College of Applied Medical Sciences

• (2018-present) Assistant Professor of Human Genetics/Cytogenetics,King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences,Riyadh, KSA.
• (2009-2010) Teaching Assistant and Scholarship Recipient, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences,Riyadh, KSA.
• (2005-2009) Clinical Cytogenetics Medical Technologist, National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA),Riyadh, KSA.

• Alhareeri A., Archer K., Fu H., Lyon D., Elswick R., Kelly D., Starkweather A., Elmore L., Bokhari Y., Jackson-Cook C. Telomere lengths in women treated for breast cancer show associations with chemotherapy, pain symptoms, and cognitive domain measures: a longitudinal study. (Accepted manuscript; in production)
• Bokhari, Y., Alhareeri, A., & Arodz, T. (2020). QuaDMutNetEx: a method for detecting cancer driver genes with low mutation frequency. BMC bioinformatics, 21(1), 122.
• Starkweather, Angela R., Alhareeri, Areej A., Montpetit, Alison, Brumelle, Jenni, Filler, Kristin, Montpetit, Marty, Mohanraj, Lathika, Lyon, Debra E., Jackson-Cook, Colleen K (2014) An integrative review of factors associated with telomere length and implications for biobehavioral research. Nursing Research, 63(1): 36-50 .
• Alison J. Montpetit, Areej A. Alhareeri, Marty Montpetit, Angela R. Starkweather, Lynne W. Elmore, Kristin Filler, Lathika Mohanraj, Candace W. Burton, Victoria S. Menzies, Debra E. Lyon, Colleen K. Jackson-Cook (2014) Telomere Length : A Review of Methods for Measurement. Nursing Research, 63(4): 289-299 .

Presentations:

• Oral presentation - “Cytogenetics”, Health Professions Conference, Riyadh, KSA (2019)
• Poster presentation - “Acquired Telomere Shortening in Women with Breast Cancer is Associated with Chemotherapy and Depressive Symptoms”, American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA (2015)
• Oral presentation - “Telomere Length in Women with Breast Cancer: Their Relationship to Chemotherapy and Psychoneurological Symptoms”, American Cytogenetics Conference, Ashville, NC, USA (2014)

Posters:

• Erica Fernandes, DO, Areej Alhareeri, PhD, Hind Al Saif, MD, Raymond Lewandowski, MD, Colleen Jackson-Cook, PhD (2018) Facial Dysmorphology Novel Analysis for the Detection of Mosaic Down Syndrome Using 2D Images: A Comparative Analysis. Poster presented at the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics Annual Clinical Genetics meeting. Charlotte, NC, USA
• Lauren N Huddle MD, Areej Alhareeri BS, Valentina Robila MD, PhD, Michael O Idowu MD, MPH, Margaret M Grimes MD, Colleen Jackson-Cook, PhD. (2011). Higher proportion of at least pentaploidy for chromosomes X, Y, and 18 is present in myocytes of patients having a good outcome after receiving a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD). Poster presented at The American Society for Clinical Pathology meeting, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Fellowships 

• (2018) American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ABMGG) fellowship in Clinical Cytogenetics Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Pathology, VA, United States.

University Services: 

• (2020 - Present) Chairman of the Molecular Genetics Master Program Establishment Taskforce, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• (2019 – Present) Member in the College of Applied Medical Sciences President Award committee, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• (2018 - Present) Member in the Risk Management Taskforce, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences at Riyadh, Jeddah, and Alahsa, Saudi Arabia