Phone: (974) 492 8313
Dr. Al-Amin, who received his M.D. from the American University of Beirut (AUB), has been a faculty member at AUB since 1997. Dr. Al-Amin has been an active teacher since joining the department of Psychiatry at AUB, involved in teaching Psychopathology, Ethics, and the required psychiatry rotation for the Family Medicine department. He also supervised several MS students for their thesis in Neuroscience at AUB.
In addition to a busy clinical practice, Dr. Al-Amin has served on a number of committees and boards, ranging from the Med II and Med III teaching committees, to the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee, the Performance Improvement Committee, and for several years he was a member of the Institutional Review Board at AUB.
His current research interests include the possible dopamine, glutamate, and cytokines interactions in the neuropsychiatric syndromes like chronic pain, addiction, and schizophrenia. He has served as PI on a number of multicenter clinical trials assessing atypical antipsychotics in schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder.
- Sibai AM, Chaaya M, Tohme RA, Mahfoud Z, Al-Amin HA. Validation of the Arabic version of the 5-item WHO Well Being Index in elderly population. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2009 Jan;24(1):106-7.
- Chayya M, Sibai AM, Roueiheb ZE, Chemaitelly H, Chahine LM, Al-Amin H, Mahfoud Z. Validation of the Arab version of the short Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS – 15). Int Psychogeriatr.2008 Jun;20(3):571-81. Epub 2008 Feb 21.
