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Hammam Akbik, MD
Specialty: Anesthesiology
Sub-Specialty: Pain Management
Department: Anesthesiology
Title: Assistant Professor and Director of Pain Management
Phone: (513) 475-8282 (clinical)
E-mail: hammam.akbik@uc.edu
Home Page: www.universitypain.com

Education/Credentials:

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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