Amin J. Barakat

Amin J. Barakat (born 1942) is a Lebanese-American pediatrician and pediatric nephrologist known for describing Barakat syndrome. Born in Mounsef, Byblos, Lebanon, he studied medicine at the American University of Beirut, completed pediatric residencies at that university and at Johns Hopkins Hospital between 1967 and 1970, and trained in pediatric nephrology at Georgetown University from 1970 to 1972. He practised full time at Northern Virginia Pediatric Associates until retiring in 2020 and is clinical professor of pediatrics and pediatric nephrology at Georgetown, having also held teaching posts at the American University of Beirut and Vanderbilt. His research has centred on rare hereditary and congenital kidney disease in children. In 1977 he and co-authors described four siblings with familial nephrosis, nerve deafness and hypoparathyroidism, a condition now known as Barakat syndrome, and he has written and edited books on kidney disease in children.