Preface: Faculty Seminar Series: A Window into Research Potentials and Productivity

No academic institution can achieve and sustain international recognition without significant growth in scientific knowledge through research. Important findings from research should be disseminated through local meetings and international conferences and promptly submitted for publication. To foster such dissemination of research, at the beginning of the 1995 academic year the Faculty of Medicine, Health Sciences Centre, Kuwait University, Kuwait, started the Faculty Seminar series, initiated by the Dean, Prof. Abdullatif Al-Bader, and the Vice-Dean, Research, Prof. Olav Thulesius. The ultimate objective was to create a forum for the dissemination of research findings as the basic foundation in the fulfilment of the objectives of innovative teaching, training and medical education, community services and quality medical care to the citizenry. Since its inception, the Faculty Seminar series has been nurtured successively, initially by a committee chaired by Prof. Christopher Ford that included Prof. Phillip Moody, Prof. Raj Raghupathy and Dr. Aida Shihab-Eldeen, and then by Prof. Mustafa Abu Salim, Prof. Abayomi Akanji and Prof. Suhail Ahmad as successive coordinators. It is now a bi-monthly Tuesday event.