Laila Rasmy-Bekhet PhD

Laila Rasmy Bekhet joined McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston, formerly UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI), in January 2022 as an assistant professor after earning her PhD degree in biomedical informatics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. During her PhD work, she was a predoctoral research fellow with the UTHealth Innovation in Cancer Prevention Research for the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas. She started as a clinical pharmacist at the National Cancer Institute in Egypt and ended up as a principal consultant helping pharmaceutical manufacturers across the borders to comply with the global regulatory standards for computerized systems, before coming back to graduate school.