Dr. Amal Robay joined Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar  (WCM-Q) in 2012 as a Research Associate in Genetic Medicine, then appointed as Assistant Professor of Research in Genetic Medicine same year. As for her administrative role at WCM-Q, Dr. Robay served as Director of Clinical Research in the Department of Genetic Medicine from 2012 till end of 2017, when she then took the leadership of the Research Compliance of WCM-Q as Director.

Before joining WCM-Q, she held various positions, including clinical research scientist, Clinical Operations and Regulatory Affairs Manager of the Clinical Research Pulmonary Division at the Research Center of the Hospital of Montreal University (CR-CHUM), and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

In her role as clinical research scientist and project manager at the CR-CHUM, Dr. Robay acted as Co-investigators and was scientifically and administratively in charge of all the clinical protocols at the Pulmonary Division. She managed a multitude of FDA multi-center clinical trials from phase I to phase IV, sponsored both by pharmaceutical companies and granting agencies.

Under the mentorship of Dr. Ronald Crystal, Chairman of the Department of Genetic Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, Dr. Robay is running the Department’s clinical research program at WCM-Q in the fields of Genetics and personalized medicine. The program includes many projects in various fields such as Diabetes, Genetic of Mendelian Diseases in Qatar, skeletal dysplasia and bone diseases in families in Qatar, Genetics of male Infertility, lung diseases (Asthma, COPD, CF, TB), effect of shisha smoking, and use of Endothelial Micropartciles as Biomarker for Diagnosis and Prognosis in Early sepsis. She’s currently serving as the Principal Investigator on a QNRF-Path towards Precision Medicine (PPM) grant:” Precision Pharmacogenomics in Qatar”.

Dr. Robay holds a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Physiology from the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Nantes University, France and is Certified Clinical Research professional (CCRP) from the Society of Clinical Research Associate (SoCRA), Certified IRB Professional (CIP) from PRIM&R, and Certified Healthcare Research Compliance (CHRC) from HCCA