Shamayel Alhaqqan, MD

• Canada, Ontario, CPSO: license number #136954 (04/2022 - Present)
• State of Kuwait, Ministry of Health of Kuwait: license number #2022100005 (01/2022 - Present)

Medicine Survival Booklet, First Edition (Sep 2018), Second Edition (Oct 2019), Third Edition (April 2021)

• CTU Team to Team Teaching Rounds, TOH, Ottawa, ON, 05/2024
• Medicine Mortality and Morbidity Rounds, TOH, Ottawa, ON, 07/2023
• Review of Literature Rounds, Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, 06/2023
• Infectious Disease Rounds, TOH, Ottawa, ON, 04/2023
• Endocrinology Journal Club, TOH, Ottawa, ON, 06/2022
• Endocrinology Department Journal Club, Mubarak AlKabeer Hospital, Kuwait, 05/2021
• Rheumatology Updates Rounds, Kuwait, 04/2021

• “Anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies play an important role in diagnosing autoimmune diabetes mellitus: a case series” Maryah Liepert, MD*a, Shamayel Alhaqqan, MD*a, Alaa Husain, MDb, Heather Lochnan, MDc, Julie Shaw, PhD**d, Cathy J. Sun, MD MSc**c. *co-first authors, **co-senior authors. Submitted for publication with Clinical Biochemistry Journal, June 2024
• “Anti-glutamatic acid decarboxylase antibodies in patient care: current practice and future potential”Maya Liepert* MD, Shamayel Alhaqqan* MD, Julie Shaw PhD, Heather Lochnan MD, Cathy Sun MD MSc.*co-first authors. Poster presentation in the Ottawa Hospital, Department of Medicine, Research Day, June 2023
• “Human Papillomavirus (HPV): unawareness of the causal role of HPV infection in cervical cancer, HPV vaccine availability, and HPV vaccine uptake among female schoolteachers in middle eastern country” Rezqalla J, Ibraheem A, Omar D, AlFailakawi H, AlShatti M, AlGhurair S, AlHaqqan S, Prof. Akhtar S. Poster presentation in Kuwait Association of Surgeons (KAS) Conference, Nov 2019. Published in the Journal of Infection and Public Health, Feb 2021
• “Genetic Variants in Vitamin D Metabolic Pathway Are Associated with Breast Cancer Risk and Clinical Characteristics in Kuwait” AlAbdali N, AlHaqqan S, Francis I, Kapila K, Al-Temaimi R. Poster Presentation in 23rd Health Science Center (HSC) Poster Conference, KU-FOM, Kuwait, Mar 2018

• Adult Rheumatology, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Dr. Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero, 07/2024
• Adult Rheumatology, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Dr. Julie D'Aoust, 04/2024
• Adult Rheumatology, Jaber AlAhmad Hospital, Kuwait, Dr. Maha Anbar, 03/2024
• Endocrinology, Mubarak Hospital, Kuwait, Dr. Shaikha Aba Alkhail, 05/2021
• Adult Rheumatology, Farwaniya Hospital, Kuwait, Dr. Kholoud Saleh, 03/2021

• Head of one of the student unions in KU-FOM, Kuwait, 2018/2019
• Executive Manager of Kuwait Medical Students Association, KU-FOM, Kuwait, 2016/2017

• Award of Excellence from The Emir of Kuwait his Highness Sheikh Mishal AlAhmed AlSabah for Honors in Doctor in Medicine (M.D.), (delayed because of Covid pandemic), 2024
• Honor Student Award presented by The Dean of Kuwait University, 2020
• Award of excellence from The Emir of Kuwait his highness Sheikh Sabah AlAhmed AlSabah for Honors in Bachelor of Medicine Sciences (BMedSc), 2018
• Honor Student Award presented by The Dean of Kuwait University, 2017