The medical system in Lebanon has faced significant challenges since 2019 due to a combination of economic, political, and security factors. The explosion of August 2020 and the last 10 days have posed significant challenges to the system.
In this episode co-hosted with MohammadAli Jardaly, we discuss with Dr. Salah Zeineddine, CMO of the American Universit ... Show More
Today
Understanding Young Minds: Parenting, Trauma & the Future of Mental Health in Lebanon
How have years of instability, conflict, and economic hardship affected Lebanon’s children and adolescents? Dr. Pia Tohme Khalaf, Associate Professor of Psychology at Lebanese American University (LAU), joins The Lebanese Physicians Podcast to discuss parenting, emotional attachm ... Show More
35m 15s
Yesterday
Can AI Make Healthcare More Human? | Charbel Rizkallah, Hikma AI
Can artificial intelligence make healthcare more human? In this episode of The Lebanese Physicians Podcast, we speak with Charbel Rizkallah, Founder and CEO of Hikma AI, whose wife's battle with the rare blood disorder paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) inspired him to ret ... Show More
48m 30s
Oct 24
From Beirut to Nobel Laureates: A Young Lebanese Scientist’s Inspiring Journey | Tala Kaddoura
From Lebanon’s economic crisis to the prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany, AUB PhD researcher Tala Kaddoura shares her inspiring journey of perseverance, scientific discovery, and ambition. Discover how her groundbreaking research using 3D kidney organoids could ... Show More
25m 35s
Aug 2020
‘On the Edge of the Abyss’: Covid-19 in Beirut
On the morning of the deadly explosion that tore through the Lebanese capital of Beirut, the city’s main public hospital was already approaching full capacity from coronavirus patients. Now, with hospitals heavily damaged and overwhelmed with the injured from the blast, how does ... Show More
18m 7s
Aug 2020
Episode 89 - Post blast politics
Ben and Nizar are joined by Ramez Dagher, an MD & psychiatry resident who also writes regularly on Lebanese politics on the Moulahazat blog, to discuss the latest post Beirut Port explosion, with political wrangling to shift blame, worrying spikes in coronavirus threatening an al ... Show More
43m 49s
