Clinical Medicine Research History at the American University of Beirut, Faculty of Medicine 1920-1974
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About the Book
This is a historical document of the origin and progress of clinical medicine research at the AUB School of Medicine from 1920–1974 and a synopsis of the founding of the Syrian Protestant College by Presbyterian missionaries. Later on the college became known the American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon (1920). Throughout the manuscript, the author attempts to comment on certain important clinical research as well as his journey into clinical research both in Lebanon and in the United States.
An interesting section of the book includes the discovery of the pulmonary circulation by Ibn an-Nafis.
About the Author
Munir E. Nassar, MD, is of Lebanese origin and a graduate of the School of Medicine of the American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon. Nassar specialized in cardiopulmonary medicine and clinical cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine, Columbia University, and the AHA. Nassar currently lives in western New York and is now active in medical ethics and consulting.