Hind ALKAABI

Hind Alkaabi is a 4th-year veterinary medicine student who is passionate about the current involvement of veterinarians to succeed in portraying what One Health is all about. The study of veterinary medicine, to hind, inspired her to dig deep into the fascinating world of immunity, pathology, and animal welfare. Thus, she has and/or is currently engaged in research focusing on camel immunity, tiger fertility, and the host-pathogen interaction of MERS and its different pathogenic courses in humans vs. camels. During her summers, hind enjoys indulging in real-life clinical experiences to enrich her bank of knowledge and thus finds herself almost always in a clinic examining companion animals and shadowing veterinarians in surgeries. In her latest summer, hind spent three weeks in the small town of Charlottetown, Canada, indulging in a pathology experience that allowed her to perform necropsies and provide full reports to the resident veterinarian and pathology professors at the University of Prince Edward’s Island. This experience enriched her knowledge of veterinary practices in North America and how one can acquire a proper postgraduate experience there. The indulgence of hind at UPEI came as an invitation from her pathology professor due to her expressing her interest in the course. Hind is currently engaged in tiger fertility research with an esteemed zoo and looks forward to gaining experience in livestock farming in her upcoming visit to Mleiha Farms. Through her latest research opportunity, Hind focused on understanding tigers on a deeper level. In a way that once one acquires enough knowledge about a species of animals, one becomes well-equipped to venture into helping them. Thus, she will be utilizing her speaker opportunity to connect on a deeper level with the current state of tiger endangerment and how one can help such species to thrive where they are supposed to. She also seeks to indulge in veterinary opportunities that grant her the ability to venture out in the wild and meet people from various backgrounds to help achieve the greater good of mankind.