Hawaa Saeed Al Mansoori
Executive Director - Division of Intramural Research at the Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Center.
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Name in Arabic:
حواء المنصوري
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Full name:
Hawaa Salem Saeed Al-Dahhak Al-Mansouri
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Nationality:
Emirati
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Country of Residence:
United Arab Emirates
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Hawaa Saeed Al Mansoori's Bio
Emirati doctor and inventor.
She has been the Executive Director - Division of Intramural Research at the Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Center since March 2021, the Founder and Chairwoman of Sonostech in the United States since 2013, and a member of the Board of Directors of Sandooq Al Watan since January 2020.
She founded and chaired the insulin pump clinic programs at Imperial College London Diabetes Centre, where she was Deputy Director and Consultant Physician in Diabetes, Metabolism and Endocrinology. She also served as a member of the Federal National Council for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
She served as a resident physician at George Washington University, becoming the first non-American woman to graduate from the same university's School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She was also the first Emirati woman to invent an intravenous catheter insertion device, which she called "Sonostek." She patented the invention and founded the Sonostek Company to manufacture it.
She served as the General Manager and Board Member of the Green Arms Association, which she co-founded, and as Chair of the Medical Committee and Board Member of the Rahma Cancer Patients Care Association.
She was introduced by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the World Government Summit in 2014 as a model Emirati scholarship recipient. She was also selected as the chief of ceremonies at numerous events, including the Ramadan lectures of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. She was a speaker at the Milken Conference in Abu Dhabi in 2018 and the Milken Conference in Los Angeles in the same year. She also participated in the Brainstorm at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research .
She received the "Emirates Pioneers Award" in 2014 from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and the "Personality of the Month Award" for February from " Emirates Today" newspaper in 2014.
She obtained her Doctor of Medicine in 2008 from George Washington University in the United States of America, a medical fellowship in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism in 2013 from the same university, a Bachelor of Science in Biology, specializing in neurobiology and anatomy in 2004 from the University of Maryland in the United States, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 2004 from the same university.




