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- Country of residence: Jordan
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Date : 1-06-2010 CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Samar Lutfi Sharif
Date of Birth: 30 October 1959
Nationality: Jordanian.
Profession: Senior Lecturer
Community Medicine Department ,School of Medicine
University of Jordan. Amman-Jordan.
Marital Status: Married with one Child
Adress: POBox 13415 University of Jordan ,
Amman-Jordan.
Tel. 5355000 ext.24333
Home Tel.(9626) 5158807
Tel.Fax . (9626) 4640222
Mobile 00962 795910408
Email ssharif@ju.edu.jo samarsharif@hotmail.com.
Academic Qualifications.
- American High School 1976 - Cairo American College, Cairo -
Egypt.
- M.B.B.S. King Saud University -Riyadh Saudi Arabia-1982.
- Master in Primary Health Care (Family Medicine)King Saud
University, Riyadh ,Saudi Arabia 1985.
Academic Positions:
1987-To date: Senior-Lecturer in The Department of Community and
Family Medicine,School of Medicine, University of Jordan.
-Joint Appointment with the Obstetrics/ Gynaecology Department
University of Jordan , (1993- To 2000) .
1986: Senior Resident in Primary health Care Department.
King Saud University Hospital ,Riyadh- Saudi Arabia.
1983-1985: Resident in the Family Medicine Master Programe-
King Saud University Hospital -Riyadh -Saudi Arabia.
1982-1983: Rotation Internship ,King Saud University Hospital –
Riyadh Saudi -Arabia.
Teaching Activities:
1987-1989: Supervising the field visits of the 4th and 5th Medical
Students where we have screened all the families , in
Jabal Al-Naser area and opened a family folder for
each family and our
examinations included all pregnant mothers and
children under
five years of age.
1990-1997: Supervising the Medical Students (4th year) in their
visits to the
M.C.H. Centers in Amman .
1998-Untill now:
-Giving lectures and Seminars to 2rd and 3th Years
Medical Students mainly about MCH Topics which
included Vaccination, A.N.C .,W.B.C. Nutritional
Deficiencies in children,Family Planning,and
Contraceptions as well as supervising their field work
projects.
-Lecturing in Certain Health Education Courses for non
medical students( Dental, nursery and pharmacy students).
Dealing mainly with Primary Health Care and MCH.
-Coordinator and Lecturing in the Course of "Emergency
Medicine" Given for non-Medical and pharmacy Students.
-Organizing Health Education Programs for the Ministry of Health -
Maternity Child Health Centers given by the Medical Students.
- School Health Program Coordinator for the University School Students.
Recent Certificates in Short Course:
-Training Course in safe Mother -hood and birth spacing (Held by
the Ministry of Health at Amman -Jordan March 1994.
-Advanced International Programe "International Maternal Health
Care at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
,Uppsala University,Uppsala Sweden -November 1994.
-Basic Ultrasound Imaging /held in Amman Dec. 1996 Organized by
Royal Scientific Society with Cooperation of AL-Amal
Maternity Hospital.
-Short Course in “ Reproductive Health Research “
Held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
23June -17 July 1998.
- Research Activities:
1-A Cross-Sectional Primary Care Study of the
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Depression Among
Jordanian Women.( Accepted for pulication.)
Hamid H#, Abu-Hijleh N.∗, Sharif S.∗∗, Raqab M. Z1. , Mas’ad D.** , & Abbas A.**.
2- Alzheimer Disease in Amman Jordan: A Prospective,
Community-Based Pilot Study of the Prevalence, Presentation, and
Apolipoprotein E Characteristic of Elderly Jordanians. ( working on
it in the present time.)
# Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, New York University, New York, New York, USA
∗University of Jordan Department of Internal Medicine Division of Psychiatry
University of Jordan Department of Family and Community Medicine∗∗ 1 University of Jordan Department of Mathematics Division of Statistics
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Hamada Hamid 3251 N. Maple, Ann Arbor, Mi. USA
**email: hamadahamid@hotmail.com
Recent Conferences and Scientific Meetings:
1- International Maternal Health Care 1994 Uppsala University -
Uppsala /Sweden October 17 to Nov.4 presented a paper:
“ Pelvic Inflamatory Disease and Related sexually transmitted
Diseases”
From the above course we came out with a small book by the
address of:
1- The first referral level
2- Sexually transmitted diseases and reproductive health in
developing countries.
2- Comprehensive postpartum project done with the ministry of health
and USAID by a guide book under the name of :
“ Counseling in Maternal and Child Health Services and Family
Planning “ Amman-Jordan. 1997.
3- Workshop done with AVCS and Family HealthInternational on 24-
10-1997 participating as a member from the University Hospital
team , in the study done:
Acceptability of two long acting progestin only methods at three
hospitals in Amman - Jordan ( Jordan University Hospital , Al-Basheer
Hospital and King Hussein Military Hospital).
4- The Jordan Medical Association , the Jordanian society of
obstetricians and Gynecologists , workshop on safe motherhood
12/12/1996.
5- Workshop done on :
“ The prevention of cardio vascular diseases in Jordan”.
and I was one of the committee that dealt with Health Education in
preventing C.V.D. ( Jan.1997).
6- “New strategies in Family Planning Methods”
Workshop held on August 1997 Funded by the USAID and I was a
member of the counseling committee.
7- The first workshop on Insulin Department Diabetes Mellitus in
children and adolescents 26-28 October 1997 ,
University of Jordan. Amman-Jordan.
8- The Second Arabian Oncology Conference held in Amman 18-21
April 1998.
9- Elderly Care Conference 8/12/1998 and I was a member of the Health
improvement committee for Elderly .
10- National Center For Diabetes , Endocrine and Genetics
24/4/1999 At Jordan University Hospital Auditorium .
11- The Second International Conference of Royal Jordanian Medical
Services. 7-10 Oct.2003.I presented the
1-A Cross-Sectional Primary Care Study of the
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Depression Among
Jordanian Women.
Hamid H#, Abu-Hijleh N.∗, Sharif S.∗∗, Raqab M. Z2. , Mas’ad D.** , & Abbas
A.**.
12- The first International Conference on Primary Care. 10th to
12th November 2005. Amman- Jordan. The National Arab
American Medical association.
13- The 5th Primary Health Care Conference “Reality and Ambitions”
2nd to 4th April 2005 . Doha,State of Qatar.
.14- First Eastern Mediterranean Psychiatric Conference.
March 14-17,2007. Larnaca, Cyprus.
15-Cognitive Behavior Therapy Course.
6-10 June 2009 King Faisal Specialist Hospital
Jeddah - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
# Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, New York University, New York, New York, USA
∗University of Jordan Department of Internal Medicine Division of Psychiatry
University of Jordan Department of Family and Community Medicine∗∗ 2 University of Jordan Department of Mathematics Division of Statistics
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Hamada Hamid 3251 N. Maple, Ann Arbor, Mi. USA
**email: hamadahamid@hotmail.com
Publication:
Transcultural psychiatry, December 2004
A Primary Care Study of the Correlates of
Depressive Symptoms Among Jordanian Women
HAMADA HAMID
New York University
NIZAM SALEH ABU-HIJLEH, SAMAR LUTFI SHARIF,MOHAMMAD
ZAYED RAQAB, DIANAMAS’AD & ADNAN ABBAS
University of Jordan
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