Through a competitive platform of researchers around the Kingdom
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC) in the Eastern Region represented by the Education Division, held the 5th Research Day, which received a large number of participation from both researchers and medical personnel. Dr. Ahmad Al Arfaj, the Regional Executive Director of the Ministry of National Guard -Health Affairs in the Eastern Region noted that :” this research day is considered one of the most prominent scientific and medical scientific events, as it brings together researchers and specialists in this field, which immensely contributes to their studies and their research which will ultimately raise the level of the medical service provided to patient".
He added: "The number of participants and the research showed the importance of this medical scientific event, and the broad participation from various hospitals and universities around the Kingdom is proof that this event is one of the leading conferences that various specialists waits for".
Furthermore, the head of King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Dr. Ali Al-Qarni, pointed out that: "more than 140 medical research, of which 70 were selected to be research posters, 20 were verbally discussed, all of which underwent arbitration and evaluation by specialists in this field".
Dr. Al-Qarni also added that "the KAIMRC’s tasks priorities involves encouraging scientific research, providing support to researchers to submit their studies in various fields of medicine, which is a great opportunity to exchange knowledge and expertise to discover the deficiencies and negatives in their research in an attempt to avoid them in the future”.
For his part, Head of Education Division, Dr. Fahd Al Saab, said that "all research submissions are subject to arbitration and evaluation by a specialist jury, and this scientific forum was launched in 2012, and we are still achieving amazing results in the past years, where we were able to celebrate research and researchers and encourage them to continue this major task, which in turn, enriched our medical scientific research database”.
Last but not least, the organizing committee announced the final results of both research posters and verbal research, after which, the winners were honored.