Sami Ibrahim Haddad

Sami Ibrahim Haddad (1890 to 1957) was a physician, surgeon and writer who was born in Palestine and spent most of his life in Lebanon. He took his medical degree at the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut in 1913, practised general medicine and public health and taught the basic medical sciences there, and in 1921 and 1922 studied surgery and urology on a Rockefeller fellowship at Johns Hopkins and Columbia. He returned as professor of surgery and urology at the college, which had been renamed the American University of Beirut, chaired its surgery department and became dean of its medical school. In 1947 he left the university and founded the Orient Hospital in Beirut, a non-profit institution that gave free care to Palestinians made refugees. He wrote close to a hundred medical articles and several books, including Essentials of Urinary and Genital Disease, and researched the history of Arab medicine.