Wael Al-Delaimy, medical educator. Achievements include development of toenail samples for determining exposure to tobacco smoke. Recipient post-graduate award, University Otago, 1997, Young Clinical Scientist award, Flight Attendants Medical Research Foundation, 2001; post-graduate scholar, University Otago, 1996—2000.
Education
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, Mustansyria Medical School, Baghdad, Iraq, 1991. Postgraduate diploma in Community Medicine, Baghdad Medical School, 1994. Doctor of Philosophy, Wellington School Medicine and Health Sciences, New Zealand, 2000.
Career
Medical intern Baghdad Province Department Health, Baghdad, 1991—1993. Assistant lecturer Otago University, Wellington, 1996—1999. Research fellow Harvard University, Boston, 2000—2002, research associate, 2003—2004.
Assistant professor University California, San Diego, 2004—2006, director tobacco surveys, 2004, associate professor, since 2006.
Membership
Member of International Society Environmental Epidemiology, American College Epidemiology, American Association Cancer Research.