HMC Opens Qatar Preterm And Precision Medicine Research Clinic

Doha, March 13 (QNA) - A new state-of-the-art Qatar Preterm and Precision Medicine Research Clinic (QPrem & PM-RC) to assess preterm children's readiness to join school, has opened at the Women's Wellness and Research Center (WWRC). The clinic, named after QPrem (Qatar Preterm Study) and Precision Medicine (QPrem & PM-RC), focuses on the development of preterm and it is looking comprehensively at various aspects including their medical, psychological, neurocognitive, executive functioning, behavioral, genetic predisposition, and environmental factors. The aim is to inform policy makers and practitioners of possible ways to intervene and improve the quality of life and care of preterm children and their families. Speaking about the Research Clinic, WWRC's Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director Dr Hilal Al Rifai says that the establishment of the clinic aligned closely with Qatar's National Health Strategy and that Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has given great attention to family and child-centred care when designing and developing the WWRC. With the opening of the WWRC's Qatar Preterm and Precision Medicine Research Clinic (QPrem & PM-RC), the hospital has reached a new milestone with this accomplishment. The QPrem & PM-RC will offer evidence-based care to patient and ease the clinicians' decision-making process, he says. The head of Newborn Screening Program, Dr Ghassan Abdoh, the Lead PI of the QPrem project says, "This new research clinic will give us a great opportunity to follow up the children and their parents and look at the consequences of being premature from clinical perspective." (QNA)