Affiliations
Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry
American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Short Biography
Dr. Fadi Maalouf is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Chairperson of the Department of Psychiatry at the American University of Beirut. Dr. Maalouf also holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Maalouf is trained in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Dr. Maalouf’s research interest is in the areas of epidemiology of childhood psychiatric disorders and specifically emotional disorders and in school-based youth mental health interventions that aim at bridging the treatment gap in this population. Dr. Maalouf has received several grants and awards from prestigious organizations such as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention and the Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery. He is also an elected member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and has received the Shoman Foundation Arab Researcher Award.