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Winter
2013
‘42
Zuhair Annab
was honored by Princess Basma Bint Al Hus-
sein as pioneer and founder of medical laboratory in Jordan in
Mach 2013. Annab, graduated from AUB in 1948 during the
war in Palestine. He was offered a job in Altounyan Hospital in
Aleppo to establish a med lab. The hospital had no laboratory
then. It was a hard job and it was the only and first laboratory in
Aleppo. In 1952 he quit and went to Amman where he joined
the Medical Services in the Jordan Army. He was attached to
the army hospital in Amman. He established a laboratory for the
hospital and it was the first lab in the army medical services. The
army arranged for him to have a course in bacteriology, virology
and mycology
at The London
School of
Hygiene and
Tropical Medi-
cine, Universi-
ty of London.
After he was
offered the
post graduate
diploma the
Jordan army
arranged for
him to have
training at the
forensic lab at
Scotland Yard
Police in London. In 1956 he went back home and resumed his
work at the army hospital. In 1962 he resigned and his rank was
a major then, and started his own private med lab, which was
one of three labs in the country.
‘51
Munir E. Nassar
is writing a second edition manuscript about
the clinical medicine history of the Faculty of Medicine of AUB:
1920-1974. The first edition was published under a different
title and is unavailable.
‘65
Henry Nasrallah
is currently the Sydney W. Souers Professor
and Chairman, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, St.
Louis University, Missouri. He previously served as Chairman of
the Department of Psychiatry at The Ohio State University and
as Associate Dean at the University of Cincinnati. With his wife
Amelia Nasrallah, MA [AUB ‘70] they have two children and five
grandchildren. Henry has fond memories of his IC days especial-
ly working on the school journal’s editorial staff. He is currently
Editor of two journals: Schizophrenia Research and Current
Psychiatry. For classmates who would like to reconnect, his email
address is: hnasral@slu.edu
‘74
Dr. Yusuf A Hannun
recently moved to Stony Brook University
to become the Director of the Stony Brook Cancer Center. His
wife, Lina Obeid, moved to become the Dean for Research in
the School of Medicine
‘75
Reem Rashash-Shaaban
is on leave of ab-
sence this year from her job at the English
Department, AUB. She has been working
on her hobbies: writing and photography.
Three of her poems have been published
lately: Sixteen Again in the Rusty Nail,
Molten Lead in a Spoon - Poehemians and
The Artistic Muse, and Cool Water in The Missing Slate. She has
also participated in two photography exhibitions held at AUB
and Dar el Mussawwir. She is presently in Austin, Texas writing
and taking pictures.
‘80
Dr. Rana Zeine
has an MBA with Distinction and was recruited
to join the faculty of Saint James School of Medicine in February
2013. She has been teaching pathology and radiology to the
medical students at the Bonaire campus, and has been active in
the administration which is headquartered in Chicago IL, USA.
In June 2013 she presented a paper on ‘External Adaptability of
Higher Education Institutions: The Use of Diagnostic Interven-
tions to Improve Agility’, at the 13th International Conference
on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations, which
was held at the University of British Columbia Business school
in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This paper has been accepted for
publication in ‘Change Management: An International Journal’.
In August 2014, the conference will be held at Oxford Univer-
sity in the UK where she will be presenting two papers, one on
Considerate Leadership and one on Customer Service focus in
Higher Education Institutions.