professor
King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Laila Ahmed Bahammam is a professor and consultant of Endodontics at Faculty of Dentistry (KAUFD) and the head of the intellectual property unit at the center of knowledge economy and technology transfer at King Abdulaziz University. Also, she is a board member of the Saudi Dental Society. She is working as a part-timer at the Academic Leadership Center of Higher Education, Ministry of Education since 2014 and a representative of the Technology & Innovation Support Center (TISC) of the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property. Previously, she was the supervisor of Education & Student Affairs and the Educational clinic director for KAUFD.
Prof. Bahammam is an inventor. She has several inventions and patents (around 30) in the field of dentistry. She won several local and international awards. Also, she is a trainer in the field of Endodontics, Health Education, Leadership, and Patents & Innovations. She is a member of several societies and associations; locally and internationally. Finally, she has several publications in the field of Dental Education and Endodontics; and participated in different international conferences as a speaker and judge, and a reviewer for several Journals (among which are the BMC Oral Health, BMC Medical Education, and Dental Traumatology Journals).