American University of Beirut

Dr. Lama Moussawi is a tenured Professor of Management Science in the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Lama earned her Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2006. She is currently the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development. She served as the director and co-founder of the Center for Inclusive Business and Leadership for Women where she led many U.S.-funded grants focusing on women’s economic empowerment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Her research focuses on developing applications of Operations Research for various business areas including inventory, supply chain, and revenue management. Lama is on the editorial board of many prestigious international journals in the field. Lama’s recent research explores the effects of deploying data analytics to feminist research in areas that promote gender diversity and equity in the MENA region. She has been repeatedly invited as a speaker at several international conferences including the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and Wilson Center’s Middle East Program. She is the founding chair of the Women in Data Science at AUB (WiDS @AUB) conference and serves on the advisory board of WiDS Worldwide.​​​

Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan, MD, MPH, FRCP is tenured Professor of Medicine, Physician-Scientist, at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She obtained her MD degree from AUB, completed clinical training at the New England Deaconess and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and holds a master-degree in Public Health, Clinical Effectiveness concentration, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  Dr El-Hajj Fuleihan is the founding Program Director of the Calcium Metabolism and Osteoporosis Program (CaMOP), WHO Collaborating Center for Metabolic Bone Disorders, and of the Scholars in HeAlth Research Program (SHARP) at AUB.  Her laboratory spearheads clinical trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses, generating evidence on the pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment of hypovitaminosis D, osteoporosis, and other metabolic bone disorders. She Chairs the Lebanese National Task Force for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disorders, and led the launch of FRAX Lebanon on-line calculator. Dr El-Hajj Fuleihan chairs or contributes to position statements, evidence-based clinical care pathways, and Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) of international organizations such as the ASBMR, the Endocrine Society, WHO, the IOF, and ISCD. She ranks amongst the world's top two percent most-cited scientists in her discipline in the updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation ind​icators (Elsevier, 2025 update).  She is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, and the recipient of several prestigious awards. These include the AUB Dean Inaugural Excellence in Research Award, the ISCD John Bilezikian Global Leadership Award, the Endocrine Society International Excellence in Endocrinology Award, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Merit Award.