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Sponsored by the Saginaw Valley State University Foundation and the History Club
For more information contact:
John Baesler, (989) 964-4381 or e-mail: jbaesler@svsu.edu
Wednesday, March 16
4:30- 6:00 p.m. • Seminar Room E, Curtiss Hall
Presentations by:
Mouhanad Hammami, M.D.
The National Arab American Medical Association Michigan Chapter, President
Rosina Hassoun, Ph.D., Saginaw Valley State University, Department of Sociology
John Baesler, Ph.D., Saginaw Valley State University, Department of History
Ingrid Hoskins, Saginaw Valley State University, History Club
A graduate of Aleppo University, Syria, Dr. Hammami completed his postdoctoral research in pediatrics
at the Newborn Center of the University of Tennessee in Memphis, and then accepted a faculty appointment
at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit and a research position at the Detroit Medical
Center Department of Pediatrics.
In 2006 he was granted the American Medical Association foundation for Excellence in Medicine and
Leadership award for his public health advocacy and community work. He is listed in the Marquis
2006-2007 Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Strathmore’s 2006-2007 Who’s Who in Healthcare and
Madison’s Who’s Who in the World 2008-2009. He was awarded the “Health Policy Champion Award” by
the Michigan Department of Community Health in 2011, Arab American of the Year in Medicine in 2012
and nominated by the White House for Heroes for Health in 2013.
Recently, Dr. Hammami was appointed as the director of the new consolidated department of Wayne
County Department of Health, Veterans and Community Wellness where he oversees all health, wellness
and human services for the 13th largest county in the nation.
Syria: A Nation in Crisis
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