Racha AARAJ (EL)

École de techniciens de laboratoire d'analyses médicales – Chargé de cours

Faculté de pharmacie – Chargé de cours

Institut de physiothérapie – Chargé de cours

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Enseignant Profile

<div style="language:en-GB;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:.31in;text-indent:-.31in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;mso-line-break-override:none;word-break:normal;punctuation-wrap:hanging"><div style="language:en-GB;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:.31in;text-indent:-.31in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;mso-line-break-override:none;word-break:normal;punctuation-wrap:hanging"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial;">•</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black;">Pharm D,MPH and Masters in Cancerology.</span></font></div><div style="language:en-GB;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:.31in;text-indent:-.31in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;mso-line-break-override:none;word-break:normal;punctuation-wrap:hanging"><font size="2"><span style="mso-special-format:bullet;font-family:Arial">•</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black;">Trilingual(French, English and Arabic) medical writer of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black;">14</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black;">years’experience, mostly gained in France and the Middle East and North Africaregion.</span></font></div><div style="language:en-GB;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:.31in;text-indent:-.31in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;mso-line-break-override:none;word-break:normal;punctuation-wrap:hanging"><font size="2"><span style="mso-special-format:bullet;font-family:Arial">•</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black;">Headof Medical Writing and Biostatistics at Phoenix Clinical Research.</span></font></div><div style="language:en-GB;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:.31in;text-indent:-.31in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;mso-line-break-override:none;word-break:normal;punctuation-wrap:hanging"><font size="2"><span style="mso-special-format:bullet;font-family:Arial">•</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black;">UniversityInstructor at Saint Joseph University, Lebanon.</span></font></div><div style="language:en-GB;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:.31in;text-indent:-.31in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;mso-line-break-override:none;word-break:normal;punctuation-wrap:hanging"><font size="2"><span style="mso-special-format:bullet;font-family:Arial">•</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black;">Memberof the European Medical Writers Association.</span></font></div><div style="language:en-GB;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:.31in;text-indent:-.31in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;mso-line-break-override:none;word-break:normal;punctuation-wrap:hanging"><font size="2"><span style="mso-special-format:bullet;font-family:Arial">•</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black;">Herspecial areas of expertise lie in regulatory medical writing, medicalcommunication, editing and proofreading.</span></font></div><div style="language:en-GB;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:.31in;text-indent:-.31in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;mso-line-break-override:none;word-break:normal;punctuation-wrap:hanging"><font size="2"><span style="mso-special-format:bullet;font-family:Arial">•</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black;">Haswritten over 45 original research articles, case reports, consensus reports andreviews with an acceptance rate of 94%.</span></font></div><div style="language:en-GB;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:.31in;text-indent:-.31in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;mso-line-break-override:none;word-break:normal;punctuation-wrap:hanging"><font size="2"><span style="mso-special-format:bullet;font-family:Arial">•</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black;">Haswritten over 30 research protocols, case report forms and clinical studyreports (Phase I-IV).</span></font></div><div style="language:en-GB;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:.31in;text-indent:-.31in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;mso-line-break-override:none;word-break:normal;punctuation-wrap:hanging"><font size="2"><span style="mso-special-format:bullet;font-family:Arial">•</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black;">Hasattended over 180 advisory boards and written the comprehensive reports inAlgeria, Egypt, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black;">Iraq,Jordan</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black;">,Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey, and United ArabEmirates.</span></font></div><br></div>


Education

Diplôme Université Pays Année
Specialised Master of Public Health (MPH), Institut Pasteur, Paris France 2011
Master of Science (Master 2) in Cancerology Paris 11 France 2009
Master of Science (Master 1) in Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences Saint Joseph University of Beyrouth Lebanon 2007
Pharm D Saint Joseph University of Beyrouth Lebanon 2003

Teaching at USJ

University teaching outside USJ

Professional experience outside USJ

Professional experience Organisation Start date End date
Internship - Fundamental Research in Oncology Cochin Hospital - APHP and Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif 01/10/2018 30/06/2009
University Lecturer - Biostatistics and Epidemiology Saint-Joseph University 03/03/2014
Regulatory Affairs Broadmed 01/07/2013 15/01/2014
Head of Medical Writing and Biostatistics Phoenix Clinical Research 01/03/2013
Medical Writer Monitoring Force Group France 01/03/2013 30/12/2016
Medical Writer Sanofi-Aventis 01/09/2011 29/02/2012
Medical Writer - Internship Novartis 01/04/2011 30/06/2011
Medical Writer - Internship GSK 03/05/2010 31/01/2011

Areas of expertise

Enseignant Discipline
Medecine and Health

Research themes

Enseignant Thematique

Pharmacie<div>Statistique</div><div>Epidemiologie</div>

Publications and communications

Enseignant Publi and Com

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.15pt"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Chaar%20EA%5BAuthor%5D&amp;ca… lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:="" "times="" roman";color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;text-decoration:="" none;text-underline:none"="">Chaar EA</span></a></span><span style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb"="">,&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Hallit%20S%5BAuthor%5D&amp;ca… lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:="" "times="" roman";color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;text-decoration:="" none;text-underline:none"="">Hallit S</span></a></span><span style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb"="">,&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Hajj%20A%5BAuthor%5D&amp;caut… lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:="" "times="" roman";color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;text-decoration:="" none;text-underline:none"="">Hajj A</span></a></span><span style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb"="">,&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Aaraj%20R%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cau… lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:="" "times="" roman";color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:en-gb"="">Aaraj R</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-gb"="">,&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Kattan%20J%5BAuthor%5D&amp;ca… lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:="" "times="" roman";color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;text-decoration:="" none;text-underline:none"="">Kattan J</span></a></span><span style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb"="">,&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Jabbour%20H%5BAuthor%5D&amp;c… lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:="" "times="" roman";color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;text-decoration:="" none;text-underline:none"="">Jabbour H</span></a></span><span style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb"="">,&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Khabbaz%20LR%5BAuthor%5D&amp;… lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:="" "times="" roman";color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;text-decoration:="" none;text-underline:none"="">Khabbaz LR</span></a></span><span style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb"="">. Evaluating the impact of spirituality on the quality of life, anxiety,and depression among patients with cancer: an observational transversal study. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29453604&quot; title="Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer."><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:="" "times="" roman";color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;text-decoration:="" none;text-underline:none"="">Supportive Care in Cancer: Official Journal of theMultinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer.</span></a></span><span style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-gb"="">&nbsp;2018;26(8):2581-2590. doi:10.1007/s00520-018-4089-1. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.15pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-bidi-font-family:calibri;="" mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:en-gb"=""><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.15pt"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Kmeid%20M%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cau… lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:="" "times="" roman";color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;text-decoration:="" none;text-underline:none"="">Kmeid M</span></a></span><span style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb"="">,&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Azouri%20H%5BAuthor%5D&amp;ca… lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:="" "times="" roman";color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;text-decoration:="" none;text-underline:none"="">Azouri H</span></a></span><span style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb"="">,&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Aaraj%20R%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cau… lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:="" "times="" roman";color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:en-gb"="">Aaraj R</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-gb"="">,&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Bechara%20E%5BAuthor%5D&amp;c… lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:="" "times="" roman";color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;text-decoration:="" none;text-underline:none"="">Bechara E</span></a></span><span style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb"="">,&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Antonios%20D%5BAuthor%5D&amp;… lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:="" "times="" roman";color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;text-decoration:="" none;text-underline:none"="">Antonios D</span></a></span><span style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb"="">. Vaccine coverage for Lebanese citizens and Syrian refugees in Lebanon.</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31089721&quot; title="International health."><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;="" mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"="">International Health.</span></a></span><span style="font-family:" times="" new="" roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-gb"="">&nbsp;2019;11(6):568-579. doi:10.1093/inthealth/ihz023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Awards and distinctions

Enseignant Prix Dist
Prix de distinction pour etre classee 2eme au Liban au Baccalureat libanais (Sciences de la Vie)