University of Buraimi, Institutional Quality Audit, Apr 2016
 
Dr Huda Abu Hamdeh
 

Dr Huda is the Associate Dean of Oman College of Health Sciences (OCHS) – Nursing Program. Before that she was the associate Dean of OCHS North Sharqiyah Branch and was the Dean of Ibra nursing Institute during. Before joining Ibra Nursing Institute in 1994, she worked as the Dean of the Institute of Specialized Nursing Studies and the Executive Director of Primary Health Care Nursing Development Project (Jordan) from 1988 to 1994. She started her career as a nursing tutor at the Jordan College of Nursing in 1976, She received her PhD in Educational Administration in 2000. She also has to her credit an MPH degree in 1988. As the Associate Dean of the Nursing Program at OCHS, Dr. Huda has been providing administrative and academic leadership, and she has been responsible for planning, implementation and evaluation of the program. She is a member of the first five-year OCHS Strategic Plan (2021- 2025) Committee. She served as the Academic Director for the Health Academic management System project (HAMS) from Sept 2015 -Sept 2019. She is a member of the Curriculum Evaluation Committee of the nursing program in the MoH.  She is involved in evaluating the nursing program and restructuring processes. She served in the Central Examination Committee of the nursing institutes for about 12 years in addition to being a member of many other national and regional committees. She served the faculty of Nursing at Sultan Qaboos University as an external examiner from 2008 to 2015. Dr. Huda participated in three institutional audit panels, two Institutional Standards assessment and two as a Review Director with OAAA besides being a member of the review team of the nursing programs offered by private higher education institutions in Oman. She also chaired and participated in the program reviewing teams (nursing) in Bahrain. Dr.Huda is a member of the MoH Research and Ethical Review and Approve Committee. She served as a facilitator of research training programs for Medical Doctors organized by the Oman Medical Specialty Board in 2014 and 2015. She organized research-training programs for health care professionals in the North Sharqiyah governorate. She served as a member of the editorial committee and a manuscript reviewer of the DGET nursing periodical “Nursing Education Oman from 2003 to 2008. Dr. Huda’s specific areas of research are Nursing Education, Curriculum Design & Evaluation, and Nursing Informatics.

 
Dr. Josephine Palermo
 
Dr.  Josephine Palermo is General Manager, Customer Advocacy Capability at Telstra Operations in Melbourne, Australia.  Formerly she was a lecturer in Organisational Psychology at Deakin University. In the last decade, her research and practice activities have included: extensive organisational research and practice in Australian tertiary education and health sectors. Recently she has also been involved in an organisational enhancement and coaching role for the government of the Sultanate of Oman.  She held senior positions at two Australian universities with responsibilities for developing and implementing quality management systems across all aspects of teaching and learning, research and community engagement. These roles also involved extensive: evaluation (including action research); development of plans, policies and procedures; and the development of performance indicator systems  Recent research projects have included investigations into the impact of gendered culture, values and ageing on organisations and people, the influence that values hierarchies have on ethical decision making for early career lawyers; and evaluations of health planning frameworks for the Victorian government. 
 
Ms Mariana Ferrao
 
Marie is Director of Quality Assurance at A`Sharqiyah Unviersity, Oman.  She received her MBA from Newport Business School, Wales.  She has over 14 years’ experience in higher education in Oman and the UK.  Her experience ranges from teaching to administrative roles in academic quality assurance.  She is currently undertaking a PhD with Lancaster University, UK.  Her research interests are in institutional research and quality enhancement.Currently, Marie is an external examiner at the Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman with responsibility for modules in Educational Personnel Development.  She also works as an IELTS auditor for the British Council.  She has previously conducted quality testing for Pitman Training’s Professional Management suite of courses.  Marie is an active member of a number of professional bodies including the Association of University Administrators (AUA), and Middle East and North Africa Association for Institutional Research (MENA AIR).
 
Dr. Nicola Huson
 
Dr. Nicola Huson is currently a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for German Language at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Prior to this Dr. Huson was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nizwa at CAS (Department for Foreign Languages). Previously and for many years she was a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Lecturer & representative in the Middle-East, i.e. at the German Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan, the German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) & the at La Manouba University in Tunisia. Other positions include Head of German; educational consultancy for the German Technical Cooperation (GIZ former GTZ/IS) with the Qatar Supreme Educational Council; PhD programme coordinator at the Bielefeld Graduate School for Economics and Management (BiGSEM), Bielefeld University, coordinating and lecturing in the German language section at the Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus and working as a project manager for staff and organisation development in several EU projects with a German Company (REGE mbH). Dr. Huson holds a PhD and Master Degree in Applied Linguistics (German as a Foreign Language) from Bielefeld University in Germany. She is a member of the International Association of Germanists and has published several papers and attended conferences on Foreign Language Education and Intercultural Competence. 
 
Dr. Serge Herzog
 
Born and raised in Switzerland, Dr. Herzog completed his graduate education in government studies (MA, Georgetown University, Washington, DC) and technology management (PhD, University of Denver,USA). He joined the Emirates Center of Strategic Studies & Research in Abu Dhabi, UAE, as a research associate before moving on to become a consultant for international trade with Texas-based Ost Europa Investment Strategies, Inc. Since 2001, he has served as Director of Institutional Analysis at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA, with a concurrent appointment as statistical consultant for the university’s Center for Research Design & Analysis (CRDA).  Since 2016, he has served as Research Fellow for the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC). He has participated in numerous higher education institutional accreditations and teaches regular higher education workshops and webinars on predictive analytics and data management and reporting in affiliation with Percontor LLC. He is the author of Defense Reform and Technology (Praeger), and chapter contributor to Change and Development in the Gulf (ed. Abbas Abdelkarim; Macmillan). His publications have been covered in the Chronicle of Higher Education, University Business Magazine, Campus Technology Magazine, Research in Higher Education, European Journal of Engineering Education, and New Directions for Institutional Research (NDIR). Most recently, he is co-editor of Methodological Advances and Issues in Studying College Impact. New Directions for Institutional Research(Jossey-Bass), and Validity and Limitations of College Student Self-Report Survey Data, New Directions for Institutional Research (Jossey-Bass). In 2019, he developed the first value-added university ranking system, the College ROI.