Dr. Asma Mohamed Elhassan is a Senior Consultant in Medical Oncology at NCCCR. She graduated in the Faculty of Medicine, Khartoum University. She was trained in the field of Oncology both in Sudan and Sweden and obtained The Swedish Board in Clinical Oncology certificate from the Swedish Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden in 1989, and Master of Medical Science in the field of Oncology, from Lund University, Sweden 1990. She has several publications in well recognized medical Journals.
She worked as Consultant in the National Center of Cancer (Formerly, Radioisotope and Radiation Center, RICK) Khartoum, Sudan 1990-1997, was involved in teaching of medical students, post graduate student for the Sudanese MD, and students in the Institute of Medical Radiological Sciences, Khartoum, Sudan. She was invited several times as an external examiner after moving to Qatar.
Dr. Asma joined the Department of Oncology / Hematology in HMC in 1998 and since then was actively involved in the department activities including teaching residents for the Arab Board, training fellows for the Medical Oncology specialty, and was heavily involved in Breast and Ovarian Cancer Awareness in Qatar and Sudan.
Dr. Asma is the Head of Subspeciality of Rare Cancer including Sarcoma, CNS and dermatology cancer, and core member of gynecology oncology MDT as well.
She is also interested in Personalized Medicine and Molecular Biology and serves as a member of tumor board too.
Dr. Asma is also a member of several international committees like the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the European Society for Medical Oncology.
