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Name:              DR. KHALID ALI AL-RUBEAAN

Date of Birth:  February 13, 1956 (01 Rajab 1375 H)

Nationality:     Saudi

Office:             University Diabetes Center, King Saud University

                        Mobile: +966501422002 Fax. (+96611) 477 5696

E-mail:             krubean@ksu.edu.sa and rubeaan@gmail.com

Address:          P.O. Box 18397, Riyadh 11415, Saudi Arabia

 

 

Current national appointment:

• Director of University Diabetes Center, King Saud University.
• Executive Director of the Strategic Center for Diabetes Research.
• Associate Professor of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University.
• Consultant Endocrinologist, College of Medicine, King Saud University
• Head of Saudi National Diabetes Registry.

 

Current international appointments:

• Chairman of board of trustee and founder of Diabetes Science International Foundation, Basal, Switzerland.
• Editor-in-Chief:  International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus, Published by Elsevier Ltd, since April 2009.
• Editor-in-Chief: مجلة السكري (Al-Sukhari Magazines), published by Diabetes Science International Foundation, Basal, Switzerland, since November 1997.
• Part-time WHO consultant: Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean region (EMRO), World Health Organization WHO, Cairo Egypt.

 

 

Awards:

• Novo Nordisk Research Merit Award in Diabetes research for the year 2002.
• The Arabian Award for Diabetes Education 2001.

 

 

Academic qualifications:

• Special Competence in Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada, September 1989        .
• Fellow The Royal College of Physician of Canada, F.R.C.P.(C), The Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada, November 1988.
• Bachelor of Medicine, M.B.B.S. Medical College, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, July 1980.

 

 

 

Patents:

1.      “A Mediator-less Electrochemical Glucose Sensing Procedure Employing the Leach-proof Covalent Binding of Enzyme to the Electrodes and Products Thereof”

International Application Number: PCT/SG2013/000175

International Filing Date: 3 May 2013

International Publication Number: WO2013/165318 A1

International Publication Date: 7th November 2013

 

2.      “Wound dressing comprising of silver chitosan”

International Application number: PCT/1B2012/000780

International Filing Date: 19th April 2012

International Publication Number: WO 2012/143788 A1

International Publication Date: 26th October 2012

 

 

Fields of interest:

• Diabetes Mellitus in all its aspects (epidemiology, clinical, therapeutics…etc).
• Health education at the patient and community levels.
• Diabetes prevention research and applied programs.
• Biomedical, electronic and nano-science technology applications.

 

 

Former appointments:

 

• Board Member of the Saudi Diabetes and Endocrinology Fellowship, Saudi Commission for health specialties.
• One of the founder and member of the Gulf Group for the Study of Diabetes (GGSD).
• Chairman, Diabetes Educator Course, University Diabetes Center, King Saud University.
• Co-Chairman, King Saud University Diabetic Foot Program, University Diabetes Center, King Saud University.
• Chairman, Diabetic Diet Course, University Diabetes Center, King Saud University.

• Member of the Saudi National Diabetes Committee, Ministry of Health.
• President of Pan Arab Group for the study of Endocrinology and Diabetes, (2003-2004).
• Organizer of Diabetes Course for the Primary care Physicians, (1997-2001).
• Head of Endocrine Unit, Medical College, King Saud University (1995-1998).
• Head of Pharmacy and therapeutic committee King Khalid University (1993-1997).
• Gulf Countries Commission for Diabetes Program, (1992-1994).
• Organizer of the final year, Medical Students Course (1989-1993).

 

 

Publications:

 

Books:

1. National Chronic Metabolic Survey: Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus, Obesity and Hypercholesterolemia in Saudi Arabia,

Al- RUBEAAN KA, Al- NUAIM AR, AL -MAZROU Y, AL- ATTAS O, AL- DAGHARI N, KHOJA T. 1995 M.O.H. Press. Vol. 1 and 2.

 

1. السكري من الالف الى الياء1422 هـ

“Diabetes from A to Z”

Contributing author 2002.

 

1. مفاهيم يجب أن تصحح حول داء السكري 1429هـ  

“Notions need to be corrected about diabetes mellitus”

AL-RUBEAAN KHALID, 2009.

 

1. وقفات سكرية 1430هـ

“Deportments related to diabetes”

AL-RUBEAAN KHALID, 2010.

 

1. توارث السكري 1435هـ 

“Diabetes Inheritance”

AL-RUBEAAN KHALID, 2014.

 

1. مقامات سكرية 1437هـ

AL-RUBEAAN KHALID, 2016

 

 

World Health Organization (WHO) reports:

1. “Implementing National Diabetes Programmers”,

Report of a WHO Meeting, Geneva 1995.

 

1. “Guidelines for the Prevention, Management and Care of Diabetes Mellitus”, ISBN 978-92-9021-404-5, Series 32, 2006.

1. “Report of the Regional Workshop on Planning for the Control and Prevention of Blindness Due to Diabetic Retinopathy”

Document WHO-EM/CPB/005/E/07.08/250, 2008.

 

Contributing author:

1.Chapter: The epidemic of type 2 diabetes in the Arab world, Al-Rubeaan K, Page 189-198, DIABETES IN THE ARAB WORLD.

Abdulfattah Lakhdar, Geoffrey Gill; FSG Communications Ltd 2005.

 

2.Chapter: “New Candidate Obesity Genes, and Genetic Mapping of Obesity Related Genes” Al-Rubeaan Khalid. Vol. 2, Page 495-496, Encyclopedia of Obesity, Kathleen eller, SAGE Publications; 2008.

 

3.Chapter: “New Candidate Obesity Genes” Al-Rubeaan Khalid, Vol. 2, Page 495-496. Encyclopedia of Obesity, Kathleen eller, SAGE Publications; 2008

 

 

Membership:

• Member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
• Member of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), life time membership.
• Member of the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
• Member of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).
• Member of the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.

 

 

Peer reviewer:

• International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism.
• Saudi Medical Journal.
• Annals of Saudi Medicine Journal.
• Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice.
• King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Research Proposals.
• Toxicology and Industrial Health

·         Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics

• Journal of Bioinformatics and Biological Engineering (JBBE)
• Journal of Drug Metabolism & Toxicology
• Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
• Journal of Diabetes Research
• Scientific Reports
• The Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
• British Journal of Pharmaceutical Research
• International Journal of Chronic Diseases
• International Journal of Endocrinology
• The Scientific World Journal
• Libyan Journal of Medicine
• Lebanese Medical Journal
• Medicine
• Pain Medicine
• Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Published papers:

More than 100 published papers.