Qasim Al-Shboul, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Statistics and Biostatistics
Zayed University
University College
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
P.O. Box 19282
Dubai – United Arab Emirates
Phone: +97144021742
E-mail: qasimalshboul@gmail.com
z9889@zu.ac.ae
Professional Interests
Research Interests
Analysis of survey data, Ranked set sampling, Order statistics, Statistical inference and characterization
of distributions
Teaching Interests
Biostatistics, Probability and Statistics, Sampling, Research Methodology, Experimental Design
Academic Background
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Biostatistics, 1996
M.Sc. Yarmouk University, Jordan, Statistics, 1988
B.Sc. Yarmouk University, Jordan, Mathematics & Statistics, 1985
Work Experience
Employment
September 2014– present
September 2012 – September 2014
June 2010 – June 2012
September 2008 – June 2010
September 2002 – September 2008
September 2002 – September 2008
September 2003 – November 2006
September 1998 – September 2002
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University
College, Zayed University, UAE
Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, College of Business and
Economics, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Associate Professor, Mathematics Program, School of
Liberal Arts and Sciences, Ivy Tech Community College, USA
Statistical Consultant, Self employed, external contractor, USA
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Family & Community
Medicine, Arabian Gulf University (AGU), Kingdom of Bahrain.
Statistical Consultant, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Bahrain
Director of Administrative Affairs, AGU, Kingdom of Bahrain
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, College of
Business and Economics, UAE University, UAE
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June 1996 - September 1997
September 1996 - September 1997
Research Associate, Department of Infectious Diseases and
Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Al al-Bayt
University, Jordan
Duties
Providing statistical consulting in research methodology, statistical methods and analysis.
Teaching statistics and biostatistics to both undergraduate and graduate students.
Supervising several graduate students.
Conducting regular courses, workshops, conferences and seminars in research methodology and
biostatistics for medical students, physicians in residency training programs and medical faculty.
Conducting in collaboration with clinicians and health scientists several large-scale epidemiological and
community based health studies.
Co-investigating several clinical trials and medical education research projects.
Supervising community oriented health research projects, both for undergraduate medical students and
for graduate students in the Masters’ of health policy and population studies program.
Participating in several health research committees as an active member such as the Arabian Gulf
University scientific research committee and the Ministry of Health research committee in Bahrain.
Directing the administrative departments at AGU.
Courses Taught
Mathematical Statistics, Applied Statistics, Biostatistics, Probability, Statistical data analysis, Statistical
distributions, Regression analysis, Research methodology, Categorical data analysis, Probability and
statistics for engineers, Probability and statistics for IT, Principles of probability, Statistics for business I
and II, Statistics for education, Linear programming, Operations research, Calculus and advanced
calculus, Quantitative methods in business and economics, Linear algebra.
Thesis Supervision
Knowledge and Attitudes of Bahraini Women Towards Menopause: Implications for Health
Care Policy
Nutrition-linked disease burden in Kuwait, Assessment of Nutritional Knowledge of Family
Physicians in Kuwait
Knowledge and Attitudes of Physicians Towards Child Maltreatment in Bahrain: A Study of
First Contact Physicians in the Ministry of Health.
An Evaluation of the "Road Accident Injury Report" System in the Kingdom of Bahrain: Health System
& Policy Implication
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Intellectual Contributions
Refereed Articles
Taysir S. Garadah, Salah Kassab, Qasim M. Al-Shboul and Abdulhai Alawadi. (2009): The Threshold of
Admission Glycemia as a Predictor of Adverse Events in Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Patients with Acute Coronary
Syndrome. Clinical Medicine: Cardiology. 3, 29-36.
Ghufran A. Jassim. and Qasim M. Al-Shboul. (2009): Knowledge of Bahraini Women Towards the
Menopause: Implications for Health Care Policy. Climacteric. 12(1):38-48.
Ghufran A. Jassim. and Qasim M. Al-Shboul. (2008): Attitudes of Bahraini Women Towards the
Menopause: Implications for Health Care Policy. Maturitas. 59, 358 – 372.
Golbahar, J., Aminzadeh, M.A., Al-Shboul, Q.M., Kassab, S. and Rezaian, G.R. (2007): Association of
methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (C677T) polymorphism with hyperuricemia. Nutrition, Metabolism
& Cardiovascular Diseases. 17 (6), 462-467.
Kassab S, Al-Shboul Q, Abu-Hijleh MF, and Hamdy H. (2006): Teaching styles of tutors in problem
based curriculum: Students and tutors perception. Medical Teacher, 28 (5), 460-464.
M.F. Abu-Hijleh, A.L.Roshier, Q. Al-Shboul, A.S. Dharap and P.F. Harris. (2006): The membranous
layer of superfacial fascia: evidence for its widespread distribution in the body. Surgical and Radiologic
Anatomy, 28(6), 606-619
AlSadadi A., Al-Haddad M.., Al-Shboul Q., Qaheri S., AlFaraj A., Greally M., AlNasheet F. (2006):
Gender Difference in Symptoms of Schizophrenia. The Arab Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 18(1), 30 – 40.
AlFaraj A., Al-Haddad M., AlSadadi A., Al-Shboul Q., Qaheri S., Greally M., AlNasheet F. (2006):
Prevalence of Positive and Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia. Journal of Bahrain Medical Society,
Vol. 18(4), 179 – 183.
Abu-Hijleh MF, Chakravarty M, Al-Shboul Q, A. Latif N, Osman M, Bandaranayake R and Ganguly
PK. (2005): Structured Problem-Related Anatomy Demonstrations: making order of random teaching
events. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 17(1), 69-73.
Abu-Hijleh MF, Chakravarty M, Al-Shboul Q, Kassab S and Hamdy H. (2005): Integrating applied
anatomy in surgical clerkship in a problem-based learning curriculum. Surgical and Radiologic
Anatomy, 27, 152-157.
Kassab S, Abu-Hijleh M, Al-Shboul Q and Hamdy H. (2005): Student-led tutorials in problem-based
learning: Educational outcomes and perceptions. Medical Teacher, 27(6), 521-526.
Kassab S, Abu-Hijleh MF, Al-Shboul Q and Hamdy H. (2005): Gender related differences in studentled problem-based tutorials. Education for Health, 18(2), 272-282.
Rafia Ghubash, Omer El-Rufaie, Taoufik Zoubeidi Qasim M. Al-Shboul and Sufyan M. Sabri. (2004):
Profile of Mental Disorders Among The Elderly United Arab Emirates Population: Sociodemographic
Correlates. Int. J Geriatr Psychiatry, 19, 344-351.
Abu-Hijleh MF, Kassab S, Al-Shboul Q and Ganguly PK. (2004): Evaluation of the teaching strategy of
the cardiovascular system in a problem-based curriculum: student perception. Advances in Physiology
Education, 28, 59-63.
Al-Shboul, Q. M. (2002): Statistical Inferences on the Location and Scale Parameters from Censored
Log-Logistic Samples. Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 6(1), 5-24.
Raqab M. Z., Kouider E. and Al-Shboul Q. M. (2002): Best Linear Invariant Estimators Using Ranked
Set Sampling Procedure: Comparative Study. Journal of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis,
39(1), 97-105.
Lyles RH, Chu C, Mellors JW, Margolick JB, Detels R, Giorgi JV, Al-Shboul Q, Phair JP. (1999):
Prognostic Value of HIV RNA and Other Markers in the Nature History of Pneumocytis carinii
Pneumonia, Cytomegalovirus, and Mycobacterium avium Complex Disease. AIDS, 13(3), 341-349.
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Rinaldo CR, Liebmann JM, Huang XL, Fan Z, Al-Shboul Q, McMahon DK, Day RD, Riddler SA,
Mellors JW(1999): Prolonged Suppression of HIV-1 Viremia Results in Profound, Delayed
Enhancement of CD4 Tcell Reactivity to Mitogen and Microbial Antigens, but not to HIV-1 Antigens.
The Journal of Infectious Diseasese, 179,329-336.
Al-Hassan Q. and Al-Shboul, Q. M. (1999): An Algorithm for the Construction of Admissible Tests for
the Weibull Distribution. Qatar Univ. Sci. J., 18, 27-32.
Rinaldo CR, Huang XL, Fan Z, Margolick JB, Al-Shboul Q, Zheng L, McMahon DK, Riddler SA,
Mellors JW (1998): IL-12 and dendritic cells loaded with liposome plus HIV-1 proteins stimulate antiHIV-1 cytotoxic T lymphocyte reactivity in CD8(+) T cells from patients receiving combination
antiretroviral therapy.Journal of Leukocyte Biology: E32 Suppl. 2.
Janosky, J. E., Pllitieri, T.R. and Al-Shboul, Q. M. (1997): The Need for Revised Lower Limit for the
4253H, Twice Nonparametric Smoother, Statistics and Probability Letters, 32, 269-272.
Pollack, I., Claassen D., Al-Shboul, Q. M., Janosky JE, Deutsch M. (1995): Low-Grade Gliomas of the
Cerebral Hemispheres in Children: An analysis of 71 cases. Journal of Neurosurg, 82(4), 536-547.
Janosky, J. E. and Al-Shboul, Q. M. (1995): Statistical Analysis of Single Subject Designs. Physical
Therapy, 75(2), 157-158.
Janosky, J. E. and Al-Shboul, Q. M. (1995): Validation of the Use of a Nonparametric Smoother for the
Examination of the Data from a Single-Subject Design, Behavior Modification 19(3), 307-324.
Al-Shboul, Q. M. and Khan, A. H. (1989): Moments of Order Statistics From Doubly Truncated LogLogistic Distribution, Pakistan Journal of Statistics 5, 299-307.
Al-Shboul, Q. M. and Khan, A. H. (1989): On Estimation and Prediction From Log-Logistic Population,
Pakistan Journal of Statistics 5, 277-282.
Ongoing Research
Al-Shboul Q. M. and Kouider E (2014): Best Linear Unbiased Estimators Using Both Double Ranked
Set Sampling and Modified Double Ranked Set Sampling Procedures.
Al-Shboul Q. M. and Kouider E (2014): Best Linear Invariant Estimators Using Both Double Ranked
Set Sampling and Modified Double Ranked Set Sampling Procedures.
Presentation of refereed papers
Bahraini Women’s Attitudes Towards the Menopause: Implications for Health Care Policy. Proceedings
of the 12th World Congress on the Menopause, May 19 – 23, 2008, Madrid, Spain. Maturitas.
Bahraini Women’s Knowledge about the Menopause and Hormon Replacement Therapy(HRT):
Implications for Health Care Policy. Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on the Menopause, May
19 – 23, 2008, Madrid, Spain
Characterization of the Log-Logistic Distribution Through Recurrence Relations of Moments of Order
Statistics and A Class of Estimators of Its Shape Parameter, Australasian Biometrics and New Zealand
Statistical Association Joint Conference 2001. Christchurch, New Zealand, December 10-13, 2001.
Best Linear Invariant Estimators Using Ranked Set Sampling Procedure: Comparative Study, TIES
2001: Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society. Portland, Oregon, USA, August
13-17, 2001.
Statistical Inferences on the Location and Scale Parameters from Censored Log-Logistic Sample, The
Fourth International Conference on Environmetrics and Chemometrics. University of Nevada at Las
Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, September 18-20, 2000
United Arab Emirates health & lifestyle survey 2000 (UAEHALS 2000), Second Annual Research
Conference of UAE University, UAE. April 2001
Physical and lifestyle characteristics of UAE national adults- Results from the United Arab Emirates
health & lifestyle survey 2000 (UAEHALS 2000), Third Annual Research Conference of UAE
University, UAE. April 2002
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Summer Session at UAE University: An Applied Study, The 19th ACROA Annual Conference on
Admission and Registration, Dubai, UAE, March 2000.
Failure Time (Crime Time) Analysis and Its Application in Criminology, The International Conference
on Police Sciences, Sharjah, UAE, 13-16 December 1998
Research Grants
Funded
United Arab Emirates Health and Lifestyle Survey 2000. This research project is being funded by the
UAE University under the multi disciplinary research grant scheme of the University. This research
project is a nation wide survey of 2000 national households eliciting information on a variety of Health
and Lifestyle characteristics. This project has been reviewed by Harvard Medical School and Tulane
University Medical Center
Mental Disorder and Cognitive Impairment among the Elderly UAE Population. The aim of this
large scale survey is to estimate the one year prevalence of psychiatric disorders in the elderly
indigenous population (aged 60 years and over) of the United Arab Emirates. This project is funded by
Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashed Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences.
National Non-communicable Diseases Risk Factors(NCD): The aim of this project is to establish and
maintain a national database for major NCD risk factors in the kingdom of Bahrain that is part of NCD
prevention and control programme. This report presents a very important and extensive baseline data on
seven major preventable risk factors of NCDs. These are: smoking, obesity, lack of physical activity,
hyperlipidaemia. The survey was prepared for and undertaken during the period from January until
December 2007, followed by data cleaning, validation and examination. Data analysis and publication of
draft report extended from September 2008 till May 2009 after which draft was reviewed and approved
by the Ministry’s Health Research Committee. This NCD project was funded by the Ministry of Health
mainly through UNDP Country Programme with the Government of Bahrain.
Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus and Associated Risk Factors in Bahrain. This study was undertaken
to evaluate the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and its associated risk factors in Bahrain, using 1998
WHO criteria for glucose tolerance (disorders of glycaemia).
Epidemiology of Diabetes mellitus among School’s Children and Adolescents in Bahrain. The aim
of this nation wide survey is to determine the incidence and prevalence rates of diabetes mellitus among
all children and adolescents in all schools of Bahrain. This large scale project is funded by the Arabian
Gulf University.
Statistical Packages
MINITAB, SPSS, SAS
References
Dr. Elies Kouider
Associate Professor of Statistics
College of Business Office BUS 328
Ferris State University
Big Rapids, MI 49307
Phone: (231) 591-3166
Email: kouidere@ferris.edu
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Dr. Aktham AlMaghaireh
Associate Professor
College of Business and Economics
UAE University, P. O. Box 15551
Al Ain, UAE
Phone: +971 37135261
Email: a.almaghaireh@uaeu.ac.ae
Dr. Victor Roeske, Program Chair
Ivy Tech College
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Mathematics Program
50 West Fall Creek Parkway North Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46208
Phone: (+1317) 917-5701
Email: vroeske@ivytech.edu
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