The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast

Listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast discussing life with visual impairment in Lebanon with Yara Kobrossy who was diagnosed with retinitis pigementosa, a degenerative eye disease that leads to progressive loss of vision, at 8 years of age. Instead of letting this be a detriment, Yara completed her studies in education at the University of Balamand in Lebanon and has bee...

Our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast discussing the role of the European Commission and the French Development Agency (AFD) as donors in promoting the development of a strong primary healthcare system in the country. This episode, which was co-hosted by Dr. MohammadAli Jardaly and Dr. Vlad Chaddad (Regional Health Advisor for the International Rescue Committee in the MENA region)...

Our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians Podcast with Louis Atallah, PhD, R and D lead Clinical AI and analytics at Phillips in Boston, MA, USA. This episode is co-hosted with Dr. MohammadAli Jardaly. Dr. Atallah is working mostly in tele ICU and eiCU monitoring developing AI algorithms to detect disease early, improve outcomes, and improve quality of care. In this episode, we discuss the rol...

Please listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast discussing clincial informatics in primary care and its role in enhancing access to primary care and preventive care. This episode is co-hosted with Dr. MohammadAli Jardaly. Our guest is Dr. Ramy Khalil who is now based in Dubai, but is still director of medical informatics at PeopleOne Health, a direct primary healthcare comp...

Please listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast discussing the role of Artificial Intelligence in Optimizing nursing processes. In this episode, which was co-hosted by MohammadAli Jardali and Antoine Saab, we discuss our topic with Cynthia Abi Khalil, director of nursing services at The Lebanese Hospital-Geitaoui. Ms. Abi Khalil is currently pursuing her PhD in Medical Info...

Please listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Drs. Tania Baban and Vlad Chaddad, and co-hosted with Dr. MohammadAli Jardali. Dr. Chaddad has been a very active member of the NGO community in the region and is currently responsible for the work of IRC in the region. Dr. Baban is medical director of the MedGlobal mission in Lebanon. In this episode, we discuss medical...

The COVID-19 pandemic showed the world that our pandemic monitoring systems could not prevent and detect the scale of the pandemic in a timely manner. The responses around the world were variable and differed by region. In this episode co-hosted with MohammadAli Jardali, we discuss with Antoine Saab, PhD, Healthcare Quality and Development Manager at Lebanese Hospital Geitaoui-UMC, his project "St...

Please listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Hala Najm, Rasha Abi Hana, and Ziad Khatib. This is the first episode recorded in person in Washington, D.C. Ms. Najm and Ms. Abi Hana have significant experience in substance use disorders and mental health awareness in Lebanon. Ms. Najm is also on a Hubert Humphrey Fulbright scholarship at VCU researching substance use...

lease tune in to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Dr. Maya Bizri, MD MPH discussing a topic that is often underrecognized, the mental health of healthcare workers. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Bizri's recent trip to Ukraine with MedGlobal in which she visited Lviv in Ukraine as part of a MedGlobal team invited by the Ministry of Health. The team developed a training p...

Please listen to and watch our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Dr. Maria Chahrour at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX.   Autism Spectrum Disorder affects 1 in 36 children in the United States according to the CDC website. According to the WHO, 1 in 100 children worldwide have been identified with the disorder.   In this episode, we discuss the incidence and impa...

Listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Krystel Ouaijan, Senior Dietician specialized in critical illness at Saint George Hospital University Medical Centre and secretary and founding member of the Lebanese Syndicate for Dieticians and Nutritionists. In this episode, we discuss her latest research on the rates of malnutrition in Lebanon and the impact of those rates o...

Watch and listen to our newest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast co-hosted with Dr. MohammadAli Jardali. In this episode, we discuss with Drs. Ahmad Zaghal (Pediatric Surgery at AUBMC) and Houssein Darwish (Neurosurgery at AUBMC) the recent accomplishment of the separation of conjoined twins at AUBMC. We discuss the great team of doctors, nurses, and personnel who were instrumental in ma...

Please watch and listen to the latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast discussing the role of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine with Dr. Cyril Zakka. Dr. Zakka has a background in Computer Science at Boston College and has been interested in artificial intelligence since his childhood days. We discuss his role in the Artificial Intelligence Program at the American University of Beirut...

Listen to our newest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast discussing the response to the COVID-19 pandemic at Indiana University and successful infection control practices with Dr. Lana Dbeibo of Indiana University. Dr. Dbeibo was Director of Vaccine Initiatives at Indiana University and received recognition from the Indianapolis Business Journal in the 2022 Forty under Forty for her work i...

Please listen to our latest episode of the Lebanese Physicians' Podcast discussing the origins and causes of the cholera epidemic in Lebanon, its future, and its relation to the healthcare, water, and electricity infrastructure in Lebanon. This podcast is also available on YouTube on The Lebanese Physicians Podcast Channel, on Apple, Spotify, Anghmai, and iHeartRadio.  #Cholera #lebanon 

If you are a mid career professional who is wondering about switching to industry, or if you are a graduating medical trainee who is wondering about not going into clinical medicine, this is the podcast for you. Tune in to this episode of the podcast, co-hosted with Dr. MohammadAli Jardali, listen to Dr. Emile Mehanna describe his successful transition from clinical Interventional Cardiology to in...

Listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast (co-hosted by MohammadAli Jardali) with Dr. Cesar Yazbeck, Executive Director of Date Science and Care Delivery at CVS Health. In this episode, Cesar discusses his road to CVS Health starting from graduation from the American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine to his healthcare consulting roles at McKinsey and Company in Dubai...

Tune in to our newest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Dr. Pascal Jabbour discussing his pathway to a neurosurgical residency in the United States and his tips for success. We also discuss the research fellowships he is offering to help international medical graduates, specifically Lebanese graduates, succeed in neurosurgical research and in securing residency spots in the United S...

Our latest episode of the Lebanese Physicians Podcast with William Azar and Nadia Samaha discussing their recent success story navigating the NGO world and raising money to deliver tons of needed medications to Lebanon. They saw the need in the middle of the crisis in Lebanon and they acted quickly and efficiently to successfully fulfill that need. #Lebanon #NGOs #Medications

Please listen to and watch our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with CardioDiagnostics Founder Ziad Sankari. In this episode, we discuss the advent of telemonitoring technologies in healthcare. We delve into the initiation of startups in the space in the US and the MENA region with focus on CardioDiagnostics, and we discuss the role of these technologies in the healthcare of the...

Medical school tuition is always hard to afford even in the best of times. It becomes much harder to afford in a country hit by one of the worst financial crises this century. Instead of falling into despair, Jad Boustani, Amal Masrii, Jessica Badawi, and multiple other medical students from most medical schools in Lebanon came together and started the Medical Campaign. These students devised seve...

If you want to learn about app development and transforming ideas into success stories and actions, you need to listen to and watch the latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast discussing the app toothpick with its creator Dr. Wael Bizri, a dentist in Lebanon. Wael has used his entrepreneurial spirit and skills at team building and team work to develop the app toothpick, which is revolut...

If you are interested in learning about the future of delivering mental health services in Lebanon and the MENA region, please listen and watch our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Dr. MohammadAli Jardali and Dr. Sara Catherine Mourani. A large portion of the Lebanese population has difficulty accessing mental health services due to financial, geographic, and cultural reason...

Our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Dr. Rola Hammoud, current Chief Medical Officer, of CMC Dubai. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Hammoud's journey from an anesthesiology resident at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon to becoming the CMO of an up and coming hospital in Dubai. We discuss her role and the role of women in medicine in advancing the healthcare sector...

Listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians Podcast with Lawyer Mohanna Ishak representing the NGO Kafa. In this episode, we discuss the conditions of domestic workers in Lebanon, the laws regulating their work, their rights, and their access to healthcare. We also discuss the role of Kafa and other active NGOs in the country in promoting these rights and lobbying for better conditions...