Biography

1. Born in Baghdad & Graduated from AinShams Medical School in Cairo, Egypt.
2. Resident in Radiology & Nuclear Medicine in Baghdad, Iraq.
3. Postgraduate training in Nuclear Medicine in Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA.
4. Nuclear Cardiology in Ibn-Al Nafis Cardiovascular hospital in Baghdad, Iraq.
5. Hammersmith Hospital in Nuclear Medicine in London, UK.
6. Master’s degree in Nuclear Medicine in the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Univ.of London, UK.
7. Moved to Abu Dhabi in 1987 as head of Nuclear Medicine in Tawam Hospital
8. Associate Professor of Nuclear Medicine & BMD in Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, UAE University.
9. Training in Anderson in Bone Densitometry in the USA.
10. Started BMD for the first time in UAE in 1995.
11. Awarded Shaikh Hamdan Medical Award for the group conducted research in Women Osteoporosis & BMD in 2006.
12. Moved to Dubai in 2004.
13. I had training on PET-CT in Sherbrooke in Canada in 2005.
14. Associate Professor in Dubai Medical School.
15. Trained in Canada, Germany (Munich, Bad- Berka and Hannover), France & Belgium.
16. Certified by European Nuclear Medicine Board (FEBNM) 2005.
17. Founder & Chairman of the Pan Arab Osteoporosis Society (PAOS).
18. Third President of PAOS & Member of IOF.
19. Founder & Currently Chairman of Emirates Osteoporosis Society.
20. Member of Examiners board of Asian Nuclear Medicine Board (ANMB) Japan 2014-now
21. Director the Head of Nuclear Medicine in Al Andalus Private Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq
22. I have over 40 publications, chapters in Books & 1000s of Oral presentations.