Associate Professor of Medicine
Assistant Dean for Clinical Curriculum and Graduate Medical Education

Phone: (974) 492 8340

• Touma Z, Hamdan A, Shamseddeen W, Nasr J, Makhoul N, Zalloua P, Arayssi T*, CTLA-4 Gene Variants Are Not Associated with Behçet’s Disease or Its Clinical Manifestations, Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology (In Press)
• Arayssi T,  Hamdan A, Touma Z,  Shamseddeen W, Uthman  I, Hourani H,  Farra C. TNF polymorphisms in Lebanese patients with Behçet Disease. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology (In Press)
• Kibbi L, Touma Z, Khoury N, Arayssi T*. Oral Bisphosphonates in the Treatment of Transient osteoporosis.  Clinical Rheumatology 2008, Apr. 27 (4) 529-32
• Menassa J, Sawaya R, Masri AF, Arayssi T*. Mononeuropathy in Behçet Disease.  The Neurologist 2008. Jan 14(1)

      * Denotes Senior Author

MD
American University of Beirut, 1990

Resident, Internal Medicine
University of Rochester, 1990-1993

Chief Resident, Internal Medicine
1993-1994

Fellow, Geriatric Medicine
University of Rochester and Monroe Community Hospital, 1994-1995

Fellowship in Rheumatology
NIAMS, National Institutes of Health, 1995-1997