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Curriculum Vitae: Fouad M. Hajjar
Current:
Co-director, Pediatric Hematology Oncology Division
Florida Hospital
2501 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 589
Orlando, FL. 32804
(407) 303-2080
(407) 303-2085 (Fax)
Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
University of Florida
P.O. Box 100215
Gainesville, FL. 32610-0215
Education and Training:
Faculty:
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Section of Hematology/Oncology
July 1991-June 1994
Yale University School of Medicine
Fellowship:
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
July 1988-June 1991
Yale New Haven Hospital
Chief Residency:
Pediatric Medicine
July 1987-June 1988
Buffalo Children’s Hospital
Residency:
Pediatric Medicine
July 1985-June 1987
Buffalo’s Children’s Hospital
Internship:
Pediatric Medicine
July 1984-June 1985
Buffalo’s Children’s Hospital
Medical School:
Doctor of Medicine, May 1984
Saint Joseph University Medical School
Beirut, Lebanon
Specialty Board Status:
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology: Board certified (Nov. 1994)
Pediatrics: Board certified (June 1989)
Medical Licensure and Professional Certification:
State of Florida Physician and Surgeon License
State of Connecticut Physician and Surgeon
American Board of Pediatrics
FLEX, State of Pennsylvania
ECFMG
American Board of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
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Fellowship:
NIH Hematology Training Grant (June 1989-June 1990)
American Cancer Society Clinical Oncology Fellowship (July 1990-June 1991)
Training Program in Clinical Investigation Fellowship (Digestive Diseases
Training Grant) (July 1990-July 1991)
Membership in Professinoal Organizations:
International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis
American Medical Association
American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
American Society of Hematology
Orange County Medical Society
Pediatric Oncology Group
American Academy of Pediatrics
Extra curricular activities:
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Central Florida Chapter of the
Leukemia Society of America, Inc. (1996-present)
Primary oncologist speaker at the “Connecticut Annual School Helth
Conference: Students with Leukemia and Other Caner” for teachers of
students with oncologic diseases (1989-1993)
Participant in the Connecticut “candle lighter” chapter for families with
cancer
Research Activities:
DDATHF polyglutamylation in lymphoblasts and myeloblasts-Dr. G.P.
Beardsley-Department of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, Yale University.
Perinatal immune thrombocytopenia-Dr. D.S. Beardsley, Department of
Pediatrics, Yale University.
Antiplatelet antibiodies in HIV positive thrombocytopenic patients-Dr.
D.S. Beardsley-Department of Pediatrics, Yale University.
Pharmacological treatment of thalassemia intermedia with hydroxyurea and
erythropoietin-Dr. H. Pearson, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University.
Target epitopes in ITP using recombinant DNA technology-Dr. D.S.
Beardsley-Department of Pediatrics, Yale University.
Publications:
Hajjar, F.M.: Neutrophils in the Newborn: Normal Characteristics and
Qunatitiative Disorders-Seminars of Perintaology, Vol. 14, No.5, pp.
374-383, 1990.
Hajjar, F.M., and Pearson, H.: Postplenectomy Sepsis. Current Pediatric
Therapy (Saunders), 14th
Hajjar, F.M., and Pearson, H.: Indications for splenectomy. Current
Pediatric Therapy (Saunders), 14th Edition, 1993, and 15th Edition (in
press)
Schneider, B., Touloukian R., Hajjar, F.M., Selsky C., Buckley, P.:
Perianal Ulceration, a novel manifestation of Angiocentric lymphoma.
Digestive Diseases and Sciences, Vol. 38, 1993.
Hajjar, F.M., Pearson, H.: Pharmacologic treatment of thalassemia
intermedia with hydroxyurea. The Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 125, No. 3,
pp 490-492, Sept. 1994.
Mayer, J.L., Seashore, M.R. & Hajjar, F.M. : Translocation (5;6)
Associated with Spontaneously Remitiing Congenital Leukemia. Cancer Genet
Cytogenet, 81:38-41 (1995).
Emerson, S.G., Hajjar, F.M. Rabinowe, S.L., Eisenbarth, G.S. and
Beardsley, D.S.: Severe Thrombocytopenia Induced by Antithymocyte Glogulin:
Correlation with Heterologous anti-GPIIb Antiplatelet Antibodies. (paper
submitted to “Pediatric Research” for publication).
Languages:
English, French, and Arabic (written and spoken fluently) |
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