Disruption in Healthcare: Tools to Redesign your Business Model

On May 20th, almost 100 physicians, nurses and other medical professionals from around the country/world joined Associate Dean of Innovation and the Future, Professor Homero Rivas and Assistant Professor of Healthcare Innovation and Technologies Dr. Thomas Boillat for their session“Disruption … Continued

Hackathon winning team provide communities impacted with COVID-19 with Bounceback ability amid pandemic crisis

The winners of the #MBRUHacksCOVID19 hackathon, a pioneering competition which tasked UAE residents with developing innovative solutions that could help in the fight against the global pandemic, have been crowned. The winning quartet took the top prize for their solution, … Continued

MBRU hackathon offers UAE residents unique opportunity to join battle and innovatively tackle COVID-19

Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) has launched its latest initiative in the fight against COVID-19, a hackathon for UAE residents to develop innovative solutions that could help contain the spread of the virus. The winners … Continued

Dubai Command & Control Center announces UAE’s first full genome sequencing of virus causing COVID-19

Dubai’s COVID-19 Command and Control Center (CCC) announced the UAE’s first full genome sequencing of the virus causing COVID-19. The successful sequencing of the virus from a patient in Dubai was performed by researchers at the Mohammed Bin Rashid University … Continued

259,000 ‘Community Immunity Ambassadors’ sign up for MBRU’s Online Course in a single week

Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) has taken a leading role in informing global communities on methods of prevention and controlling the spread of COVID-19 with an innovative online course titled the MBRU Community Immunity Ambassador … Continued

Useful resources related to COVD-19 pandemic

We have combined a list of open access resources available in different platforms that are related to  COVID-19 pandemic. This is to support the global response to emerging outbreak COVID-19 by enabling fast and direct access to the latest available … Continued

Paradigm shift in medical simulation, from traditional use to a multifaceted societal impact

By: Dr. Nabil Zary – Director – Institute for Excellence in Health Professions Education and Sharon Mascarenhas – Simulation Educator. Simulation is a method in which the learners gain artificial and virtual experience in an activity that reflects real-life circumstances … Continued

MBRU Unveils New Dental Internship Program to Meet Demand of Recent Dental Graduates

Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) announce a new 12-month dental internship program at the UAE International Dental Conference & Arab Dental Exhibition (AEEDC Dubai) held  under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid … Continued

MBRU faculty performs surgery to treat rare swallowing disorder

The Mohammed bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, MBRU, faculty has performed a complex ‘Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy’ surgery to treat a patient with Achalasia, a serious condition that affects the oesophagus. Professor of Surgery and Associate Dean of … Continued

Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences signs affiliation agreement with Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai to provide ophthalmology curriculum

The Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) has come together with the renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai (MEHD) to offer instruction and training around the specialty of ophthalmology at MBRU, which is a part of the … Continued