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"Breaking the Bias: Stories from Academia"

Aicha Hind Rifai , MD

Aicha Hind Rifai

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

Aicha Hind Rifai, MD  

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

 

Dr. Rifai joined Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) in 2016. She is American Board Certified in both psychiatry and internal medicine with additional certification in geriatric psychiatry. Dr.Rifai is currently the Clerkship Director for Psychiatry and the Chair of the Grand Rounds Committee. Her areas of expertise and interest include the diagnosis and management of depression in complex settings, the integration of the humanities in medicine, and the history of medicine.

 

Selected Publications

A WORLD PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION INITIATIVE TO INCREASE INTEREST IN PSYCHIATRY AS A CAREER IN QATAR MEDICAL STUDENTS: A PILOT STUDY Psychiatria Danubina  2020 Academic Article

Psychological effects of war: A role play. A case study in peer-to-peer education for medical students.  Innovations in Global Health Professions Education 2019 Academic Article

Against oblivion: Samira al-Khalil and Anna Akhmatova in Douma. https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/against-oblivion-samira-al-khalil-and-anna-akhmatova-douma.  2017 Article

The contributions of the German-speaking countries to the History of Psychiatry.

Heidelberg University Press. (2006) Book

 

Chronic medical illness in patients with recurrent major depression.  American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 1996 Academic Article

Hopelessness in Suicide Attempters After Acute Treatment of Major Depression in Late Life. American Journal of Psychiatry 1994 Academic Article