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Mabel AOUN

Mabel AOUN

Faculty of Medicine – Chargé de Cours

+961 (1) 421 000 mabel.aoun@usj.edu.lb

Dr Mabel Aoun graduated in 2004 as a nephrologist from the Saint-Joseph University of Beirut completed her fellowship in nephrology, kidney transplantation renal pathology in Paris. She was the head of Department of Nephrology at Saint-Georges Ajaltoun Hospital in Lebanon between 2006 2022. In September 2022, she moved to France and has been practicing at AUB Santé, Lorient. She is currently an Associate Professor at the faculty of medicine of Saint-Joseph University of Beirut and she is involved in mentoring the medical theses of medical students. Her main academic lectures target chronic kidney disease, drugs and kidney, cystic kidney diseases, hypertension emergencies, acid-base disturbances, renal anemia and hyperuricemia. She is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, first author of 23, a reviewer for several international journals and editor for Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, BMC Nephrology and PLOS ONE. She led the development of a national policy at the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health upgrading water quality and guidelines in Lebanese hemodialysis units in 2014. In June 2020, she received her Master of Public Health and Health Management and Policy from the American University of Beirut. She received her diploma in systematic reviews and meta-analysis from the Paris-Cite University in France in June 2023. She has a strong commitment to research in nephrology, particularly in areas where she has good expertise such as hemodialysis, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, epidemiology and public health.

Areas of expertise

Medecine and Health

Research themes

Anemia chronic kidney diseaseAnemia acute kidney injuryErythrocytosis chronic kidney diseaseVascular calcifications hemodialysisQuality of life and hemodialysisFatigue and hemodialysisHeadache and hemodialysisSocial determinants of health and hemodialysisSatisfaction of nephrologistsEnvironmental factors and chronic kidney diseaseHypertension and climate changeCost of illness of chronic kidney disease

Publications and communications

1-Pearls of NDT, Lecture, ERA Congress, Stockholm 2024.2-Twice against Thrice weekly Hemodialysis: the TATH trial. Oral communication, ERA Congress, Stockholm 2024.3-Reimagining health systems. Oral presentation at the HSR2020, Health Systems Global (HSG). Dubai, March 2021.4-Risk Factors for Vascular Calcifications in Hemodialysis Patients: to What Extent is Vitamin K Deficiency involved? Oral communication. ERA-EDTA congress- Madrid May 2017.5-Aoun M, Jadoul M, Anders HJ. Erythrocytosis chronic kidney disease. AJKD. 2024.6-Jadoul M, Aoun M, Masimango M. The major global burden of chronic kidney disease. Lancet Global Health. 2024. 7-Aoun M, Koubar S. Global dialysis perspective: Lebanon. Kidney360, July 2023.8-Aoun M, Sleilaty G, Abou Jaoude S, Chelala D, Moussa R. How do Lebanese patients perceive the ideal doctor based on the CanMEDS competency framework? BMC Med Educ. 201919:399.9-Aoun M, Karam R, Sleilaty G, Antoun L, Ammar W. Iron deficiency across chronic kidney disease stages: is there a reverse gender pattern? PLOS ONE. 2018 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.019154110-38.Aoun M, Makki M, Azar H, Matta H, Chelala D. High Dephosphorylated-Uncarboxylated MGP in Hemodialysis patients: risk factors response to vitamin K2, a pre-post intervention clinical trial. BMC Nephrology. 201718:191.