MD: Aleppo University School of Medicine, Syria, 1988 Residency: University of Damascus, Syria, 1988-92, University of Pennsylvania, 1995-97, Case Western Reserve University, 1997-98, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard, 1998-2000 Fellowship: Eastern Virginia Medical School, 1993-94, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard, 2000-01 Certification: Board certified in anesthesiology, 2006
Interest:
pain management
Professional Affiliation:
The Syndicate of Syrian Physicians American Medical Association Cleveland Society of Anesthsiologists Ohio Society of Anesthesiologists American Society of Regional Anesthesia Academy of Medicine of Cleveland American Society of Anesthesiologists Arab American Medical Association Massachusetts’s Society of Anesthesiologists National Arab Medical Association Syrian-American Medical Society International Association of the Study of Pain New England Pain Society International Headache Foundation American Academy of Pain Medicine Greater Cincinnati Pain Society
Selected Publications:
Akbik, HH. “Spread of Leishmania in the North East of Syria”, Damascus, Syria. July-August, 1987.
Akbik, HH, “Pharmacist-managed pain clinic at a Veterans affairs Medical Center”, Am J Health System Pharm., 1;61 (13):1341-3, July 2004.
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