Issa FARKH
Chargé de Cours
School of Midwifery
+961 (1) 421 000 issa.farkh@usj.edu.lb
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY: Currently at Hotel-Dieu de France (University Hospital Center), MEIH, and the Clinique du Levant. Hospital practice at: Lebanese Geitaoui Hospital, Trad Hospital, Samir Serhal Hospital; medical director and gynecological-obstetric volunteer at the Marial Maternity - Saint Vincent de Paul - Kornet Chehwane. UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES: Since 2018 - Director of the School of Midwives of Saint Joseph University. ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE SOVEREIGN ORDER OF MALTA: 2008-2022 - President of the Medical Committee of the Sovereign Order of Malta in Lebanon, then Medical Direction; 2009-2022 - President of the Steering Committee of the 'Caravan' project of the Sovereign Order of Malta. CULTURAL AND ASSOCIATIVE ACTIVITIES: President of the 'Friends of Sourat and Heritage' association (culture and heritage). SCHOOL STUDIES: 1963-1975 - College Notre-Dame de Jamhour; 1976-1977 - Franco-Lebanese Lycee; 1977 - Lebanese Baccalaureate (Elementary Mathematics series) and French Baccalaureate (Series C). DEGREES: 1993 - Specialty Diploma in Gynecology-Obstetrics from Rene Descartes University - Paris V; 1984 - Doctorate in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of Saint Joseph University. He completed gynecology and obstetrics specialty internships between 1985 and 1993 in Lebanon and France (including Serhal Hospital, Notre Dame des Secours Hospital in Byblos, and several French hospital centers: Beaumont-sur-Oise, Cochin - Port-Royal Maternity, Rene Dubos - Pontoise, Jean Verdier, and Notre-Dame du Bon-Secours), and followed training in gynecology-obstetrics and applied endoscopy. He has taught within Hotel-Dieu (University Hospital Center), given gynecology and obstetrics courses to nursing students at the Beaumont-sur-Oise and Pontoise hospital centers, and taught gynecology at the School of Midwives of the Lebanese University and obstetrics at the School of Midwives of Saint Joseph University. He has publications on prenatal diagnosis and obstetric ultrasound and has organized postgraduate teaching events. He is a member of the Committee of the Society of Francophone Gynecologists and of the Committee of the LOG (Lebanese Oncology Group).
Education
| Degree | University | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diplôme de spécialisation - Gynécologie et obstétrique | Université René Descartes(Paris V) | France | 1993 |
| Doctorat - Médecine | Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth | Liban | 1984 |
Publications and communications
Surprises, difficultés et imprécisions dans le diagnostic prénatal : a propos d’une délétion 5p (Médecine Fœtale et échographie en gynécologie - 1997 - No 32)Obstetric Ultrasound in a Rural Area of Lebanon (Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine; J Ultrasound Med 2020; 9999:1–7)
French