Samir Atweh, Professor of Neurology, AUB

Division : Neurology

Faculty/Academic Titles :
Professor of Neurology
Head – Division of Neurology

Education :

High – School
Beirut Baptist School – Lebanon - 1965

University degree
BS Biology (with distinction) - American University of Beirut – 1969

Medical School
MSc in Neurophysiology – American University of Beirut – 1971
MD (with distinction)– American University of Beirut - 1974

Internship
American University of Beirut Medical Center – 1973-1974

Residency
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University – 1976-1979

Fellowship
The Johns Hopkins Medical School ( Neuropharmacology )– 1974-1976

Specialty/Subspecialty:
Neurology (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1981)

Clinical Interests :
Movement Disorders and Degenerative Diseases of the Brain  

Honors/Awards:
The Lewis Award for best paper in Neuroscience. AUB. 1971 & 1972
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship 1982-83
Abdul Hamid Shuman Award for Young Arab Scientists, 1985
The 25th Wilder Penfield Lecturer, The American University of Beirut. 1987
Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Trieste, Italy 2000

Membership in Professional Organizations
1. Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
2. American Academy of Neurology, Minneapolis, MN.
3. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC
4. The Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK.
5. The New York Academy of Science, New York, NY
6. International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), Paris, FR.
7. Lebanese Association for the Advancement of Science, Beirut.
8. American Neurological Association, Washington, DC
9. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Wash., DC
10. International Association for the Study of Pain, Seattle, WA

Membership on Editorial Boards:
Contributing Editor, Neuroscience Journal. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Member of the Editorial and Scientific Committee, The Lebanese Science Journal.
Member of the International Advisory Committee, Archives of Neurology. USA

Research Interests:
Mechanisms of acute and chronic pain

E -mail address: sfatweh@aub.edu.lb

Tel:  01-374444, Extension: 5379