Dr Abboud Antoine Assaf - Psychiatrist - Beirut, Lebanon

Dr Assaf is the head of the psychiatry department at Bellevue Medical Center since November 2010. With a pluridisciplinary approach regrouping various specialties, this department is adapted to every psychiatric illness, even the most severe and offers inpatient group therapies that are unique of a kind in Lebanon.

Dr ASSAF also worked in a mental health project for the Palestinian refugees of the Northern camps in Lebanon following the Nahr El Bared crisis that emerged in summer 2007, as well as with the Lebanese nongovernmental organization AJEM (Association Justice Et Misericorde) that works inside the prison of Roumieh in various projects aiming different inmate populations (tortured prisoners, Iraqi refugees), most notably with the addicts in a rehabilitation center within the  

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prison.

Continuous Medical Education (outside Lebanon)

2011
Writing scientific papers (Hikma), Istanbul, Turkey
Depression and psychosis (Eli Lilly), Istanbul, Turkey

2010
ECNP, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Neurobiology of depression III, Vienna, Austria

2009
ECNP, Istanbul, Turkey
Pathophysiology of mental illness (Hikma), Egypt
Neurobiology of depression II, Vienna, Austria

2008
CINP, Munich, Germany
IRBD, Copenhagen, Denmark
Novelties in psychiatry (Lundbeck), Budapest, Hungary
Arab mental disorders congress (Hikma), Jordan

2007
The pathophysiology of pain, Dubai, UAE