Omaima El Tahir
VU University Medical Center, Netherlands
Biography
Omaima El Tahir has completed her Graduation in Biomedical Sciences and a Master’s degree in Medicine. She has her expertise in the role of host genetic variants in susceptibility, severity and outcome of childhood bacterial meningitis, aiming to create prediction tools for complications of bacterial meningitis integrating both clinical and genetic biomarkers because it is still a life-threatening infectious disease. She also aims to provide more insight into the possible very long-term sequelae which could have a significant impact on subsequent health state of childhood BM survivors during young adult life.