Myrna GANNAGE

Doyen - FLSH

Enseignant Cadré - Professeur - Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, University Paris V – Sorbonne, with distinction

(+961) 1 421 000 ext 5122 myrna.gannage@usj.edu.lb

Myrna Gannagé is Professor of Clinical Psychology and chair of the department of Psychology at St Joseph’s University in Beirut. In September 2020 she was elected Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the same University. She is also a psychologist at Hotel-Dieu’s Hospital in Beirut. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the  Psychological Consultation Centers for the Welfare of War Children in Lebanon, the first specialized outpatient units for children who had suffered from the war. She is the author of numerous scientific publications in the field of trauma and a monograph, L’enfant, les parents et la guerre, une étude clinique au Liban, 1999, Paris, ESF. In 2008 she was awarded the Human Rights Prize of the French Republic and in 2017 she was made “Knight of the National Order of Merit of the French Republic”.