Ibrahem Hanafi, M.D., Pgcert, M.Sc. Email & Phone Number

- Author at Schizophrenia, Lung Cancer and Acute Respiratory Infections groups- Referee at the groups of: Schizophrenia, Common Mental Disorders; Back and Neck; Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care; Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems.- Member at Trainers' Network of Cochrane and delivered many lectures in several Cochrane workshops all around Syria

Syria

- Designing, planning and conducting campaigns to train internally displaced people (IDPs) in cumulative shelters on the general concepts of water, sanitation and personal hygiene (WASH), as well as distributing cleaning materials to maintain enough supply of safe clean water.- Conducting reports and presentations about WASH related assessments in shelters and schools in Damascus, Syria. - Developing and updating tools and measures for needs assessment, teams monitoring and projects evaluation.- Provided a training about water related diseases for public health promoters in Aleppo (Mar 2018), in Daraa (Dec 2018), in Damascus (Jan 2019), and in Homs (Feb 2019).- Participated in providing a workshop about the preparedness and the response to Leishmaniasis "The Neglected Outbreak in Hama, Syria" (Aug 2017).

Syria

- Supervising the Liaison and working with them to recruit undergraduate and postgraduate medical students to take the online course "Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research"- Planning for and conducting two workshops for the 4th term of IPPCR in Damascus University remote-site; the first was delivered on a weekly basis for 4 months, and the latter was a practical workshop for 15 hours which included practising skills such as: literature search, reading research articles, critical appraisal, conducting protocols as well as practical statistical skills.

Damascus, Syria

- Performing the initial assessment of the patient and actively participating in all aspects of patient care, including history taking, physical examination, diagnostic and therapeutic planning, procedures, writing orders, and interactions with family.- In-depth discussion of all cases with the attending prior to initiation of all but the most basic diagnostic studies or therapeutic interventions.- Seeing broad spectrum of undifferentiated patients on all shifts in internal medicine wards and internal medicine emergency departments.- Responsible for supervising both younger residents and medical students.- Responsible for maintaining medical records.

Syria

- Serving as the Acting Leader and Capacity Builder of the Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace (SCORP) since May 2016 and the National Officer since Jan 2017. - Building the first team and annual plan for SCORP in the newly established medical students NGO (SMSA) in Syria.- Supervising and managing projects planned by SCORP alone or by SCORP in collaboration with other committees nationally or internationally.- Representing SCORP-SMSA in the regional and international meetings of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA).- Nominated as a Human of SCORP internationally in December 2016.

Beirut District, Lebanon

- Shadowing Neuro-Consults team as well as shadowing the professors in their private clinics- Performing basic neurological physical examination- Attending Lectures, journal clubs and neuro rotations

Beirut District, Lebanon

-Anesthetizing rats with a mixture of ketamine and xylazil via intra-peritoneal injections.-Perfusion by saline and formaldehyde followed by dissection of rats removing brain from the skull.-Using the micro-tome to cut the rat brain in accordance with the rat brain atlas to collect the sections that would represent the whole hippocampus.-Practicing the immunofluorescence protocol on the cut sections using primary and secondary antibodies that target neurons and stem cell markers, as well as mounting sections on slides.-Learning and practicing in accordance to the rules and regulations to use the cell culture facility.-Observing many other techniques like tissues staining, using the Observer and the Confocal microscope to view and count fluorescent positive cells as well as freezing, preplating and culturing methods for cells in cell culture facility.

Syria

- Established an authorised a remote site at the Faculty of Medicine of Damascus University for taking the NIH course named: Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR). - This was the First time the course has a remote site in Syria and this was reported by the Clinical Center News in an article named “Clinical Center IPPCR course brings research training to war zone”- Served as primary liaison for the course materials (lectures and handouts) and organised a Two-day-workshop as a wrap-up for the course.- 155 Students from Damascus University were certified in this session of the course- Helped the liaisons of years 2016, 2017 and 2018 to provide the maximum benefit of this course and to improve the delivery of their workshops with experiences trainers.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Neurology And Neuroscience

Master Of Science - Ms, Translational Neuroscience

Medical Student (M.D.), Medicine

Activities and Societies: Med Head Start Voluntary Team (MHS) Red Blood Cells Voluntary Team (RBCs) Ahya-Sy Voluntary Team - Three years.