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 Ghania Ait-Ghezala, PhD Dr. Ait-Ghezala is a Scientist II, head of molecular biology/ genomic department at the Roskamp institute. A multidisciplinary team dedicated to understanding neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders and addictions with an emphasis on identifying and developing new therapeutics for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. She is also the Head of Molecular Biology at Archer pharmaceutical w ere she leads the program that is focused on developing molecular and cell biology-based screening of small molecule inhibitors and modulators for gamma secr etase activity. [email protected] Abdelouahab Aitouche, PhD Dr. Abdelouahab Aitouche is the Sc ientific Review Officer for the Center of Scientific Review, the evaluation central for the National Institutes of Health, and the portal for receipt and referral of a yearly average of 75000 research grant applications destined for evaluation by the several U nited States Department of Health and Human Services agencies (CDC, AHRQ, and NIOSH). Dr. Aitouche coordinates two federal panels that evaluate pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and senior sabbatical NRSA fellowships. He is also a member of the NIH Training Advisory Committee that develops and oversees federal policy pertaining to training programs, including but not limited to, Career Development Awards (K series), and Individual and Institutional training programs (F and T series respectively). Dr. Aitouche also serves as the point person for Center for Scientific Review for matters pertaining to conduct and policy of the fellowship review process. [email protected] 

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Ghania Ait-Ghezala, PhD

Dr. Ait-Ghezala is a Scientist II, head of molecular biology/ genomic department at the Roskamp

institute. A multidisciplinary team dedicated to understanding neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative

disorders and addictions with an emphasis on identifying and developing new therapeutics for the

treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. She is also the Head of Molecular Biology at Archer pharmaceutical 

w ere she leads the program that is focused on developing molecular and cell biology-based screening of 

small molecule inhibitors and modulators for gamma secretase activity.

[email protected] 

Abdelouahab Aitouche, PhD

Dr. Abdelouahab Aitouche is the Scientific Review Officer for the Center of Scientific Review, the

evaluation central for the National Institutes of Health, and the portal for receipt and referral of a yearly

average of 75000 research grant applications destined for evaluation by the several United States

Department of Health and Human Services agencies (CDC, AHRQ, and NIOSH).

Dr. Aitouche coordinates two federal panels that evaluate pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and senior

sabbatical NRSA fellowships. He is also a member of the NIH Training Advisory Committee that develops

and oversees federal policy pertaining to training programs, including but not limited to, Career

Development Awards (K series), and Individual and Institutional training programs (F and T series

respectively). Dr. Aitouche also serves as the point person for Center for Scientific Review for matters

pertaining to conduct and policy of the fellowship review process.

[email protected] 

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Farid Amirouche, PhD

Farid Amirouche is a University of Illinois Scholar Professor, Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical

engineering and a Professor of Orthopedics in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at

Chicago. He served as a university Fellow for Academic leadership of Big 10 universities in 2009-2010, he

is currently the director of Orthopedic research in the nation largest medical school where he supervises

residents and medical students. He is also the Director of the Biomechanics Research Laboratory where

he works with graduate students from Bioengineering and mechanical engineering. Additionally since

2007 Pr. Amirouche has coordinated the orthopedic research at the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute. Pr

Amirouche have served as a Chairman of the UIC Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC) from 1993-

[email protected] 

Sam Beddar, Ph.D.

Professor Beddar was born in Constantine, Algeria, and went to the University of Wisconsin driven to

study medical physics. He concentrated his research on plastic scintillation dosimetry, publishing several

seminal papers on the subject, and receiving his doctorate in 1990.

Pr. Beddar next joined Princess Margaret Hospital as a staff physicist, and then in 1993 became an

assistant professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Following a post at Albany Medical

College he accepted a position at Cleveland Clinic in 1998, where he established an intraoperative

radiation therapy program using the first commercially available Mobetron portable linear accelerator.

In 2002, he became an associate professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center, joining the Brachytherapy

service. In 2005 he became Chief of the Gastrointestinal Service, focusing his clinical attention on

developing 4D-CT with intravenous contrast for the liver, respiratory-gated radiation therapy for GI

cancers, and Director of intraoperative radiation therapy program.

[email protected] 

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Amar Chaker, Ph.D.

Dr Amar Chaker is the Director of the Architectural Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Institutes of 

the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a not-for-profit professional association dedicated to the

advancement of civil engineering knowledge and representing over 140,000 members of the civil

engineering profession worldwide, where he has held positions in the Technical Activities Division, the

Transportation and Development Institute, the Civil Engineering Research Foundation, and the Building

Security Council. He is responsible for the operations of the two Institutes and provides leadership and

support to their committees, whose activities include a growing program of publications (peer-reviewed

 Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics, and Journal of 

 Architectural Engineering, and the new Lecture Notes in Mechanics and the new Trends in Engineering

Mechanics Special Publications series ) as well as the organization of conferences and [email protected] 

Dr. Azedine Medhkour 

Dr. Azedine Medhkour practices neurosurgery in Bellevue, Ohio and Toledo, Ohio. Dr. Medhkour

graduated with an MD 33 years ago. 

[email protected]