Dr. Reem Jawad Al-Sulaiman, PhD., CGC (ABGC)
Dr. Reem A-Sulaiman is assistant professor and board-certified cancer genetic counselor working at the National Center of Cancer Care and Research at HMC managing patients and their families who are affected with or at risk for hereditary cancer syndromes. Dr. Reem is also assistant chair of the rare disease MDT and research committee and the clinical lead of the genetic counseling program at Qatar University.
Dr. Reem gained her bachelor’s degree in Cancer Biology and Immunology, School of Medicine at Bristol University in the United Kingdom followed by her master’s degree in Cancer Therapeutics at Queen Mary University of London. She then became interested in the field of clinical genetics and got her clinical training and fellowship in genetic counselling from Sarah Lawrence College in New York and was trained in prenatal, pediatrics and adult genetics with a great focus on cancer genetics as her main area of interest.
Dr. Reem trained in multiple prestigious institutions in the US including Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York Presbyterian and Columbia Medical Centre in New York. Dr. Reem then gained the American board of genetic counselling and became the first Qatari national board-certified genetic counselor in the country.
Later, Dr. Reem received her PhD in cancer counselling and psychotherapy from Regents College in London and her research was honored as one of the 100 breakthroughs in the UK in 2018.
Dr. Reem has multiple publications in the field of pediatrics and adult clinical and cancer genetics as well as in cancer psychotherapy in relation to mental wellbeing and quality of life.
