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- Dr. Badih Adada
- Dr. Bou Hamad
- Dr. Del Lucchese
- Dr. Haddad
- Dr. Wazni
- Dr. Myntti
- Dr. Polzl
- Dr. Jaalouk
- Dr. Haviland
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Dr. Badih Adada
Dr. Badih Adada has joined the Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center at AUB as Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery (Neurosurgery) on January 25, 2010. Dr. Adada received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Montreal in 1995. Following graduation, he completed his residency training in Neurosurgery (1996-2001) at the University of Montreal, Notre-Dame Hospital. After which, he subsequently completed one year of fellowship in Skull Base Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) (2001-2002). Dr. Adada was then appointed as Assistant Professor at UAMS in 2002, and promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in
2007, where he was also serving as the Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery and Director of Movement Disorder and Epilepsy Surgery Program (2004-2008). In April 2008, Dr. Adada was recruited by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation to be the Chief of Neurosurgery in their
Florida Campus. Dr. Adada is certified by the American Board of Neurosurgery and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada.
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Imad Bou Hamad
Dr. Bou-Hamad received a PhD in Business Intelligence from HEC Montréal in 2009. Prior to that, he received a Master's degree in Statistics from Université de Montréal where he was on the Dean's List. During his graduate studies, he worked as lecturer and teaching assistant for different courses in Statistics at Université de Montréal and HEC Montréal. Recently, he worked as a Senior Credit Risk Analyst at National Bank of Canada. His research interests are in Applied Statistics: Modeling and Forecasting in Business, Statistical Data mining Techniques, Quantitative Marketing, Applied Econometrics and Time series, Credit Risk Analysis and Discrete-Time Survival Analysis. He will be joining the Olayan School of Business this spring as an Assistant Professor in the Business Information and Decision Systems Track
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Bassam Haddad
Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program at GeorgeMason University (http://mes.gmu.edu/) and Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He serves asFounding Editor of the ArabStudies Journal(www.arabstudiesjournal.org), a peer-reviewed research publication and is co producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad (www.aboutbaghdad.com), and director
of a film series on "Arabs and Terrorism" (www.arabsandterrorism.com).
He completed his first book on Syria's political economy,provisionally titled "The Political Economy of Regime Security: State-
Business Networks in Syria" (Stanford University Press, Forthcoming,2010). Bassam recently directed a new film series on Arab/Muslim immigrants in Europe, titled The "Other" Threat(www.TheOtherThreat.com). He also serves on the Editorial Committee of Middle East Report (http://www.merip.org/)
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Filippo Del Lucchese
Filippo Del Lucchese earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pisa, Italy. Histhesis "Conflict, Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza," alreadypublished in Italian and translated into French, has been published inEnglish in 2009 by Continuum Press. The author of articles on the history ofearly modern philosophy and political thought, he has taught in Italy,France and the United States. Most recently he was a Marie Curie Fellow atOccidental College, Los Angeles, USA and Université de Picardie 'JulesVerne', Amiens, France. He is currently working on a project on "Political Teratology: The Monster as a Political Concept in the Early Modern Period'.He is also interested in cinema and film studies, and he is the director of the journal Jura Gentium Cinema (www.jgcinema.org).
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Ousama Wazni
Oussama Wazni, MD, is currently the Cardiac Electrophysiology Labs Director at the Cleveland Clinic. He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. He specializes in electrophysiology with special interest in atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia ablation. Dr. Wazni received a Bachelor's degree in Sciences/Biology from the American University of Beirut, continuing there to complete his medical degree, graduating with distinction in the top 5 percent of his class. He was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. After completing his residency at Cleveland Clinic, Dr Wazni received a fellowship in cardiology from the University of Texas, Houston, where he became Fellow of the Year. He then returned to Cleveland Clinic for fellowships in cardiology and electrophysiology, becoming Chief Fellow in electrophysiology. He was a finalist in the Young Investigator Award presented by the American College of Cardiology in 2004 and, that same year, won the Clinical Research Award from the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Wazni is principal investigator in several ongoing research studies related to atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia ablation, genetics of ventricular tachycardia, anticoagulation management in patients undergoing ablation for chronic atrial fibrillation, and long term followup after AF ablation. Widely published in peer-reviewed journals, Dr. Wazni is on the editorial board of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. He served as the Abstract Session Chair for the Heart Rhythm Society's Scientific Sessions in 2005-2009.
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Cynthia Myntti
Cynthia Myntti is no stranger to AUB. She received her MA in anthropology from AUB in 1974, before going on to do a PhD in social anthropology at the London School of Economics (1983) and a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University (1986). Cynthia worked as a program officer in the Ford Foundation offices in Cairo and Jakarta for nearly a decade, and held teaching positions at Sanaa University in Yemen, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the University of Minnesota in the USA. In 1998 she returned to AUB as a visiting Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences. After publishing the book “Paris along the Nile: Architecture in Cairo from the Belle Epoque” (Cairo: AUC Press, 1999) she decided to return to graduate school, in architecture, graduating with an M Arch from Yale in 2004. Since 2006, Cynthia has directed the Neighborhood Initiative at AUB.
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Ulrike Polzl
Ulrike Polzl obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna/Austria in 2006 in the field of English Applied Linguistics with a strong focus towards Intercultural Communication. Her research focuses on cultural and intercultural identity in English as a lingua franca communications. She also holds an M.A. in English and German literature and linguistics (Karl-Franzens-University of Graz/Austria) as well as an M.A. in Modern
English Language (Royal Holloway, University of London/Great Britain). Enjoying and favoring the life of a global nomad she has taught at universities in various countries: USA (Williams College), England (Royal Holloway, University of London), Jordan (University of Jordan), Hungary (ELTE) and Spain (College for International Studies). She is very interested in extending her cultural repertoire and she is a firm believer in life long learning.
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Diana Jaalouk
Dr. Diana Jaalouk is an interdisciplinary biomedical scientist. She obtained her B.Sc. in Biology and her M.Sc. in Microbiology & Immunology from AUB in 1994 & 1996 respectively. She then continued her graduate studies in the field of cancer gene therapy and received her Ph.D. in Experimental Medicine from McGill University in 2003. Afterwards, Dr. Jaalouk completed 3-years of postdoctoral training in Cancer Medicine at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center where her research focused on the use of phage display screens to identify novel therapeutic targets in leukemia. Subsequently, she did her second postdoctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School where she tailored her research to study sub-cellular biomechanics and stem cell differentiation in lamin-associated diseases. To date, Dr. Jaalouk’s scientific contributions are highlighted in several peer-reviewed publications in high impact journals. Dr. Jaalouk has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships including the Cancer Research Society Studentship, Berlex Canada Research Award, the Kimberly Patterson Fellowship in Leukemia Research, and the American Heart Association – Founders Affiliate Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Carol Haviland
Dr. Haviland is Professor of English at CSUSB, where she has been director of the writing-in-the-disciplines and writing center programs. Her current research is on discipline-based understandings of intellectual property. She is a regular presenter at national and international rhetoric and composition conferences, and her most recent publication is the co-edited volume <Who Owns This Text: Plagiarism, Authorship, and Disciplinary Cultures>.
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