Nephrology/Tenured Prof Medicine & Biochem; Exec Assoc Dean for Faculty Affairs; former Chair: Dept of Med, & of IRB; American University of Beirut, Lebanon🇱🇧
✅ Fuad Ziyadeh - served as
Chairperson of the Department of Internal Medicine
@AUB_Lebanon
for ~16 years, from Nov 19, 2007, till Aug 31, 2023 🎯
Curiously: longest serving Chair in last 💯years🥁
Currently, Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
@AUB_FM
&
@AUBMC_Official
At the iconic White Dog Café at UPenn’s campus in
#Philadelphia
. Father and son dining during a crammed move-in week. An exciting and thrilling new journey for him now, as it was for me many, many years ago.
#University_of_Pennsylvania
@UofPenn
@AUB_Lebanon
President
@DrFadloKhuri
honoring
Dr. Ghazi Zaatari (Interim Dean of AUB’s Faculty of Medicine for ~ 2 years during the crisis and pandemic years of 2020 & 2021) by hanging Zaatari’s photo amongst photos of former deans/directors of the medical school.
Today November 19 marks my 15th year anniversary as the Chairperson of the Department of Internal Medicine at
@AUB_Lebanon
, and it’ll be the last year as I’ve elected to free up my time for the new post of Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the Faculty of Medicine 🎓
A moving ceremony that touched me greatly. Ever so grateful to the leadership of
@AUB_Lebanon
,
@AUBMC_Official
, and
@AUB_FM
. An immense honor to be servant-leader and partner of this remarkable anti-fragile medical community for all these years. Thank you from the bottom of my ❤️
🎈Celebratory ceremony today to honor Professor Ibrahim Salti
@AUB_FM
&
@AUBMC_Official
@AUB_Lebanon
, a pioneering role model, a master clinician, a luminary ‘teacher of teachers’, and perpetual scholar and leader in Endocrinology and Diabetes. 🎈
Congratulations! 🎊 On concluding a successful week of review by Joint Commission International
@JCI_GoldSeal
to re-accredit
@AUBMC_Official
as an ‘academic medical center’. Our motto “Together, We Resist & Persist” aptly reflects true
@AUB_Lebanon
spirit!👍
According to this wall
@AUBMC_Official
there have been 21 chairs of Dept of Internal Medicine in the 150 years of
@AUB_Lebanon
faculty of medicine, starting with Dr. Cornelius Van Dyck up until
@FuadZiyadeh
!
I am honored & privileged to receive notification today from
@DrFadloKhuri
that the BOT has awarded me tenure. What great recognition $ significant responsibility to be a tenured professor at Faculty of Medicine
@AUB_Lebanon
@AUBMC_Official
. Reinstating tenure at
#AUB
is grand!
📚So proud of all the MD applicants from
#Lebanon
— especially those who have matched in so many residency programs. 👩🎓👨🏻🎓Great achievers, against all odds! The tradition lives on! ✅
#MATCH2024
✅
@AUB_Lebanon
Faculty of Medicine Dean’s Excellence Awards for administrative & research staff
@AUB_Lebanon
.
I’ve worked for many yrs very closely with 3 of the awardees: Ms Amal Said (Dept Int Med), Ms
@abeer_dakik
(
@AUB_IRB
) & Mr
@khalil_kreidieh
(Faculty Affairs); I can’t be prouder! 👏🙏🏅
The first medical school building erected on
#Beirut
campus (1873)
@AUB_FM
established in 1867 — just one year since establishing
@AUB_Lebanon
in 1866
Medicine/Health: so critically important in the vision of the Founding Fathers to benefit the local community
@AUB_Lebanon
Faculty of Medicine received full international
#accreditation
as of Jan 1, 2019 for 6 yrs. Wow; a first!!
@kfbadr
In 2023, applicants for ECFMG Certification, must be from a
#medschool
that is accredited via a recognized
@wfmeorg
agency
Medical specialty/subspecialty; graduation of trainees today; residents and clinical fellows; “Pandemic Class of 2020 Graduates”!
@AUBMC_Official
@AUBAlumni
@AUB_Lebanon
in historic Assembly Hall, with social distancing and online live streaming: A first!
#GME
#Covid19
#Lebanon
Great graduation dinner at Riviera Hotel Beirut of the Department of Internal Medicine
@AUB_Lebanon
@AUBMC_Official
.
@FuadZiyadeh
! Congratulation to all our wonderful graduating residents and fellows, and many thanks to all our current interns, residents and fellows!
I’m very proud of my Department of Internal Medicine
@AUB_FM
for the amazing standing of its faculty: 13 (or more than a quarter) of the 48 AUB faculty in top 2% of most cited researchers in the world are in this department; 5 of 13 are in the top 1%
@AUB_Lebanon
@AUBMC_Official
Got my copy of Renal Grand Rounds..from the beginning: A History of Nephrology
@PennKidney
Thank you
@FuadZiyadeh
for the excellent reading suggestion!
I love the levity of the pictures, especially Donna McCurdy c. 1976 w/a pro
@womeninnephro
sweatshirt (not included here)
Congratulations to more than ten dozen post-doctoral trainees
@AUBMC_Official
: residents and clinical fellows graduating today
@AUB_Lebanon
’s Assembly Hall 🎓 🎉🎊
It was an honor for me to be the Marshal at the ceremony. With
@DrFadloKhuri
and Dean Mo Sayegh
@AUBAlumni
#Beirut
"I'm a bit ashamed to admit this, but I was trying to hide the fact that I came from Lebanon."
2021 medicine laureate Ardem Patapoutian (
@ardemp
) shares his personal story of inclusion and how proud he is of his background (something that hasn't always been the case).
Finally, finally...the Medical Gate entrance
@AUB_Lebanon
uncluttered and without the kiosk; now restored to its deserved harmony and beauty. Cheers!
The Department of Intetnal Medicine, the largest department at
@AUB_Lebanon
, celebrating with the rest of
@AUBMC_Official
, with 16 graduating clinical fellows from 8 different academic divisions, 16 PGY3 residents, and 2 chief residents! Heroes of 2022 🙏👏🎊❤️
#AUB
Faculty of Medicine Graduate Medical Education (GME) Graduation Ceremony of Residents & Fellows 2022 happening now!
Join us live on AUB YouTube at
The very first
@AUB_IRB
meeting just started at the new location in the Daniel ACC Building
@AUB_Lebanon
with biomedical members in the new board room on the 3rd floor. Congratulations on the new move!
@AUBMC_Official
@AUB_Lebanon
President
@DrFadloKhuri
addressing medical staff, nursing, & med students: “I thank you for your courage, dedication, and fortitude. Your heroism exemplifies all that is right and good about our great university and medical center”
@AUBMC_Official
#Beirut_Explosion
Homemade Lebanese pancakes called ‘Katayef’ typically prepared for the Epiphany feast; one version is stuffed with crushed walnuts, sugar, rose water, and orange blossom water and drizzled with sugar syrup. Yummy 😋 even without frying.
👏 Groundbreaking event: The very first National Research Day organized by all 8 Medical Schools in
#Lebanon
taking place today at
@AUB_FM
@AUB_Lebanon
with 3 simultaneous oral presentations and also lots of posters.
@CRI_AUBMC
#Beirut
I am at
@AUBMC_Official
and I am now thinking of Schrödinger's cat 🐈⬛ and the current time in
#Beirut
-
It is now both 12:40 pm and 1:40 pm at the same time, in the same place!! Analogous somehow to the cat in the box being both dead and alive at the same time. Only in
#Lebanon
What can you buy with the severely devalued Lebanese Lira these days? It turns out that one tiny piece of pistachio baklava (~15 grams) from a reputable patisserie comes out to be 2,000 LL!! A tiny piece of cashews baklava is for 1,000 LL! Stick to Nammoura?
#Lebanon
Bon appétit
Strange and sudden surprise?!
Opening of 2 new neighborhood restaurants in
#RasBeirut
-
#Hamra
area.
- a sushi joint on Jeanne d’Arc Str. (Kuruma).
- an Italian/pizza place on Makdessi Str. (Appetito).
#Beirut
#Lebanon
In
#Lebanon
, I figured it will be years before we get promotional freebies like calendars, so I am starting to recycle old calendars and re-labeling months/years.
Today is Thursday April 1, 2021.
No joke.
@AUB_Lebanon
Campus with magnificent, aging banyan trees! Here’s a b&w photo from nearly a century ago. And photos of 3 trees today…
Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) is native to India. The name Banyan refers to traders, who used to sell merchandise under such trees in India.
Congratulations!
@NagiSaghir
on the dedication ceremony today: the naming of the Professor Nagi Saghir Conference Room on 4th floor of the new Daniel ACC Building
@AUBMC_Official
@AUB_Lebanon
Graduating residents 2018: PGY3’s and chief residents of Department of Internal Medicine celebrating with the traditional hooray jump on the stairs of Assembly Hall
@AUB_Lebanon
in
#Beirut
🎊🎗💥🎈❤️👏
Enjoying, participating & judging in 4 of the sessions — 2023 Clinical Research Open House: Fine presentations by medical students as well as the Fellow & Resident Research Program (FRRP) for the graduating class in Int. Medicine 🎓
#AUB_CROH23
@AUB_Lebanon
@AUBMC_Official
Going out of business! Lamenting high-end eateries and restaurants around
@AUBMC_Official
-
@AUB_Lebanon
. Gruen, The Beazbee in Gefinor.... Victims of the successive crises, financial and pandemic
#COVID19
#Beirut
Visiting
#Philadelphia
for
#ACP19
Meeting..🥨
And this is the 40th anniversary 🎉of my first ever visit to
#HUP
, 34 & Spruce Streets,
@Penn
Campus, which then became my professional home & Alma Mater as trainee and faculty
@PennKidney
@PennMedicine
for half my adult life. Sweet
Also, my presumption is that: Were the trees 🌳 still there, they might have provided a huge protective barrier during the
#BeirutExplosion
to avoid the damage to windows right across the street in the lower floors of
@AUBMC_Official
#hospital
building.