BIOGRAPHY:Dr. Alsubheen completed her undergraduate in Physical Therapy from Jordan in 2004, a master’s degree in Kinesiology, Exercise Physiology, from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 2016, and a PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences from Western University, Ontario, Canada in 2020. In 2022, Dr. Alsubheen completed a post-doctoral research fellow position at the School of Rehabilitation, McMaster University. Currently, Dr. Alsubheen is completing a second post-doctoral research fellow position at the Department of Health Research, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) and a graduate diploma in clinical epidemiology at McMaster University. Dr. Alsubheen has 10 years of experience in different clinical research areas and conducted several clinical trials. She explored metabolic responses to exercise and intermittent fasting and is trained to measure resting energy expenditure with indirect calorimetry using metabolic carts. Additionally, Dr. Alsubheen investigated the relationship between diabetes and shoulder disorders and the effectiveness of surgical and non-surgical interventions for improving shoulder clinical outcomes. During her first post-doc, Dr. Alsubheen investigated the associations between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and balance and loneliness outcome measures. Currently, she is working on developing a core outcome set for pharmaceutical trials in COPD. To date, Dr. Alsubheen published 27 articles in peer- reviewed journals and presented her work at several national and international conferences. Dr. Alsubheen is interested in sharing her experiences in developing and delivering impactful training programs for clinical research professionals and supporting graduate students and post-docs’ professional transition into clinical trials research through CANTRAIN platform.

What is your interest in clinical trials?
• Initiate, design, and lead clinical trials • Develop protocols to support the conduct of clinical trials • Medical monitoring of clinical studies and protocol deviation management. • Manage clinical data collection, coding of data collection sheets, and preparing data for statistical analysis. • Use statistical programs to Analyze and summarize clinical data. • Write manuscripts to submit to peer-reviewed journals. • Interact with internal and external stakeholders to support the clinical trial objectives and conduct.

Why do you think clinical trials are important?
• Clinical trials are the best way to determine and provide robust results on the effect/efficacy and safety of new interventions including medical products and devices.

What is your personal philosophy about clinical trial training specifically or mentorship in general?
• Using my expertise in clinical research, I am committed to providing high- quality mentorship experience to graduate students and post-docs from diverse backgrounds with different levels of experience in clinical research.

FUN FACT: I am passionate about nutrition and a healthy lifestyle.