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Hawaa Al Mansoori

Emirati physician, inventor and politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ107863936 ↗
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Hawaa Al Thahak Al Mansoori (Arabic: حوا سعيد سالم الضحاك المنصوري) is an Emirati physician and politician. She was appointed to the Federal National Council of the United Arab Emirates in 2019. An endocrinologist, she is executive director of the Intramural Research Division at the Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Center and Deputy Medical Director of Imperial College London Diabetes Centre in Abu Dhabi.

Education

Al Mansoori was the first Emirati woman to be awarded a UAE Presidential Scholarship to study medicine in the United States. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Maryland, receiving a BSc in Neurobiology & Physiology and a BSc in psychology.

In 2001 Al Mansoori was an undergraduate research fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, working under Sarah Tishkoff. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Gastroenterology and the journal of the American Diabetes Association (see § Publications).

She has a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from George Washington University School of Medicine, where she then went on to complete both her residency and fellowship. In 2013 she became double board certified in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology.

In 2013, she moved back to the UAE. She was presented at the 2014 World Government Summit by Deputy Prime Minister, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan as an example of success in education and innovation.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hawaa Al Mansoori” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.