Dubai, June 16th, 2011 (WAM) -- Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences (SHAMS) will feature in 10th World Congress in Fetal Medicine in Malta from 26 to 30 of June 2011.
The conference is organized by The Fetal Medicine Foundation, and will be attended by 1500 doctors and health sector workers from 28 countries around the world. A high- level delegation, represents the members of the international awards scientific committees, will attend the conference. Also, the Award will participate in the accompanying exhibition. This was stated by Abdullah bin Souqat, Executive Director of SHAMS, who said that the purpose of participating in the conference is to communicate with the participated keynote speakers and senior obstetricians, pediatricians and gynecologists. "During the conference, it is scheduled to introduce the awards new topics in its 7th term 2011-2012, encouraging the participants to nominate themselves in order to collect the largest possible number of high standard nominations.", Bin Souqat said. He added that, in the light of successive developments in the field of medical research, 10th World Congress in Fetal Medicine will enrich knowledge of the awards scientific committees members. Bin Souqat pointed out that participating in such conference is a part of a wide-ranging promotional campaign for the awards topics locally and globally. During the current term of the award and within the international awards category, neonatal medicine has been selected as the topic of Grand Hamdan International Award, where as Fetal Medicine, nutrition in Infancy and inborn errors of metabolism have been selected as the topics of Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence. He said that, besides participating in important conferences, the award is keen on promoting for its new topics through traditional world means of communication such as newspapers, radio and TV and modern means of communication like Internet. It is worth mentioning that, recently, Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences has announced that submission of nominations for the awards in its 7th term 2011-2012 is opened till the end of next November, including the International Awards, the Arab world Awards and UAE Awards.Copyright Emirates News Agency (WAM) 2011.
