• 2005 - 2006 Publications
• 2005 - 2006 Abstracts
• 2004 - 2005 Publications
• 2004 - 2005 Abstracts
• 2003 - 2004 Publications
• 2003 - 2004 Abstracts
• 2002 - 2003 Publications
• 2002 - 2003 Abstracts

1. Miguel Abboud
   
   
   • Bergmann S, Zheng D, Barredo J, Abboud MR, Jaffa AA. Renal Kallikrein: A Risk Marker for Nephropathy in Children With Sickle Cell Disease. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2006 March; 28(3): 147-153.
   
   
   
   • Khalife H, Muwakkit S, Al-Moussawi H, Dabbous I, Khoury R, Peyvandi F, Abboud MR. Spontaneous splenic rupture in a patient with factor XIII deficiency and a novel mutation. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2006 February; 00: 1-2.
     
     
   • Abboud MR. et al. Discontinuing Prophylactic Transfusions Used to Prevent Stroke in Sickle Cell Disease. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2005 December; 353(26): 2769-78.
      
2. Fadi Bitar

• Chaiban JT, Bitar FF, Azar ST. Effect of chronic hypoxia on Leptin, Insulin, Adiponectin and Ghrelin: Metabolic Syndrome –like Changes. (Submitted to JCEM, 2006).
   
• El Alwani M, Nemer G, Usta J, El Sabban M, Nasser M, Bitar H, Dbaibo G, Bitar FF*. Expression of the GATA transcription factors in the chronically hypoxic rat heart. (Submitted to Molecular Cardiology, 2006).
   
• Yunis KA , Mumtaz G, Bitar FF, Chamseddine F, Kassar M, Rashkidi J, Makhoul G, Tamim H . Consanquineous marriage and congenital heart disease : A case control study in the neonatal period. Am J Med Genet, 2006.
   
• Yehya A, Souki R, Bitar FF, Nemer G. Differential duplication of an intronic region in the NFATc1 gene in patients with congenital heart disease. GENOME, 2006.
   
• Nemer G, Fadllalah F, Usta J, Nemer M, Dbaibo G, Obeid M, Bitar FF*. A novel mutation in the GATA4 gene in patients with Tetralogy of Fallot. Hum Mutat. 2006; 27(3):293-294.
   
• El Alwani M, Usta J, Nemer G, El Sabban M, Nasser M, Bitar H, Souki R, Dbaibo G, Bitar FF*. Regulation of the sphingolipid signaling pathways in the growing and hypoxic rat heart. Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediat. 2005; 78: 249-263.
   
• Khatib O, Bitar FF. Guidelines on rheumatic fever prevention and care for the Eastern Mediterranean Regional countries organized by WHO: a review. Congenital Cardiology Today. 2005; 3(8):4-7.
   
• Mansour A, Bitar FF, Traboulsi E, Kassak K, Obeid M, Megarbane A, Salti HI . Patients with Congenital Heart Disease face higher risk of vision. American Academy Express. 2005; vol. 4(3).

3. Ibrahim Dabbous

• Khalife H, Muwakkit S, Al-Moussawi H, Dabbous I, Khoury R, Peyvandi F, Abboud MR. Spontaneous splenic rupture in a patient with factor XIII deficiency and a novel mutation. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2006 February; 00: 1-2.

4. Ghassan Dbaibo

• Panjarian S, Kozhaya L, Arayssi S, Bielawski J, Bielawska A, Usta J, Obeid L, Hannun Y, and Dbaibo GS. De novo N-palmitoylsphingosine synthesis is the major mechanism by which ceramide accumulates following p53 up-regulation. 2006 (submitted).
   
• Kozhaya L, El-Asaad W, El-Hed A, Arayssi S, Panjarian S, and Dbaibo GS*. p53 utilizes the mitochondrial pathway to regulate ceramide generation during -irradiation-induced apoptosis. 2006 (submitted).
   
• The Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Regional Advisory Group. Hausdorff WP, Hajjeh R, Al-Mazrou A, and Soriano-Gabarro M, on behalf of The Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Regional Advisory Group. Contributing members of this group include: Lebied A, Khadim MA, Salem MAK, Alshurman A, Dbaibo G, Al Awaidy S, Maqbool S, Elsaid MF, Al Jeffri M, Azza S, and Abdallah M. The epidemiology of pneumococcal, meningococcal, and Hib disease in North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) – Current status and needs. 2006 (Submitted).
   
• Husari AW, Bitar FF, Bitar H, Nasser M, El-Sabban M, Zaatari G, Dbaibo GS, and Mroueh SM. The Role of Ceramide, Bax, and Bcl-2 in the Lungs of Neonatal Rats Exposed to Limited and Prolonged Hyperoxia. 2006 (Submitted).
   
• Abi-Habib R, Usta J, Dbaibo G, and Mikati M. Experimental Status Epilepticus Alters Sphingomyelinase Activity in the Adult Rat Hippocampus. 2006 (submitted).
   
• Matar GM, Jaafar R, Dbaibo GS, and Araj GF. Detection of CTX-M and SHV Beta-Lactamases Encoding Genes in Newly Emerging ESBL Producing Shigella sonnei Isolates in Lebanon. 2006 (submitted).
   
• Schulz A, Mousallem T, Venkataramani M, Persaud-Sawin DA, Zucker A, Luberto C, Bielawska A, Bielawski J, Holthuis JCM, Jazwinski SM, Kozhaya L, Dbaibo GS, and Boustany R-MN. The CLN-9 Protein- An Activator of Dihydroceramide Synthase. Journal of Biological Chemistry 281(5):2784-94 (2006).
   
• Nemer G, Fadlallah F, Usta J, Nemer M, Dbaibo GS, Obeid M, and Bitar F. A novel mutation in the GATA4 gene in patients with Tetralogy of Fallot. Human Mutation 27(3):293-294 (2006).
   
• Kanj SS, Dandashi N, El-Hed A, Harik H, Maalouf M, Kozhaya L, Mousallem T, Tollefson AE, Wold, WS, Chalfant CE, and Dbaibo GS*. Ceramide Regulates SR Protein Phosphorylation During Adenoviral Infection. Virology 345(1):280-9 (2006).
   
• Alwani M, Usta J, Nemer G, Sabban ME, Nasser M, Bitar H, Souki R, Dbaibo GS, and Bitar FF. Regulation of the Sphingolipid Signaling Pathways in The Growing and Hypoxic Heart. Prostaglandins and Other Lipid Mediators 78(1-4):249-63 (2005).
   
• Darwiche N, Abou-Lteif G, Najdi T, Kozhaya L, Abou Tayyoun A, Bazarbachi A, and Dbaibo GS*. Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type I-Transformed T Cells Have a Partial Defect in Ceramide Synthesis in Response to N-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)Retinamide. The Biochemical Journal. 392(1): 231-239 (2005).
   
• El-Bitar M, Dbaibo G*. Neonatal Neck Mass in Identical Twins: An Unusual Presentation. American Journal of Perinatology. 22(6): 311-315 (2005).
   
• Nasr R, El-Sabban ME, Karam J-A, Dbaibo G, Arnulf B, Lepelletier Y, Fr Bex F, de Thé H, Hermine O, and Bazarbachi A. Efficacy and mechanism of action of the proteasome inhibitor PS-341 in T cell lymphomas and HTLV-I associated adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. Oncogene. 24(3): 419-430 (2005). 

5. Marianne Majdalani
   
   
   • Majdalani MN, Kooy N: Hypertension in the PICU. Pediatric Critical Care Textbook. Publishers: Springer-Verlag. In print.
      
   • Nimah M, Zhao B, Denenberg A, et al: Endotoxin tolerance is mediated by MKP-1 regulation of p38 kinase. Shock 2005. 23(1):80-87.
      
   • Nimah M, Bshesh K, Callahan J, Jacobs B: Infrared Tympanic Thermometry in Comparison to other Temperature Measurement Techniques in Febrile Children. Accepted to Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
      
   • Wheeler D, Nimah M, Levine AM, et al: Surfactant supplementation in infants with viral bronchiolitis: Case series and review. Submitted for review
      
6. Mohamad  Mikati
    
   • Topiramate monotherapy as broad-spectrum antiepileptic drug in a naturalistic clinical setting. Seizure. 2005;14,371-380.
      
   • Nabulsi M, Tamim H, Sabra R, Mahfoud Z, Malaeb S, Fakih H, and Mikati MA. Equal antipyretic effectiveness of oral and rectal acetaminophen: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Pediatrics, 2005 Sep 6;5(1):35.
      
   • El Khoury Z, Rahi A, Abu Hamdan S, Mikati MA. Age, dose, and environmental temperature are risk factors for topiramate-related hyperthermia. Neurology 2005;65(7):1139-40.
     * article appeared in the highlights section in that issue of Neurology
      
   • Mikati, MA, Shamseddine A. Refractory calculation-induced idiopathic generalized epilepsy: a case report and review of the literature, Epilepsia 2005;46 Suppl 10:48-50.
      
   • Mona Nabulsi, Hala Tamim, Ziyad Mahfoud, Mohammad Itani, Ramzi Sabra, Fadi Chamseddine and Mohammad Mikati. Alternating ibuprofen and acetaminophen in the treatment of febrile children: a pilot study. BMC Medicine 2006, 4:4.
      
   • Neill J, Liu Z, Mikati MA, Holmes G. Pilocarpine seizures cause age-dependent impairment in auditory location discrimination. The Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2005;84:357-370.
      
   • Rana Kurdi BS, Mohamad Mikati MD. Neurological Letter from Lebanon. Practical Neurology, 2006;6(1):63-65.
      
   • Mikati, MA, Shamseddine A. Refractory calculation-induced idiopathic generalized epilepsy: a case report and review of the literature, CNS Spectr 2006 Feb;11(2 Suppl 2):50-1.
      
   • Boisseau S, Mabrouk K, Ram N, Garmy N, Collin V, Tadmouri A, Mikati M, Sabatier J, Ronjat M, Fantini J, De Waard M. Cell penetration properties of maurocalcine, a natural venom peptide active on the intracellular ryanodine receptor. Biochem Biophys Acta 2006; Epub ahead of print.
      
   • Mikati MA, Comair Y, Rahi A. Normalization of Quality of Life (QOL) three years after temporal lobectomy: a controlled study. Epilepsia 2006;47(5):928-33.
      
   • Sinno D, El Amin H, Comair Y, Mikati MA. Exacerbation of vocal tics after temporal lobectomy. Epilepsy and Behavior 2006;9:211-213.
      
   • Mikati MA, Zalloua P, Karam P, Habbal Z, Rahi AC. Novel mutation causing partial Biotinidase Deficiency in a Syrian boy with infantile spasms and retardation. JCN, In press.
      
   • Lohi H, Turnbull J, Zhao X, Pullenayequm S, Ianzano L, Yahyaoui M, Mikati MA, Quinn N, Fransescetti S, Zara F, Minassian B. Genetic Diagnosis in Lafora Disease : Genotype-phenotype correlations and diagnostic pitfalls. Neurology, In press.
      
   • Mikati MA, Abu Rialy S, Francis E, Bakkar N, Lteif L, Holmes G. Effects of Gabapentin in the treatment of experimental status epilepticus. Neurosciences, In press.
      
   • Mikati MA, Injibar H, El Hokayem J, Kurdi R, Abu Rialy S, Lteif L, Abdul Jawad M, Francis E, Geha G, Farhat F. Effects of magnesium sulfate in kainic acid induced status epilepticus. Brain Injury, In press.
      
   • El Hokayem J, Mikati MA. Effects of a single dose of Erythropoietin on subsequent seizure susceptibility in rats exposed to acute hypoxia at P10. Epilepsia, In press.
      
   • Mikati M, Dib L, Yamout B, Sawaya R, Rahi A, El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Effects of vitamin D therapy on bone density in ambulatory patients on long term antiepileptic drug therapy: Two Randomized Trials in Children and Adults. Neurology, In press.
     * article appeared in the highlights section in that issue of Neurology
      
   • Mikati MA, Chaaban H, Karam P, Krishnamoorthy K. Polymicrogyria, corpus callosum hypoplasia, and infantile spasms in a SCAD deficiency patient. Pediatric Neurology, In press.
      
   • Mikati MA, Shamseddine AN. Management of Landau-Kleffner syndrome. Paediatr Drugs. 2005;7(6):377-89.
      
   • Kassem-Moussa H., Muwakkit S., Mikati M. Management of acute stroke in the pediatric age group. Practical Neurology, 5 (5), 268-277.
      
7. Nabil Mounla
    
   • Mounla NA: Ruptured neonatal appendicitis. Ann Saudi Medicine;26:3,242-249, 2006.
      
8. Salman Mroueh
    
   • Ferzli G, Yunis KA, Mroueh S. Surfactant protein B deficiency: a rare cause of respiratory failure in a Lebanese newborn. (Letter to the Editor) Ann Saudi Med 2006: 26:69-70.
      
   • Muwakkit S et al: Primary malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the lung in a young child witout neurofibromatosis type 1. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2006 Mar 16.
     [Epub ahead of print]
      
   • Mroueh, S: Inhaled nitric oxide for acute asthma (Letter to the Editor) J of Pediatrics (in press)

9. Samar Muwakkit
    
   
   • Muwakkit S et al: Primary malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the lung in a young child witout neurofibromatosis type 1. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2006 Mar 16.
      
   • Khalife H, Muwakkit S et al : Spontaneous splenic rupture in a patient with factor XIII deficiency and a novel mutation. Pediatr Blood Cancer.2006 Feb2
      
   • Kassem-Moussa H, Muwakkit S, Mikati M: Management of acute stroke in the pediatric age group. Practical Neurology 2005,5,268-277.
      
10. Mona Nabulsi
     
    • Nabulsi MM, Ramos KD, Letelier LM, Hopayian K, Parkin C, Porzsolt F, Sestini P, Harris J, Slavin M, Summerskill W. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Evidence-Based Healthcare Training: Where is the Evidence? BMC Medical Education (Submitted)
       
    • Nabulsi M, Tamim H, Mahfoud Z, Itani M, Sabra R, Chamseddine F, Mikati M. Alternating Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen in the Treatment of Febrile Children: a Randomized Controlled Trial. BMC Medicine 2006, 4:4.
       
    • El-Hajj Fuleihan G, Nabulsi M, Tamim H, Maalouf J, Salamoun M, Khalife H, Choucair M, Arabi A, Veith R. Effect of vitamin D replacement on musculoskeletal parameters in school children: a Randomized controlled trial. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2006; 91:405-412.
       
    • Nabulsi M, Tamim H, Sabra R, Malaeb C, Fakih H, Usta U, Mikati M. Equal Antipyretic Effectiveness of Oral and Rectal Acetaminophen: a Randomized Controlled Trial [ISRCTN11886401]. BMC Pediatrics 2005 Sep 6; 5(1):35.
       
    • Dib L, Arabi A, Maalouf J, Nabulsi M, El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Impact of Anthropometric, Lifestyle, and Body Composition Variables on Ultrasound Measurements in School Children. Bone 2005; 36(4): 736-742.
       
11. Sami Sanjad 
     
    • Shorafa S, Edressi B, Sanjad SA. Bartter’s Syndrome: clinical spectrum in 15 patients and studies with hypotonic saline diuresis (manuscript in preparation).
       
    • Sanjad SA. Glycogen Nephropathy. A common cause of Fanconi’s Syndrome in Saudi Arabia (manuscript in preparation).
       
    • Tarif, S and Sanjad SA, Acute renal failure: a retrospective analysis of 70 patients treated at tertiary care center (manuscript in preparation).
       
    • Sanjad SA, Bahlawan L. An unusual cause of severe neonatal hyponatremia (manuscript in preparation).
       
12. Durriyah Sinno 
     
    • Sinno D, El Amin H, Comair Y, Mikati MA. Exacerbation of vocal tics after temporal lobectomy. Epilepsy and Behavior 2006.
       
    • Sinno D, Shoaib H, Hamadeh G. Prevalence and Predictors of immunization of children at University Health Services. Submitted.
      
     
13. Khalid Yunis
     
    • Yunis KA, Khawaja M, Beydoun HA, Nassif, Y, Khogali M, Tamim HM. Intrauterine growth standards in a developing country: A study of single live births at 28 to 42 weeks gestation. Accepted for publication, Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol.
       
    • Mumtaz G, Tamim H, Kanaan M, Khawaja M, Khogali M, Wakim G, Yunis KA. Effect of consanguinity on birthweight for gestational age in a developing country. Accepted for publication, American Journal of Epidemiology.
       
    • Tamim H, El-Chemaly SY, Nassar AH, Aaraj AM, Campbell O MR, Kaddour AA, Yunis KA*. Cesarean delivery among primiparous women: Differences in the rates and predictors across different hospitals in the greater Beirut area. Accepted for publication, Birth.
       
    • Yunis KA, Mumtaz G, Bitar F, Shamseddine F, Kassar M, Rashkidi J, Makhoul G, Tamim H. Consanguineous Marriage and Congenital Heart Defects: A Case Control Study in the Neonatal Period. American Journal of Medical Genetics 2006;140(14):1524-30. (Please refer to Erratum:
       
    • Khalid Y, Ghina M, Fadi B, Fadi C, May K, Joseph R, Makhoul G, Hala T. Consanguineous marriage and congenital heart defects: A case-control study in the neonatal period. Am J Med Genet A, 2006;140(18):1990)
       
    • Ferzli G, Yunis KA, Mroueh S. Surfactant protein B deficiency: a rare cause of respiratory failure in a Lebanese newborn. Ann Saudi Med 2006; 26(1):69-70.
       
    • Mehanna MJ, Haddad MC, Malaeb SN, Yunis KA*. Aortic dissection in a neonate: case report and review of the literature. Am J Perinatol 2005; 22(7):397-9.
       
    • Yunis K, Mumtaz G, Tamim H, Adra A. Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Networking in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. In: Kurjak A, Chervenak F, eds. Textbook of Perinatal Medicine, 2nd Edition, Informa Healthcare, 2006.

2005 - 2006 Abstracts

1. Fadi Bitar

• Zeinieh M, Kurdi R, Harb S, El Hokayem J, Daderian R, Obeid M, Bitar FF, Mikati M. The effects of acute hypoxia seizures on the long-term consequences of chronic hypoxia. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. 22 (5):370. 2005.

2.  Ibrahim Dabbous
    
   • Iron Deficiency Anemia Treatment by Iron Polymaltose Complex: Clinical Trial on Efficacy. Abstract submitted to ASH (American Society of Hematologists).
      
3. Ghassan Dbaibo
    
   • Azzam D, Usta J, Sabban M, Dbaibo G, El Hokayyem J, Kurdi R, and Mikati M. Lack of Ceramide Increase and of Apoptosis in Rats Subjected to Acute Hypoxic Seizures at P10. 26th International Epilepsy Congress, Paris, Aug 28th-September 1st, 2005.
      
   • Daderian RH, Rizk EB, El Dada S, Zeinieh ZP, Kurdi RM, Harb SA, Rahmeh A, Usta JA, Dbaibo GS, El Sabban ME, and Mikati MM. NMDA Receptor Activation Results in Ceramide Increases and in Apoptosis in Lithium Pilocarpine Status Epilepticus. 26th International Epilepsy Congress, Paris, Aug 28th-September 1st, 2005.
      
   • El-Hed A, Kozhaya L, Bielawska A, and Dbaibo GS. Ceramide Regulates PKC Phosphorylation and Translocation to Lipid Rafts. Charleston Ceramide Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, March 2-6, 2005.
      
   • Kozhaya L, Panjarian S, El-Hed A, El-Assaad W, and Dbaibo GS. Ceramide Accumulation in Response to p53 Up-regulation Involves the Mitochondrial rather than the Death Receptor Signaling Pathway. Charleston Ceramide Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, March 2-6, 2005.
      
   • Panjarian S, Kozhaya L, Araysi S, Bielawska A, Bielawski J, Usta J, Obeid L, Hannun Y, and Dbaibo GS. De novo Ceramide Synthesis is the Major Biochemical Mechanism by which Ceramide Accumulates Following p53 Up-regulation. Charleston Ceramide Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, March 2-6, 2005.
      
   • Dandashi N, El-Hed A, Harik H, Maalouf M, Kozhaya L, Mousallem T, Tollefson AE, Wold WS, Masroujeh R, Chalfant CE, Kanj SS, and Dbaibo GS. Ceramide Regulates SR Protein Phosphorylation During Adenoviral Infection. Charleston Ceramide Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, March 2-6, 2005.
      
4. Mohamad Mikati
    
   • Mikati MA, Rahi AC, Comair Y. Normalization of Quality of Life (QOL) three years after temporal lobectomy: a controlled study. Neurology 66 March 2006 (Suppl 2), A87.
      
   • Rahi A, El-Khoury Z, Kurdi R, Raad W, Mikati MA. Seizure Type, Sex, and Age are Predictors of Positive Response to Intravenous Gamma Globulin (IVIG) in Intractable Epilepsy. Neurology 66 March 2006 (Suppl 2), A344.
      
   • Tarabay H, Khalil A, Rahi A, Najjar S, Mikati MA. Risk Factors for Developing Subclinical Hypothyroidism during Valproic Acid Therapy. Neurology 66 March 2006 (Suppl 2), A38.
      
   • Daderian R, Obeid M, Kurdi R, Mikati MA. The effect of stereotaxic C2-Ceramide injection on the inositol triphosphate levels in the hippocampus of adult rats. Neurology 66 March 2006 (Suppl 2), A139.
      
   • Azzam D, El Hokayem J, Usta J, Sabban M, Dbaibo G, Mikati MA. Lack of ceramide increase in hypoxia-induced apoptosis in the developing brain of neonatal rats. Neurology 66 March 2006 (Suppl 2), A269.
      
   • Mikati MA, Rahi A, Shamseddine A, Shoeib H, Comair Y. “Marked Improvements in seizure control and general wellbeing but not in psychosocial or behavioral function after successful epilepsy surgery in children.” Neurology 66 March 2006 (Suppl 2), A323.
      
   • Yabroudi M, Mikati MA. New observations on the EEG changes in pyridoxine- dependent epilepsy. Accepted for poster presentation at the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, November 3-4, 2006.
      
   • Kurdi R, Mikati MA: Predictors of Response of Intractable Epilespy to Intravenous Gammaglobulin Therapy accepted for poster presentation at the 131st Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association in Chicago, Illinois, October 8-11, 2006.
      
5. Salman Mroueh
    
   • El-Zein A, Nuwayhid I, El-Fadel M, Mroueh S: The effect of the recent diesel-fuel ban in Beirut on children respiratory health: an analysis of emergency admissions. Presented at the Lebanese Epidemiologic Association Eleventh Scientific Conference: Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology in Lebanon, Beirut, November 2005.
      
6. Khaled  Yunis
    
   • Yunis K, Seoud M, Zalloua P, Boghossian N, Nassar A, Araj G, Abboud J, Ezzeddine J, Tamim H. Prevalence, risk factors and genotype distribution of Group B Streptococcus colonization among pregnant women in Beirut, Lebanon. American Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, May 2006. (Poster)
      
   • Chaaban H, Mumtaz G, Jamal D, Alameh M, Yunis K. Neonatal Outcomes following Conservative Treatment of Patent Ductus Arteriosus among newborns less than 33 weeks of gestation. National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network (NCPNN). American Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, May 2006. (Poster)
      
   • Tamim H, Harrison G, Atoui M, El Kak F, Seoud M, Zaatari A, Yunis K. Low Rate of Preconceptional Folic Acid Use Among Pregnant Women in Lebanon. National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network (NCPNN). American Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, May 2006. (Poster)
      
   • El Sayed M, Tamim H, Melki I, Mumtaz G, Jamal D, Yunis K. Antibiotic Misuse for Healthy Infants by Pediatricians. National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network (NCPNN). American Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, May 2006.
      
   • Nabulsi M, Major S, Yunis K, Khogali M, Nassar H, Farha A, Arayssi T, Sibai A, Noureddine S, Al Amine H, Khalil I. Evaluation of the First Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) Workshop for Medical Students at the American University of Beirut (AUB). The 3rd International Conference for Evidence-Based Healthcare Teachers and Developers, Taormina-Sicily, 2-6 November 2005 (Oral presentation).
      
   • Major S, Arayssi T, Nabulsi M, Yunis K, Nassar H, Farha A, Khogali M, Sibai A, Noureddine S, Al Amine H, Khalil I. The Evolution of Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC). The 3rd International Conference for Evidence-Based Healthcare Teachers and Developers, Taormina-Sicily, 2-6 November 2005 (Posters).
      
   • Nassar H, Farha A, Major S, Noureddine S, Arayssi T, Nabulsi M, Yunis K, Khogali M, Sibai A, Al Amine H, Khalil I. Role of librarians in promoting vidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) at the American University of Beirut (AUB). The 3rd International Conference for Evidence-Based Healthcare Teachers and Developers, Taormina-Sicily, 2-6 November 2005 (Posters).

1. Miguel Abboud
    
   • Ballas SK, Files B; Luchtman-Jones L; Benjamin L; Swerdlow P; Hilliard L; Coates T; Abboud M; Wojtowicz-Praga S; Grindel JM. Safety of Purified Poloxamer 188 in Sickle Cell Disease: Phase I Study of a Non-ionic Surfactant in the Management of Acute Chest Syndrome. Hemoglobin, 28:85-102, 2004.
      
2. Fadi Bitar
    
   • Mikati M, Zeinieh M, Kurdi R, Harb S, El Hokayem J, Daderian R, Shamseddine A, Obeid M, Bitar FF, El Sabban M. Long-term effects of acute and chronic hypoxia on behavior and on hippocampal histology in the developing brain. Brain Res Dev Brain Res. 2005; 157(1):98-102.
      
   • Mansour AM, Bitar FF, Traboulsi E, Kassak K, Obeid M, Megarbane A, Salti H. Ocular Pathology in congenital heart disease. Eye. 2005; 19(1):29-34.
      
   • Hannoush H, Tamim H, Younes H, Arnaout S, Gharzeddine W, Dakik H, Obeid M, Bitar FF. Patterns of congenital heart disease in the unoperated adults: a 20-year experience in a developing country. Clin. Cardiol. 2004; 27: 236-240.
      
   • Zahed L, Oreibi G, El-Amine H, Obeid M, Bitar FF. A new patient with pure trisomy 4p resulting from isochromosome formation and whole-arm translocation. Am J Med Genet. 2004; 128 (1):60-2
      
   • Mansour AM, Bitar FF, Traboulsi E, Kassak K, Obeid M, Megarbane A, Salti H. Reply, regarding ocular pathology in Congenital Heart Disease. Eye. Dec 24, 2004. [Epub ahead of print].
      
   • El Alwani M, Usta J, Nemer G, El Sabban M, Nasser M, Bitar H, Souki R, Dbaibo G, Bitar FF. Regulation of the sphingolipid signaling pathways in the growing and hypoxic rat heart. In press Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediat, 2005.
      
   • Khatib O, Bitar FF. Guidelines on rheumatic fever prevention and care for the Eastern Mediterranean Regional countries organized by WHO: a review. Congenital Cardiology Today, 2005, In press.
      
   • Yehya A, Souki R, Bitar FF, Nemer G. Differential duplication of an intronic region in the NFATc1 gene in patients with congenital heart disease. Submitted to The American Journal of Medical Genetics, 2005.
      
   • El Alwani M, Nemer G, Usta J, El Sabban M, Nasser M, Bitar H, Dbaibo G, Bitar FF. Expression of the GATA transcription factors in the chronically hypoxic rat heart. Submitted to Molecular Cardiology, 2005.
      
   • Nemer G, Fadllalah F, Usta J, Nemer M, Dbaibo G, Obeid M, Bitar FF. A novel mutation in the GATA4 gene in patients with Tetralogy of Fallot. Submitted to Human Molecular Genetics, 2005.
      
   • Chaiban JT, Bitar FF, Azar ST. Effect of chronic hypoxia on Leptin, Insulin, Adiponectin and Ghrelin: Metabolic Syndrome –like Changes. Submitted JCEM, 2005.
     
     
   • Tamim H, Mumtaz G, Bitar FF, Yunis KA. Consanquineous marriage and congenital heart disease: A case control study in the neonatal period. Submitted to The American Journal of Medical Genetics, 2005.
     
     
   • Nemer G and Bitar FF. Molecular Markers of Congenital Heart Disease. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Editor-in-Chief ; Frank Columbus. 2005. ISBN: 1-59454-489-1
      
3. Ibrahim Dabbous
    
   • Ibrahim Dabbous, Mohamad Halabi. Bleeding from Jejunal Hamartomatous Polyp, Difficulty in Diagnosis: A Case Report. Submitted to Pediatrics.
      
   • Ibrahim Dabbous, Mohamad Halabi. Iron Deficiency Anemia Treatment by Iron Polymaltose Complex: Clinical Trial on Efficacy. Submitted to Blood.
      
4. Ghassan Dbaibo
    
   • Schultz, A, Dhar S, Rylova S, Dbaibo GS, Alroy J, Hagel C, Artacho I, Kohlschütter A, Lin S, and Boustany RM. Impaired cell adhesion and apoptosis in a novel CLN9 Batten or NCL disease variant. Annals of Neurology 56(3):342-50 (2004).
      
   • Abboushi N, El-Hed A, El-Assaad W, Kozhaya L, El-Sabban ME, Bazarbachi A, Badreddine R, Bielawska A, Usta J, and Dbaibo GS*. Ceramide inhibits interleukin-2 production by preventing PKC-dependent NF-B activation: Possible role in PKC regulation. Journal of Immunology 173(5):3193-3200 (2004).
      
   • Taha TA, Osta W, Kozhaya L, Bielawski J, Johnson KR, Gillanders WE, Dbaibo GS, Hannun YA, and Obeid LM. Downregulation of Sphingosine Kinase-1 by DNA damage: Dependence on proteases and p53. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 279(19):20546-20554 (2004).
      
   • Darwiche N, Hatoum A, Dbaibo G, Nasr R, Abou-Lteif G, Bazzi R, Hermine O, de Thé H, and Bazarbachi A. N-(4-Hydroxyphenyl) Retinamide Induces Growth Arrest and Apoptosis in HTLV-I Transformed Cells. Leukemia 18(3):607-15 (2004).
      
   • El-Bitar M, Dbaibo G*. Neonatal Neck Mass in Identical Twins: An Unusual Presentation. American Journal of Perinatology. 2004 In press.
      
   • Nasr R, El-Sabban ME, Karam J-A, Dbaibo G, Arnulf B, Lepelletier Y, Fr Bex F, de Thé H, Hermine O, and Bazarbachi A. Efficacy and mechanism of action of the proteasome inhibitor PS-341 in T cell lymphomas and HTLV-I associated adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. Oncogene. 2004 In press.
      
   • Kozhaya L, Panjarian S, Arayssi S, El-Hed A, El-Asaad W, and Dbaibo GS* . Changes in ceramide-regulating enzymes in response to p53 upregultaion. 2004 submitted.
      
   • Dandashi N, El-Hed A, Harik H, Maalouf M, Kozhaya L, Mousallem T, Tollefson AE, Wold, WS, Chalfant CE, Kanj SS, and Dbaibo GS*. Ceramide Regulates SR Protein Phosphorylation During Adenoviral Infection. 2004 submitted.
      
   • Kozhaya L, El-Asaad W, El-Hed A, Arayssi S, Panjarian S, and Dbaibo GS*. p53 utilizes the mitochondrial pathway to regulate ceramide generation during -irradiation-induced apoptosis. 2004 submitted.
      
   • Abi-Habib R, Usta J, Dbaibo G, and Mikati M. Experimental Status Epilepticus Alters Sphingomyelinase Activity in the Adult Rat Hippocampus. 2004 submitted.
      
   • Shbaro R, Dbouk H, Bitar FF, Yunis KA, Musallam S, and Dbaibo GS*. Gram-negative bacterial meningitis: a twenty-year experience in a developing country. 2004 submitted.
      
   • Bitar FF, Alwani M, Bitar H, Usta J, and Dbaibo GS*. Distinct changes in sphingolipid-regulating enzymes in the neonatal rat heart in response to normoxia or chronic hypoxia. 2004 submitted.
     
     
5. Marianne Majdalani
    
   • Majdalani MN, Kooy N: Hypertension in the PICU. Pediatric Critical Care Textbook. Publishers: Springer-Verlag. In print.
      
   • Nimah M, Zhao B, Denenberg A, et al: Endotoxin tolerance is mediated by MKP-1 regulation of p38 kinase. Shock 2005. 23(1):80-87.
      
   • Nimah M, Bshesh K, Callahan J, Jacobs B: Infrared Tympanic Thermometry in Comparison to other Temperature Measurement Techniques in Febrile Children. Accepted to Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
      
   • Wheeler D, Nimah M, Levine AM, et al: Surfactant supplementation in infants with viral bronchiolitis: Case series and review. Submitted for review.
      
6. Mohamad Mikati 
    
   • Mikati MA, Rahi A. Febrile seizures: from molecular biology to clinical practice. Neurosciences 2004;10(1),14-22.
      
   • Mikati MA, Comair Y, Ismail R, Faour R, Rahi A. Effects of epilepsy surgery on quality of life: a controlled study in a Middle Eastern population. Epilepsy and Behavior 2004;5(1):72-80 .
      
   • Mikati MA. Neuronal cell death in a rat model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy is induced by the initial status epilepticus and not by later repeated spontaneous seizures. Letter Epilepsia 2004;45(3):296.
      
   • Mikati MA, Holmes GL, Werner S, Bakkar N, Carmant L, Liu Z, Stafstrom CE. Effects of nimodipine on the behavioral sequelae of experimental status epilepticus in prepubescent rats. Epilepsy and Behavior 2004;5:168-174.
      
   • Mikati MA, Kurdi R, Rahmeh A, Farhat F, Abu Rialy S, Lteif L, Francis E, Geha G, Maraashli W. Effects of creatine and cyclocreatine supplementation on kainite induced injury in prebuscent rats. Brain Injury 2004;18(12):1229-1241.
      
   • Mikati MA, Hanna-Wakim R. Symptomatic antiepileptic drug associated vitamin D deficiency in non-institutionalized patients; an under-diagnosed disorder. Lebanese Medical Journal 2003;51(2):71-74.
      
   • Mikati MA, Comair Y, and Shamseddine A. Pattern-induced partial seizures with repetitive affectionate kissing: An unusual manifestation of right temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy and Behavior Volume 6, Issue 3, May 2005, 447-451.
      
   • Mikati MA, Papacostas S. A three-year-old with episodes of staring. Practical Neurology, 2005;5,124-125.
      
   • Mikati MA, Zeinieh M, Kurdi R, Harb S, El Hokayem J, Daderian R, Shamseddine A, Obeid M, Bitar F, El Sabban M. Long term effects of acute and of chronic hypoxia on behavior and on hippocampal histology in the developing brain. Developmental Brain Research. 2005;157(1),98-102.
      
   • Rizk E, El-Bitar M, Matar G, Saad K, Mikati MA. Facial nerve Palsy with acute otitis media during the first two weeks of life. Journal of Child Neurology 2005;20(5),452-454.
      
   • Topiramate monotherapy as broad-spectrum antiepileptic drug in a naturalistic clinical setting. Seizure. 2005;14,371-380.
      
   • Nabulsi M, Tamim H, Sabra R, Mahfoud Z, Malaeb S, Fakih H, and Mikati MA. Equal antipyretic effectiveness of oral and rectal acetaminophen: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Pediatrics, 2005 Sep 6;5(1):35.
      
   • Mikati MA, Shamseddine A. Therapy of Landau Kleffner Syndrome. Pediatric Drugs, Adis International, In press.
      
   • Mikati MA, Abu Rialy S, Francis E, Bakkar N, Lteif L, Holmes G. Effects of Gabapentin in the treatment of experimental status epilepticus. Neurosciences, In press.
      
   • Neill J, Liu Z, Gatt A, Mikati MA, Holmes G. Pilocarpine seizures cause age-dependent impairment in auditory location discrimination. The Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. In press.
      
   • Mikati MA, Zalloua P, Karam P, Habbal Z, Rahi AC. Novel mutation causing partial Biotinidase Deficiency in a Syrian boy with infantile spasms and retardation. JCN, In press.
      
   • El Khoury Ziad, Rahi Amal, Abu Hamdan Sahar, Mikati MA. Age, dose, and environmental temperature are risk factors for topiramate-related hyperthermia. Neurology. In press.
      
   • Kurdi R, Mikati MA. Neurological Letter from Lebanon. Practical Neurology, In press.
      
   • Mikati, MA, Shamseddine A. Refractory calculation-induced idiopathic generalized epilepsy: a case report and review of the literature, Epilepsia, In press.
      
   • Mikati MA, Injibar H, El Hokayem J, Kurdi R, Abu Rialy S, Lteif L, Abdul Jawad M, Francis E, Geha G, Farhat F. Effects of magnesium sulfate in kainic acid induced status epilepticus. Brain Injury, Submitted.
      
7. Samar Muwakkit
    
   • Muwakkit S, Razzouk BI, Shabb NS,Hancock ML, Dabbous I, Firzli S, Abboud MR.Clinical Presentation and Treatment outcome of children with Burkitt Lymphoma in Lebanon. A Single Institutions’s Experience. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 2004;26(11): 749-53.
      
   • Muwakkit S, Razzouk BI, Shabb NS,Hancock ML, Dabbous I, Firzli S, Abboud MR: Clinical Presentation and Treatment outcome of children with Burkitt Lymphoma in Lebanon. A Single Institutions’s Experience. JPH/O. In Press.
      
8. Mona Nabulsi
    
   • Arabi A, Tamim H, Nabulsi M, Maalouf J, Khalifeh H, Choucair M, Veith R, El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Sex Differences in the Effect of Body-Composition Variables on Bone Mass in Healthy Children and Adolescents. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2004; 80: 1428-35.
      
   • Arabi A, Nabulsi M, Maalouf J, Choucair M, Khalifeh H, Veith R, El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Bone Mineral Density by Age, Gender, Pubertal Stages and Socioeconomic Status in Healthy Lebanese Children and Adolescents. Bone 2004; 35: 1169-1179.
      
   • Nabulsi M, Tamim H, Sabra R, Malaeb C, Fakih H, Usta U, Mikati M. Equal Antipyretic Effectiveness of Oral and Rectal Acetaminophen: a Randomized Controlled Trial [ISRCTN11886401]. BMC Pediatrics 2005 Sep 6; 5(1):35.
      
   • Dib L, Arabi A, Maalouf J, Nabulsi M, El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Impact of Anthropometric, Lifestyle, and Body Composition Variables on Ultrasound Measurements in School Children. Bone. 2005. In Press.
      
   • Salamoun MM, Kizirian AS, Tannous RI, Nabulsi MM, Choucair MK, Deeb ME, El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Low Calcium and Vitamin D Intake in Healthy Children and Adolescents and their Correlates. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2004. In Press.
      
   • Nabulsi MM, Ramos KD, Letelier LM, Hopayian K, Parkin C, Porzsolt F, Sestini P, Harris J, Slavin M, Summerskill W. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Evidence-Based Healthcare Training: Where is the Evidence? BMC Medical Education. Submitted.
      
   • Nabulsi M, Tamim H, Mahfoud Z, Itani M, Sabra R, Chamseddine F, Mikati M. Alternating Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen in the Treatment of Febrile Children: a Randomized Controlled Trial. Pediatrics. Submitted.
      
9. Sami Sanjad
    
   • Al-Ibrahim A, Sanjad SA, Al-Abbad A, Al-Sabban E, Al-Shaibani K. Post-renal transplantation tubulopathies in children: a 9-year experience at a tertiary care center. Saudi J Kidney Dis Transplant 15(1): 27-33, 2004.
      
10. Durriyah Sinno
     
    • Sinno D, Shoaib H, Hamadeh G. Prevalence and Predictors of immunization of children at University Health Services. Submitted.
       
11. Khalid Yunis
     
    • Tamim H,Beydoun H,Itani M,Khogali M,Yunis, KA Predicting neonatal outcomes: Birthweight, Body Mass Index or Ponderal Index. J Perinat. Med. 2004; 32(6):509-13.
       
    • Tamim H and Yunis K. Super course: Consanguinity and apnea of prematurity http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec17801/001.htm.
       
    • Mehanna M, Malaeb S, Khoury M, Yunis K. Aortic dissection in a neonate. Am J of Perinatol 2005. In press.
       
    • Mumtaz G, Tamim H, Khawaja M, Khogali M, Wakim G Yunis K. Consanguinity and birth weight. International J Epidemiology 2005. In press.
       
    • Tamim H, El-Chemaly SY., Nassar AH., Aaraj AM, Campbell O MR, Kaddour A A., Yunis K A. Cesarean delivery among primiparous women: Differences in the rates and predictors across different hospitals in the greater Beirut area. Birth. 2005. In press.
       
    • Tamim H., El-Chemaly S, Nassar A, Mumtaz G, Kaddour A, Kabakian-Khasholian T, Fakhoury H, Yunis K. Incidence and Predictors of Cesarean Section in a Capital City of a Middle Income Country. Acta Obst.& Gyn Submitted.
       
    • Yunis KA, Khawaja M, Beydoun HA, Nassif, Y, Khogali M, Tamim HM. Intrauterine growth standards in a developing country: A study of single live births at 28 to 42 weeks gestation. Submitted to European Journal of Pediatrics.
       
    • Yunis KA, Beydoun H, Nakad P, Khogali M, Shatila F, Tamim H. Patterns and predictors of tobacco smoking cessation: A hospital-based study of pregnant women in Lebanon. Submitted to International Journal of Public Health.
       
    • Mumtaz G, Tamim H, Khawaja M, KhogaliM, Chedid P, Yunis K. Consanguinity, a risk factor for small for gestational age in the affluent community of a low-middle income country. Submitted to Pediatrics and Perinatal Epidemiology.
       
    • Yunis K, Mumtaz G, Bitar F, Khogali M, Shamseddine F, Kassar M, Tamim H. Consanguineous marriages and congenital heart disease in a developing country: A case control study in the neonatal period. Submitted to American Journal of Medical Genetics.
       
    • Yunis K, Mumtaz G, Tamim H, Adra A: Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Networking in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Textbook of Perinatal Medicine. Second edition. Editors Chervenak F and Kurjak A. In Press Expected date of publication September 2005.
      
      
    • Annual Reports of the NCPNN
      • National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: NCPNN Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004.
      • National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: AUBMC: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004.
      • National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: NAJJAR HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004.
      • National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: HOTEL DIEU DE FRANCE HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004.
      • National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: RASSOUL AL AAZAM HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004.
      • National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: SAHEL GENERAL HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004.
      • National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: RIZK HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004.
      • National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: ST. GEORGES HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004.
      • National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: MAKASSED GENERAL HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004.
      • National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: RAHHAL AKKAR HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (March 1, 2004-August 31, 2004). October 2004.
      • National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: RAYYAK HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (September 1, 2004-April 31, 2004). October 2004.

1. Miguel Abboud
    
   • Samar A. Muwakkit, M.D., Bassem I. Razzouk, M.D., Nina S. Shabb, M.D., Micheal L. Hancock, M.S., Ibrahim Dabbous, M.D., Salim Firzli, M.D., and Miguel R. Abboud, M.D. Clinical Presentation and Treatment Outcome of Children with Burkitt Lymphoma in Lebanon. Accepted for presentation at SIOP, Oslo, September 2004.
      
   • Rachid Haidar, Bashkar Rao, Samar A. Muwakitt, Rami Karzoul, Roula Farah, Bassem I. Razzouk, Miguel R. Abboud. Establishment of a Pediatric Oncology Center and Multidisciplinary Bone Tumor Service in Lebanon. National Arab American Medical Association, 19th International Medical Convention, Beirut, Lebanon, June 28-July 2, 2004. Accepted for presentation at SIOP, Oslo, September 2004.
      
2. Fadi Bitar
    
   • Mansour A, Bitar FF, Traboulsi E, Kassak K, Obeid M, Megarbane A, Salti HI . Patients with Congenital Heart Disease face higher risk of vision. American Academy Express. 2005; vol. 4(3).
      
3. Ibrahim Dabbous
    
   • Iron Deficiency Anemia Treatment by Iron Polymaltose Complex: Clinical Trial on Efficacy. Abstract submitted to ASH (American Society of Hematologists).
      
4. Ghassan Dbaibo
    
   • Dbaibo GS. Advances and Controversies in New DTaP/IPV Vaccines. The Tenth Conference of The Jordan Pediatric Society, Amman, Jordan, October 6-8, 2004.
      
   • Dbaibo GS. Update on the Prevention and Treatment of Influenza. The Eighth Lebanese National Conference on Infectious Diseases & Clinical Microbiology, Beirut, Lebanon, October 7-10, 2004.
     
     
5.  Mohamad Mikati
    
   • Papathanasiou E, Mikati MA, Myrianthopoulou P, Comair Y, Papacostas S. Electroencephalographic evidence of brain plasticity in a patient with Sturge-Weber syndrome. Epilepsia 2004;45 Suppl 3, 2004.
      
   • Mikati MA, Comair Y, Shamseddine A. Pattern induced partial seizures with repetitive kissing: a novel manifestation of right temporal lobe epilepsy. American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, September 29-October 2, 2004.
      
   • Zeinieh M, Kurdi R, Harb S, El Hokayem J, Daderian R, Obeid M, Mikati MA. The effect of acute hypoxic seizures on the long term consequences of chronic hypoxia. American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, September 29-October 2, 2004.
      
   • Ayala R, Elterman R, Mikati MA, Pina Garza E, Gucuyener K, Warnock C, Messenheimer J. Long-term safety of lamotrigine in pediatric subjects with partial seizures: preliminary results. Epilepsia 2004;45 Suppl.7,316.
      
   • El-Hokayem J, Mikati MA. Effects of erythropoietin on long term seizure susceptibility in rats exposed to acute hypoxia at P10. The First International Meeting of the Lebanese Society of Neurology and the Lebanese League Against Epilepsy, Beirut, 17-20 Nov, 2004.
      
   • Daderian R, El-Hokayem J, Kurdi R, Zeinieh M, Abi Habib R, Mikati M. Hippocampal acid sphingomyelinase expression of rats undergoing KA induced status epilepticus. The First International Meeting of the Lebanese Society of Neurology and the Lebanese League Against Epilepsy, Beirut, 17-20 Nov, 2004.
      
   • Mikati M, Dib L, Yamout B, Sawaya R, Rahi A, El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Effects of vitamin D therapy on bone density in ambulatory patients on long term antiepileptic drug therapy: Two Randomized Trials in Children and Adults. Neurology 2005;64 (6), Suppl 1, A115.
      
   • Zeinieh M, Daderian R, Kurdi R, Shamseddine A, Bakkar N, El Hokayem J, Abi Habib R, Rahmeh A, Harb S, El Sabban M, Dbaibo G, Usta J, Mikati MA.Time course of changes in apoptotic signal transduction factors during and after experimental status epilepticus. Neurology 2005;64 (6), Suppl 1, A314.
      
   • Pina-Garza E, Levisohn P, Gucuyener K, Mikati M, Messenheimer J. Safety and efficacy of lamotrigine in subjects 1-24 months of age with partial seizures- double-blind phase results. Neurology 2005;64 (6), Suppl 1, A117.
      
   • Mikati, MA. Update on new AED in children. The 2nd Pan African and Pan Arab International pediatric epilepsy conference. Egypt, February 10-11, 2005.
      
   • Mikati M, Obeid M, Daderian R. Erythropoietin kinetics in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid of adult rats following high-dose recombinant erythropoietin. MEMA, 2005.
      
   • Obeid M, Daderian R, Zeinieh M, El-Hokayem J, Bitar F, Nasr M, Mikati M. Chronic hypoxic preconditioning accentuates erythropoietin levels, and prevents acute hypoxic seizure-associated memory impairment. MEMA 2005.
      
   • El Khoury Z, Rahi A, Abu Hamdan S, Mikati MA. Topiramate Related Hyperthermia: A Comparative Study. Epilepsia 2005 vol. 46 (Suppl 6), 237.
      
   • Daderian R, Rizk E, El Dada S, Zeinieh M, Kurdi R, Harb S, Rahmeh A, Usta J, Dbaibo G, El Sabban M, Mikati MA. NMDA receptor activation results in ceramide increases and in apoptosis in Lithium Pilocarpine Status Epilepticus. Epilepsia 2005 vol. 46 (Suppl 6), 207.
      
   • Azzam D, Usta J, Sabban M, Dbaibo G, El Hokayem J, Kurdi R, Mikati MA. Lack of ceramide increase and of apoptosis in rats subjected to acute hypoxic seizures at P10. Epilepsia 2005 vol. 46 (Suppl 6), 372.
      
   • Zeinieh M., Harb S., Kurdi R., Nasr M., Bitar F., Sabban M., Mikati M. Lamotrigine attenuates long term consequences of acute and chronic hypoxia in the developing brain. Epilepsia 2005 vol. 46 (Suppl 6), 357.
      
   • El Hokayem J, Mikati MA. Effects of a single dose of Erythropoietin on subsequent seizure susceptibility in rats exposed to acute hypoxia at P10. Epilepsia 2005 vol. 46 (Suppl 6), 370.
      
   • Mikati M, Obeid M, Daderian R. Erythropoietin kinetics in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid of adult rats following high-dose recombinant erythropoietin. Epilepsia 2005 vol. 46 (Suppl 6), 363.
      
   • Obeid M, Daderian R, Zeinieh M, El-Hokayem J, Bitar F, Nasr M, Mikati M. Chronic hypoxic preconditioning accentuates erythropoietin levels, and prevents acute hypoxic seizure-associated memory impairment. Epilepsia 2005 vol. 46 (Suppl 6), 209.
      
   • Chaaban H, Karam P, Zalloua P, Krishnamoorthy K, Evrard P, Mikati MA. Polymicrogyria, Partial Agenisis of the Corpus Callosum and Infantile Spasms in a Patient with Short Chain Acyl-Co-A Dehydrogenase Deficiency: A New Association. 5th PACNA Congress, Beirut, March 2005.
      
   • Hamdan D, Mikati MA. Severe and Reversible Ecncephalitis Lethargica Associated with Myocoplasma and Influenza Infections in a Six Year Old Boy. 5th PACNA Congress, Beirut, March 2005.
      
6. Samar Muwakkit
    
   • Muwakkit S et al: Clinical and Biologic Features of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Lebanese Pediatric Patients: accepted for presentation at the NICTR meeting; 2004.
      
   • Muwakkit S et al: Burkitt Lymphoma in Lebanese Children” A single institutional experience”: Accepted for presentation as a poster at SIOP meeting 2004.
      
   • Haydar R, Muwakkit S et al: Limb salvage for Pediatric Bone tumors a single institution’s experience: accepted for presentation at the SIOP meeting; 2004.
      
   • Abboud M, Muwakkit S et al: The cost of Cancer treatment at the Children Cancer Center of Lebanon: Accepted for presentation as a poster at SIOP 2004.
      
7. Khaled Yunis
    
   • Tamim H, Mumtaz G, Nakad P, Khogali M, Shatila F, Yunis K. Patterns of infections during the fist year of life: A cohort study in Greater Beirut. National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network (NCPNN). Presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), Valencia, Spain, May 2005.
      
   • Yunis KA, Al Sahab B, Mumtaz, Jamal D, Wakim G, Tamim H. Failure to maintain Breastfeeding rates are associated with male physician gender: Resultsof a prospective cohort study. American Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Washington DC, May 2005.
      
   • Mumtaz G, Tamim H, Khawaja M, Khogali M, Chedid P, Yunis K. Consanguinity a risk factor for small for gestational age in the affluent community of a low middle income country. American Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Washington DC, May 2005.

1. Fadi Bitar
    
   • Zahed L, Oreibi G, El-Amine H, Obeid M, Bitar FF. Pure trisomy 4p resulting from isochromosome formation and whole-arm translocation:case report and review of the Literature. Am J Med Genet. 2004 Jul1;128A(1):60-2.
      
   • Azar N, Nasser M., El Sabban M, Bitar H, Obeid M, Dbaibo G, Bitar FF. Cardiac Growth Patterns in Response to Chronic Hypoxia in a Neonatal Rat Model Mimicking Cyanotic Heart Disease. Experimental and Clinical Cardiology (in press, 2004).
      
   • Souki R, Al Koutoubi A, Obeid M, Bitar FF. Successful Bilateral Percutaneous Stent Implantation in a Child with Pulmonary Artery Stenosis: A modality now available in Lebanon. Lebanese Journal of Medical Sciences (in press, 2004).
      
   • Mansour A, Bitar FF, Traboulsi E, kassak K, Obeid M, Megarbane A, Salti HI. Ocular Pathology in Congenital Heart Disease. Eye May, 2004.
      
   • Hannoush H, Tamim H, Younes H, Arnaout S, Gharzeddine W, Dakik H, Obeid, M, Bitar FF. Patterns of congenital heart disease in the un-operated adults: A 20-year experience in a developing country. Clin. Cardiol. 27, 236-240, 2004.
      
   • Bitar FF, Dabbous I, Hayek P, Mroueh S, Akel S, Obeid M. Acute Respiratory Distress Associated with External Jugular Vein Catheterization in the newborn. Pediatr Pulmonol, 36(6):549-50, 2003.
      
   • El-Assad W , Kozhaya L , Araysi S, Panjarian S, Bitar FF, Baz E, El-Sabban M, Dbaibo GS. Ceramide and Glutathione define two independently regulated pathways of cell death initiated by p53 in Molt-4 leukemia cells. Biochem J. 725-732, 2003.
      
   • Bitar FF, Mroueh S, El Khatib M, Bitar H, Tarrabain M, El Sabban M, Obeid M, Nasser M, Dbaibo G. Tissue specific Ceramide response in the Chronically Hypoxia Rat Model Mimicking Cyanotic Heart Disease. Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediat. 72(3-4), 155-163, 2003.
      
   • Zayour D, Azar ST, Azar N, Nasser M, Obeid M, Mroueh S, Dbaibo GS, Bitar FF. Endocrine changes in a rat model of chronic hypoxic mimicking cyanotic heart disease. Endocrine Res. 29(2): 191-200, 2003.
      
   • Nabulsi M, Tamim H, Sabbagh M, Obeid M, Yunis K, Bitar FF. Paternal Consanguinity and congenital heart Malformation in a developing country. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 116A:342-347, 2003.
     
     
2. Ibrahim Dabbous
    
   • Ibrahim Dabbous, Mohamad Halabi. Bleeding from Jejunal Hamartomatous Polyp, Difficulty in Diagnosis: A Case Report. Submitted to Pediatrics In press.
      
   • Ibrahim Dabbous, Mohamad Halabi. Iron Deficiency Anemia Treatment by Iron Polymaltose Complex: Clinical Trial on Efficacy. Submitted to Blood In press.
      
3. Ghassan Dbaibo
    
   • Schultz, A, Dhar S, Rylova S, Dbaibo GS, Alroy J, Hagel C, Artacho I, Kohlschütter A, Lin S, and Boustany RM. Impaired cell adhesion and apoptosis in a novel CLN9 Batten or NCL disease variant. Annals of Neurology 56(3):342-50 (2004).
      
   • Abboushi N, El-Hed A, El-Assaad W, Kozhaya L, El-Sabban ME, Bazarbachi A, Badreddine R, Bielawska A, Usta J, and Dbaibo GS*. Ceramide inhibits interleukin-2 production by preventing PKC-dependent NF-B activation: Possible role in PKC regulation. Journal of Immunology 173(5):3193-3200 (2004).
      
   • Taha TA, Osta W, Kozhaya L, Bielawski J, Johnson KR, Gillanders WE, Dbaibo GS, Hannun YA, and Obeid LM. Downregulation of Sphingosine Kinase-1 by DNA damage: Dependence on proteases and p53. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 279(19):20546-20554 (2004).
      
   • Darwiche N, Hatoum A, Dbaibo G, Nasr R, Abou-Lteif G, Bazzi R, Hermine O, de Thé H, and Bazarbachi A. N-(4-Hydroxyphenyl) Retinamide Induces Growth Arrest and Apoptosis in HTLV-I Transformed Cells. Leukemia 18(3):607-15 (2004).
      
   • Azar N, Dbaibo G, Nasser M, El-Sabban M, Tawil A, Bitar H, Mroueh S, Obeid M, Azar S, and Bitar FF. Contribution of cardiomyocyte proliferation and hypertrophy to cardiac growth in response to chronic hypoxia in a rat model mimicking cyanotic heart disease. Experimental and Clinical Cardiology 8(4), 189-194 (2003).
      
   • El-Assaad W, Kozhaya L, Arayssi S, Panjarian S, Bitar FF, Baz E, El-Sabban ME, and Dbaibo GS*. Ceramide and glutathione define two independently regulated pathways of cell death initiated by p53 in Molt-4 leukemia cells. The Biochemical Journal 376(3):725-732 (2003).
      
   • Bitar FF, Mroueh S, El-Khatib M, Bitar H, Tarrabain M, El Sabban M, Obeid M, Nasser M, and Dbaibo GS*. Tissue-specific ceramide response in the chronically hypoxic rat model mimicking cyanotic heart disease. Prostaglandins and Other Lipid mediators 72: 155-163 (2003).
      
   • El-Assaad W, Buteau J, Roduit R, Peyot M-L, Hardy S, Joly E, Dbaibo G, Rosenberg L, Prentki M. Saturated Fatty Acids Synergize with Elevated Glucose to Cause -cell Apoptosis. Endocrinology 144(9): 4154-63 (2003).
      
4. Mohamad Mikati
    
   • Mikati MA, Shamseddine A. Therapy of Landau Kleffner Syndrome. Pediatric Drugs, Adis International, In press.
      
   • Ferzli G, El-Tal A. Kibbi A, Mikati MA. Localized morphea: a rare adverse effect of valproic acid. Pediatric Neurology 2003;29(3):253-255.
      
   • Mikati MA, Comair Y, Ismail R, Faour R, Rahi A. Effects of epilepsy surgery on quality of life: a controlled study in a Middle Eastern population. Epilepsy and Behavior 2004;5(1):72-80 .
      
   • Mikati MA. Neuronal cell death in a rat model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy is induced by the initial status epilepticus and not by later repeated spontaneous seizures. Letter Epilepsia 2004;45(3):296.
      
   • Mikati MA, Holmes GL, Werner S, Bakkar N, Carmant L, Liu Z, Stafstrom CE. Effects of nimodipine on the behavioral sequelae of experimental status epilepticus in prepubescent rats. Epilepsy and Behavior 2004;5:168-174.
      
   • Mikati MA, Kurdi R, Rahmeh A, Farhat F, Abu Rialy S, Lteif L, Francis E, Geha G, Maraashli W. Effects of creatine and cyclocreatine supplementation on kainite induced injury in prebuscent rats. Brain Injury 2004;18(12):1229-1241.
      
   • Mikati MA, Hanna-Wakim R. Symptomatic antiepileptic drug associated vitamin D deficiency in non-institutionalized patients; an under-diagnosed disorder. Lebanese Medical Journal 2003;51(2):71-74.
      
   • Rizk E, El-Bitar M, Matar G, Saad K, Mikati MA. Facial nerve Palsy with acute otitis media during the first two weeks of life. Journal of Child Neurology, In press.
      
   • Mikati MA, Injibar H, Kurdi R, Abu Rialy S, Lteif L, Abdul Jawad M, Francis E, Geha G, Farhat F. Effects of magnesium sulfate in kainic acid induced status epilepticus. Lebanese Medical Journal, In press.
      
   • Mikati MA, Abu Rialy S, Francis E, Bakkar N, Lteif L, Holmes G. Effects of Gabapentin in the treatment of experimental status epilepticus. Neurosciences, In press.
      
5.  Salman Mroueh
    
   • Zayour D, Azar ST, Azar N, Nasser M, Obeid M, Mroueh S, Dbaibo GS, Bitar FF. Endocrine changes in a rat model of chronic hypoxia mimicking cyanotic heart disease. Endocr Res. 2003; 29:191-200.
      
   • Bitar FF, Obeid M, Dabbous I, Hayek P, Akel S, Mroueh S. Acute respiratory distress associated with external jugular vein catheterization in the newborn. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2003; 36:549- 50.
      
   • Bitar FF, Mroueh S, El Khatib M, Bitar H, Tarrabain M, El Sabban M, Obeid M, Nasser M, Dbaibo GS. Tissue-specific ceramide response in the chronically hypoxic rat model mimicking cyanotic heart disease. Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediat. 2003;72:155-63
      
6. Samar Muakkit
    
   • Muwakkit S, Razzouk BI, Shabb NS,Hancock ML, Dabbous I, Firzli S, Abboud MR.Clinical Presentation and Treatment outcome of children with Burkitt Lymphoma in Lebanon. A Single Institutions’s Experience. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 2004;26(11): 749-53.
      
7.  Mona Nabulsi
    
   • Nabulsi MM, Tamim H, Sabbagh M, Obeid MY, Yunis KA, Bitar F. Parental Consanguinity and Congenital Heart Disease in a Developing Country. American Journal of Medical Genetics 2003; 116A(4): 342-347.
      
   • Nuwayhid I, Nabulsi M, Muwakkit S, Kouzi S, Salem G, Mikati M, Ariss M. Blood Lead Levels in 1-3 Year Old Lebanese Children: a Cross-sectional Study. Environmental Health 2003; 2(1): 5.
      
   • Nabulsi MM, El-Saleeby CM, Araj GF; Lebanese Collaborative Hepatitis B Study Group. The Current Status of Hepatitis B in Lebanon. Lebanese Medical Journal 2003; 51:64-70.
      
   • Fares JE, Choucair M, Nabulsi M, Salamoun M, Shahine CH, Fuleihan G el-H. Effect of Gender, Puberty, and Vitamin D Status on Biochemical Markers of Bone Remodeling. Bone 2003; 33: 242-247.
      
   • Arabi A, Nabulsi M, Maalouf J, Choucair M, Khalifeh H, Veith R, El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Bone Mineral Density by Age, Gender, Pubertal Stages and Socioeconomic Status in Healthy Lebanese Children amd Adolescents. Bone 2004; 35: 1169-1179
      
   • Arabi A, Tamim H, Nabulsi M, Maalouf J, Khalifeh H, Choucair M, Veith R, El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Sex Differences in the Effect of Body-Composition Variables on Bone Mass in Healthy Children and Adolescents. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2004; 80: 1428-35.
      
   • Salamoun MM, Kizirian AS, Tannous RI, Nabulsi MM, Choucair MK, Deeb ME, El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Low Calcium and Vitamin D Intake in Healthy Children and Adolescents and their Correlates. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2004 Oct 6 (In Press).
      
8. Sami Sanjad
    
   • Sanjad, SA: Renal tubular acidosis in the Arab world. Saudi J Kidney Dis Transplant 14(3): 305-15,2003.
      
   • Al-Ibrahim A, Sanjad SA, Al-Abbad A, Al-Sabban E, Al-Shaibani K. Post-renal transplantation tubulopathies in children: a 9-year experience at a tertiary care center. Saudi J Kidney Dis Transplant. 15(1): 27-33, 2004.
      
9. Khalid Yunis
    
   • Beydoun H., Yunis KA, Khogali M, Tamim H National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network, (NCPNN). Cesarean route of delivery and hyaline membrane disease: a hospital-based, case-control study in greater Beirut. Accepted for publication: Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. Oct 2003;17(4) :363-8
      
   • Tamim H, Musharrafiah U, Roueiheb Z, Yunis K, Almawi WY, Exposure of children to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and its association with respiratory ailments.J Asthma. 2003; 40(5):571-6.
      
   • Yunis KA,Beydoun HA,Khogali M,Alameh M, Tamim HM. Low socioeconomic status and neonatal outcomes In an urban developing population. J Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 2003 Nov;14(5):338-43.
      
   • Tamim H, Khogali M, Beydoun H, Melki I, Yunis K. Consanguinity and apnea of prematurity. Am J of Epidemiology 2003 Nov 15; 158(10):942-6.
      
   • Malaeb S, Rassi A, Haddad M, Seoud MS, Yunis KA, Abnormal and normal bone mineralization respectively in appropriately and growth restricted newborns whose mothers received magnesium sulfate for tocolysis of premature labor. Pediatric Radiology 2004 May; 34(5): 384-6
      
   • Beydoun H, Itani M, Tamim H, Aaraj A, Khogali M, Yunis K. Impact of maternal age on pre-term delivery and low birthweight: A hospital-based, collaborative study of nulliparous Lebanese women in Greater Beirut J Perinatol 2004 Apr 24(4): 228-35
      
   • Melki I, Beydoun H, Khogali M, TamimH, Yunis KA. National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network, (NCPNN).Household Crowding index: a correlate of Socio- economic status and inter pregnancy spacing in an urban setting. J Epidemiol Community Health 2004 Jun; 58(6): 476-480
      
   • Yunis KA, Beydoun HA,Tamim YM, Nassif Y, Khogali M . Risk Factors for Fetal Growth Restriction in the Absence of Maternal Complications. Am J of Perinatol. 2004 May 21(4) :227-34
      
   • Tamim H,Beydoun H,Itani M,Khogali M,Yunis, KA Predicting neonatal outcomes: Birthweight, Body Mass Index or Ponderal Index. J. Perinat. Med. 2004; 32(6):509-13.
      
   • Tamim H and Yunis K. Super course: Consanguinity and apnea of prematurity http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec17801/001.htm
      
   • Thesis by Ban Al-Sahab Master of Science, Epidemiology and population health. Predictors of breastfeeding in greater Beirut area. June 2004 Co Advisor Yunis K.
      
   • Annual reports of the NCPNN
     National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: NCPNN Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004
     National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: AUBMC: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004
     National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: NAJJAR HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004.
     National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: HOTEL DIEU DE FRANCE HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004.
     National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: RASSOUL AL AAZAM HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004
     National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: SAHEL GENERAL HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004.
     National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: RIZK HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004
     National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: ST. GEORGES HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004.
     National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: MAKASSED GENERAL HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (April 1, 2002-March 31, 2003). October 2004.
     National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: RAHHAL AKKAR HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (March 1, 2004-August 31, 2004). October 2004.
     National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network: RAYYAK HOSPITAL: NCPNN Individual Annual Report (September 1, 2004-April 31, 2004). October 2004.

1. Fadi Bitar
    
   • Mazen Alwani , Ghassan Dbaibo, Zuhair Habbal, Michel Nasser, Hala Bitar, Obeid M, Marwan El Sabban, Julnar Usta, Fadi Bitar. Adaptive Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Growth in the Chronically Hypoxic Rat Heart: Roles of Sphingolipid Metabolites and Angiogenesis. Poster, at the First Middle East Symposium in Pediatric Cardiology- Surgery, (MESPC-S), May, 12-14, 2004, Beirut, Lebanon
      
   • Fatimah Adnan Shehab, Nuha Salti , Fadi Bitar , George Nemer. Types and prevalence of mutations in Gata 5 gene in a group of Lebanese patients with congenital heart defects. Poster, at the First Middle East Symposium in Pediatric Cardiology- Surgery, (MESPC-S), May, 12-14, 2004, Beirut, Lebanon.
      
   • Mazen Alwani , George Nemer , Michel Nasser, Julnar Usta, Marwan El Sabban, Ghassan Dbaibo, Fadi Bitar. Expression of Transcription Factors in the Chronically Hypoxic Rat Heart. Poster, at the First Middle East Symposium in Pediatric Cardiology- Surgery, (MESPC-S), May, 12-14, 2004, Beirut, Lebanon.
      
   • Fatima Hassan Fadlallah, Fadi Bitar, Mounir Obeid, Julnar Usta and George Nemer. The Role of GATA-4 FOG 2 interaction in a group of Lebanese patients with congenital heart diseases: A novel finding. Poster, at the First Middle East Symposium in Pediatric Cardiology- Surgery, (MESPC-S), May, 12-14, 2004, Beirut, Lebanon.
      
   • Mazen Alwani, Julnar Usta, Zuhair Habbal, Michel Nasser, Hala Bitar, Obeid M, Marwan El Sabban, Ghassan Dbaibo, Fadi Bitar. Roles of Sphingolipid Metabolites and Angiogenesis in the Adaptive Mechanisms of Cardiac Growth in the Chronically Hypoxic Rat Heart. Oral presentation at the XXXVIII Middle East Medical Assembly, May 13-16, 2004, Lebanon.
      
2. Ibrahim Dabbous
    
   • Iron Deficiency Anemia Treatment by Iron Polymaltose Complex: Clinical Trial on Efficacy. Abstract submitted to ASH (American Society of Hematologists).
      
3. Ghassan Dbaibo
    
   • El-Hed A, Kozhaya L, and Dbaibo GS. Ceramide regulates PKC phosphorylation and translocation to lipid rafts. The Gordon Conference on Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Biology, Hyogo, Japan, July 25-30, 2004.
      
   • Abboushi N, El-Hed A, El-Assaad W, Kozhaya L, El-Sabban ME, Bazarbachi A, Badreddine R, Bielawska A, Usta J, and Dbaibo GS. Ceramide inhibits interleukin-2 production by preventing PKC-dependent NF-B activation: Possible role in PKC regulation. The Sixth Pan Arab Congress of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Beirut, Lebanon, September 24-27, 2003.
      
4. Mohamad Mikati
   
   
   • Mikati MA, Guerreiro M, Squires E, Mohandoss E. Topiramate-treated children/adolescents with refractory epilepsy: effect on growth measured as body mass index. Epilepsia 2003;vol 44, Suppl 8, p.171.
      
   • Mikati MA, Guerreiro M, Squires E, Mohandoss E. Topiramate-treated children/adolescents with refractory epilepsy: effect on growth measured as body mass index. European Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2003;7, no.5, p.324.
      
   • Mikati MA. Mechanisms of neuronal injury after status epilepticus: role of ceramide and sphingomyelinases. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Saudi Neuroscience Symposium and 4th Annual Meeting of the Saudi Chapter of Epilepsy, Jan 2004.
      
   • Papathanasiou E, Mikati MA, Myrianthopoulou P, Comair Y, Papacostas S. Electroencephalographic evidence of brain plasticity in a patient with Sturge-Weber syndrome. Epilepsia 2004;45. Suppl 3, 2004.
      
   • Mikati MA, Comair Y, Shamseddine A. Pattern induced partial seizures with repetitive kissing: a novel manifestation of right temporal lobe epilepsy. American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, September 29-October 2, 2004.
      
   • Zeinieh M, Kurdi R, Harb S, El Hokayem J, Daderian R, Obeid M, Mikati MA. The effect of acute hypoxic seizures on the long term consequences of chronic hypoxia. American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, September 29-October 2, 2004.
      
5. Salman Mroueh
    
   • Farag Galleon A, Araj G, Mroueh S: Epidemiology of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus.Presented at the Fifteenth Congress of the Syrian Pediatric Society, Latakieh, October 2003.
      
   • Mroueh S, Tamim H, El Fadel M: Effect of a diesel engine ban on asthma-related morbidity in Beirut. Presented at the Sixth International Congress of Pediatric Pulmonolgy, Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 2004 and accepted for presentation at the meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, San Francisco, May 2004.
      
6. Samar Muakkit
    
   • Muwakkit S et al: Clinical and Biologic Features of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Lebanese Pediatric Patients: accepted for presentation at the NICTR meeting; 2004.
      
   • Muwakkit S et al: Burkitt Lymphoma in Lebanese Children” A single institutional experience”: Accepted for presentation as a poster at SIOP meeting 2004.
      
   • Haydar R, Muwakkit S et al: Limb salvage for Pediatric Bone tumors a single institution’s experience: accepted for presentation at the SIOP meeting; 2004.
      
   • Abboud M, Muwakkit S et al: The cost of Cancer treatment at the Children Cancer Center of Lebanon: Accepted for presentation as a poster at SIOP 2004.
      
7. Mona Nabulsi
    
   • Nabulsi M, Tamim H, Sabra R, Malaeb C, Fakih H, Usta U, Mikati M. Equal Antipyretic Efficacy of Oral and Rectal Acetaminophen: a Randomized Controlled Trial. The XXXVIIIth Middle East Medical Assembly, Beirut, May 13-16, 2004.
      
   • Nabulsi M, El-Saleeby C, Araj G, the Lebanese Collaborative Hepatitis B Study Group. The Current Status of Hepatitis B in Lebanon. The XXXVIIIth Middle East Medical Assembly, Beirut, May 13-16, 2004.
      
   • Dib L, Salamoun M, Kizirian A, Maalouf J, Tannous R, Nabulsi M, Choucair M, Arabi A, Deeb M, Veith R, El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Lifestyles Factors, Vitamin D and Bone Health in Lebanese School Students: a Call for Action. المؤتمر الثاني للصحة المدرسية في الوطن العربي, UNESCO, Beirut, 3-5 December, 2003.
      
8. Khaled Yunis
    
   • Yunis KA, Nakad P, Mumtaz G, Sidani S, Araj FG, Tamim H. Containement of an outbreak with extended spectrum B – lactamase producing Klebsiella pneumonieae in the Neonatal Intensive care unit. American Academic Societies Annual Meeting, San Francisco May 2004, Pediatr Resar 53 part 2.

1. Miguel Abboud

• Muwakkit S, Locatelli F, Abboud M, Razzouk B, Wilimas J. Report of a child with vitiligo and Evans syndrome. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2003 Apr; 25(4):344-5.
  

2. Majd Ariss

• Nuwayhid I, Nabulsi M, Muwakkit S, Kouzi S, Salem G, Mikati MA, Ariss M. Blood lead levels in 1-3 year old Lebanese children. Environmental Health: A Global Access. http://www.ehjournal.net/content/2/1/5 Science Source 2003, 2:5.

3. Fadi Bitar
   
   
   • Bitar FF. Patent Ductus Arteriosus in a Child with Leukemia: Role of antiinflammatory mediactions. Med Pediatr Oncol 38:151, 2002.
      
   • Bitar FF, Bitar H, El Sabban M, , Nasser M, Yunis KA, Tawil A, Dbaibo G. Modulation of the Ceramide Content and Lack of the apoptotic response in the chronically hypoxic rat heart. Pediatr Res. 51:144-149, 2002.
      
   • Bitar FF, El Sabban M, Bitar H, Diab K., Mroueh S, Nasser M, Mikati M, Dbaibo G. Lack of apoptosis in the hypoxic brain of a rat model mimicking cyanotic heart disease. Brain Inj.; 16(10):891-900, 2002.
      
   • Bitar FF, Mroueh S, Obeid M, Dabbous I, Hayek P, Akel S, . Acute Respiratory Distress Associated with External Jugular Vein Catheterization in the newborn. Pediatric Pulmonology, In press 2003.
      
   • Bitar FF, Mroueh S, El Khatib M, Bitar H, Tarrabain M, El Sabban M, Obeid M, Nasser M, Dbaibo G. Tissue specific Ceramide response in the Chronically Hypoxia Rat Model Mimicking Cyanotic Heart Disease. Prostaglandin & Other Lipid Mediators. In press, 2003.
      
   • Bitar FF, Sabbagh M, Obeid M. The Status of Pediatric Cardiology in Lebanon. Lebanese Journal of Medical Sciences Vol. 10, 4-9, 2003.
      
   • El Hassan N, Dbaibo G, Diab k, Musallam S, Haidar R, Obeid M, Bitar F. Pseudomonas pericarditis in an immunocompetent newborn: unusual presentation with review of the literature. J Infect. 2002 Jan; 44(1):49-51.
      
   • Gharzuddine W, Kazma H, Nuwayhed I, Bitar FF, Koussa S, Moukarbel G, Taher A. Doppler characterization of left ventricular diastolic function in B -Thalassemia Major. Evidence for an early stage of impaired relaxation. Eur J Echocardiogr, 3(1): 47-51, 2002.
      
   • Hannoush H, Tamim H, Younes H, Arnaout S, Gharzeddine W, Dakik H, Obeid M, Bitar FF. Patterns of congenital heart disease in the un-operated adults: A 20-year experience in a developing country. Clinical Cardiology, 2003 (in Press)
      
   • Melki I, Beydoun H, Khogali M, TamimH, Yunis KA 2003 . National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network, (NCPNN).Household Crowding index: a correlate of Socio- economic status and inter pregnancy spacing in an urban setting. (Accepted for publication) J Epid Community Health.
      
   • Nabulsi M, Tamim H, Sabbagh M, Obeid M, Yunis, K, Bitar FF. Paternal Consanguinity and congenital heart Malformation in a developing country. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 116A:342-347, 2003.
      
   • Zahed L, Oreibi G, El-Amine H, Obeid M, Bitar FF. Pure trisomy 4p resulting from isochromosome formation and whole-arm translocation: case report and review of the Literature. The American Journal of Medical Genetics, In press, 2003.
      
   • Zayyour D, Azar S, El Sabban M, Mroueh S, Nasser M, Obeid M, Dbaibo G, and Bitar FF. Endocrine changes in the chronically hypoxic rat model mimicking Cyanotic Heart Disease. Endocrine Research 29(2): 191-200 (2003).
      
4. Mohamad Bitar
    
   • Bitar M, Choi S. Bilateral occurrence of congenital middle ear cholesteatoma. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2002 Nov; 127(5): 480-2.
      
   • Bitar M, Pena M, Choi S, Zalzal G. Retained ventilation tubes; should they be removed at 2 years? Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2002 Dec; 128(12): 1357-60 (was also Released in the Press in the US)
      
   • Bitar M, Choi S, Emamian S, Vezina G. Congenital middle ear cholesteatoma: need for early recognition – role of computed tomography scan. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2003 Mar; 67(3): 231-5.
      
   • Bitar M. Stridor in infants: Diagnosis and Management. MEJ Anesth 2003; 17 (2):255-64.
      
   • Bitar M, Kumar S. Plunging Congenital Epidermoid Cyst of the Oral Cavity. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2003; 260: 223-5. (Published online on Nov. 6, 2002).
      
   • Bitar M, Milmoe G, Kumar S. Intralingual foregut duplication cyst in a newborn. Ear Nose Throat J 2003; 82 (6): 454-6
      
5. Ibrahim Dabbous
   
   
   • Bitar FF, Mroueh S, Obeid M, Dabbous I, Hayek P, Akel S, . Acute Respiratory Distress Associated with External Jugular Vein Catheterization in the newborn. Pediatric Pulmonology, In press 2003.
      
   • Dabbous IA, Bahlawan L. Infantile Poikilocytosis: A forgotten or a dead diagnosis. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 24(6):507, Aug 2002.
      
   • Dabbous IA, Dbouk H, Sibai AM, Bahlawan L. A decade of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia from a tertiary care center in a developing country. Medical and Pediatric Oncology 41:83-84, July 2003-09-17.
      
6. Ghassan Dbaibo
   
   
   • Bitar FF, Bitar H, El Sabban M, , Nasser M, Yunis KA, Tawil A, Dbaibo G. Modulation of the Ceramide Content and Lack of the apoptotic response in the chronically hypoxic rat heart. Pediatr Res. 51:144-149, 2002.
      
   • Bitar FF, El Sabban M, Bitar H, Diab K., Mroueh S, Nasser M, Mikati M, Dbaibo G. Lack of apoptosis in the hypoxic brain of a rat model mimicking cyanotic heart disease. Brain Inj.; 16(10):891-900, 2002.
      
   • Bitar FF, Mroueh S, El Khatib M, Bitar H, Tarrabain M, El Sabban M, Obeid M, Nasser M, Dbaibo G. Tissue specific Ceramide response in the Chronically Hypoxia Rat Model Mimicking Cyanotic Heart Disease. Prostaglandin & Other Lipid Mediators. In press, 2003.
      
   • El-Assaad W, Buteau J, Peyot ML, Nolan C, Roduit R, Hardy S, Joly E, Dbaibo G, Rosenberg L, Prentki M. Saturated fatty acids synergize with elevated glucose to cause pancreatic beta-cell death. Endocrinology. 2003 Sep;144(9):4154-63.
      
   • El Hassan N, Dbaibo G, Diab k, Musallam S, Haidar R, Obeid M, Bitar F. Pseudomonas pericarditis in an immunocompetent newborn: unusual presentation with review of the literature. J Infect. 2002 Jan; 44(1):49-51.
      
   • Mikati MA, Abi-Habib R, El Sabban M, Dbaibo GS, Kurdi R, Kobeissi M, Farhat F, Asaad W. Hippocampal programmed cell death after status epilepticus: evidence for NMDA-receptor and ceramide-mediated mechanisms. Epilepsia 2003; 4(3):282-291.
      
   • Zayyour D, Azar S, El Sabban M, Mroueh S, Nasser M, Obeid M, Dbaibo G, and Bitar FF. Endocrine changes in the chronically hypoxic rat model mimicking Cyanotic Heart Disease. Endocrine Research 29(2): 191-200 (2003).
      
7. Mohamad Mikati
   
   
   
   • Bitar FF, El Sabban M, Bitar H, Diab K., Mroueh S, Nasser M, Mikati M, Dbaibo G. Lack of apoptosis in the hypoxic brain of a rat model mimicking cyanotic heart disease. Brain Inj.; 16(10):891-900, 2002.
      
   • Ferzli G, El-Tal A. Kibbi A, Mikati MA. Localized morphea: a rare adverse effect of valproic acid. Pediatric Neurology, (in press).
      
   • Mikati MA, Abi-Habib R, El Sabban M, Dbaibo GS, Kurdi R, Kobeissi M, Farhat F, Asaad W. Hippocampal programmed cell death after status epilepticus: evidence for NMDA-receptor and ceramide-mediated mechanisms. Epilepsia 2003; 4(3):282-291.
      
   • Mikati MA, Comair Y, Ismail R, Faour R, Rahi A. Effects of epilepsy surgery on quality of life: a controlled study in a Middle Eastern population. Epilepsy and Behavior, (in press).
      
   • Mikati MA, Hanna-Wakim R. Symptomatic antiepileptic drug associated vitamin D deficiency in non-institutionalized patients; an under-diagnosed disorder. Accepted in Lebanese Medical Journal.
      
   • Mikati M, Fayyad M, Koleilat M, Mounla N, Hussein R, Yunis KA; 2002. Efficacy Tolerability, and kinectics of lamotrigine in infants. J Pediatr, 141: (1) 31-5.
      
   • Mikati MA, Werner S, Shehab L, Shamseddine A, Simaan E, Liu Z, Tarif S, Stafstrom C, Holmes G. Stages of status epilepticus in the developing brain. Epilepsy Research 2003; 55(1-2):9-19.
      
   • Mikati MA, Rahi A. Febrile seizures in children. Practical Neurology 2003; 3(2):78-85.
      
   • Mikati MA, Rahi A. Febrile seizures in children. Lebanese Medical Journal North 2003; June, p.4-12
      
   • Muwakkit S, Al-Ajam M, Arayssi T, Hasbini D, Masri A, Mikati MA. Isolated digital gangrene as a complication of Hepatitis A infection in a child: A possible Raynaud’s Phenomenon. Journal of Clinical Rheumatology 2002; 8:223-227.
      
   • Nuwayhid I, Nabulsi M, Muwakkit S, Kouzi S, Salem G, Mikati MA, Ariss M. Blood lead levels in 1-3 year old Lebanese children. Environmental Health: A Global Access. http://www.ehjournal.net/content/2/1/5 Science Source 2003, 2:5.
      
8. Nabil Mounla
   
   
   • Mikati M, Fayyad M, Koleilat M, Mounla N, Hussein R, Yunis KA; 2002. Efficacy Tolerability, and kinectics of lamotrigine in infants. J Pediatr, 141: (1) 31-5.
      
9. Salman Mroueh
   
   
   • Bitar FF, El Sabban M, Bitar H, Diab K., Mroueh S, Nasser M, Mikati M, Dbaibo G. Lack of apoptosis in the hypoxic brain of a rat model mimicking cyanotic heart disease. Brain Inj.; 16(10):891-900, 2002.
      
   • Bitar FF, Mroueh S, Obeid M, Dabbous I, Hayek P, Akel S, . Acute Respiratory Distress Associated with External Jugular Vein Catheterization in the newborn. Pediatric Pulmonology, In press 2003.
      
   • Bitar FF, Mroueh S, El Khatib M, Bitar H, Tarrabain M, El Sabban M, Obeid M, Nasser M, Dbaibo G. Tissue specific Ceramide response in the Chronically Hypoxia Rat Model Mimicking Cyanotic Heart Disease. Prostaglandin & Other Lipid Mediators. In press, 2003.
      
   • Zayyour D, Azar S, El Sabban M, Mroueh S, Nasser M, Obeid M, Dbaibo G, and Bitar FF. Endocrine changes in the chronically hypoxic rat model mimicking Cyanotic Heart Disease. Endocrine Research 29(2): 191-200 (2003).
      
10. Salim Musallam
    
    
    • Akel SR, Rassi A, Tawil A, Musallam S, Makhlouf Akel M. Isolated renal haemangioma in children: presentation and management. BJU Int. 2002 Nov; 90(7):758-60.
      
    
    
    • El Hassan N, Dbaibo G, Diab k, Musallam S, Haidar R, Obeid M, Bitar F. Pseudomonas pericarditis in an immunocompetent newborn: unusual presentation with review of the literature. J Infect. 2002 Jan; 44(1):49-51.
       
11. Samar Muakkit
    
    
    • Muwakkit S, Al-Ajam M, Arayssi T, Hasbini D, Masri A, Mikati MA. Isolated digital gangrene as a complication of Hepatitis A infection in a child: A possible Raynaud’s Phenomenon. Journal of Clinical Rheumatology 2002; 8:223-227.
       
    • Muwakkit S, Locatelli F, Abboud M, Razzouk B, Wilimas J. Report of a child with vitiligo and Evans syndrome. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2003 Apr; 25(4):344-5.
       
    • Nuwayhid I, Nabulsi M, Muwakkit S, Kouzi S, Salem G, Mikati MA, Ariss M. Blood lead levels in 1-3 year old Lebanese children. Environmental Health: A Global Access. http://www.ehjournal.net/content/2/1/5 Science Source 2003, 2:5.
       
12. Mona Nabulsi
    
    
    • Fares JE, Choucair M, Nabulsi M, Salamoun M, Hajj Shahine C, El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Effect of Gender and Vitamin D Status on Biochemical Markers of Bone Remodeling. Bone 2003; 33: 242-247.
       
    • Nabulsi M, El-Saleeby C, Araj G, the Lebanese Collaborative Hepatitis B Study Group. The Current Status of Hepatitis B in Lebanon. Lebanese Medical Journal (Accepted, January 2003).
       
    • Nabulsi M, Tamim H, Sabbagh M, Obeid M, Yunis, K, Bitar FF. Paternal Consanguinity and congenital heart Malformation in a developing country. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 116A:342-347, 2003.
       
    • Nuwayhid I, Nabulsi M, Muwakkit S, Kouzi S, Salem G, Mikati MA, Ariss M. Blood lead levels in 1-3 year old Lebanese children. Environmental Health: A Global Access. http://www.ehjournal.net/content/2/1/5 Science Source 2003, 2:5.
       
13. Samir Najjar
    
    
    • Yunis KA, Nasr MR, Lepejian G, Najjar S, Daher R. False-negative primary neonatal thyroid screening: the need for clinical vigilance and secondary screening. J Med Screen 2003; 10(1):2-4.
       
    • Yunis KA, Lepejian G, Nasr M, Najjar S, Daher R 2003. False Negative Primary Neonatal Thyroid Screening: The need for clinical vigilance and secondary screening. (Accepted for publication). J of Medical Screening 10: 2-4.
       
14. Sami Sanjad
    
    
    • Sanjad SA. Renal Tubular Acidosis in the Arab World. Saudi J Kidney Dis Transplant 14 (3) 305-315, September 2003.
       
    • Sanjad SA. Hereditary renal tubulopathies in the Arab world. Editorial BMJ 10(103):6-8, July, 2003.
       
    • Stover EH, Borthwick KJ, Bavalia C, Eady N, Fritz DM, Rungrosh N, Giersch AB, Morton CC, Axon PR, Akil I, Al-Sabban E, Baguley DM, Bianca S, Bakkaloglu A, Birkan Z. Chaveau D, Clermont MJ, Sanjad SA, Tasic V, Taylor CM, Topaloglu R, Smith AN, Karet FE. Novel ATP6V1B1 and ATP6B0A4 mutations in autosomal recessive distal renal tubular acidosis with new evidence for hearing loss. J Med Genet 39(11) 796-803, Nov 2002.
       
15. Khalid Yunis
    
    
    • Beydoun H., Yunis KA, Khogali M, Tamim H 2003.National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network, (NCPNN). Cesarean route of delivery and hyaline membrane disease: a hospital-based, case-control study in greater Beirut. (Accepted for publication) Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology.
       
    • Beydoun H, Itani M, Tamim H, Aaraj A, Khogali M, Yunis KH 2003.Impact of maternal age on pre-term delivery and low birthweight: A hospital-based, collaborative study of nulliparous Lebanese women in Greater Beirut. (Accepted for publication) J Perinatol .
       
    • Bitar FF, Bitar H, El Sabban M, , Nasser M, Yunis KA, Tawil A, Dbaibo G. Modulation of the Ceramide Content and Lack of the apoptotic response in the chronically hypoxic rat heart. Pediatr Res. 51:144-149, 2002.
       
    • Daher R, Beaini M, Mahfouz R, Cortas N, Yunis KA 2003. Results of Newborn Screening in a Lebanese Hospital. Ann Saudi Med 23 (16-19).
       
    • Mikati M, Fayyad M, Koleilat M, Mounla N, Hussein R, Yunis KA; 2002. Efficacy Tolerability, and kinectics of lamotrigine in infants. J Pediatr, 141: (1) 31-5.
       
    • Nabulsi M, Tamim H, Sabbagh M, Obeid M, Yunis, K, Bitar FF. Paternal Consanguinity and congenital heart Malformation in a developing country. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 116A:342-347, 2003.
       
    • Seoud M, Nassar A, Usta I, Mansour M, Salti I, Younes KH 2003. Gastrointestinal malformations in two infants born to women with hyperthyroidism untreated in the first trimester. Am. J. of Perinatol. Feb; 20(2):59-62.
       
    • Shalak L , Obeid M, Kaddoura I, Hashem H, Haidar R, Yunis KA , Bitar FF. Complete Cleft Sternum and Congenital Heart Disease: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Pediatrics International, Vol. 44. No. 3, 2002.
       
    • Tamim H, Musharrafiah U, Roueiheb Z, Yunis KH, Almawi WY, 2003. Exposure of children to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and its association with respiratory ailments. (Accepted for publication) Journal of Asthma.
       
    • Tamim H, Khogali M, Beydoun H, Melki I, Yunis KH 2003.Consanguinity and apnea of prematurity. (Accepted for publication) Am J of Epidemiology.
       
    • Usta IM, Nassar AH, Abu Musa AA, Awwad JT, Yunis KA, Seoud MA. Perinatal outcome of vaginally delivered twin gestations with a larger twin B. J Perinatol 2003 Jul-Aug; 23(5):409-13.
       
    • Yunis KA, Beydoun H, Tamim H; National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network. Maternal predictors of small-for-gestational age in uncomplicated births. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2002 Oct; 79(1):33-5 .
       
    • Yunis KA, Beydoun HA, Tamim YM, Nassif Y, Khogali M 2003. Risk Factors for Fetal Growth Restriction in the Absence of Maternal Complications. (Accepted for publication) Am. J. of Perinatol.
       
    • Yunis KA, Beydoun H, Tamim H, Khogali M. 2002; National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network, (NCPNN). Socio-demographic and Behavioral Predictors of Fetal Growth Restriction in Uncomplicated Births. Int J of Gynaecol Obstet. Oct; 79(1): 33-35.
       
    • Yunis KA, Beydoun HA, Khogali M, Alameh M, Tamim HM 2003. Low socioeconomic status and neonatal outcomes in an urban developing population. (Accepted for publication) J Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine.
       
    • Yunis KA, Nasr MR, Lepejian G, Najjar S, Daher R. False-negative primary neonatal thyroid screening: the need for clinical vigilance and secondary screening. J Med Screen 2003; 10(1):2-4.
       
    • Yunis KA, Lepejian G, Nasr M, Najjar S, Daher R 2003. False Negative Primary Neonatal Thyroid Screening: The need for clinical vigilance and secondary screening. (Accepted for publication). J of Medical Screening 10: 2-4.

1. Fadi Bitar

• Azar N, Dbaibo G, El Sabban M, Nasser M, Mroueh S. Obeid M, Azar S , Bitar FF. Myocardial DNA and protein Changes in a rat model Mimicking Cyanotic Heart Disease : Effect of Chronic Hypoxia on Myocardial Proliferation. Abstract, European Pediatric Cardiology Meeting, Porto, 2002 and oral presentation at the 4th THIC international Symposium in Pediatric Cardiology, 2002, Bali Indonesia (The Indonesian Journal of Cardiology, Volume1, No, 2 47-48, 2002).
   
• Bitar FF, Sabbagh M, and Obeid M. Pediatric Cardiology in a Developing Country. Poster, at the 4th THIC international Symposium in Pediatric Cardiology, 2002, Bali Indonesia (The Indonesian Journal of Cardiology, Volume 1, No, 2, pp. 50, July, 2002.
   
• Mikati MA, Bitar F, Koubeissi M, Kurdi R, Harik L. Effects of acute and chronic hypoxia on the developing brain. Acta Pediatrica Espanola 2002; 60(8), 472.
   
• Mroueh S, Bitar H, Bitar FF, Nasser M, El-Sabban M, Dbaibo GS. Apoptotic changes and ceramide accumulation in the hyperoxic newborn rat lung. Abstract, SPR, 2002
   
• Yunis KA, G Mumtaz, M Khogali, F Shamseddine, M Kassar, F Bitar, H Tamim. 2003. Consanguineous marriages and congenital heart disease in a developing country: A case control study in the neonatal period. National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network (NCPNN) American Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington. Pediatr. Res 53, part 2.

2. Mohamad Bitar
   
   
   • Bitar M, Moukarbel R, Zalzal G. Management of congenital subglottic hemangioma: trends and success over the past 17 years. Accepted as a podium presentation in the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery in Orlando, FL (Sep 23, 2003). Submitted to the Otolaryngology HNS journal.
      
3. Ibrahim Dabbous
   
   
   • Dbaibo GS, Maria Maalouf M, Al-Ayyoubi M, Sawsan Arayssi S, El-Hed A, Kozhaya L, Harik H, Tollefson AE, and Wold WSM. Adenoviral regulation of ceramide accumulation. Apoptosis 2003 Meeting, Luxembourg, January 29- February 1, 2003.
      
4. Ghassan Dbaibo
   
   
   • Azar N, Dbaibo G, El Sabban M, Nasser M, Mroueh S. Obeid M, Azar S , Bitar FF. Myocardial DNA and protein Changes in a rat model Mimicking Cyanotic Heart Disease : Effect of Chronic Hypoxia on Myocardial Proliferation. Abstract, European Pediatric Cardiology Meeting, Porto, 2002 and oral presentation at the 4th THIC international Symposium in Pediatric Cardiology, 2002, Bali Indonesia (The Indonesian Journal of Cardiology, Volume1, No, 2 47-48, 2002).
      
   • Mikati MA, Shamseddine A, Sabban M, Dbaibo G, Kurdi R, Abi Habib R, Bakkar N. Time course of changes in apoptotic signal-transduction factors during and after experimental status epilepticus. Epilepsia 2002; 43 Suppl 7,18.
      
   • Mroueh S, Bitar H, Bitar FF, Nasser M, El-Sabban M, Dbaibo GS. Apoptotic changes and ceramide accumulation in the hyperoxic newborn rat lung. Abstract, SPR, 2002.
      
   • Taha TA, Dbaibo GS, Obeid LM. The regulation of sphingosine kinase by DNA damage- Possible roles for caspases and p 53. Federation of European Biochemical Societies special meeting on Signal Transduction, Brussels, Belgium, July 3-8, 2003.
      
   • Usta J, Al-Ali H, Dbaibo G, Bielawska A, Szulcz Z, and Hannun Y. The biological effects of urea-c6 ceramide, an inhibitor of non-lysosomal ceramidase, on MCF7 cells. The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 11-15, 2003.
      
5. Mohamad Mikati
   
   
   • Khalil A, Najjar S, Rahi A, Mikati MA. Sub-clinical hypothyroidism seen in valproic acid therapy. XXVII International Congress. Acta Pediatrica Espanola 2002; 60(8), 484
      
   • Mikati MA, Bitar F, Koubeissi M, Kurdi R, Harik L. Effects of acute and chronic hypoxia on the developing brain. Acta Pediatrica Espanola 2002; 60(8), 472.
      
   • Mikati MA. Advances in diagnostic techniques of epilepsy: Implications on management. Acta Pediatrica Espanola 2002; 60(8), 430.
      
   • Mikati MA. Autosomal dominant alternating hemiplegia of childhood. Rev Neurol 2003; 36(5):472.
      
   • Mikati MA. The use of new antiepileptic drugs in children. Neurosciences 2003; vol 8 suppl 2, S164.
      
   • Mikati MA. Neonatal seizures. Neurosciences 2003; vol 8 suppl 2, S182
      
   • Abi Habib R, Usta Julnar, Mikati MA. Activation of sphingomyelinase isoenzymes after kianic acid-induced status epilepticus. Epilepsia 2002; 43 Suppl 7, 7-8.
      
   • Mikati MA, Shamseddine A, Sabban M, Dbaibo G, Kurdi R, Abi Habib R, Bakkar N. Time course of changes in apoptotic signal-transduction factors during and after experimental status epilepticus. Epilepsia 2002; 43 Suppl 7,18.
      
6. Salman Mroueh
   
   
   • Azar N, Dbaibo G, El Sabban M, Nasser M, Mroueh S. Obeid M, Azar S , Bitar FF. Myocardial DNA and protein Changes in a rat model Mimicking Cyanotic Heart Disease : Effect of Chronic Hypoxia on Myocardial Proliferation. Abstract, European Pediatric Cardiology Meeting, Porto, 2002 and oral presentation at the 4th THIC international Symposium in Pediatric Cardiology, 2002, Bali Indonesia (The Indonesian Journal of Cardiology, Volume1, No, 2 47-48, 2002).
      
   • Mroueh S, Bitar H, Bitar FF, Nasser M, El-Sabban M, Dbaibo GS. Apoptotic changes and ceramide accumulation in the hyperoxic newborn rat lung. Abstract, SPR, 2002.
      
7. Samir Najjar
   
   
   • Khalil A, Najjar S, Rahi A, Mikati MA. Sub-clinical hypothyroidism seen in valproic acid therapy. XXVII International Congress. Acta Pediatrica Espanola 2002; 60(8), 484
      
8. Khalid Yunis
   
   
   • Tamim H, H Beydoun, KA Yunis. 2002. Consanguinity and apnea of prematurity. XVI World Congress of Epidemiology. Montreal, Canada.
      
   • Yunis KA, H Beydoun, M Khogali, M Alameh, H Tamim; 2002. Prevalence and Perinatal determinants of congenital anomalies (CA) in 18,747 consecutive live births in greater Beirut, Lebanon. National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network, (NCPNN). American Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland. Pediatr. Res 51 (4), part 2, 2452.
      
   • Yunis KA, H Beydoun, M Khogali, Y Nassif, A Aaraj, H Tamim; 2002.Absence of an association between socioeconomic status and fetal macrosomia in nom diabetic mothers. National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network, (NCPNN). American Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland. Pediatr. Res 51 (4), part 2, 2113.
      
   • Yunis KA, G Mumtaz, M Khogali, P Nakad, I Shukr, H Tamim. Anthropometric measurements are not affected by consanguineous marriages. National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network (NCPNN) American Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, May 2003. Pediatr. Res 53, part 2.
      
   • Yunis KA, G Mumtaz, M Khogali, F Shamseddine, M Kassar, F Bitar, H Tamim. 2003. Consanguineous marriages and congenital heart disease in a developing country: A case control study in the neonatal period. National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network (NCPNN) American Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington. Pediatr. Res 53, part 2.