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- Country of residence: Jordan
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr Heyam Adnan Awad
MBBS, medicine & surgery 1996
Jordanian Board / Histopathology 2004
FRCPath, UK 2006
CCST in Histopathology, UK 2006
December 2019
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name : Heyam Adnan Awad.
DOB: 16/1/1972.
Marital status: Married
Nationality: Jordanian and British
Email: heyamawad2000@yahoo.com
: h_awad@ju.edu.jo
Mobile: 0096279801555
QUALIFICATIONS
1. MBBS Medicine and Surgery, University of Jordan, Jordan, 1996
2. Jordanian Board of Histopathology, Jordan Medical Council, 2004.
3. FRCPath, Royal College of Pathologists, UK, 2006
4. CCST (certificate of completion of specialist training) in Histopathology, UK, 2006.
PROFFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
1. Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists since 2006, membership number: 10039527
2. Member of the Jordan Medical association since 1997, membership number: 12469
3. Member of the Jordanian Pathology association since 2014.
4. Full membership of the General Medical Council, UK, since 2001. Membership relinquished
in 2014 when I left UK to Jordan.
5. CPD (continued professional development) scheme, Royal College of Pathologists, UK,
2008 till now
6. Member of the scientific committee for the Jordanian Board Examination 2016-2019
7. Member of the overseas mentors for the Royal college of Pathologists, UK, 2017 till now.
8. Member of the European Network of Gastrointestinal Pathology (ENGIP) 2018 till now.
CURRENT POST
-Assistant professor, faculty of medicine, University of Jordan and Consultant
Histopathologist , Jordan University Hospital. From 28/9/2014 till now.
PREVIOUS POSTS
1.Consultant Histopathologist, Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK, 2007 -2014.
2.Specialist registrar in Histopathology, North West region, UK, 2002-2006.
3.Senior house Officer in Histopathology, Hope Hospital, UK.2001-2002.
4.Resident in Histopathology, Al Bashir Hospital, 1998- 2000.
5.Resident in Histopathology, Jordan University Hospital. 1997-1998.
6.Internship in Al Bashir Hospital 1996-1997.
PUBLICATIONS
1.Polyposis syndromes, Dr Ammar Khattab, Dr Heyam Awad and Professor Najib Haboubi.
Societa Italiana di Chirurgia ColoRettale. www.siccr.org 2005; 14: 116- 129
2.Ovarian molar pregnancy, Church E, Hanna L, New F, Uku A, Awad H and Watson A.
Journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 2008; 28: 6, 660-661.
3.Xylene clearance technique in colorectal cancer. Poster presentation at the pathological society
meeting, Manchester 4/7/06. Ammar Khattab, Heyam Awad, Najeeb Habboubi
4.Radiation colitis, grading and staging: Are they related. Poster presentation at the pathological
society meeting, Manchester 4/7/06. Ammar Khattab, Heyam Awad, Najeeb Habboubi
5.Metastatic Oesophegeal Adenocarcinoma to an Intralobar Bronchopulmonary Sequestration:
Histopathology Perspective. Heyam Awad .Annals of Alquds Medicine Volume/Issue
10: 6-10 (1435, 2014).
6.Epidemiologic characteristics of gastric malignancies among Jordan University Hospital
patients, Saudi medical journal, 965-967, 2017, 38. Heyam Awad, Manar Hajeer, Ali
Khader, Mohammad Galabi
7.Primary cutaneous adenoid cystic carcinoma with pulmonary metastases five years after the
initial diagnosis: case report and literature review. Jordan medical journal. Heyam Awad,
Nisreen Abushaheen, Ali Khader, Momen Naem .(J Med J 2017; Vol. 51 (4):189-197)
8. The rising trend in papillary thyroid carcinoma. True increase or over diagnosis. Manar
Hajeer, Heyam A Awad, Niveen Abdulla et al.Saudi Med J 2018; vol 39 (2), 147-153.
9. Demographic features of patients with colorectal carcinoma based on 14 years of experience
at Jordan University Hospital. Heyam Awad, Amer Abu-Shanab, Noor Hammad,
Amani Atallah, Mai Abdulattif .ANN SAUDI MED 2018,38 (6) : 427-432 DOI:
10.5144/0256-4947.2018.427
10.Accuracy of Frozen-Section Diagnosis of Brain Tumors: An 11-Year Experience from a
Tertiary Care Center. Obeidat FN, Awad HA, Mansour AT, Hajeer MH, Al Jalabi MA
Turk Neurosurg. 2019;29(2):242-246. doi: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.23220-18.2.
11.The Prevalence and Prognostic Value of BRAFV600E Mutation in Papillary Thyroid Cancer
:Alaa Al-Maaitah, Moaath Alsmady, Shatha Dmour, Dana Alsmady, Ahmad Al-Alwan,
Mira Younis, Mohammad Al-Shhab, Malek Zihlif, Heyam Awad, Handan Ankaralı,
Nader Albsoul, Orhan Alimoglu. International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Vol.
03 No. 04 October’19
12. Eosinophil counts in colonic tissue eosinophilia: Investigating specificity and sensitivity
of cutoff points and comparing two counting methods Heyam A. Awad, Yousef E. Abu
Osba, Mohammad A. Shaheen, Ammar R. Sfeira. Saudi J Gastroenterol 2019. Accepted
for publication.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
COURSES TAUGHT AT UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN
1-Introduction to pathology, this course covers inflammation, cell injury and neoplasia. I organized
the course and taught parts of it from 2014 till now.
2-Introduction to immunology: this is a 2-credit hour course that I taught to third year medical
students in the first semester of the 2017/18 academic year. I also organized the course
during that semester.
3-Diseases of the respiratory system, I taught the pathology part of this module for third year
medical students from 2015 till 2019.
4-Diseases of the GI system, I taught the pathology part of this module for second year medical
students from 2015 till 2018.
5- Diseases of the endocrine system: I taught the pathology part of this module for second
year medical students from 2016 till now.
6 - Diseases of the central nervous system: I taught the pathology part of this module for second
year medical students from 2016 till now.
7- pathology 1 for dental students, I participated in teaching this course to third year medical
students in the academic year 2015/16
8- Pathology 2 for dental students, I participated in teaching this course to third year dental
students during the academic year 2015/16.
9- During all the above courses I obtained a very high students’ feedback evaluation which
was consistently above 3.8 out of 4.
COURSE ORGANIZATION:
1- Head of the systems’ committee for the academic years 2018/19 and 2019/2020.
2- Lead of the blended learning in the faculty of medicine for the academic year 2018/2019.
3- Organizer of the CNS module from 202016 till now.
4- Organizer of the Introduction to Pathology course from 2015 till now.
5- Organizer of the Respiratory System module for the academic year 208/2019.
6- Organizer of the Introduction to Immunology course for the academic year 2017/2018.
POSTGRADUATE TEACHING
1- Our histopathology department at Jordan University Hospital runs a four year academic
program in Histopathology specializations. We also have non-academic scheme with trainees
from Jordan and from outside the country.
2-I am fully engaged with teaching residents during cut up sessions, histopathology and cytopathology
reporting as well as in structured lectures, slide seminars and journal clubs.
3- I am a supervisor of a student studying for the Master’s degree of science in medical laboratory
sciences. The thesis is about PDL1 expression in breast cancer among Jordanian
patients.
4- I participated in examining and discussing a thesis of Master’s degree student. The title
of the theses discussed is: Prevalence of Programmed cell death ligand 1 expression in gastric
cancer and its association with clinicopathological factors. April 2019.
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
-I was involved in teaching one of the practical pathology courses to medical and dental students
at Jordan University Medical School, during the academic year of 1997/1998. I have
demonstrated the features in histology slides and surgical specimens to the students.
-My training in Bashir Hospital included preparing and delivering lectures, case presentations
and seminars to medical staff in department and hospital. These activities were carried
weekly. I prepared seminars on different topics including acute inflammation, shock, lung tumours
and CNS tumours (two seminars on gliomas and two on meningiomas).
-I gave two lectures for the biomedical science technologists at Manchester Royal Infirmary:
Diseases of the respiratory system on 3/1/06, and General microbiology on 24/1/06.
-I gave a lecture in the MRCPath course about audit at the Christie hospital, UK on 12/9/05.
-Post mortem teaching at the mortuary for police and nursing students as well as cut up teaching
and supervision for the SHOs at Manchester royal Infirmary, UK.
-I have attended the “Teaching skills for specialist registrars” course, North West Deanery,
UK, on 15 and 16 /6/2006
CONFERENCES:
1. XXXIII International Congress of the International Academy Of Pathology 14-18 October
2018. King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre, Amman Jordan. I was a Local Facilitator
in this Conference and I chaired a session.
2. 9th International Conference of the Royal Medical Services.30 October -2 November 2018.
I was a guest speaker and gave a lecture titled: Eosinophilic Colitis: Current understanding
with emphasis on clinic-pathological features.
3. The third International Conference For the school of medicine, the University of Jordan. I
chaired a session in this conference.
4. Medical Education Student Conference: 29-31 August, Amman, Jordan. I was a guest
speaker and gave a lecture titled: How to get the best out of Medicine.
AUDIT EXPERIENCE
1. I was the audit lead at Tameside Acute NHS Trust, UK, for four years 2007-2011
2. I have given a lecture about audit in histopathology and cytopathology in the MRCPath
course, Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK, on 12/9/2005.
3. I have reviewed all cases of tuberculosis, which were diagnosed in our department in
Bashir Hospital /Jordan between 1998 and the year 2000 (total of 66 cases). The biopsies involved
included skin, kidney, colon and lymph nodes. We found that the clinical diagnosis of
tuberculosis was missed in about half of these cases.
4. I participated in a study done in Bashir Hospital which aimed at comparing the results of
thyroid FNAs with the results obtained from the histological sections between the years
1996-1999.
5. I undertook an audit about the completeness of our reporting of breast carcinoma cases
compared to the Royal College Minimum Data Set, done at Hope Hospital, UK, 2002. This
has been presented to the department.
6.Thyroid audit: Comparing the results of the FNAs cytology with resection specimens
of all thyroid cases reported between 1996 and 2002 at Lancaster Royal Infirmary. This audit
has been presented to the department and a copy sent to the surgeons.
7.Prostate audit: Comparison of Gleason grading in FNA and Prostatectomy specimens, Preston
Hospital, UK, 2003.
8.Turnaround time of gastric and colorectal malignancies at Manchester Royal Infirmary,
UK, 2005. This audit was presented at the departmental audit meeting.
9.I have collected the data for a regional audit about completeness of our reporting of colorectal
cancer cases compared to the Royal College Data Set at Trafford General Hospital
2006, the data has been sent to Stepping Hill where the regional audit is being carried out.
10.Adequacy of fine needle aspiration of head and neck lesions at Trafford General Hospital,
UK, 2006. This was presented at a departmental meeting.
11.Assessment of duodenal biopsies at Trafford General Hospital, 2006. This was presented
at the hospital audit meeting. The audit has been submitted to the Royal College of
Pathologists.
12.Thyroid FNA audit, Dr H Awad , Lancaster Royal Infirmary, UK, June 2003.
13. Comparison of Gleason’s grading between prostate biopsies and prostatectomies Dr H
Awad and Dr C Nicholson, Preston hospital, UK, October 2003.
14.Adequacy of head and neck fine needle aspiration, Dr H Awad and Dr K ahmad, Trafford
general hospital, UK 2006.
15. Reporting of colorectal tumours and minimum dataset, Dr Balassu and Dr Awad ,Tameside
hospital, UK, 2007.
16. Quality assurance of breast FNA at Tameside hospital, Dr H Awad and Dr N Dalal 2009.
17.Audit report of Quality Assurance of Breast FNA, Dr. Waseem Khan, Dr. H. Awad and
Dr. A. Yates, Tameside Hospital 2010.
COURSES AND MEETINGS
1. Ethics in medical education for clinical supervisors, Tameside Hospital, UK 2010
2. Cervical pathology study day, Wythenshawe hospital UK, 26/11/2004.
3. Pathology of the uterine corpus, Manchester royal infirmary UK, 28/4/2005.
4. Update course in gynecological cytology, Manchester cytology center, UK, 20-22/6/2007
5. Update course in gynecological cytology, Manchester cytology center, UK, 10-12/6/2002
6. Short course on autopsy, university of Sheffield medical school, UK 25-28/6/2002
7. Understanding statistics, BMJ learning, 13/2/13.
8. Coping with pressure, northwest postgraduate medical deanery online course 13/5/11.
9. The MDU online medical ethics and law module 17/6/13.
10. Respect of people, equality and diversity program, NHS core learning unit 19/3/09
11. Incident investigation and root cause analysis, Tameside, UK, 20/5/08
12. Equality and diversity, doctors.net online course 24/11/08
13. Genetics and malignancy, doctors.net, 25/8/04.
14. Teaching skills for specialist registrars, university of Manchester, UK, 14-15/6/2006.
15. The third international conference of the school of medicine, The University of Jordan:
Arab Simulation Conference in Medical Education 2016. 5-7/ 11/2016, Jordan. I was a chairperson
in a parallel session in this conference, on 6/1/2016.
16. Research ethics: Waiver of informed consent: What are the criteria? This is a CME online
activity organized by the University Of Maryland School of medicine, USA, held between 6-
14/12/2015
17. Academic staff development workshop, University of Jordan, Jordan, 18-22/12/20161
18. Taylor and Francis research seminar: how to get published, author workshop, University
of Jordan, Jordan, 29/2/2016
19. Academic and educational counseling workshop, University of Jordan, Jordan, 2/4/2016
20. Statistical analysis by using SPSS program, worship held in the University of Jordan, Jordan,
23 and 26/5/2016
21. combined symposium neurosurgery update- bridging science, University of Jordan, Jordan,
21/4/2016
22-Debate microscopic colitis 15/4/19. Amman, Jordan
23. Blended learning conference, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. 15/4/19 I participated
and gave a talk in this meeting.
24. Effective teaching strategies, 25/7/2018, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
25-Using Moodle for electronic learning. 8/8/2018. University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
26. Jordan medical council exam development. , 5-6 /9/17. Amman, Jordan
27. PDL2 training, 13/10/2018, Fairmont hotel, Amman, Jordan
COMMITTEES’ MEMBERSHIPS
1. Member of the Students’ academic mentoring scheme, Faculty of medicine, University of
Jordan, Jordan, 2015
2. Member of the Mortality and morbidity committee, Jordan University Hospital, 2015 and
2016
3. Member of the Postgraduate studies committee, Department of histopathology, microbiology
and forensic medicine, School of Medicine, University of Jordan, Jordan. 2015 till 2017
4. Member of the Library committee, faculty of medicine, University of Jordan. 2014 and
2015
5. Member of the Social committee for the third international conference of the school of
medicine, The University of Jordan, 2015- 2016
6. Head of the organizers of the modular systems committee. , Faculty of medicine, University
of Jordan, 2018 till now
7. Member of the organizers of the modular systems committee, Faculty of medicine, University
of Jordan, 2017-2018
8. Member of the Committee of updating the School of Medicine exam regulations, Faculty
of medicine, University of Jordan, 2019
9. Member of student’s investigations committee, Faculty of medicine, University of Jordan,
2019
10. Member of the Scientific Committee for the Jordanian Board Examination, Jordan Medical
council. 2016-2019
11. Member of the Committee to determine the level of students transferred from other universities.
, School of medicine, University of Jordan, 2017-2018
12. Member of a Committee determining vaccination policies for medical students, School of
medicine, University of Jordan, 2019
13. Member of the Board of directors of educational open resources, University of Jordan,
Jordan 2019.
14. Member of the Committee evaluating students’ posters During the Medical School Scientific
day 2019
MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
1. Assisstant Dean for Students and Examinations, School of medicine, University of Jordan
for the academic year 2019/2020
2. Histopathology Division Supervisor, Department of Histopathology, Microbiology and Forensic
medicine, School of Medicine, University of Jordan 20115-2019
3. Audit lead, Cellular Pathology Department, Tameside NHS Trust, UK, 2007-2011.
4. Educational supervisor, Cellular Pathology Department, Tameside NHS Trust, UK, 2010-
2012
BOARD EXAMINER:
I was a member of the examinations’ committee for the forensic Board in 2016
I am a member of the lab medicine scientific committee of the Jordanian Lab medicine Board
Examination. From 2017 till now.
REFERENCES
1. Dr Abd Alqader Batttah, head of department,
Histopathology, microbiology and forensic medicine department
University of Jordan
Queen Rania Street
Amman, Jordan
Email: akbattah@ju.edu.jo
2. Dr .N .Dalal, Consultant Histopathologist, Clinical Lead
Department of cellular pathology
Tameside Acute NHS Trust
Fountain Street
Ahton under Lyne
OL6 9RW
Tel 0161 331 6416
Email: neha.dalal@tgh.nhs.uk
3. Professor J Morris, Consultant Histopathologist
Histopathology Department
Royal Lancaster Infirmary,
Ashton Road,
Lancaster , LA1 4RP
Tel: 01524 65944
Email: jim.a.morris@rli.mbht.nhs.uk
Achievements and Awards
1. Matrik exam (National Preparatory School Exam) passed with an average of 97.3%.
2. Tawjeehi exam (National General Secondary Certificate) passed with an average of 95.7%,
ranked eighth of females in the kingdom.
3. Best oral presentation award and medical research award, school of medicine scientific
day, 11/4/2019.
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