Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Laboratory (NHL) at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Waleed Alsalem has achieved the first place at the Professional Achievement Award at the Study UK Alumni Awards 2019. The British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Simon Collis presented yesterday the award to Dr. Alsalem at the Embassy. Dr. Alsalem received this award for the outstanding research in the field of tropical diseases, as well as his work in the assessment of communicable diseases in the Syrian refugees and the refugees of southern Sudan.