Abdelrahman AlAshqar, MD
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Biography
Abdelrahman AlAshqar is a current resident physician in the department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine. While originally from the Kingdom of Jordan, Abdel was born and raised in Kuwait in an atmosphere that valued education, discipline and academic excellence. He was granted a full scholarship to study medicine at Kuwait University and graduated as the Valedictorian with Distinction and Class Honors. He later worked as a trainee physician in Kuwait's Ministry of Health for one year before applying for residency in the United States.
During medical school and after graduation, Abdel grew a passion for mentoring his juniors and taught hundreds of medical students over the span of seven years, while in clinical training himself. He earned numerous prestigious awards for his academic excellence, research and teaching, including the awards by His Highness the Amir of Kuwait, Kuwait University President and Kuwait Medical Student Association. Abdel was appointed by the Vice Dean for academic affairs in his Alma Mater as a student representative in the staff-student consultative committee in efforts to improve the medical curriculum. He also won Nael Al-Naqeeb award for best undergraduate research on the intersection of neuroscience and prenatal health.
In addition to his life as a resident, Abdel is fond of wildlife and dreams of visiting the humpback whales in British Columbia, the African savannas, and the Arctics.
Education & Training
- Resident physician
- Yale New Haven Hospital (2026)
- MD
- Kuwait University (2018)
Research
Overview
Abdel has worked in clinical translational gynecologic research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 2018. His research work has centered on the intersection of cardiometabolic risk and benign gynecology in addition to the outcomes of minimally invasive gynecologic surgery. At Yale, Abdel has shifted to gynecologic cancer research as he prepares to pursue a fellowship in the field while still extrapolating from his prior research interests. He is now primarily investigating the association between cardiovascular disease and gynecologic malignancies. Particularly interested in ovarian cancer research advancement, Abdel hopes to be part of the movement that revolutionizes the paradigm for ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment.
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While emerging evidence supports a link between cardiovascular disease and ovarian cancer, it remains limited to descriptive statistics showing increased cardiovascular mortality among ovarian cancer patients. Abdel is currently investigating this association in more depth with emphasis on the incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) after ovarian cancer to help inform risk stratification and survivorship strategies in such vulnerable population of women.
- Once thought to be an exclusively hormonal disease, endometriosis now emerges as rather inflammation mediated. Estrogen and various cytokines exert cross-activating properties, promoting ectopic lesion development, persistence, and progression.
- Despite significant reduction in the rate of open hysterectomy over the last decade, hysterectomy cost continues to be on the rise. This is likely attributed to the introduction of the Da Vinci system and longer OR times of minimally invasive cases.
- Upper micrographs show double immunofluorescent detection of SERT and doublecortin (DCX) in the hippocampus of pSal and pLPS adult female rats.
- Emerging evidence now supports that uterine fibroids may be linked with systemic vascular derangements, including hypertension, preeclampsia, and even atherosclerosis through intricate signaling cascades.
- Photo by JMIG
Hysterectomy start time appears to influence surgical outcomes with afternoon hysterectomies being associated with increased operative blood loss and length of stay but decreased cost.
- Several signaling cascades have been implicated in the vascular pathobiology of uterine fibroid development, chief among them are the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and the hypoxia inducible factor pathway.