Dr. Maryam Al-Nesf (Qatar)
Dr. Maryam Ali Al-Nesf Al-Mansouri, Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine, College of Medicine-QU, has been the Head of the Allergy and Immunology Division of HMC since 2016. Also, the Program Director for the combined Allergy and Immunology Fellowship training program since 2014, a program that received ACGME-I accreditation in 2018, and a core faculty in Internal Medicine Residency Program in Qatar.
Dr. Al-Nesf was granted the MD degree from Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, and the Arab Board of Medical Specialization in Internal Medicine. She pursues her higher education by doing fellowships in Pulmonary Medicine, followed by Allergy and Clinical Immunology in Qatar-HMC & Cambridge, UK. She passed EAACI/UEMS Exam in Allergology and Clinical Immunology in 2014. She completed a Master's degree in research (MSc R) from the University of Bristol/ UK (School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine) in 2019.
She is a research fellow pursuing a Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine at the Center of Metabolism and Inflammation, Division of Medicine, University College of London/ UK. She received multiple grants under Qatar Foundations (QNRF) (worth more than 3.5 M QAR (Approx. 1 M USD) and multiple HMC-IRGC cycles. Dr. Al-Nesf mentored many master's degrees and Ph.D. students at Qatar University and residents and fellows in HMC. She has numerous publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and participated in writing consensus, protocols, and guidelines in Qatar and internationally. She has been leading the establishment of Qatar's pollen & fungal calendar and atlas since 2016.
Her research interest focuses on investigating personalized, precision medicine and OMICs approaches in allergic and lung diseases, non-communicable diseases, and COVID-19 and vaccination. Also, she is continuing the initial work related to aerobiology and pollution and its effect on human health by winning a new grant to conduct phase two of this work. Her main clinical interest is primary immunodeficiency, airway diseases, systemic inflammatory diseases, and generalized allergic disorders.
