TabsSummary Dr Al Saikhan is working as the Vice Dean for Scientific Research and Innovation of the College of Applied Medical Sciences at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University (IAU), Saudi Arabia since 2024. She is an Assistant Professor and Chairperson of the Cardiac Technology Department at IAU, Saudi Arabia, and an Honorary Researcher at UCL since 2022. She received her PhD in Cardiovascular Medicine from UCL in January 2022. Member of the Saudi Leadership Society since 2021. Awardee of MiSK Fellowship and Higher Education Academy Fellowship since 2019. Awardee of the Certificate of Scientific Excellence from His Royal Highness Prince Muhammad bin Nawaf, the Saudi Arabia Ambassador in the UK. Winner of multiple awards including: 1st Rank Dr Soliman Fakeek Award (Medical Research Track) (Sponsored by RDIA), Saudi Arabia – 2024 2021 Young Investigators Award, British and Irish Hypertension Society Annual Meeting, Brighton, UK – 2021 3rd Place Young Investigator Award, Artery 2019 Conference, Budapest, Hungry – 2019 Best of the Best Clinical (Imaging) Abstract Award, British Cardiovascular Society Annual Conference, Manchester, UK– 2019 Faculty of Medicine Dean’s Prize for Medical Ultrasound (Echocardiography), Imperial College London, UK – 2017 Prince Mohammed Bin Fahad Prize for the Scientific Excellence in the Eastern province, Saudi Arabia – 2010 Winner of multiple grants including: EuroEcho-2024 Educational Grant Award, Berlin, Germany – 2024 MiSK Fellowship, Prince Mohammed bin Salman Foundation – 2019 UCL Student Conference Fund Award, London, UK– 2019 ESC Congress Educational Grant Award, Paris, France – 2019 Dubai Harvard Foundation for Medical Research Scholarship – 2019 EuroEcho-2018 Grant Award, Milan, Italy – 2018 Awardee of many Academic and Research Excellence awards and Exceptional Excellence awards from the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau in the UK. Awardee of many Scientific Publication Excellence awards from IAU. Participated in (and attended) many international scientific conferences and international forums. PublicationsPublications: 2024 Adulthood adiposity affects cardiac structure and function in later life Prevalence and Burden of Musculoskeletal Pain among Cardiac Sonographers in Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study. Mechanisms underlying exercise intolerance in long COVID: An accumulation of multisystem dysfunction. 2023 Occupational survey of the educational outputs of the first established program of cardiac technology speciality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2013–2022): A cross-sectional study. Does 3D-speckle tracking echocardiography improve prediction of major cardiovascular events in a multi-ethnic general population? A Southall and Brent Revisited (SABRE) cohort study. Prevalence, characteristics, consequences, and awareness of work-related musculoskeletal pain among cardiac sonographers compared with other healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia: A cross sectional study. Sex-differences in associations of LV structure and function measured by echocardiography with long-term risk of mortality and cardiovascular morbidity. A systematic review and meta-analysis of heart rate variability in COPD. 2022 Association between carotid atherosclerosis and brain activation patterns during the Stroop task in older adults: An fNIRS investigation. Relationship Between Image Quality and Bias in 3D Echocardiographic Measures: Data From the SABRE (Southall and Brent Revisited) Study. Is carotid artery atherosclerosis associated with poor cognitive function assessed using the Mini-Mental State Examination? A systematic review and meta-analysis. 2021 Corrigendum: Imaging Protocol, Feasibility, and Reproducibility of Cardiovascular Phenotyping in a Large Tri-Ethnic Population-Based Study of Older People: The Southall and Brent Revisited (SABRE) Study. 2020 Imaging Protocol, Feasibility, and Reproducibility of Cardiovascular Phenotyping in a Large Tri-Ethnic Population-Based Study of Older People: The Southall and Brent Revisited (SABRE) Study. Cohort Profile Update: Southall and Brent Revisited (SABRE) study: a UK population-based comparison of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in people of European, South Asian and African Caribbean heritage. Study Protocol - Insight 46 Cardiovascular: A Sub-study of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development. 2019 Reproducibility of Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony Indices by Three-Dimensional Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography: The Impact of Sub-optimal Image Quality. Left atrial function in heart failure with mid-range ejection fraction differs from that of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a 2D speckle-tracking echocardiographic study. Prognostic implications of left ventricular strain by speckle-tracking echocardiography in the general population: a meta-analysis. 2018 Prognostic implications of left ventricular strain by speckle-tracking echocardiography in population-based studies: a systematic review protocol of the published literature. Correlation between ST segment shift and cardiac diastolic function in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Research CV Dr. Lamia Khaled Al Saikhan's CV Social Media
