As of September 2011 Ramzi Mabsout joins the department of economics  as assistant professor. He earned his MA from the University of Sussex (2004) in development economics and a PhD (2011) from Radboud
University Nijmegen (The Netherlands). The thesis, The Capability Approach: From Ethical Foundations to Empirical Operationlization, was supervised by Irene Van Staveren and Esther-Mirjam Sent.

As a research consultant for international organizations, he worked for  UNDP and NGOs (eg., Transparency International). With the UNDP, he contributed to various global reports, including the Human
Development Report, among others.

His research interests cover a variety of areas including development economics, welfare economics, ethics and economics, micro-econometrics, and the epistemology of economics.

While his publication in peer reviewed journals include World Development, the Journal-of Socio-Economics, and Social Indicators Research.

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Dr. Fadi Mirza will join AUB as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from AUB in 2002 before he relocated to the United States to pursue postgraduate training. He completed a four-year residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts followed by a three-year fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at Columbia University in New York, New York. In addition to his proficiency in the different aspects of Obstetrics and Gynecology, he has special expertise in high-risk pregnancies, obstetric ultrasound, prenatal diagnosis, and invasive fetal procedures. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (board-certified) and a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He is also a member of numerous professional societies, including the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Upon completion of his training, Dr. Mirza joined the faculty of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons as Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology. As an attending physician at Columbia University Medical Center, he was active in patient care, medical education, and research. He has been involved in a wide range of research projects and is the Principal Investigator of clinical trials that investigate a new agent for labor induction and a novel device for fetal heart rate monitoring during labor. He has presented numerous scientific abstracts at national and international meetings and has published several peer-reviewed articles. He is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Award of Research Excellence presented at the 31^st annual meeting of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine in February 2011. He serves as a peer reviewer for many national and international journals.

In addition to his clinical duties in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at AUB, Dr. Mirza will continue to develop his research interests and will be involved in the education of medical students and residents in his area of specialty.

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 Dr Bright received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2002.  Since then he has held positions as Research Assistant and then Lecturer at the University of Liverpool; Research Fellow at the University of Bristol; and Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick.  His research is in the investigation of Diophantine equations, and in applications of algebraic geometry to study their solutions.

http://www.boojum.org.uk/maths

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"Dr Abi-Saleh is a board certified cardiologist trained in cardiac electrophysiology and complex ablation procedures at the Cleveland Clinic. He received his medial degree form the Lebanese University. Dr Abi-Saleh served as chief resident at the East Tennessee State University were he completed his internal medicine training before he moved to the University of South Alabama for his cardiology fellowship. He then underwent two years of intensive training in invasive cardiac electrophysiology at the Cleveland Clinic. He is specialized in ablation of complex arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation and endocardial and epicardial ventricular tachycardia ablation. Additionally, his interests include cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators implantation and laser leads extraction. He has received several awards including best resident award and served as chief internal medicine resident and chief cardiology fellow. He has several publications in peer review journals as well as a book chapter and has presented in many national and international meetings including the Heart Rhythm Society and the European Society of Cardiology. Dr Abi-Saleh will be joining the department of cardiology at AUB in July 2011." 

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Lisa Arnold completed her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville in 2011 and earned an MFA in Creative Writing at George Mason University in 2005. She has taught a wide range of courses, including introduction to and advanced college composition, creative writing, writing about literature, women in literature, and American literature from the Civil War to present. Her research interests include: writing pedagogy, the history of rhetoric, the history of writing instruction in the U.S. and abroad since the nineteenth century, historiography as rhetorical practice, and questions of disciplinarity. She has been published in JAC and College English. 

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Dr Omar Sabbagh received his PhD in English Literature from King’s College, London, at the beginning of 2011 (having written on aspects of time, temporal experience and narrative (design) in Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad).  Previously, he’d earned MA’s in both academic English Literature (King’s College, London) and Creative and Life Writing (Goldsmith’s College, London).

He has published articles on George Eliot and Ford Madox Ford in peer-reviewed journals, and hopes to transform much of his PhD into five or six articles in the near future.  He has published one short story in a 2004 anthology titled, Transit Beirut (Saqi).  However, the majority of his publications lie in the field of poetry.  His poetry has appeared in and/or is forthcoming in: Poetry Review, PN Review, Stand, Agenda, The Reader, The Warwick Review, Poetry Wales, Envoi, Banipal, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere.  His first collection, My Only Ever Oedipal Complaint was published in September 2010 (Cinnamon Press); his second collection, The Square Root of Beirut is forthcoming (February 2012, Cinnamon Press).   

He looks forward to teaching creative writing in all genres, and, beyond that, a specialist poetry course, as well as English literature at the cusp of realism into modernism, roughly 1890-1930.    As well as continuing with his creative writing, Dr Sabbagh has research interests in fields such as Critical Theory (mainly Frankfurt School), Marxism (or Society) and Literature, and both psychoanalysis and literature and the literary forms of psychoanalysis.  He also has interests in Christianity – whether ‘mere’ or Roman – and Literature. 

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Professor Selim Deringil is professor of History at the History Department at Bosphorous University, Istanbul, Turkey. His interests are in cultural and intellectual history and he is currently involved in research on religious conversion and apostasy in the late Ottoman Empire. His interests are teaching and research on comparative themes in Ottoman and European history. He has held various teaching positions in the US, Britain, Israel and France. He has published in Turkish, English, French, Greek and Japanese.

Recent Academic positions held:

Ph.D 1979. University of East Anglia Norwich England

Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, January-April 2001

Visiting Senior Fellow at the Collegium Budapest 2001-2002.

Visiting Faculty at the CEU Nationalism Studies Program, 2003, 2004, 2005

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Dr. Roland Kaddoum received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Saint Joseph University School of Medicine in 1998 and completed anesthesia residency training at the AUB-Medical Center in 2003 followed by a year fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at Children’s Hospital of Michigan (2003-2004). He then repeated his anesthesia residency at Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan (2005-2008).
 
 He joined the faculty of St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis TN (2008-2011) as assistant member.
Dr Kaddoum conducted clinical Research at St Jude and his main interest was the management of chronic pain in children with cancer, pediatric regional anesthesia, and pediatric airway management in children with mediastinal masses.
Dr Kaddoum will be involved in the teaching of medical students and anesthesia residents, as well as conducting clinical research within the department of anesthesiology.

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Angela Harutyunyan is an art historian and curator. In 2009-2010 she was Assistant Professor and Art Program director at the American University in Cairo. She has published internationally on issues related to the public sphere, cultural politics and curatorial practices in the post-Soviet condition and in the Middle East. She has curated several shows such as Public_Media_Space (ACCEA, Yerevan, 2004) and Accretions (Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2010 and Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, 2011). Since 2006 she is the co-organizer of the Summer Seminars for Art Curators in Yerevan and the bi-annual Program of Critical and Curatorial Studies within AICA-Armenia. She is the co-editor of Public Spheres After Socialism (co-edited with Malcolm F. Miles and Katherin Horschelmann, Intellect Books: Bristol., 2008), The Book of St. Ejneb (with Aras Ozgun, commissioned by the 10th Sharjah Biennial, Norgunk Publishers, Istanbul, 2011) and Intersections: Curatorial Theories and Practices of Education (forthcoming, Yerevan: Ankyunaqar Press, 2011). Currently she is finishing her first book entitled On the Ruins of a Utopia: The Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-Garde. 

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Dr. Farook Hamzeh joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at AUB as an Assistant Professor. He has been a faculty at Colorado State University since August 2009 where he taught upper division and graduate courses in construction management and supervised graduate students’ research. He earned his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering with an emphasis on Engineering Project Management from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. He also earned a Masters in Engineering Project Management from UC Berkeley in 2006. He finished his Masters in Engineering Management in 2000 and his Bachelor in Civil Engineering in 1997 from the American University of Beirut.

Dr. Hamzeh has worked for more than seven years in Lebanon, Qatar, Dubai, and the United States on several construction projects in heavy civil, building construction, high rise, historical renovation, health care, and industrial sectors. He worked on the: $1.7 Billion Cathedral Hill Hospital in San Francisco, 333 m high Rose Rotana Hotel in Dubai, Losail motor-bike racetrack in Qatar, Olympic Tower in Qatar, Al-Amal Oncology Hospital in Qatar, Serail 1374 Building in downtown Beirut, and Sibline Cement factory 2^nd production line in Lebanon.

Throughout his career, Dr. Hamzeh has developed a passion for improving construction processes to increase customer value, reduce process waste, and improve the work environment for builders. This passion has fueled his research in the areas of lean construction and production planning. As an extension to the field research he started in the Bay Area-California, his research focuses on improving construction workflow by implementing the Last Planner System for production planning, communication, and continuous improvement on construction projects

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Doyle Avant is a playwright, screenwriter, and solo performance artist.  His produced plays include Khmer Amerika and Woyzeck of Sarajevo, Blood Under the Bridge, and The Last Thing You’ll Ever See. His solo work includes Hold Me in your Arms like a Gentle Earthquake, Forgetting French – Remembering Frank, Radio Silence, and The Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Done.   The Stupidest Thing… was published as part of Jump-Start Performance Company’s PlayWorks in 2004.  Doyle received a B.A. in creative writing from Brown University and an M.F.A. in dramatic writing from New York University.

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Todd Kuffner will join AUB as an assistant professor of mathematics.  He received his PhD in mathematics from Imperial College London in 2011. Previously, Todd earned two MSc degrees in economics and econometrics & mathematical economics from the London School of Economics.  His research interests are broadly in mathematical statistics and, in particular, higher-order asymptotics for parametric inference.

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Dr Nigel Marsh has been appointed as Professor of Psychology effective September 15, 2011.He received his BA in Psychology and Sociology from Massey University in 1980, his MSocSc and DipPsych(Clin) from the University of Waikato in 1983, and worked as a clinical psychologist for a number of years before receiving his PhD from the University of Otago in 1989. He has held academic appointments in clinical psychology in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. He has continued to remain clinically active with the majority of his recent clinical work involving the neuropsychological assessment of individuals with traumatic brain injury, stroke, occupational exposure to neurotoxins, or suspected dementia.

Dr Marsh’s expertise within clinical psychology is in the areas of psychological assessment and research design. The majority of his research publications deal with the assessment of the psychosocial consequences of traumatic injuries or chronic illness, for both the individual and their familial caregivers. He has conducted research across the life span with published studies on age groups ranging from infants to older adults. He has also published studies on non-clinical groups, primarily in the area of organizational psychology.

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Kasper Kovitz  is an Austrian artist living and working in the United States for the last twelve years. He received his MFA at University of Applied Art Vienna, Austria in 1995. His work manipulates the visceral and nostalgic aspects of non-traditional materials to reconsider iconic imagery of borders, violence and identity. Kovitz work is shown in Europe, NY and LA.. Kasper Kovitz has been awarded the Pollock Krasner Foundation award, the MAK/Schindler Scholarship, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program and residencies at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in NYC and at RAIR, New Mexico.

www.kasperkovitz.com

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 Marwan M. Kraidy is Professor of Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut (2011-2012). He is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His publications include Reality
Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which won the 2010 Best Book Award in Global Communication and Social Change, from the International Communication Association, and the 2011 Diamond Anniversary Best Book Award from the National Communication Association; Arab Television Industries (BFI/Palgrave, 2009, with J. Khalil), Hybridity, or, The Cultural Logic of Globalization (Temple University Press, 2005), and the co-edited volumes Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives (Routledge, 2003), and The Politics of Reality Television: Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2010).

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Alex Lubin received his doctorate in American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2000.  He is a cultural historian with interests in U.S. racial formations and U.S./Middle East cultural politics.  Before joining AUB, he served as an Associate Professor and Chair of the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico.  He is the author of, Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 (UP Mississippi) and the editor of Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left, (UP Mississippi).  He has co-edited a special edition of the South Atlantic Quarterly on Settler Colonialism.  In this collection, Lubin contributed an essay on the comparative histories of settler colonialism and national formation in and between the U.S. and Israel.  He is currently at work on a monograph entitled, Liberation Geography: Locating the Middle East in the African American Global Imaginary.  This work excavates a centuries-long history of political and cultural exchange between U.S.-based Blacks and the Arab world.  Lubin is particularly interested in how the "Palestine question" has circulated within spheres of African American politics and culture.

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Crystal Hoffman's poetry has been published in a number of journals, most recently in *3 A.M. Magazine*, *Caper Literary Journal*, and *Maintenant. *It has also been nominated for awards, such as the Pushcart Prize. She has recently performed her poetry and theatrical pieces at the New York Poetry Festival and the Bowery Poetry Club. As Artistic Director of the *TypewriterGirlsPoetry Cabaret,* she has written and produced over two dozen full-lengthexperimental, audience interactive plays. She also serves on the editorial advisory board of Patasola Press. She completed her B.A. in Creative Writing and English at Carlow University and her M.A. in English Literature at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarship centers around early Avant-garde poetry and performance. She has presented several papers which analyze the mystical aspects of early Dada poetry and performance and hopes to publish them this coming year.

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Maha El Choubassi received the B.Eng. Degree from the American University of Beirut in 2003, the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) in 2005 and 2008 respectively and has been a senior research scientist at Intel since her graduation from UIUC.

At UIUC, she was a research assistant at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department from 2003 to 2008 where she received James M. Henderson Fellowship for the year 2004-2005. Maha’s graduate research topic is information hiding and watermarking schemes, a multidisciplinary field intersecting with signal processing, communication, information theory, media forensics, and other areas. She worked on the security of watermarking schemes against malicious attacks. During the summer of 2006, Maha had an internship at Intel. Together with other researchers, she worked on a web image mining project. In February 2009, she joined the vision and recognition group at Intel. She has been pursuing research in the areas of image/signal processing, data mining, computer vision, and augmented reality along top researchers in these fields.

Her experience includes augmented reality applications on rich mobile platforms, analyzing and integrating large scale 3D points clouds of urban scenes with mobile applications, and camera pose estimation from images and image alignment.

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Paul Spohr is joining AUB as a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy.  He received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University in 2006. His research interests lie generally in 19^th- and 20^th- century German philosophy, and in particular in Hegel and post-Hegelian ethics, political theory and aesthetics. He has worked in the field of philanthropy for the past few years, and looks forward to returning to academia.

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Dr. Ziad Nahas joined the Department of Psychiatry at FM/AUBMC as Professor and Chair effective July 1, 2011. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Saint Joseph University in 1992. After graduation, he completed one year of internship in Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry at Hopital de la Croix, Lebanon (07/1992-10/1992), Hopital Charles-Foix, Unite de Psychogeriatrie, Paris (11/1992-04/1993), and in Psychiatry L’Elan, Paris (12/1992-06/1993); he spent four years of residency training in Psychiatry at Baylor Co llege of Medicine (1993-1997), and two years as Research Fellow in Neuroimaging and Psychopharmacology at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)(1997-1999).

Dr. Nahas was appointed as Research Associate at the Brain Stimulation Laboratory of the Department of Psychiatry at MUSC in 1999, promoted to Assistant Professor in 2000, and to Associate Professor in 2005, and was granted Associate Professor with Tenure in 2007. He has served as the Director of the Brain Stimulation Laboratory of the Department of Psychiatry at MUSC and the Director of Mood Disorders Clinic, Institute of Psychiatry at MUSC since 1999.

Dr. Nahas's name appears in 97 journal publications, of which 24 as first author, and 27 as second author, in addition to 11 book chapters. He has published 76 original articles, 15 reviews, 4 case reports (CR) and 2 letters. His adjusted IF score/yr  is 9.9. Of the 24 publications as first/senior author, Dr. Nahas has published 13 papers in refereed journals that rank in the upper quartile and 6 articles in journals that rank between 50-75th percentile in the discipline with respect to impact factor.

Dr. Nahas has an ambitious vision for the department of Psychiatry and plans to expand the faculty in many needed areas, backed with a successful track record of scholarly achievements. In addition, Dr. Nahas inspires leadership and respect to his team workers specially reflected in his attempt to identify venues of cooperation with colleagues in Lebanon at large.

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Dr. Yaser El-Hout joined the American University of Beirut in 1992, where he completed his undergraduate and graduate studies and obtained a Bachelor degree in Biology in 1995 followed by a Doctor of Medicine in 2000. He joined the Department of Surgery as a straight intern in June 2000 and completed his residency in urology in June 2007. During his residency Dr. El-Hout demonstrated a keen interest in pediatric urology both surgically and academically. He joined the renowned Hospital for Sick Children, affiliated with the Universityof Toronto, Canada in July 2007 and completed a rigorous two-year research followed by two-year clinical fellowship in pediatric urology until June 2011. Dr. El-Hout is among a few in North America to spend this length of time in a Pediatric Urology fellowship, during which he honed an impressive expertise in all disciplines of pediatric urology including general, reconstructive, oncologic, minimally invasive, laparoscopic and kidney transplantation procedures. He is a member of the International Society of Hypospadias and Intersex Disorders and is a Fellow of the European Board of Urology. He received many research grants including the Canadian Urological Association Scholarship for outcome analysis in hypospadias and the Sick Kids Research Institute Fund for developing the ileocystoplasty augmentation model in the rat and the urethroplasty model in the rabbit. He has special interest in surgical education including teaching laparoscopy and microsurgery by simulation. Dr. El-Hout also ventured in basic science research and revealed urothelial to mesenchymal trans-differentiation, a finding that will have a major impact on bladder development, bladder carcinogenesis and tissue engineering. Dr. El-Hout authored 36 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 2 book chapters. He had more than 40 podium and poster presentations, including at international conferences like the American Urological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is on the Editorial Board of the Arab Journal of Urology and is a reviewer for the Journal of Urology and Urology.

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Dr. Hani Tamim joined AUB as Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, and Director of the Biostatistics Unit in the Clinical Research Institute at the Faculty of Medicine. 

After receiving a Bachelor of Sciences in Biology from the American University of Beirut (1994), Dr. Tamim earned a Master of Public Health degree from Emory University (1995), and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill University (2003). His postdoctoral training included a two-year fellowship in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Montreal-Faculty of Medicine, after which he was appointed there as Assistant Professor (2005-2009). He later joined the King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh-Saudi Arabia, as Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (2009-2011).

Dr. Tamim's research interests include pharmacoepidemiology, cancer, and critical care. He has received funding from different regional and international sources including the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has more than 60 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals. His professional expertise includes, but is not limited to, research methodology, data management, analysis and reporting.

At the Department of Internal Medicine, Dr. Tamim will be an active participant in its academic activities including conducting his own research as well as teaching and training residents and fellows in all aspects of clinical research.

At the Clinical Research Institute, Dr. Tamim will direct the Biostatistics Unit, which will offer a wide range of statistical support services relating to proposal development, data analysis and manuscript preparation. He will also partake in various educational activities, including didactic and hands on-training of students, faculty and staff in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Dr. Tamim’s office will be located in Dale Home and he can be reached by e-mail: htamim@aub.edu.lb or at extension 5445.

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Dr. Mazen El Sayed joined AUB as Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the American University of Beirut Medical Center.

Dr. El Sayed graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine from AUB in 2004. He followed with one year of Internship in General Surgery in the Department of Surgery at AUBMC (2004-2005) and another year of training in General Surgery at Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC (2005-2006). Dr El Sayed then enrolled in the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the University of Maryland and completed his training in 2009 achieving American Board Certification in Emergency Medicine (ABEM).

Dr El Sayed then went on to complete a two-year fellowship in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at Boston University School of Medicine (2009-20011). During his fellowship, he served as assistant medical director for Boston EMS and as faculty at DelValle Institute for Emergency Preparedness teaching courses on high quality all-hazards training for public health, health care and public safety personnel. During his fellowship Dr. El Sayed was appointed as Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine in 2009 and promoted to Assistant Professor in 2011. His research interests include EMS & Trauma systems design and management and quality improvement in prehospital care.

In light of the outstanding and unique skills that Dr El Sayed brings to the Department of Emergency Medicine, he has been appointed as director of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Prehospital Care in the Department of Emergency Medicine effective August 1^st. His unique skills in prehospital Emergency Medical System Management will add a great value in improving the medical services to our patient population.

Dr. El Sayed has three publications in peer reviewed journals as first author, in addition to five book chapters. Beside his clinical duties and administrative duties in the Emergency Medicine Department, Dr El Sayed will be involved in the teaching program of medical students and residents in his area of specialty.

Dr El Sayed can be reached in his office at extension 6600 or pager 0418.

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Dr. Samia Khoury joined AUB as the Director of the Abu Haidar Neuroscience Institute (AHNI), effective October 1, 2011. Dr. Khoury will also serve as Professor in the Department of Neurology at the Faculty of Medicine. The selection of Dr. Khoury as the next leader for the AHNI was reached after a thorough international search undertaken by the Search Committee for the Director was completed.

 Dr. Khoury comes to AUB from Harvard Medical School, where she is the Jack, Sadie and David Breakstone Professor of Neurology since 2009, Director of the Clinical Immunology Laboratory at the Department of Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital since 1998, and Co-Director for Partners Multiple Sclerosis Center at Partners Healthcare Systems, Inc. since 2001. 

Dr. Samia Khoury received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the American University of Beirut (AUB) Faculty of Medicine in 1984. Following graduation, she spent one year internship in internal Medicine at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital in Cleveland Ohio (1984-1985), three years residency in neurology (1985-1988) and three years fellowship (1988-1991) at Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Khoury was appointed Instructor at Harvard Medical School in 1991, promoted to Assistant Professor of Neurology in 1994, then to Associate Professor of Neurology in 1998 and Full Professor in 2007.

 Dr. Khoury is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions. In 2007, Dr. Khoury was awarded the prestigious Kuwait Prize for Sciences by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences for her work in immunology. In 2002 she was elected to both the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Neurological Association. She has served on the editorial board of Current Immunology Reviews since 2004, as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Immunology (2000-2004), Section Editor for Clinical Immunology since 2004 and an ad-hoc reviewer for several other journals. Dr. Khoury has an outstanding track record of research productivity of approximately 170 publications to date - 92 of which are peer reviewed and 78 non peer reviewed scientific or medical publications.  Her total citations are 5855.

The experience and expertise Dr. Khoury brings to AUBMC is well suited for the leadership of AHNI, which was established in October 4, 2007.  AHNI is one of AUBMC’s Centers of Excellence and serves as part of AUBMC’s vision to provide evidence-based, multi-disciplinary comprehensive care to patients. AHNI will strengthen the neuroscience effort at AUBMC by bringing together basic and clinical scientists to concentrate on a wide range of disorders that affect individuals from infants to adults. Scientists at the Abu-Haidar Neuroscience Institute cross boundaries to embrace methods and techniques from other fields of study, to identify new approaches to examining nervous system function, all so that we may better understand the underlying causes of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

In her role as Director of AHNI, Dr. Khoury will work collaboratively with Dr. Bassem Yamout to establish a Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Center at FM/AUBMC within the AHNI. The center will take care of all MS patients who will be attended to primarily by all AUBMC neurologists. This is the first MS center in the region and allows AUBMC another opportunity to establish itself as a regional leader. 

Dr. Khoury's expertise and intellectual brilliance in the field of neuroscience is unparalleled, and we are confident that with her leadership, we will reach a new pinnacle of clinical and research excellence.

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Dr. Philip Taddei joined AUB as Visiting Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology effective September 1, 2011.

Dr. Taddei graduated with Ph.D. degree in Radiological Health Sciences (Radiation Physics) from the Colorado State University in 2005. He is certified by the American Board of Radiology-Therapeutics Radiology Physics.

Dr. Taddei was appointed as Assistant Professor at the United States Naval Academy (2005-2006), Research Scientist (2006-2009) and then Assistant Professor at the University of Texas M.D Anderson Cancer Center (2009-present), and Associate Faculty Member at the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (2010-present).

Dr. Taddei will be involved mainly in conducting a collaborative research projects sponsored by the NIH 4-year research grant.

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Dr. Ali Hallal will join AUB as Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery effective September 16, 2011.

Dr. Hallal received his MD degree from AUB in 1995. He completed his residency training in General Surgery at FM/AUBMC (1995-2001), after which he a fellowship in Surgical Critical Care (2001-2002), and a fellowship in Trauma (2002-2003) at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, then he completed further training in General and Upper GI Surgery at Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK (2006-2009). Dr. Hallal is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is also certified in the UK by the Intercollegiate Specialty Board in General Surgery (2009), and by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (2009).  Dr. Hallal has served as Associate Specialist General Surgery at Watford General Hospital, UK (2004-2006), and as Consultant Upper GI/Trauma Surgeon at the Institute of Minimal Access Surgery, Kings College Hospital.

Dr. Hallal will be involved in teaching of residents in the area of surgical critical care and trauma, as well as in the research and clinical activities of the department.  

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Dr. Ali Haydar joined AUB as Assistant Professor of Clinical Diagnostic Radiology effective August 1, 2011.

Dr. Haydar received his MD degree from AUB in 2000. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at AUBMC (2000-2003), after which he completed his training in ITU and renal medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and the Hammersmith Hospital London, UK, (2003-2005). He did his residency and fellowship in General Radiology, North West London Hospitals  (November 2005- October 2007), MSK Radiology, Royal National Orthopedics Hospital (October 2007- January 2008), Urology and Gynaecologic radiology, Northwick Park Hospital (January 2008- March 2008), Interventional Radiology. Northwick Park Hospital (April 2008- June 2008), Cardiothoracic Radiology. Harefield Hospital (July 2008- September 2008), Neuroradiology. Kings’ College Hospital (October 2008- January 2009), Paediatric radiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital (January 2009- March 2009), Interventional and cardiovascular/cross sectional radiologist Imperial College, London (March 2009- August 2010). He obtained his MRCP in 2005 and his FRCR in 2008.

Dr. Haydar was appointed as consultant radiologist in IR/trauma and cross sectional imaging at the Royal and St. Bart's NHS Trust, London in August 2010.

Dr. Haydar will be involved in teaching of medical students and residents and will contribute to coverage of cross sectional and interventional radiology at AUB and affiliated hospitals.

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Dr. Hussein Ismaeel joined AUB as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Cardiology) effective July 1, 2011.

Dr. Ismaeel graduated with M.D. degree from AUB (1994-2001). After which, he completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at AUBMC (2001-2005), including one year of post-doctoral research fellow of Molecular Biology and Genetics (2002-2003) at Massachaussetts General Hospital, three years of fellowship in Cardiology at AUBMC (2005-2008), and one year of Cardiovascular Imaging Fellowship at Harbour, UCLA (2008-2009).

Dr. Ismaeel’s name appears on 34 peer-reviewed publications, of which 15 as first author, and 7 as second author. 

Dr. Ismaeel will be involved in teaching of medical students, residents and fellows in his area of specialty, and will be involved in the clinical activities of the Division of Cardiology as well.

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Dr. Mazen Kurban appointed as Assistant Professor of Dermatology effective July 1, 2011.

 Dr. Mazen Kurban graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2004. After which, he completed  one year of residency in internal medicine at AUB (2004-2005) and  three years of residency in dermatology at AUB (2005-2008).

He started his postdoctoral research scientist in dermatology at the Human Genetics-Angela Christaino Lab At Columbia Medical Center in 2008. 

 Dr. Kurban is the author of 25 journal publications, 11 of which as first author and 4 as second author. 12 out of the 25 articles are original publications, 10 are case reports, 1 review and 2 letters. Total citations are 18. His research is focused on the genodermatoses.

Dr. Kurban will be involved in the postgraduate education, service and research and developing a genodermatoses program. He will be having a joint appointment with the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.

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Dr. Haya Hamade joined AUB as Instructor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine effective August 1, 2011.

Dr. Hamade graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine from AUB in 2005. After which, she completed her residency program in Pediatrics at Case Western University (2006-2009), and graduated with Master of Public Health (Global Health and Population) from Harvard School of Public Health in 2010. She is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.

Dr. Hamade is currently an Affiliate Faculty at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative since November 2010, and Fellow at FXB Center for Health and Human Rights/Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Hamade has one publication as second author, and her research will focus on global health and pediatric diseases prevention.

Dr. Hamade will be involved in teaching general pediatrics and global health topics to medical students in their clinical rotations, as well as to the pediatric residents. In addition, she will be involved in the in-patient, out-patient, and emergency department clinical duties.

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Dr. Karim Diab joined AUB as Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Pediatric Cardiology), in the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine effective August 1, 201.

Dr. Diab graduated with an MD degree from AUB in 1999. After which, he completed one year of internship at FM/AUBMC in 2000, and three years of residency training in Pediatrics at State University of New York, Children’s Hospital at Buffalo in 2004, followed by three years fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital in 2007. Dr. Diab is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona and at Creighton University School of Medicine since 2008. Dr. Diab is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology. He will be involved in the teaching, research, and clinical activities of the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Division of Pediatric Cardiology.

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Dr. Wassim Abou Kheir joined AUB as Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences effective September 1, 2011. 

Dr. Abou Kheir graduated with PhD degree in Anatomy and Structural Biology from the University of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY in 2007. After which, he completed four years of post-doctoral fellowship in the National Cancer Institute at NIH, Bethesda, MD (2007-2011). His name appears on 11 peer-reviewed publications, of which he is first/second author on 7. He came highly recommended by his mentors and research collaborators. 

Dr. Abou Kheir will be involved in the teaching of medical, graduate and nursing students, as well as in the research activities of the core basic research at the Faculty of Medicine.

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Dr. Georges Daoud joined AUB as Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences effective September 1, 2011. 

Dr. Daoud graduated with PhD degree in Biochemistry from the University of Quebec, Montreal in 2006. After which, he completed five years of post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School (2006-2011). His name appears on 12 peer-reviewed publications; he is first/second author on 7. He comes to us highly recommended by his mentors. 

Dr. Daoud will be involved in the teaching of medical, graduate and nursing students as well as in the research activities of the core basic research at the Faculty of Medicine.

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Dr. Nabil Khouri joined AUB as Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences effective September 1, 2011. 

Dr. Khouri graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Institute of Medicine and Surgery, Romania in 1985, and with PhD degree in Anatomy and Cell Biology from Queen’s University, Ontario in 1997. Dr. Khouri was in private practice of general medicine in Jordan from 1985 to 1989, and served as Teaching Assistant at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology (1992-1997), and as Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy at Jordanian University of Science and Technology (1997-2007), promoted to Associate Professor in 2007, and served as Assistant Dean at the Faculty of Medicine at JUST (2003-2004).

Dr. Nabil Khouri has rich experience in teaching anatomy at JUST and it will be beneficial to the department and the students to have him on the teaching faculty.

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Dr. Imad El-Kebbi will join AUB as Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Endocrinology and Metabolism) effective November 15, 2011.

Dr. El-Kebbi graduated with M.D. degree with distinction from AUB (1978-1985). After which, he completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (1985-1988), two years of Clinical Fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism (1988-1991), and one year Research Fellow (1991-1992) at Emory University, Atlanta. Dr. El-Kebbi is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, and by the American Board of Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Dr. El-Kebbi has been appointed as Research Scientist at Veterans Administration Medical Center (1992-1993), and as Instructor at Emory University (1992-1993), promoted to Assistant Professor in 1993, and to Associate Professor of Medicine in 2000. Dr. El-Kebbi has served as part-time member Senior Consultant for the WHO (2003-2005), Consultant for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2004-2005), and as Associate Director of Grady Diabetes Clinic (2006-2007).

Dr. El-Kebbi’s name appears on 36 peer-reviewed publications, of which 12 as first author, and 3 as second author, in addition to 2 book chapters.   

Dr. El-Kebbi will be involved in teaching of medical students, residents and fellows in his area of specialty, and will be involved in the clinical activities of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism.

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Rima Nakkash joins the Faculty of Health Sciences as Assistant  Professor at the Health Promotion and Community Health Department.   Dr. Nakkash completed her DrPH from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the U.K  in Public Health Policy in 2007, her MPH from the Faculty of Health Sciences at AUB in 1998, and her Bachelor degree from Macalister College, USA in 1995.  Dr. Nakkash has been on a research line as Assistant Research Professor at the Center for Research and Population Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences at AUB since 2007.

Her main research interests are in tobacco control policy evaluation,   community based participatory research, research ethics, and youth positive mental health promotion.  She has been involved in three Community based  participatory research projects in disadvantaged neighborhoods in  Lebanon including the Bourg Brajneh Palestinian refugee camp. Her involvement spanned all the processes of coordinating and facilitating  community participation as well as intervention planning, development,   and evaluation of process, impact, and outcome.  A  number of this work is published in peer reviewed manuscripts. Dr. Nakkash also developed and taught a course in Public Health Advocacy and other seminars in health Promotion, health policy, community health, and intervention research in public health.

Advocacy and knowledge transfer is an essential aspect of her interest in tobacco control research.  She is active at the international, regional, and local level in advocating for tobacco control policies.  
 In Lebanon, through coordinating the AUB-Tobacco Control Research  Group, a multi-faculty group of professors, she works with policymakers, NGOs  and media to promote adoption and enforcement of  strong tobacco control policies in line with best evidence.  Most   recently, she successfully mobilized civil society and media providing them with research evidence to conduct effective media advocacy  campaigns.  These efforts have culminated in the adoption of the first comprehensive Tobacco Control Policy by the Lebanese Parliament in  August 2011. She is a principal investigator and co-investigator on a number of   international research grants with local and regional scopes from organizations such as the  Qatar National Research Foundation, International Development Research  Centre of Canada,  and Action for Smoking and Health, USA, among others.

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Kaoukab Chebaro will be joining AUB’s Jafet Library as DigitalLibrarian and Head of the Special Collections Division. She arrives atthis position after working at Columbia University, where she was theMiddle East and Islamic Studies Librarian. Prior to that, sheprocessed Arabic and Persian materials in Columbia’s catalogingdepartment. Kaoukab earned a Master’s degree in Library andInformation Science from the University of Pittsburgh.

Kaoukab was initially trained as a philosopher, and in addition to herappointment in the Libraries, Kaoukab will also be joining theDepartment of Philosophy as an Assistant Professor. She holds a B.A.in Philosophy from AUB, and received her Ph.D. in the field fromColumbia University.

As a librarian familiar with the current challenges, importance andconsequences of being a custodian of a culture’s heritage, Kaoukab isespecially concerned with the ways in which digital projects canprovide access to information from and about the Middle East. She isalso interested in bringing to light assumptions that allow us to lookcritically at the way the humanities as well as documentation andarchiving activities form, define and study the very object of knowledge termed the “Middle East.”

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Dr. Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer will be Visiting Research  Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health  (EPHD) for one year effective August 1, 2011.

Dr. Makhlouf Obermeyer was a Scientist in the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization, Geneva (2000-2011). Prior to that, she was Associate Professor in the Department of Population and International Health, Harvard University (1989-2000). She has conducted research at the intersection of public health and the social sciences, and has led a number of multi-site studies on issues of public health importance. She has written on HIV, reproductive health and menopause, the Safe Motherhood initiative, medication use, female circumcision, gender, and population policy. At WHO she was responsible for operational research on HIV testing, treatment and prevention, and coordinated an NIH-funded multi-site study of HIV testing and counselling in Africa.

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 Nate George received his MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the American University of Beirut in 2010. His historical research focuses on the Lebanese Civil War and US intervention in the Middle East. While at AUB, he worked as a graduate assistant at the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) and was awarded a Graduate Research Grant from the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs. Before relocating to Lebanon, he received his BA with Honors in Cinema and a minor in Music from the University of Iowa in 2007. He has worked as a camera operator, sound recordist, and research assistant on a number of different documentary films and professional settings. His short films have been screened and awarded at several Midwestern film festivals.

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Tariq's fictional writing focusses on issues of migration, identity and loss as well as issues of social and political justice. His first novel, /Hand on the Sun /(Penguin, 1983) focused on the problems of Asian youths in the 1970s who were confronting racism. His second novel, /While There Is Light <http://www.commapress.co.uk/?section=books&page=whileThereisLight>/ (Comma, 2003), is set during the civil disturbances which took place in England in the summer of 1981 and explores issues of grief, migration and political justice. He is currently preparing his next novel, /The Song of Gulzarina, /for publication. This is the story of a 70 year old Pakistani atheist who lives in Manchester, UK and decides to become a suicide bomber in the city he has lived in most of his life.

Tariq has also made films including the award winning feature documentary /Injustice/, which deals with deaths in police custody. (www.injusticefilm.co.uk <http://www.injusticefilm.co.uk/>).

Tariq has also been committed to the question of mother-tongue in his native area of Pakistan. He is a founding member of a cultural and language movement and has edited the only two magazines in his native language, /Chitka/ and /Sangi/. He writes in both English and Pothohari,

Tariq also writes for children. His books include /Courageous Ali and the Heartless King/*, *an allegorical tale based around the second Iraq war and the re-telling of /Half Brother/, traditional tale from Pothohar.

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Dr. Kantar received her BS in nursing from AUB and worked as a registered nurse at AUBMC in the Cardiac Surgery Department. Her MS is in health professional education which she received from Kwazulu Natal University in 2002, and the Doctoral degree in Educational Leadership with specialization in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Phoenix in July 2010. Her interest to improve the educational preparation of nurses persuaded her to employ innovative teaching strategies such as problem-based learning, reflective practice, and case method teaching. In this regard, she coordinated for 10 years the transformation process of the Abu Dhabi nursing curriculum using case-method teaching, and integrated the MacMaster problem-based learning approach in the nursing courses at the University of Sharjah, UAE. Her research interests revolve around critical thinking and clinical judgment in nursing students.

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Hounaida completed her PhD in Marketing at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2011. In her thesis, she explored the relationship between framing and self-presentation on consumer attitudes towards advertising messages. She has taught a range of courses, including market research, advertising and promotion, and consumer behavior. She is interested in the following areas of research: framing effects in advertising, conspicuous consumption and consumer behavior, and social interactions in online communities.

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Marwan Zouein is a French Lebanese architect educated at the Ecole d’Architecture Paris Belleville and the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM). He received his diploma from Paris Belleville in 2004 and then, after settling in Madrid, began a PhD on politics, urban space and architecture at the project department of the Etsam (Madrid). Since then he has shared his time between consultancies for other firms and institutions in Spain and Lebanon, and his own office, Casaleganitos [CASALEGANITOS] which is a practice organized around four architects working together in Madrid and other countries. It was founded in 2000 by Carlos Jiménez Cenamor, Leticia López de Santiago, Beatriz Sendín and Marwan Zouein.

 www.casaleganitos.com"

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Leo Michelis, Professor of Economics, obtained his PhD from Queens University, Canada, in 1993. His areas of expertise are econometrics, international monetary economics and macroeconomics. Before joining AUB, he taught in Canada at York University, the University of Western Ontario and Ryerson University. He has published widely in internationally recognized high ranking journals in his fields of expertise including, among others, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Econometric Theory, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Economics Letters, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the Canadian Journal of Economics.

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Dr. Jamaleddine received his BA in Architecture from AUB in 1995, and his MA from Harvard University in 1999. He has worked for several firms in Beirut and the U.S., and was a visiting member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania (2008), and at the Cornell Architecture School (2008).  His interests are in the complex relationship between architecture and culture.

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Adam Waterman joins AUB as an assistant professor of American literature in the English Department. Since receiving his doctorate from New York University in 2007, Dr. Waterman has taught at Macalester College, the University of Virginia, and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. In 2008-09, he was a visiting faculty member in the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Abdelaziz al Saud Center for American Studies and Research at AUB. During the 2010-11 academic year, he was Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence in the Department of English at the Universite d'Alger 2 in Algeria. His research interests include the relationship between US settler colonialism and the formation of American literary culture, as well as the representation of Islam in American literature.

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Dr. Martin Montero will join AUB as an assistant professor at the Economics Department on September 2011. He earned his M.A. from Western Illinois University in 2006 and his Ph.D. from West Virginia University in 2011. His research interest focuses on the application of spatial econometrics in macroeconomic issues.  He completed his dissertation on modeling and estimating spatial spillovers in unemployment rates in U.S. states using the Okun´s Law.

Dr. Montero has taught several courses in U.S.A. and Bolivia including macroeconomics (principles and intermediate), microeconomics and econometrics. In 2010 he was awarded the first prize by The Bolivian Central Bank in their national research contest.

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Munira Khayyat is the Whittlesey visiting professor of Anthropology at the department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She holds a B.A. in History from the American University of Beirut (1997), an MPhil in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University (1998) and is about to complete her PhD in Anthropology at Columbia University in the City of New York (2011). Her dissertation is entitled ‘A Landscape of War: on the Nature of Conflict in South Lebanon.’ She is interested in the convergence and  cross-pollination of discipline, theory and practice: (rural) anthropology, cultural geography, non-representational theory, creative writing and visual art. She has previously taught at the American University of Beirut and at Columbia University.

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Dr. Chahine received her BS from AUB, her MSc  in green house management at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute (MAICh) Chania, Crete, Greece and her PhD in cellular and molecular biology at the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse / Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Agronomie de Toulouse .
Her main research interest is in postharvest physiology and technology as a part of the value chain of fruits and vegetables. She has expertise in rural development and agriculture in Lebanon.

Dr. Chahine has worked as an independent consultant for organizations such as, UNESCWA, UNFAO, UC Davis, WFLO, and ACDI VOCA, and has lectured at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the Lebanese University and supervised the research work of several senior students.

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Dr. Mattar graduated from AUB with a B.S. degree in Nutrition and Dietetics and M.S. degree in Nutrition. She pursued her PhD on eating disorders at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France. While doing her research, Dr. Mattar published 4 articles in different scientific journals and was invited as a speaker in the “10th London International Eating Disorders Conference-2011”.

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Ms. Dima El-Halabi received her B.Sc. degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from AUB with a minor in Business Administration. She
pursued her M.Sc. degree from McGill University, Montreal and obtained an R.D. through rotations at various McGill University Health Centers.  Her professional career as a clinical dietitian started at the Nutrition and Diet Center Clinic, Riyadh branch, and she later joined Clemenceau Medical Center (CMC), affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine International in Beirut. She is active in professional
memberships such as the Lebanese Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada."

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