clinical activities Department of Psychiatry-HMC Senior Consultant 2017 - Division of Women and Perinatal Mental Health Senior attending -Sidra Medicine 2017 -
selected publications A Study of Elderly Suicide Attempters Admitted to an Inpatient Psychiatric Unit. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2013 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 9 Personality Disorders in Elderly Inpatients With Major Depression. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2013 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 41 Phenomenology and Prevalence of Neuroleptic-Induced Akathisia in Late Life. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2013 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 7 The Use of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression in Elderly Patients With Cognitive Impairment and Physical Illness. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2013 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 61 Chronic Medical Illness in Patients With Recurrent Major Depression. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2012 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 24 Premorbid History of Major Depression and the Depressive Syndrome of Alzheimer's Disease. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2012 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 14 Nortriptyline Side Effects During Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Maintenance Therapy in Older Depressed Patients. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2012 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 11 TY - BOOK AU - eugen, wolpert AU - konrad, maurer AU - Rifai, Aicha PY - 2006/01/01 SP - SN - 9783825316709 T1 - The contributions of the German-speaking countries to the History of Psychiatry ER - . 2006 Book The relationship between patient, informant, social worker, and consensus diagnoses of personality disorder in elderly depressed inpatients. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 1998 Academic Article GET IT Medical comorbidity in elderly psychiatric inpatients. Biological psychiatry. 1997 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 36 Duration of neuroleptic treatment and prevalence of tardive dyskinesia in late life. Archives of general psychiatry. 1995 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 44 Does recruitment method make a difference? Effects on protocol retention and treatment outcome in elderly depressed patients. Psychiatry research. 1995 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 18 Treatment of consecutive episodes of major depression in the elderly. The American journal of psychiatry. 1994 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 48 Hopelessness in suicide attempters after acute treatment of major depression in late life. The American journal of psychiatry. 1994 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 72 Impact of acute psychiatric inpatient treatment on major depression in late life and prediction of response. The American journal of psychiatry. 1994 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 60 Diagnostic rate of comorbid personality disorder in elderly psychiatric inpatients. The American journal of psychiatry. 1994 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 38 Ethnicity and psychopathology in an aging hospital-based population. A comparison of African-American and Anglo-European patients. The Journal of nervous and mental disease. 1994 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 32 A naturalistic study of trazodone in the treatment of behavioral complications of dementia. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 1994 Academic Article GET IT The Delirium Rating Scale in a psychogeriatric inpatient setting. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences. 1994 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 42 Schizophrenia in late life: elderly patients admitted to an acute care psychiatric hospital. Schizophrenia bulletin. 1993 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 38 Combined pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy in the acute and continuation treatment of elderly patients with recurrent major depression: a preliminary report. The American journal of psychiatry. 1992 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 132 Impact of psychiatric hospitalization on behavioral complications of Alzheimer's disease. The American journal of psychiatry. 1992 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 70 Nortriptyline and weight change in depressed patients over 60. Journal of clinical psychopharmacology. 1992 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 16 Dyskinesia and neuroleptic exposure in elderly psychiatric inpatients. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology. 1992 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 14 Rating chronic medical illness burden in geropsychiatric practice and research: application of the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale. Psychiatry research. 1992 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 1441 Relation of age to prevalence of tardive dyskinesia. The American journal of psychiatry. 1992 Article GET IT Times cited: 4 Longitudinal analysis of nortriptyline side effects in elderly depressed patients. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology. 1991 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 43 Risk factors for white matter changes detected by magnetic resonance imaging in the elderly. Stroke. 1990 Academic Article GET IT Times cited: 81 Kronfol Z, Subei MO, Kubba H, Rifai AH. Psychological effects of war: A role play. A case study in peer-to-peer education for medical students. Innovations in Global Health Professions Education. 2018:2. . Academic Article Kronfol Z, Subei MO, Kubba H, Rifai AH. Psychological effects of war: A role play. A case study in peer-to-peer education for medical students. Innovations in Global Health Professions Education. 2018:2. . Academic Article Kronfol Z, Subei MO, Kubba H, Rifai AH. Psychological effects of war: A role play. A case study in peer-to-peer education for medical students. Innovations in Global Health Professions Education. 2018:2. . Academic Article
education and training UMDNJ-Newark , Internal Medicine Psychiatry M.D., University of Aleppo Faculty of Medicine (Syrian Arab Republic) 79