On February 25, 2022, Dr. Laura Frankart visited Thumbay University Hospital and Gulf Medical University. Dr. Laura is the Director of Education and Assessment, Associate Professor of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Pharmacy. During her visit, she gave a keynote presentation and conducted a workshop in the conference “Quality Measurement in Health Professions Education Revisiting the Metrics” organized by GMU. Dr. Laura visited Thumbay University Hospital to validate TUH as a site for VCU student rotations.

Vice Chancellor for Quality & Global Engagement and Dean, College of Pharmacy, Prof. Sherief Khalifa commented: “We are very proud of our strategic partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University. This partnership has been very active in teaching, master’s thesis evaluation and defense, interprofessional education case competition, summer research internship for students and student exchange in APPE”.