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Meet the Team

The BIOPATH study, and the linked t-CETA and VaST studies, involves an international team of researchers from the United Kingdom, Lebanon, the United States, and Germany.

The BIOPATH study was set up by Prof Michael Pluess and Prof Elie Karam as a collaboration between researchers in the UK and Lebanon.

  • Michael Pluess (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
  • Elie Karam (IDRAAC; Saint George Hospital University Medical Center; Faculty of Medicine, Balamand University, Lebanon) 

The studies have been coordinated by Dr Fiona McEwen, who was also Principle Investigator of the VaST study.

  • Fiona McEwen (QMUL)

Research Team (in alphabetical order):

  • Claudinei Biazoli (QMUL)
  • Candace Black (QMUL)
  • Paul Bolton (JHU)
  • Tania Bosqui - Tania Bosqui (AUB / TCD)
  • Nicolas Chehade (Research Manager for t-CETA study)
  • John Fayyad (IDRAAC)
  • Kristin Hadfield (QMUL / current?)
  • Georges Karam (IDRAAC)
  • Patricia Moghames (Field Work Coordinator for BIOPATH and VaST studies)
  • Laura Murray (JHU)
  • Cassandra Popham (QMUL)
  • Vardhman Rakyan (QMUL)
  • Dahlia Saab (IDRACC)
  • Stephanie Skavenski (JHU)
  • Demelza Smeeth (QMUL)
  • Roland Weierstall (JHU)

Clinical Team (Lebanon):

  • Vanessa Kyrillos – clinical psychologist
  • Gisèle Asmar – psychotherapist
  • Diana Abdul Rahman – counsellor / case manager
  • Stephanie Saad – counsellor / case manager
  • Elyze Nassr – case manager

We would like to thank the following people for their ideas and support in establishing this research:

  • Alaa Hijazi
  • Nicolas Puvis
  • Zeina Hassan

The research was only possible with the support of a large number of students, research assistants, volunteers, and support staff in the UK and Lebanon:

UK

  • Mona Ayoub
  • Melisa Chuong
  • Bernadette de Villiers
  • Rawan Hassan
  • Khadija Rita Khatun
  • Madeleine King
  • Jennifer McBride
  • Marissa Nivison
  • Olivia Pennikian
  • Karen Pluess
  • Laila Rida
  • Sophie Walker
  • Ayse Selin Zorlu

BIOPATH Team in Lebanon

  • Inas Abdel Ghani
  • Jean Jacques Abou Zeid
  • Anas Al Ajami
  • Omar Al Ajami
  • Bilal Al Mahmoud
  • Zainab Al Masri
  • Khaled Ammouri
  • Hiba Amro
  • Abdel Majed Anka
  • Khouloud Araji
  • Haitham Awada
  • Kamar Bahaaedine
  • Malak Chall
  • Khalil El Sayed
  • Layal El Sayed
  • Katherine Gebrayel
  • Bechara Ghorayib
  • Jamil Haidar
  • Mouin Hammoud
  • Lara Hanna
  • Rima Hassan
  • Ekbal Harb
  • Mohammad Hoshaimi
  • Alaa Kabtul
  • Israa Karout
  • Sarah Kassem
  • Yasmine Khaled
  • Mariam Makki
  • Ibrahim Mdallali
  • Sara Nuwayhid
  • Chahnaz Rifaii
  • Khaled Salloum
  • Malak Salloum
  • Hoda Samaha
  • Zainab Shaib
  • Alaa Shoker
  • Nabil Taha

t-CETA Team in Lebanon

  • Dana Berry
  • Hania El Khatib
  • Fatima Farhat
  • Zeena Hashem
  • Salam Jabbour
  • Tamara Maalouf
  • Anas Mayya
  • Melissa Nawful
  • Noura Sahili

KEY

AUB: American University of Beirut, Lebanon

BU: Faculty of Medicine, Balamand University, Lebanon

IDRAAC: Institute of Research, Advocacy, and Applied Care, Lebanon

JHU: Johns Hopkins University, US

MSH: Medical School Hamburg, Germany

QMUL: Queen Mary University of London, UK

SGHUMC: Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Lebanon

TCD: Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Ireland

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