Dr. Hani Tamim has received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon in 1994. His Masters of Public Health was obtained from Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA in 1995.  In 2003, he finished his PhD from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, after which he enrolled in two year post doctoral fellowship from the University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In 2005, he then took a post at the College of Medicine and King Abdullah International Medical Research Center at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as an assistant professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.   Between 2011 and 2021, he worked at the American University of Beirut as a professor, mainly directing the biostatistics unit at the Clinical Research Institute. Since September 2021, Dr. Tamim has been working at College of Medicine at Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Tamim’s research interests include cancer research, pharmaco-epidemiology, research methodology, case control studies, as well as statistical analyses of epidemiological data.  Dr. Tamim’s publication record exceeds 500 publications and includes different disciplines, such as cancer, surgery, critical care, obstetrics and gynecology, quality of life, nephrology, pediatrics, as well as other methodological papers.  More specifically, his cancer publications are related to the effect of different drugs (antidepressants, antibiotics, warfarin, acid suppressive drugs, etc.) on cancer development (breast cancer, prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, gastric cancer, urogenital cancers, etc.).