholar Supervisor • Design and deliver a wide range of lectures and tutorials to undergraduate students • Writing and marking student assessments; supply feedback • RCSI Quality Enhancement Committee (2018-date) • BSc(Hons) Nursing Advisory Board (School of Medicine representative) (2022-date) • Coordinator for BSc(Hons) Nursing Programme Programmatic Review (2018/9) • Medicine and Nursing Course development • Clinical Research Ethics sub-committee, National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA), Bahrain (2017-2021) • Clinical Trials Committee, NHRA, Bahrain (2021-date) February 2009 – October 2015. Senior Lecturer & Reader, School of Pharmacy, University of Wolverhampton • Rewrote B.Sc. (Hons) Pharmacology degree, successfully steered through internal validation, ensuring it met the BPS requirements • Award leader 2010-2015 • Design and deliver a wide range of lectures, tutorials, laboratory practicals and demonstrations to undergraduate and postgraduate students • Writing and marking student assessments; supply feedback • Course development • Admissions tutor and team member 2010-2015 • Module leader: seven modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level • Out of Programme Medical Oncology Trainee PhD supervisor January 2005 – January 2009. Royal Society University Research Fellow (thru' 09/07) and Lecturer, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath • October 1999 – December 2004. Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee.

Dr Gagan Kukreja is Program Coordinator of MS in Accounting and an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting, College of Business Administration, University of Bahrain, Bahrain. He has over 24 years of experience in university teaching, academic administration, training, and research. He holds various professional qualifications such as ACCA (UK), CPA (US), CMA (US and India), and CIA (US). Dr Kukreja supervised many candidates for the PhD, Master’s and Bachelor’s level and his current areas of interest are Integrated Reporting, Corporate Governance, Auditing, Blockchain, and Big Data. He examined numerous Master’s Dissertation and PhD theses of many international universities. Dr Kukreja published over 40 research papers and cases in international refereed journals including International Journal of Critical Accounting, Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting, Journal of Investment Compliance, EuroMed Journal of Business, Journal of Management Development, South Asian Journal of Business & Management Cases and many more. Further, he is an international review member of Pearson International in accounting and auditing and prepared solution manuals for Pearson’s Textbooks. In addition, he contributed (with co-authors) more than 10 chapters to various edited books published by Springer and IGI Global. He is an editorial member in IGI Global in accounting, finance, and banking. Dr Kukreja got the Best Research Paper Award (Gold Shield) and Commendable Research Paper Award (Bronze Shield) in ICAI International Research Awards 2020 by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, with other co-authors. His Case Study (with other co-authors) also secured the Amity Award for Global Case Competition 2021 during the 21st International Business Horizon, Inbush Era World Summit 2021. During his PhD, he was also a recipient of a Junior Research Fellowship from the University Grant Commission, India. He is a curriculum specialist in accounting, banking and finance and developing new programs/courses. In addition, he assisted the university in QA, NQF and Accreditation (AACSB/ACCA/CIMA/CFA/IMA). He organised many seminars, webinars, and conferences and did external moderation/assessor work for various programs offered by many international universities. He can be contacted at gkukreja@uob.edu.bh.

Oğuz Reşat Sipahi is a medical doctor and infectious diseases and clinical microbiology specialist. He is currently working as a professor of infectious diseases in Bahrain Oncology Center-King Hamad University Hospital and Ege University, Faculty of Medicine. He is married with Hilal Sipahi, MD, PhD and father of two kids. Dr. Sipahi is currently a board member of Turkish Society of Hospital Infections and Control (Hider). He is one of the founder members of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Specialty Society of Turkey (Türkiye-EKMUD). He served in the executive committee of Türkiye-EKMUD between May-2010 and May 2012 and May 2014-May 2016. He is also founder member of European Study Group for Infectious Diseases of Brain (ESGIB), he worked as a ESGIB board member between 2012-16 and general secretary between 2016-20. He is one of the authors of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases meningitis guidelines and brain abscess guidelines. He has 210+ papers published in peer review journals (160+ published in international scientific journals). His papers received 4600+ citations in several textbooks, books and papers. He has H index of 24 in Web of Science and 36 in google scholar. Oguz Resat Sipahi served as the Editor in Chief of Mediterranean Journal of Infection Microbes and Antimicrobials (www.mjima.org) between November 2015-February 2020. MJIMA has been started to be indexing in Web of Science-Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Embase, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Proquest, EBSCO, CINAHL Complete, Gale / Cengage Learning, Index Copernicus, Root Indexing, British Library, TurkMedline, J-GATE, EuroPub, WHO-Hinari, OARE, ARDI, AGORA and GOALI during his Editor in Chief period. Oguz Resat Sipahi is a member of Göztepe Sports Club since 1992 and served also in the executive committee of Göztepe SC between 2001-2003. He founded the GöztepeLIST Organization ( www.goztepelist.org ), which is one of the largest Göztepe fan internet websites in 2000. He served as a founder executive of Association for Serving to Göztepe (Göztepe'ye Hizmet Derneği). Between 2015-2016 he has re-served as executive committee member of the Society. He wrote many sports columns in Yenigun newspaper between 2007-20, and has been writing in Göztepelist website since 2000 and in Dokuz Eylül newspaper since 2020. He wrote several book chapters in football books regarding Göztepe.

Principal Investigator and head of TERG Bahrain regenerative medicine research group. Research interests in gene activated biomaterials to improve wound healing of soft tissues such as diabetic foot ulcers. Other interests include biophotonics and stem cell programming/editing.

PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE: 1 – Twenty years experience in cardiac surgery, having performed over than 1000 cases of coronary artery bypass grafting, valvular repair and replacement, and congenital heart disease. 2- six years experience in surgical ventricular restoration and heart failure surgery with the use of the TRISVR (the mannequin, product of chase medical , Texas USA), performed more than fifty cases. 3 –Twenty years experience in thoracic surgery including lung resection and thoracic trauma. 4 –Twenty years experience in thoracic endoscopies (bronchoscopies and oesophagoscopies). ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES: 1. Chairman of the 1st international Saudi German Hospital heart symposium that was held in Jeddah, KSA, June 2006. 2. Chairman of the 2nd international Saudi German Hospital heart symposium that was held in Dubai, UAE, October 2007 3. Publications in medical journals 4. Teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate students at cairo university hospital

• Professor in Economics and Islamic Finance. • The founder and the general supervisor of the Islamic Economy and Finance Pedia (IEFPedia). • External Expert in Shari’a Audit. • Academic experience: 10 years. • Practical experience: 19 years. • Director Training and Development and Continuing Education Center, Applied Science University – Kingdom of Bahrain • Vice President for Community Engagement and Continues Education, Kingdom University - Kingdom of Bahrain. • Dean of Business Administration College, Kingdom University - Kingdom of Bahrain. • Trainer in Islamic Economics and Finance, for more than 4800 trainees, between branch managers and employees in a number of Islamic banks & financial institutions in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Jordan, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Sudan and others. • Published scientific researches: 12 researches. • Attending conferences: more than 35 conferences in the the field "Islamic Economics and Finance". • Published books: 2 books. • Vocational Diploma in" Financial Markets ", 2010. • Vocational Diploma in" Portfolio Investment Management", 2008.