Merna Airoud

Physician. Born in 1990 in Aleppo, Syria. After graduating from Aleppo University’s Faculty of Medicine, earned her Syrian medical license in 2014. Moved with her husband to Japan in October 2015, where he was conducting pharmaceutical research. Starting from scratch, she passed the N1 level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test in four years. Earned her Japanese medical license in 2022, becoming the first Syrian and second person from an Arab country to do so. She is currently a resident at a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture.