Bio of Dr. Lamis Baowaidan
Dr. Lamis Mamdouh Baowaidan is an assistant professor of behavior analysis, the dean of the School of Education, Health, and Behavioral Sciences and chair of the Education Department at Dar Al-Hekma University, Saudi Arabia. She launched the first graduate program in ABA in the Middle East in 2019. In 2016, she became the first Saudi to hold a Ph.D. in Applied Behavior Analysis and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with doctoral designation (BCBA-D®).
She earned her MA and Ph.D. in Applied Behavior Analysis from Columbia University under the direction of professor R. Douglas Greer. She has over 15 years teaching experience with children with and without special needs under the CABAS® model of schooling at the Fred S Keller School, where she also acted as a program supervisor and served as a clinical professor to many graduate students.
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