Dr. Shawki Harb at the 27th International Medical Convention of NAAMA


Dr. Shehadeh Shawki Harb, at the 27th International Medical Convention of NAAMA held on June 29 – July 4, 2013 at Hilton Hotel in Vienna. Dr. Harb is an American doctor of Palestinian origin, born in Ramallah in the center of the occupied West Bank. He studied at the American Friends School and pursued his medical studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he graduated Magna cum Laude in 1965. He completed his training in general surgery at the University of Florida in 1972, and continued as a fellow in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery department at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. In 1975 Dr. Harb returned home to Ramallah where he worked at the governmental hospital and experienced the difficulties and horrors of working under the Israeli occupation. He has four sons: Dr. Tariq, an invasive cardiologist, Omar, a Genetic Engineer, Firas, and Lara, a specialist in comparative literature. Dr. Harb soon will publish a book about his experience as a doctor under the Israeli occupation. He Currently lives and work in Detroit, Michigan


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