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 medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it links heal ...

An-Najah National University An-Najah National University ( ar, جامعة النجاح الوطنية) is a Palestinian non-governmental public university governed by a board of trustees. It is located in Nablus, in the northern West Bank. The university has 22,000 studen ...

, is the first

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

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

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Career

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

References

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