Ansam Sawalha (born 1969), who is the Dean of the Faculty of

Pharmacy Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medication, medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it ...

An-Najah National University An-Najah National University () is a non-governmental public university governed by a board of trustees in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine. The university has 22,000 students and 300 professors in 19 faculties. It is the largest university in the ...

, is the first

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woman named to the Women in Science Hall of Fame. Sawalha was honored for her achievement of establishing the first Poison Control and Drug Information Center in

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in 2006.

Early life and education

Sawalha earned her pharmacy degree at the

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Career

Sawalha started at An-Najah University in 1999 as faculty of the university pharmacy program.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sawalha, Ansam Living people Palestinian pharmacologists 1969 births Academic staff of An-Najah National University University of Texas at Austin alumni People from Asira ash-Shamaliya