Dr. Bernard Sagherian	Dr. Shirine Hamadeh
Dr. Muhyeddine Al -Taki	Dr. Mohamad Eloubeidi
Dr. Rana Sharara	Dr. Ali Abu - Alfa
Dr. Hassan Chami	Dr. Mohamed Kharfan - Dabaja
Dr. Joseph Zeaiter
Dr. Thomas Haase	Dr. Tania Kaprealian
Dr. Katherine Yngve	Dr. Firass Abiad
Dr. Camille Beyrouthy	Dr. Roger Moukarbel
Dr. Thomas Kim	Dr. Ramzi Hajjar
Dr. Samir Mallat	Dr. Yaser Abunnasr
Dr. Sam Haselby	Dr. Elie Shammas
Dr. Alexander Hartwiger	Dr. Zakaria Kambris
Dr. William Degenaro	Dr. Michel Kazan
Dr. Robert Habib	Dr. Caroline Nagel
Dr. Marwan Rizk	Dr. William Darley
Dr. Najla Jarkas	Mr. Reza Abedini
Dr. Joseph Nassif	Ms. Miruna Dragan
Dr. Waleed Hazbun	Dr. Courtney Fugate
Dr. Ossama Abbas	Ms. Elke Berger
Ms.  Sally Antoun	Dr. Youssef Nasser
Dr. George Saad	Dr. Danko Taborosi
Dr. Soha Yazbek	Dr. Abdul - Latif Hamdan
Dr. Walid Saad	Ms. Basma Hajri
Mr. Matthew Mosley	Dr. Samir Trabelsi
Dr. Hala Tfayli	Dr. Nagi El Saghir

 

Nagi S. El Saghir is Professor of Clinical Medicine at the American University of Beirut, He received his MD from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium (1978), completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Brooklyn Hospital-Downstate, SUNY in New York (1981), and completed his fellowship in Hematology-Oncology at St. Luke’s- Roosevelt Hospital Center–Columbia University in New York (1983). He is certified by the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology.

 

He is Founding and Past-President of Lebanese Society of Medical Oncology (LSMO), Past-President of the Lebanese Society of Internal Medicine (LSIM), President of Best of ASCO, Chair of Lebanese Society of Medical Oncology Meetings, European School of Oncology (ESO) Breast Cancer Conference, and Pan Arab Cancer Congress (PACC) Scientific Committees and Chair. He is member of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer EORTC Breast Cancer Group, ESMO Developing Countries Task Force. He served as member of ASCO International Committee and ASCO Development and Education Award IDEA working group, ESMO National and Regional Representative Committees. He is Coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the Arab Medical Association Against Cancer (AMAAC) and Euro-Arab School of Oncology (EASO) and is Panel Member and Co-Chair of the Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI).

 

Professor El Saghir has over 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals and focused on new data and particularities of breast cancer in young women in Lebanon and Arab countries and is regularly invited speaker at regional and international conferences. He regularly appears on media programs and press and lectures on breast cancer awareness for women organizations. He is author of the book ABC of Breast Diseases from Prevention to Treatment, in Arabic and. In addition to Editorial Boards of International Journal of Surgery, OncoTargets and Therapy, he is Specialty Editor of The Breast and International Editor of Journal of Clinical Oncology.

 

Doctor Saghir is recipient of many awards including Medal of Honor for Achievements from the President of Lebanon, Cairo University Hospitals Medal of Acknowledgement for Contributions to Cancer Care in the Arab World, Lebanese Order of Physicians, Lebanese Society of Medical Oncology, Lebanese Association for Women rights.

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Dr. Sagherian received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from AUB in 1999. After Graduation, he completed seven years of residency training in Orthopedic Surgery at FM/AUBMC (1999-2007). He subsequently completed a one year fellowships in Foot and Ankle Surgery at the Mayo Clinic Hospital (2007-2008) followed by another year of fellowship in Adult Reconstructive Surgery, again at the Mayo Clinic Hospital (2008-2009).

Dr. Sagherian will be involved in teaching medical students and residents in his area of specialty, and will be seeing patients in the private clinics and OPD.

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Dr. Hala Tfayli will join as Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Pediatric Endocrinology), Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine effective November 15, 2010.   She received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from AUB in 2001. She completed one year internship at AUB (2001-2002),  three years residency training in Pediatrics at Suny Upstate Medical University, Syracuse (2002-2005) and three year fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology (2005-2008), and one year in Obesity/Insulin Resistance (2008-2009) at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Tfayli is Board certified in Pediatrics, and Pediatric Endocrinology. She is currently a Clinical Instructor at University of Pittsburgh Medical School. She will be involved in teaching medical students and residents in her area of specialty, and will be attending patients at AUBMC.

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Dr. Samir Trabelsi is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Brock University. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting from HEC Montreal, M.Sc. in Accounting, and a B.Sc. Admin. (Accounting) from the University of Manouba (ISCAE). He has taught a range of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including Current Issues in Accounting Research, Research Methodology in Accounting, Corporate Governance, Accounting, Accounting Theory, and Intermediate Accounting.

He's was a visiting professor at Grenoble University, Manouba University and at Tunis University.

Dr. Trabelsi is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society of Business. He is also a member of the Certified General Accountants' Association of Canada (CGA)

Dr. Trabelsi’s research interests are in the area of Voluntary Disclosure, Corporate Governance, Islamic Banking, Earning Conservatism, and eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). Dr. Trabelsi won the Best Paper Award at the 2008 Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics (JCAE) and Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (AJPT) Joint Symposium. He received the 2008 Best Paper Award in the Accounting Division at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.

Dr. Trabelsi research is currently supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada through its International Opportunities Fund Program and through its Standard Research Grants Program.

Dr. Trabelsi is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Accounting and the Journal of Theoretical Accounting Research. He's the incoming chair of the 2011 Canadian Academic Accounting Association Conference.

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Basma HIJAZI received the Engineering Diploma in Microelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (France) in 2006. She then earned a Master degree in nanotechnologies from UJF (University Joseph-Fourrier). In 2007, she worked as an R&D engineer in modeling and testing of advanced nano-technologies within the alliance Freescale/NXP/ST. In 2008, she joined the design center at ARM as a consultant Layout-Designer; she was involved in the physical implementation of standard cells and SRAM memories in advanced technologies (45 and 32nm). Basma will join the ECE department at AUB as a Lab instructor.

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Matthew Mosley graduated from Oxford University in 2008 with a Master’s degree in Mathematics and Philosophy. He joined the American University of Beirut as a part-time instructor with the Department of Philosophy in October 2009. Now taking up a full time position, Mosley will be teaching several courses, including Ethics and Philosophical Classics. His academi interests encompass  meta-ethics, post-Kantian philosophy and set theory.

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Dr. Walid Saad joins AUB as an assistant professor starting the fall of 2010. Prior to joining AUB, Walid assumed the position of senior scientist at Merck, New Jersey, USA. For the past four years, he worked on the development of parenteral formulations for drug candidates in the oncology area. While in this role, he provided support for the successful filing and regulatory approval of the brain tumor treatment drug Temozolomide Powder For Injection 100 mg/vial in the US, Canada, and Europe.

Prior to his involvement in the pharmaceutical industry, Walid obtained his Ph.D. in chemical engineering working with Prof. Robert Prud’homme at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. His graduate work focused on the design of novel polymer-based nanoparticle formulations for the controlled delivery of active agents.

Walid also holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota, and a B.S. in chemistry from the Lebanese American University in Beirut. 

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Soha N. Yazbek obtained her BS in Medical Laboratory Sciences from AUB with a minor in public health, her masters in Molecular Biology from LAU and his recently graduated with a PH.D in Genetics from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, USA. Dr. Yazbek’s PH.D research has focused upon elucidating the complex genetics of diet-induced obesity and type 2 diabetes. She was also involved in identifying the rate of misdiagnosis of yeast infections and its impact on public health in Lebanon. She has published her work in journal of human molecular genetics, obesity, and genome research among others. She will be involved in teaching and in developing a research project to address public health concerns about the growing numbers of diabetics and obese in Lebanon and the Arabic region

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Dr. Abdul-Latif Hamdan received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine (AUBFM) in 1987. After graduation, he completed one year of internship in General Surgery (1987-1988), one year of residency training in General Surgery (1988-1989) and two years of residency training in the Department of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery (1990-1992) at AUB. He completed one year of fellowship training in otolaryngology with a subspecialty in the Voice Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee (1992-1993). Dr. Hamdan was appointed as instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery (AUBFM) in July 1993, promoted to Clinical Assistant Professor in 1995, and to Clinical Associate Professor in 2002.  He is the founding director of the Hamdan Voice Center at AUB since July 2010.

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Dr. Taboroši is an earth scientist specializing in carbonate geology, karst processes, and coastal and island geomorphology and hydrology. Having received his Bachelor degrees in geology and marine biology at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, he moved to the western Pacific and completed his Masters degree at the University of Guam. Fully funded by the Japanese Ministry of Science and Education, he earned his doctorate in Earth Science at Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan). Before joining AUB geology department, Dr. Taboroši directed Island Research & Education Initiative (IREI), a cultural and environmental conservation NGO based in Micronesia.

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Dr. Saad is a Structural engineer with extensive expertise in the areas of numerical modeling and simulations, risk analysis, and data assimilation with applications in the fields of seismic and port engineering. He currently serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the American University of Beirut.  
Prior to joining AUB, Dr. Saad worked as an Engineering Consultant with Moffatt & Nichol Engineers at their USA Headquarters. At Moffatt Nichol, Dr. Saad played integral roles in the development and design of monumental engineering projects in different parts of the world. These include: the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Seismic Safety Project and the first fully automatable container terminal in the Middle East, The Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi, UAE. 
Dr. Saad holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; an M.E. in Civil Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and a B.E. in Civil Engineering from the Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon. He is also a licensed civil engineer in the state of California. 
His academic achievements and professional experience have driven him to world-renowned conferences and professional journals, speaking, writing and discussing several areas of interest.

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Youssef Nasser obtained his Masters and PhD degrees in Signal Processing and Communications from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (France) in 2003 and 2006 respectively. In 2003, he joined the Laboratory of Electronics and Information Technologies (Laboratoire d'Elctronique et de Technologies de l'Information -LETI) in Grenoble where he worked on the B3G and 4G systems. Since 2007, he is working as a senior research engineer/assistant professor with the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes. He has published more than 35 papers in international journals and conferences. He was a coordinator of 3 European projects on cooperative networks, broadcasting systems, and cross layer design. He was involved in DVB standardisation processes, namely DVB-T2 and DVB-NGH. His interests concern the radio mobile communications systems, broadcasting systems, multi carrier techniques, spread spectrum techniques, synchronisation, and iterative receivers. He is an active TPC member of different IEEE conferences like ICC, GlobeCom, SPAWC, MC-SS, ISWPC, ICSPCS... He is  a guest editor-in-chief of  many international journals and a co-organizer of IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT) which will hold in Beirut, in 2012

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Elke Berger is a landscape architect who graduated from the Technical University of Munich, Germany in 1991. Before starting her own landscape architecture studio in Munich in 2008, Ms. Berger was employed by WGF Landscape Architects, Nuernberg, Germany. Subsequently she worked a senior landscape architect and later as a principal at Sasaki Associates in Boston, USA, where she was involved with a wide range of project types both nationally and internationally.
During her five years work period in the US her focus has oriented towards the dry landscapes of the Mediterranean Realm and the Middle East. Ms. Berger was involved with various planning and design projects in Greece, Lebanon, Egypt and Abu Dhabi.
Ms. Berger’s  interest lies in creating a livable, functioning alliance between sustainability and contemporary project design on the basis of the thorough evaluation of the natural and cultural characteristics of a site. Since 2003 Ms. Berger has been teaching at various universities in the US and in Germany.

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Courtney Fugate is an Assistant Professor in the Civilization Sequence Program. After studies in Physics and Mathematics at the University of Evansville, Courtney received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, where he held a Fellowship position from 2001-2005. From 2007-2010 he served as a Mellon Teaching Fellow Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Courtney’s research interests include
Metaphysics, Ancient, and Early Modern Philosophy, with a focus on German Idealism and the work of Immanuel Kant.

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Reza Abedini got his diploma in visual arts from The School of Fine Arts in Tehran (1985) and then continued his studies in painting and fine arts and in 1989 graduated from Art University of Tehran. From then on he has been working as a designer, teacher and researcher in the field of Typography, Graphic Design and visual arts in general.Among the books that have been published on his works are Design and Designer (Reza Abedini), 2004 and Vision of Design (Reza Abedini), 2007.

He is also the author and the designer of The Prophet (Jibran Khalil Jibran), 1997;
The Art of Print, 2000; and New Visual Culture of Modern Iran (with Hans Wolbers), 2006
Since 1996 he has been teaching in different universities and colleges in Iran and abroad including the University of Tehran , Guest lecturer in KABK( Royal Academy of Arts - The Netherlands ),  Tehran university of Art, and VCUQ Virginia commonwealth university - Qatar .
Abedini’s professional focus of attention is Persian and Arabic script and Typography and has had numerous lectures and articles on the subject. One of his recent activities in these fields is launching a research group called Dabire which has published its first issue of quarterly in summer 2010 with the same title (Dabire) covering subjects of script, language, writing and designing Persian- Arabic types and letters.

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Miruna Dragan is a Romanian-American visual artist with an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2001). Dragan has attended residencies at Skowhegan, Vermont Studio Center, Art Farm, and The Banff Centre and has exhibited in the US, The Netherlands, Romania, Germany, Mexico, Greece, and Canada. Her professional experience includes teaching appointments in the US, Mexico, Ghana, Austria and The Netherlands. During her residence in Holland from 2004 – 2009, Miruna also engaged in assorted freelance projects and was PR & Production Coordinator for Amsterdam-based foundation Agentur, an international platform for contemporary artists and curators. Dragan is currently based in Calgary and has been granted a Professional Leave of Absence from the Drawing Program at the Alberta College of Art + Design in order to join the Art Department at AUB.

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Professor Darley holds an MBA from University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. from Indiana University in the United States. Until recently, he was the Director of Business Studies at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. Before that, Dr. Darley was a Full Professor of Marketing at The University of Toledo in Ohio, USA. His teaching interests include Marketing Management, Advertising Strategy, Marketing Research, Direct Marketing, Integrated Marketing Consumer Behavior, and Strategic Marketing & Analysis. His research focuses on Consumer Response to Marketing Communications, Advertising Creativity, and Strategic Use of Marketing Information to Manage Relationships with Customers. Dr. Darley’s work has appeared in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Marketing Science, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Advertising, and elsewhere. Professor Darley serves on three editorial review boards and is a member of American Marketing Association, Academy of Marketing Science, and Beta Gamma Sigma.

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Michel Kazan is a physicist specialized in the fundamental physics of the elementary excitations in the condensed matter.

Michel Kazan received his Master degree in 2003 and his PhD degree in 2006 from the University of Montpellier II. After his study in Montpellier, Michel Kazan worked one year as a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Aix Marseille. After which he was appointed associate researcher at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. In 2009 Michel Kazan joined the University of Technology of Troyes as a visiting scientist and in 2010 he was appointed assistant professor at this same University and at the laboratory of nanotechnology and optical instrumentation, which is a laboratory associated to the French Commissionership to Atomic Energy.

Kazan’s research work focuses on the dynamics of the heat carriers in the materials. He hopes to design a thermoelectric structure that can efficiently convert the waste heat into electrical energy. Such a structure would play an important role in our current challenge to reduce our dependence on fossil fuel.

Michel Kazan will be involved in teaching, in enhancing the far field optical characterization, and in developing a near field optical microscope in AUB for probing the material physical properties at the nanoscale

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Caroline Nagel is a Fulbright scholar in AUB's Department of Political Studies and Public Administration.  She received her BA in Political Science and Latin American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and her PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder.  She is on the faculty of the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina.  Her fields of interest include international migration, diasporic identities, citizenship and urban space, and she has done extensive research on Arab immigrant activists in the United States and Britain.  She recently received a grant (with Patricia Ehrkamp, University of South Carolina) from the National Science Foundation (USA) to study immigrant faith communities in the American South.  Her Fulbright research is to focus on public spaces and the renovation of religious buildings in Lebanon.  She has published her work in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Citizenship Studies, The Professional Geographer, Environment and Planning, among others.  She also co-edited with Ghazi-Walid Falah Geographies of Muslim Women (2005, Guilford Press).  She sits on the editorial boards of Political Geography and the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.  She was previously based at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom.

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Zakaria Kambris obtained his Ph.D. in 2002 from the Louis Pasteur  University (Strasbourg, France) where he studied Hox genes function  during Drosophila embryogenesis. After this, he worked as  postdoctoral fellow at CNRS (France) to analyze the Drosophila immune  response. In 2006, he joined the University of Oxford (UK) for  another postdoctoral fellowship aimed at investigating the  utilisation of symbiotic bacteria as a tool for the control of  mosquito-borne disease.He is currently interested in host-pathogen  interactions. He proposes to utilize the fruit fly Drosophila  melanogaster as a model to study the effects of endosymbiotic  bacteria on their host, in particular on the immune response to other  pathogens.

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Elie Shammas graduated from the American University of Beirut with a B.E. degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1999. Then under the guidance of professors Howie M. Choset and Alfred A. Rizzi he acquired a project-work Masters of Science and Ph.D from the Mechanical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University in May 2001 and March 2006, respectively. Since graduating, Elie worked in a start-up company developing shape-controllable deployable structures that utilize the tensegrity
framework and he worked as a postdoc fellow in the Radiology department in the University of California, San Diego where he constructed a robotic workstation for automated breast cancer tomography using ultrasound imaging.
Since 2007, Elie has been working as a research and development engineer in Romer, Hexagon where he develops kinematic calibration algorithms of high accuracy portable coordinate measuring machines. Moreover, since August of 2008 Elie has been teaching a graduate and senior level controls courses in the Mechanical Engineering Department at San Diego State University.

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Yaser Abunnasr holds a degree of Architecture from the American University of Beirut (1989), Landscape Architecture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2007) and he is a PhD candidate in Regional planning from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (expected 2012).
He is a Fulbright scholar and comes to the Department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management as a Visiting Assistant Professor with extensive professional experience in design and planning of urban and rural landscapes. His range of teaching spans design studios, history of landscape architecture, and contemporary theory of landscape architecture
His research interests focus on two areas: the incorporation of historic, archaeological and cultural landscapes into the daily life of people and urban green infrastructure as a tool for climate change adaptation and mitigation. In both areas, the focus is on patterns of the built and un-built across scales and contexts that bridge cultural and natural systems.  

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Dr. Moukarbel received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from AUB in 1999. He then completed one year of internship in Surgery (1999-2000), and four years of residency training in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery at FM/AUBMC (2000-2004). Following that, he pursued a two year clinical fellowship in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology (2005-2007) at the Princess Margaret Hospital, UHN, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine followed by a 6 month research fellowship in Head and Neck Oncology at the University of Western Ontario, London Regional Cancer Center (2007). Dr Moukarbel also completed a one year and a half clinical fellowship in Head and Neck Oncology and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery (2008-2009), and one year clinical fellowship in Facial Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Western Ontario (2009-2010).

Dr Moukarbel’s research interests revolve around microvascular free tissue transfer and facial reconstructive surgery in addition to oncologic and functional quality of life outcomes following head and neck cancer surgery.  He has over 18 publications in his field in peer reviewed journals.

Dr Moukarbel will be involved in teaching and training medical students and residents in Head and Neck Surgery, in addition to his clinical duties.

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Dr. Ramzi Hajjar will be joining AUB as Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Geriatrics) effective October 1, 2010. He completed his undergraduate studies at AUB in 1986, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from St. Louis University in Missouri in 1991, where he also completed his residency training in Internal Medicine in 1994 and his fellowship in Geriatrics in 1997. Dr. Hajjar is board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Hospice/Palliative Medicine.  He is also a certified Nutrition specialist and carries advanced certification as a Medical Director. Dr. Hajjar was appointed as Clinical Instructor at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, Attending Physician and Medical Director of Subacute Care at Bay Pines VA Medical Center (1997-2003), Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of South Florida, Tampa (2001-2003), Director of Long-term Care and Clinical Attending at St. Louis VA Medical Center (January 2004 till present), and as an Associate Professor of Medicine at St. Louis University School of Medicine (January 2004 till present). Dr. Hajjar is a reviewer, and on the editorial board, of several professional journals, and has authored over thirty peer-reviewed articles and ten book chapters. Over the past three years Dr. Hajjar has created a virtual organization aimed at disseminating evidence-based standards of care for geriatrics in Lebanon, and promoting public and professional awareness to the needs of the elderly and the promise of the specialty. Dr. Hajjar will be involved in the teaching of medical students, residents, and fellows in his area of specialty, and will be involved in the research activities, as well as in clinical activities of the department through his out-patient and in-patient clinical practice.

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Dr. Firass Abiad was appointed as Instructor of Clinical Surgery (General Surgery) effective August 1, 2010. Dr. Abiad received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the American University of Beirut in 1993. Following graduation, he completed his residency training in General Surgery at FM/AUBMC (1993-1998), followed by two years of higher surgical training in General, Vascular and GI Surgery at Watford and Mount-Vernon General Hospitals, London (1998-2000), and a fellowship in Laparoscopic Surgery at the University of Tennessee (2000-2001). Dr. Abiad has been in private practice in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon since his graduation, and has served as an attending surgeon at RHUH (2008-present), and as a faculty member at the Lebanese University (2009-present). Dr. Abiad will be involved in the teaching of medical students and residents, as well as in the clinical and research activities of the department.

 

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Dr. Tania Kaprealian will be appointed as Instructor of Clinical Radiation Oncology effective September 1, 2010. Dr. Kaprealian received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of California in 2004. Following graduation, she completed four years of residency training in Radiation Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine (2006-2010). Dr. Kaprealian will be involved in the teaching of residents, as well as in the clinical and research activities of the department..

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Dr. Mohamed Kharfan Dabaja will join AUB as Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) as of September 1, 2010. Dr. Kharfan Dabaja received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the American University of Beirut in 1995. Following graduation, he completed one year of internship at AUBMC (1995-1996), three years of residency training in Internal Medicine at the Good Samaritan Hospital of Maryland (1996-1999) and three years of fellowship in Hematology and Medical Oncology at the University of Miamai/ Jackson Memorial Hospital and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (1999-2002). Dr. Kharfan Dabaja was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and Veterans Affairs Medical Center in 2002 and Assistant Professor at H. Lee  Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Insitute at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in 2005 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008. He served as the Director of Blood and Marrow Transplantation Fellowship Program in 2009. Dr. Kharfan Dabaja's name appears on 49 publications; 41 of which are peer-reviewed and 8 chapters/ monographs, with an excellent academic and administrative record. Dr. Kharfan Dabaja is interested in developing clinical trials in the field of reduced intensity conditioning stem cell transplantation for chronic lymphocytic leukemias and low grade lymphomas. He is also interested in evaluating cancer vaccines in the setting of autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation. He will be involved in teaching, research and clinical activities of the Department of Internal Medicine and the Division of Hematology-Oncology. Dr. Kharfan Dabaja has been granted the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Award in 2009, and he serves as a member for several professional societies and an ad-hoc reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals.

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Dr. Ali Abu-Alfa will join AUB as Professor of Medicine (Division of Nephrology and Hypertension) effective October 1, 2010. Dr. Abu-Alfa received his Bachelor of Sciences (Mathematics) and the degree of Doctor of Medicine from AUB in 1985. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School in 1990 and then completed his fellowship in Nephrology at the Yale School of Medicine in 1993. Dr. Abu-Alfa was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale in 1995 andwas promoted to Associate Professor in 2001. He is the Director of thePeritoneal Dialysis Program, Associate Medical Director for Outpatient
Dialysis, and Director of Clinical Trials in Nephrology at the Yale School of Medicine. He is the co-president for the North American Chapter of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis and is a member of the Dialysis Advisory Group for the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Abu-Alfa is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology by ABIM, and is certified as a Specialist in Clinical Hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension.

Dr Abu-Alfa's clinical and research interests are in the areas of Peritoneal Dialysis; Chronic Kidney Disease, focusing on CKD-MBD and anemia; Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis and Gadolinium Based Contrast Agents, focusing on policy and patient safety; and cancer-related kidney disorders. He had been quite involved and maintains an active interest in medical informational technology, including database design for clinical research and clinical care projects.

Dr. Abu-Alfa's is a member of many American and International societies and has many publications in his fields of interest. He will be leading the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at AUB, focusing on expanding and enhancing the outpatient and inpatient clinical services of the division, as well as actively participating and contributing to the academic, teaching and research missions. He will also be intimately involved in the clinical research activities and at AUB.

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Dr. Mohamad Eloubeidi will be appointed as Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology) on September 1, 2010. Dr. Eloubeidi received the degree of Doctor of Medicine with Distinction from the American University of Beirut in 1993, and Master of Health Sciences in Clinical Research from Duke University Medical Center in 1998. Dr. Eloubeidi completed 3 years internship and residency training in Internal Medicine (1993-1996), and 3 years fellowship in Gastroenterology at Duke University Medical Center (1996-1999), during which he served as fellow in health services research at Durham VA Medical Center (1996-1998). He then did one year fellowship in Endoscopic Ultrasound at Medical University of South Carolina (1999-2000), and another year of fellowship in Advanced Biliary Endoscopy at Duke University Medical Center (2007-2008). Dr. Eloubeidi was appointed as Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama in 2000, and promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine with tenure in 2004. He was also appointed Assistant Professor of Anatomic Pathology at the University of Alabama since 2002. Dr. Eloubeidi has served as Associate Scientist at the Experimental Therapeutic Committee Comprehensive Cancer Center, as Scientist at the Center for outcomes and effectiveness research and education, and as Associate Scholar at Lister Hill Center for Health Policy at the University of Alabama since 2000. He has been also serving as Director of Endoscopic Ultrasound Program since 2000, and as Co-Director of Pancreaticobiliary Center at the University of Alabama since 2002.  Dr. Eloubeidi is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, with subspecialty in Gastroenterology, and licensed by the Alabama Medical Board. Dr. Eloubeidi's name appeared on 136 journal publications; 86 as senior author and 17 as second author. He has 114 original articles, 12 case reports, 3 letters and 7 reviews.   His adjusted Impact Factor score/yr[1]<https://imail.aub.edu.lb/imp/message.php?mailbox=INBOX&index=469#_ftn1>  is 27.5. Total citations amount to 2,636 and his H -index is 30. Dr. Eloubeidi will be involved in the teaching of gastroenterology to Medicine III and IV students through their clinical rotations, and will be teaching gastroenterology, endoscopic ultrasound, and biliary endoscopy to Internal Medicine residents and GI fellows. Dr. Eloubeidi will be seeing patients in the private clinic and OPD, and will be performing endoscopic, endoscopic ultrasound, and advanced biliary endoscopic procedures, and will be having admitting privileges to AUBMC and its affiliated hospitals and medical center

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Dr. Muhieddine El-Taki joined AUB as Instructor of Clinical Surgery (Orthopedic Surgery) on July 1, 2010. He received the degree of doctor of medicine from AUB in 1999. After which, he completed seven years of residency training in Orthopedic Surgery at FM/AUBMC (1999-2006), followed by six month of clinical fellowship in Orthopedic Trauma Surgery at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK (Jul-Dec 2006), one year of clinical fellowship in Adult Lower Extremity Reconstruction at the University of Toronto (Jan-Dec 2007), one year clinical fellowship in Lower Limb Reconstruction at the University of British Columbia (Jan-Dec 2008), six months of clinical fellowship in Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy at the University of Toronto (Jan-Jun 2009), and one year of clinical fellowship in Arthroscopy and Athletic Injuries at the University of British Columbia (Jul 2009-June 2010). Dr. El-Taki will be involved in teaching medical students and residents in his area of specialties, and will be seeing patients in his private clinic and OPD.

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Dr. Rana Sharara-Chami will join AUB as Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine effective September 1, 2010. She received the degree of doctor of medicine from AUB in 2001. After which, she completed her residency training in Pediatrics at North Carolina Children’s Hospital (2001-2004), and her fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Children’s Hospital-Boston (2004-2007). Dr. Sharara-Chami is Board certified in Pediatrics and in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Sharara-Chami is currently an Assistant in Critical Care Medicine at Children’s Hospital, Boston, and an Instructor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dr. Sharara-Chami will be involved in teaching medical students and residents in her area of specialty, in addition to her clinical duties in the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. .

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Dr. Chami received his B.Sc. in Chemistry in 1996 and his M.D.  degree in 2000 from AUB. He completed an internship in Internal  Medicine at AUB then moved to the United States where he completed  his three years of Internal Medicine residency training at Duke  University (2001-2004) followed by three years of fellowship in  Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Boston University  (2004-2007). Dr. Chami is American Board-certified in Internal  Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep  Medicine. He is also trained in advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy.  After finishing his training, he joined the faculty at Boston  University School of Medicine and was appointed Assistant Professor  of Medicine. He was also Staff Physician and Director of  Bronchoscopy at the Boston Veterans Administration Medical   Center.  In addition, Dr. Chami was appointed as Lecturer at Harvard Medical  School.

During fellowship, Dr. Chami joined the clinical investigator track  and earned a Masters degree in Epidemiology from Boston University  School of Public Health in 2007. His main research interest is in  the epidemiology of sleep-disordered breathing through his  involvement in the Sleep Heart Health Study and the Framingham Heart  Study. He also designed and conducted clinical trials in chronic  obstructive lung disease and in novel therapeutic devices for sleep  apnea. He has published several original investigations in  prestigious journals in addition to several reviews and a book  chapter.

Dr Chami joins the Pulmonary and Critical Care group practice at AUB  and will be seeing patients in his private clinic and OPD. He will  start the first endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) program at AUB. His  clinical duties in the Pulmonary Division will include the Intensive  Care Unit, the Respiratory Care Unit, the Endoscopy/Bronchosopy  Unit, and the Sleep Unit. Dr. Chami will also be involved in the  Pulmonary fellowship training program and curricular teaching of  students and residents. He will continue to develop his clinical and  epidemiological research interests.

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Dr Joseph Zeaiter joins AUB with eight years of industrial experience in the Petrochemical/Oil & Gas industrial sector. He worked on numerous projects in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East.
Joseph started his tertiary education at the Lebanese University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Chemistry (Maitrise). He then emigrated   to Australia where he completed his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering with a first-class honors at the University of Sydney. He was awarded the "Australian Postgraduate Award" Scholarship in recognition of his academic achievements and completed his Doctorate degree at the University of Sydney. His research was on the application of Advanced Model Predictive Control to polymerisation reactors and he published fourteen journal  and international conference papers.   
After completing his PhD, Joseph worked as a research fellow at the University of Sydney where he taught undergraduate students and supervised a number of PhD students. He then joined Invensys as an Advanced Process Control lead engineer/senior consultant where he spent nearly seven years. Joseph also worked as a senior consultant on several industrial R&D projects with Process Systems Enterprise in London.
Joseph's teaching interests are in process modeling, control and optimisation. His research interests are in Energy, Biofuel and Thermolysis of plastics to liquid fuel.  

 

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  Tom Haase received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs in 2009. Dr. Haase’s research explores the nexus between public administration and international security, and he is currently interested in understanding the extent to which, administrative adaptation can facilitate community resilience. His dissertation investigated the emergence and evolution of the Indonesian response network that formed after the Great Sumatran Earthquake and Tsunami of 26 December 2004. Dr. Haase previously served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he taught courses in administrative law, public policy, international peacekeeping and global governance. As an undergraduate, he studied history and political science, and received his BA from Chadron State College in 1998. Dr. Haase also received his JD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2001.

 

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  Dr. Camille Beyrouthy completed a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Combinatorics at the University of Nottingham, in 2007, where he worked as a postDoc . Dr. Beyrouthy has more then 10 publications in the field. He has also completed a masters in algorithms at London Univeristy and a masters in applied Mathematics at Oxford University in the UK. Currently his research interests are centered around pricing and analysing trading strategies centered around complex financial derivatives. He has published more then 15 articles on risk and profits of highly profitable Swap trading strategies.
Dr. Beyrouthy previously worked in London and New York, and is currently consulting for HSBC in London, leading a team that prices options and Bond derivatives for the swap desk.

 

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Katherine Yngve has worked as an International Education professional since 1990, at Northwestern University, Macalester College and, most recently at SIT Study Abroad, a division of World Learning, where she managed a nine-state region as Midwest University Relations Manager.

A NAFSA member since 1985, Ms. Yngve has served the international education profession as a former co-manager of the SECUSS-L listserv, and through participation on the Region IV Team as liaison to the Teaching, Learning and Scholarship Knowledge Community. She has also served on the National Advisory Council for the Butler Institute for Study Abroad, taught intercultural competence and language learning skills via distance education methods to study abroad students as part of the ground-breaking Maximizing Study Abroad project at the University of Minnesota,and co-authored a chapter in the NAFSA Guide to Education Abroad (3rd edition).

Ms. Yngve holds a B.A. in French and Near Eastern Studies from Indiana University, an M.A. in Higher Education from the University of Chicago, and is a doctoral candidate in Comparative International and Development Education at the University of Minnesota. The title of her dissertation is "Pursuing an 'Impossible Dream': Factors influencing the decision to study abroad for US undergraduates in the Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics." Immediately prior to moving to Beirut in early August, she became qualified as a certified intercultural trainer and administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory.

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Dr. Thomas Kim brings a dynamic conducting style and years of experience as a choral music educator to this position. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts in the Performance and Literature of Choral Music from the University of Colorado, his Master of Music in Choral Conducting at the University of Wisconsin, and his undergraduate degree from Vassar College. He has served on the faculties of Smith College and Rowan University as well as on the faculty of the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. While in the Boston area he was Assistant Conductor of the Harvard Glee Club.

Dr. Kim’s recent major performances include Handel’s Messiah with the Santa Fe Orchestra and Chorale, Fauré’s Requiem with the Smith College Choir and the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club, and Mozart’s Requiem with the Rowan University Concert Choir and Orchestra.  Dr. Kim’s research interests include Eastern European choral music as well as American gospel music.

 

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Dr. Mallat graduated with an M.D. degree in 1982 from Saint Joseph University, Beirut. He is a US-trained and American Board-certified internist and nephrologist, having completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in nephrology (1982-1987) at St. Luke Roosevelt Hospital in New York, affiliated with Columbia University. In 1987, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. In 1991, he returned to Beirut as full-time physician at the University Hospital of Hôtel Dieu de France, affiliated with St. Joseph University. In 2004, he was promoted to Associate Professor.

For over 12 years, Dr. Mallat has been Head of the Nephrology Division at Hôtel Dieu and he is credited with expanding the hemodialysis unit to be one of the largest in Lebanon, creating the leading peritoneal dialysis program in the country, and developing a renal transplantation program that acquired national reputation. Dr. Mallat has been intimately involved in teaching medical students and clinical training of post-graduate Nephrology fellows. He has been engaged in many leadership activities in Nephrology in Lebanon and the region. His involvement in clinical research and his continuing publication record reflect a breadth of scholarly interests in a host of renal topics. He is certified by the American Society of Hypertension as 'Specialist in Clinical Hypertension' and is member of many professional and academic societies, including Fellow of the American College of Physicians and Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology.

Dr. Mallat joins the Nephrology group practice at the AUB Medical Center and will be seeing patients in his private clinic and OPD. He will be also involved in teaching and training of students, residents, and nephrology fellows and will be engaged in clinical research.

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Sam Haselby is a historian of eighteenth and nineteenth century American political culture. His primary scholarly interests include nationalism, religion, and literature. He received his Phd from Columbia University, where he taught in Columbia's Great Books program. He has also taught at Eugene Lang College at the New School University, in New York City, and at the Bard Prison Initiative, in upstate New York.

He came to AUB from Harvard University, where he was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.  Dr. Haselby recently completed a book on the early history of American nationalism. _The Origins of American Religious Nationalism, 1776-1832_, shows how a contest within American Protestantism, a contest between popular religious movements and powerful bourgeois missionary groups, reshaped American nationalism.

In the past year, he has published articles in The Boston Globe and the International Herald Tribune.
 

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Alexander Hartwiger received his PhD in 2010 from the University of NorthCarolina at Greensboro.  His research centers on postcolonial studies,contemporary global literature, and critical pedagogy.  He has two forthcoming articles, including “Locating Difference: What a Cosmopolitan Pedagogy Offers Human Rights Discourse” for the MLA teaching series on human rights literature and pedagogy.  His current project explores the emergence of the unhomely cosmopolitan in contemporary world literature.

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William DeGenaro is a Fulbright Scholar in AUB's English Department during academic year 2010-2011.  He received his PhD from the University of Arizona's Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English program in 2002 and is a faculty member at the University of Michigan Dearborn.  William's research centers on discourses of social class, composition pedagogy, and the intersections of theories of empathy and theories of civic engagement.  Publications include Who Says?: Working Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness, and Community (The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), "The New Deal: Burkean Identification and Working-Class Poetics" (Rhetoric Review, 2007), and "The Affective Dimensions of Service Learning" (Reflections: A Journal of Community Literacy and Service Learning, forthcoming).

 

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Dr. Robert Habib has been appointed as Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, and Director of Outcomes Research Unit of the Clinical Research Institute at the Faculty of Medicine effective April 16, 2010. 

 

Dr. Robert Habib received his BS in Biology from the American University of Beirut in 1984, his Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University in 1989, and Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies: Engineering and Physiology from Boston University in 1993.  His postdoctoral training included a two-year fellowship in the Section of Critical Care and Applied Physiology in the Department of Pediatrics, Yale University - School of Medicine, after which he was appointed Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Laboratory for Pediatric Critical Care Research at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 1996. In 1998, he was appointed Director of the Cardiovascular & Pulmonary Research at Regional Heart and Vascular Center at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio. Since 2007, Dr. Habib has also held the titles of Associate Director of the Research Institute and Director of the Clinical Outcomes and Quality Program at Yvonne Viens SGM Research Institute at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center. He has held academic affiliations with the University of Toledo-College of Medicine since 1998.

 

Dr. Habib's research interest revolves around cardiovascular and pulmonary clinical outcomes research. His projects have been successfully funded by governmental US grants as well as grants from the Duke Clinical Research Institute and several foundations, including the Whitaker Foundation, and other technology company grants. His work is published in 86 journal publications; 61 as senior author and most as original articles published in peer reviewed, upper 25^th percentile journals in his field. His H-index is 19 and his adjusted Impact Factor score/yr is 17.6.

Dr Habib will be in charge of developing an outcomes research program at AUBMC, software programs to support clinical and research databases and registries, and establishing quality assurance programs using such databases and registries. He will also partake in various activities of the Clinical Research Institute, the Human Research Protection Program, and will be closely involved in the operations of the Research Education Unit, including didactic and hands on-training of students, faculty and staff, in skills needed for the conduct of outcomes research.

 

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Dr. Marwan Rizk received the degree of doctor of medicine from Saint Joseph University, Beirut (1990-1997). After which, he did an internship in Obstetrics and Gynecology (1997-1998), and completed his residency training in Anesthesiology at FM/AUBMC (1998-2002), and spent three months in advanced training in Pain Management and Regional Anesthesia at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He completed his Masters degree in Hospital Management at Paris 7 Denis Dideron in 2008, and is certified by the Arab Board of Medical Specialties in Anesthesiology and Critical Care.

Dr. Rizk has been appointed at Saint Joseph Hospital as attending physician from January 2003, and as Vice Medical Director of the same hospital since April 2006 and until May 2010.

Dr. Rizk will be involved in teaching medical students and residents in his area of specialty, in addition to his clinical duties as part of Anesthesiology group practice. 

   

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Dr. Joseph Nassif received the degree of doctor of medicine from St. Joseph University-Beirut in 2003. After which, he got a University Diploma in digestive and laparoscopic surgery from the same University.Then, he completed his residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology (2003-2008) in St. Joseph University-Beirut, and started a fellowship in Gynecological Laparoscopic Surgery in IRCAD/EITS ( European Institute for Telesurgery) - Strasbourg, France. Also he had obtained a medical education University diploma from Strasbourg University and a Masters in Biological Sciences from St Joseph University in Beirut.
Dr. Nassif is currently a Senior fellow in Gynecological Laparoscopic Surgery in IRCAD/EITS - Strasbourg, and doing an MBA in hospital and health care systems management, and will complete them in October 2010.
 

 

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  Waleed Hazbun earned a BA from Princeton University in 1990 and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2002 to 2010 he was assistant professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He has also served on the editorial committee of Middle East Report. In 2007, Dr. Hazbun served as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration (PSPA) at the American University of Beirut. He is returning in Fall 2010 to join the faculty of AUB, his father’s alma mater, on a long-term basis. In relocating to AUB he hopes to develop his research and teaching interests that include international relations, theory, the political economy of international tourism, and the political geography of the Middle East and North Africa. He is the author of Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). He has also written about the history of Thomas Cook & Son in Egypt and the politics of tourism and modernity from a postcolonial perspective. Beyond tourism, Hazbun’s writings address the geopolitics of insecurity in the Arab world, Thomas Friedman’s writing about globalization in the Arab world, and the influence of modernization theory, culture, and identity on US foreign policy. His second book project is tentatively titled A Critical Geopolitics of the Middle East: Modernity, Culture, Agency.

 

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Dr. Abbas received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the American University of Beirut in 2004. Following graduation, he completed one year of internship in Internal Medicine (2004-2005), followed by one year of research fellowship at the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care in the Department of Internal Medicine (2005-2006). After which he subsequently completed his residency training in Dermatology at FM/AUBMC (2006-2009), he then completed one year fellowship in Dermatopathology at Boston University (2009-2010).

Dr. Abbas's name appeared on 37 publications and 2 book chapters, of which he is the first author on 22 of them. Dr. Abbas research interest is in clinical dermatology and dermatopathology fields. He will be involved in the teaching of medical students and residents, as well as in the clinical and research activities of the department. 

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Shirine Hamadeh is associate professor in the department of Art History at Rice University. She completed her Ph.D. at MIT, in 1999, in History, Theory and Criticism. She is the author of The City’s Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century(Seattle and London: The University of Washington Press,2007), which appeared in Turkish translation in 2010. She has published in 'Muqarnas,
TheJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians* and various edited volumes, and is currently developing two book projects: Streets: An Urban History of Istanbul (1703-1839) and *Urban Histories: Cities and Citizens of the Ottoman Empire (17th-20th Centuries), a co-edited volume to be submitted for publication in Fall 2011. She is the recipient of several awards including the Getty Research Foundation Grant in 2005-06 and the NEH-ARIT Fellowship in 2010. Her areas of interest are in eighteenth- to early twentieth-century Ottoman and Mediterranean cities, particularly in experiences of modernity, public culture, and the underworld. Her other area of interest is in early modern artistic encounters and cultural exchange around the Mediterranean.

 

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Sally received her BE and ME degrees both in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Her area of research includes Microelectromechanical systems, machine health diagnosis, structural health monitoring, control systems and instrumentation.

Miss Antoun is the recipient of the Abdul Hadi Debs Award for academic excellence; she graduated with Distinction, and was placed on the Dean’s Honor List for many terms. Miss Antoun was elected as the president of the Engineering Student Graduate Committee for two consecutive years.

 

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Dr. Najla Jarkas received her PhD in 1991 from the University of Reading where she had also earned her MA in the field of the Literary Response to the Visual Arts: 1840-1950. Her research interests include Modernism, the Literary Fantastic, Children’s Literature as well as Literary Nonsense. She was awarded a Fulbright post doctorate scholarship at Yale, where she did research on T.S. Eliot and H.D. She has taught at Aleppo University, University of Sharjah (UAE) and Gulf University (Aleppo, Syria). She is currently working on a paper on Harry Potter and revising her book on Walter de la Mare.